The Washington times., 1919-10-31
RATIFICATION
BY M|DDLEOF
NOVEMBER, IS.
V|EWOF COP.

Ratification with reservations of
the treaty of Versailles by the mid
die of November was declared today
to be virtually a certainty by Re-
publican leaders of the Senate.
within two weeks l am confident
that we will at last see the beginning
of the end" Senator Lodge of Mas
sachusetts, the majority leader, and
chairman Of the Senate Foreign Re-
lationsN Committee, said.
Disagree With Hitchcock.
A number of Democratic Senators
did not agree with a statement made
by Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska,
he Administration leader, that the
question of reservations would prob
ably consume more time than anybody
now anticipated" and he did not be-
lieve the treaty could be finally dis
posed of within the next two or three
weeks.
If the Senate proceeded at the high
rate of speed with which it voted
down four proposed textual amend
cratic Senators stated, "there was no
good reason why there should be any
further unnecessary delay"
The Senate was scheduled today to
dispose of the three amendments still
remaining. 1t was expected as soon
as the Senate reconvened debate
would be resumed on the first. of
hese, that of Senator La Follttte
Rep) Wisconsin, to strike from the
-reaty the labor addendum creating
IN international labor organization
Expect Vote Today.
A vote on it and the other two
would probably be reached before
ightfali, Senator Lodge predicted,
land then we will be right up against
.'eservations." he added.
The other two are the one spon-
sored by Senator Gore, Democrat, OF
| oklahoma, to provide an advisory war
'eferendum, and that to strike out
| he Shantung provisions of the treaty
! Of which Senator Lodge Is the au.
thor.
Unless other amendments spring up
rom the Senate floor. the disposi-
| ion of these three amendments, all
,f which are regarded as sure TO be
,efeated as were the some fifty 9TH
ions were considered almost certain
% be taken up not later than Mon
Jay.
Fourteen reservations favorably re-.
ported by the Republicans in control
lof che Senate Foreign Relations Com
| nittee await action. Another COW
sring the equalization of the one
vote of the United States and the SIX
votes of Great Britain in the League
of Nations Assembly is to be added
20 them.
1t is proposed by the Republican
headers that all fifteen shall be in
| .orporated in the majority resolution
of ratification by a vote by which
the Senate will be called upon to
| either ratify or reject the treaty.
1t ID also to be stipulated in the res
olution that the reservations be made
a condition of ratification openly and
unequivocally accepted and affirmed
by at least three of the four big pow
ers with which the United States was
associated in the war-Great Britain,
France, Italy, and Japan.
I Plan Limited Debate.
| Substitutes for and amendments to
| each of the fifteen committee reserva-
| tions are expected to be plentiful and
debate on them, and any changes pro-
Il
/ BILE, but the Republican leaders plan
to confine consideration of them to
/ the most limited space of time pos
| sible.
| After the reservations have all been
adopted in their original or amended
| form, and made a part of the majority
| resolution of ratification, it will then
be up to the Senate to vote on the
resolution itself and the question of
ratification involved in it.
Senator Hitchcock and other Ad-
| ministration Senators disagree with
the Republican leaders that final ac-
| tion on the committee reservations
and the majority resolution OF ratii-
| cation will dispose finally of the
treaty, or settle once and for all its
| ratification or rejection.
Hitchcock proposes to offer a
minority resolution of ratification
| without reservations being embodied
| in 1t. He also plans to offer set of
| "interpretative" reservations as sub
stitutes for the majority or commit
tee ones, which he will ask the Sen
| ate. he says, to vote on e0 bloc S~"-
ator Lodge intends that the commit
tee reservations shall each be uc.sd
on separately.
In addition to the committee reser-
yations, and those Senator Hitchcock
promises to introduce, there are also
| pending other sets of reservations
| sponsored from time 10 time by
Senators Hoke Smith of Georgia,
owen of Oklahoma, Pittman of Ne
Iyada, Shields of Tennessee, and
Thomas of Colorado, all Democrats,
and Spencer of Missouri, Republican,
| Hitchcock also denies the right of
| the Senate to consider reservations
while sitting as the committee of the