The sun., 1919-10-28

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The United States and Italy
are yet to ratify.
the Record note he was absent from the
chamber for a few minutes and If pres
ent would have voted no. Mr.. Smith
'Ga) said he had been at a Roosevelt
memorial service and that he likewise
would, have voted no.
1t was bad moment for the Admin
lstration forces Mr.. Swanson was man
ifestly mad all over. The Democrats
divided their wrath between charges that
Mr. Hitchcock had been caught asleep
at the switch and allegations that Mr..
Lodge had tricked them by having his
forces all on deck and catching his oppo-
nents at a disadvantage. But the
Record showed that it was the Demo-
| cratic leader who started the insistence
on vote and he merely got what he
johnson to Try Again.
There was only one amendment then
left for consideration. that by Mr.. Moses
IN. HI, which was regarded as a sup
plement to the Johnson Proposal. Be
fore it was taken up Mr.. johnson Of
| Tered a redrafting of his own formula
with intent to make 1t cover all the
ground. This new johnson proposal
reads:
When any member of the league has
| or possesses self-governing dominions or
colonies or parts of empire, which are
| also members of the league, the United
States shall have representatives in the
! council or assembly or any organization
of labor or labor conference under the
| league numerically equal TO the aggre-
gate number of representatives of such
| member of such league and it's self-gov-
ernihg dominions and colonies and parts
OF empire in the council or assembly of
the league or organization of labor or
| labor conference under the league and
| such representatives of said member and
| its self-governing dominions or colonies
| or parts of empire; and upon all mat
| tiers whatsoever the United States shall
! have votes in the council and assembly
and any organization of labor or labor
| conference under the league numerically
equal TO the aggregate vote cast or reg
| istered by any such member of the
| league and its self-governing dominions
and colonies and parts of empire.
THE intent and purpose of this amend
ment is to give TO the United States rep
| resentation upon council or assembly
| and in any labor organization or labor
conference under the league a voting
power in every respect and upon all
| questions equal to the aggregate repre-
| sentation and voting power OF any men,
| Der of the league and such mepbers'
| self governing dominions and colonies
and parts of empire and this amend
ment shall be literally applied and con-
| strued to effectuate fully said intent.
| Whenever the case referred to the as
| sembly involves a dispute between one
member of the league and another men,
| Der whose self-governing dominions or
| colonies or parts of empire are also rep
| resented in the assembly neither the
| d.sputant members nor any of their self
| governing dominions, colonies or parts
of empire shall have a vote upon any
| phase of the question"
Favored ms Reservation.
| Mr.. Lodge explained briefly that the
! johnson amendment and the Moses
| amendment had been intended as parts
| of the same plan of remedying the de-
| feet in regard to Great Britain's pre-
| ponderance in voting power. Mr. Nc
| Cumber IN. ID said he had not voted
| against the johnson amendment on
| principle, because he was in favor of the
| principle of 1t, but he thought the end
| would be better reached by the reserVa-
| ton that is pending, and added that he
| did not think there would be a vote in
| the Senate against the reservation.
! Mr.. Phelan (CaL). one of the absen-
tees when the vote was taken, likewise
| explained that he would have voted
| against the amendment and would vote
| for the reservation.
| Senator Shields (Tenn). one OF the
| Democrats who had voted against the
| Administration forces, offered another
| amendment which he thought would
| completely cover the ground. 1t pro-
| vided that any empire or federal State
| whose different segments have separate
| representation in the league neverthe-
] less should have only one delegate and
| one vote in the council and three dele
| gates and one vote in the assembly or
| the league, thus putting all nations on
| precisely the same basis at all times.
| He pointed out that the Johnson amend
| ment would give the United States six
| votes in the assembly, putting 1t on an
| equality with Great Britain, but leav-
| ing the inequality as between these two
countries and all others as marked as
| ever, A reservation providing that IN
| matters affecting the United states this
| inequality should not be permitted would
still leave il as against all other coun-
| tries so Mr.. Shields insisted that his
| amendment was the only right means or
| dealing with the whole proposition.
| Mr.. Borah Gdaho) said the Shields
proposal was much broader than the
| johnson amendment and for himself he
| would like to vote for both of them.
| He suggested that consideration of the
| Shields measure be withheld till after
| the new Johnson measure could be acted
| upon.
Moses Suggests a Plan.