Evening star., 1919-11-17
SENATE WILL ADOPT -
!, ! PACT, is PREDICTION
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pecially at q moment when the Anglo
Japanese agreement is about to be re-
newed and would care to disapprove
the Shantung settlement merely to
satisfy the American Senate course
able-the Senate might as well give
able-the Senate might as well give
up the idea that England and France
would accept the Lodge resolution Of
ratification at all And rejection by
one foreign government knocks out
the whole series of reservations, for
In the preamble offered by Senator
Lodge and now part of the ratifying
resolution itself. foreign governments
must agree in advance to accept all
the reservations.
Two courses might follow. Foreign
governments could disapprove and the
Senate be obliged to go through the
whole process of drafting other reser-
vations or time could be saved by
understanding in advance that foreign
governments contemplate such action.
The President himself being CONVEX
could make statement saying he
would not submit the reservations to
foreign governments because the
Lodge resolutions change the text of
the treaty and he would rather ne
gotiate q new treaty. Such an ex-
foreign press. or the President. with
out involving foreign governments,
could take it upon himself to state
categorically that the Senate, by its
reservations. has not ratified the
treaty at all, and thus keep the mat
ter before the Senate.
But there appear to be enough demo-
Gratis to defeat the Lodge resolution
of ratification. Mr.. Lodge said in the
Senate on Saturday that such action
would end consideration of the treaty.
Vice President Marshall announced
s I1 o. I.nk f4np
the Lodge resolution is disposed Of
other resolutions of ratification may
come before the Senate. An appeal
from his ruling could be taken and a
majority vote alone is needed to over
rule him, but Senator Oscar Under
server and an expert on Legislative
tangies. told group Of correspondents
at the White House that he didn't
believe the Vice President would be
overruled. He laughingly remarked
that he would bet money that there
were at least nine republicans whe
would join with forty democrats tc
sustain the Vice President and keel
the treaty before the Senate so thai
some compromise might be worked
out in the interest of ultimate ratif.
cation.
Could Reconsider Action.
But even IL the Vice President wa,
overruled, there is nothing under the
Senate rules to prevent the democrat.
from moving to reconsider their owl
action on the treaty and thus brine
the question into debate again will
the opportunity of offering compro
mise reservations. The country ma.
wonder who is responsible for the de
lay, and 1t might make UP its mint
that the two political parties as a
present organized haven't been abl
to come to an agreement on such
vital question as a peace treaty tina
affects the whole world. but just nov
each party is blaming the other, Sc
renely confident that party prestig
and pride of opinion are paramount
This sort of business will las
throughout the voting process unit
the Lodge resolution and the Hitch
cock resolution have both been de
feated and the Senate is left squared.
with the job of working out a com
promise resolution. And then, as ha
happened so often before in the clos
ing hours of the session, a compro
mise will be reached and the treat.
ratified.
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