Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-09-12
SENATE BUSHES
TREATY ACTION
Foreign Relations Committee
Votes 9 to 7 to Amend
Article Ten.
ADOPT FOUR RESERVATIONS
Resolution of Ratification Provides
That All Must Be Accepted by at
Least Three of the Five Prin-
cipaI Allied Powers.

Washington, Sept. 6.-The peace
treaty was ordered reported to the
senate by the foreign relations cone
mittee with four reservations and four
amendments. The reservations are
made part of the resolution of rati-
fication, which also provides that they
must be accepted by at least three of
the principal allied powers, Great
Britain, France, Italy and Japan, be-
fore the United States consents to be
party to the treaty. Senator Lodge
will write the committee report.
The resolution for ratification. of
the treaty with reservations adopted
by the senate foreign relations COM
mirtee is as follows:
Resolved, Two-thirds of the senators
present concurring therein, that the
senate advise and consent to the rati-
f1cation of treaty of peace with Ger
many, signed by the plenipotentiarie
of the twenty seven allied and associ-
ated powers, at Versailles, on June
%, 1919, with the following reserva-
tions and understandings to be made
part and condition of such ratifica-
ton, which ratification is not to take
effect or bind the United States until
the said following reservations and I'M
derstandings have been accepted as
part Of and condition of said in
strument Of ratification by at least
three of the four principal allied and
associated powers, to-wit: Great Brit
ain, France, Italy and Japan.
/. The United States reserves to
itself the unconditional right to with
draw from the League Of Nations
upon the notice provided in article /
Of said treaty of peace with Germany.
2. That the United States declines
to assume, under the provisions Of
article x or under any other article,
any obligation to preserve the terri
torial integrity or political independ-
ence of any other country or to inter-
fere In controversies between other
nations members of the league or not,
forces of the United States in such
controversies, or to adopt economic
measures for the protection of any
other country whether a member of
the league or not, against external ag-
gression or for. the purpose of coerc-
ing any other country, or for the pur-
pose of Intervention in the interna-
tional or other controversies which
may arise in any other country, and
no mandate shall be accepted by the
United States under article XXI, part
1 of the treaty, except by action of the
congress of the United States.
3. The United States reserves to it.
self exclusively the right to decide
what questions are within It's domestic
jurisdiction and declares that all do
nestle and political questions relating
to its affairs, including immigration,
coastwise traffic, the tariff, commerce,
and all other domestic questions, are
solely within the jurisdiction of the
United States and are not under this
treaty submitted in any way either to
arbitration or to the consideration Of
the council of the assembly of the
League Of Nations, or to the decision
or recommendation of any other power.
4. The United States declines to sub
NIT for arbitration or inquiry by the
assembly or the council Of the League
of Nations, provided for in said treaty
Of peace, any questions which in the
Judgment of the United States depend
I1non or rotate RI ifS established
policy, commonly known as the Mon
roe doctrine; said doctrine is to be in
terpreted by the United States alone,
and Is hereby declared to be wholly
outside the jurisdiction Of said League
Of Nations and entirely unaffected by
any provision contained in the said
treaty of peace with Germany.