Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-11-07
SENATE LEADERS CAN'T
FORECAST DATE FOR
FINAL VOTE ON TREATY
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amendments had been prepared by
Senator Borah, republican, ldaho, put
he decided to withhold them ana OF
fer them later as reservations. IhaI
cleared away the last of the amend
ments and Senator Lodge OF Ma5sa-
chusetts, the republican leader calleu
up the committee reservations,
Immediate objection came from the
administration forces, Senator Under
wood. democrat. Alabama. declaring
the proposals could not properly be
considered until the resolution Of rat
ification came before the senate, il
was assaifing the republicans for de-
lay and charging that their methods
were designed to prevent a direct
vote on the question of unreserVed
ratification, when Senator Lodge
asked: IF the senator wants to hasten
action. why doesn't he ask for vote
right now on ratification without res
ervations?"
I'm do it," returned Senator I'm
derwood, and he did.
The move brought a half dozen
senators to their feet and in the ma
neuyering which followed. the cham
Der presented a scene of continuous
confusion Senator Hitchcock flrst
got the floor to present formally z
unanimous consent agreement Tor Il
vote. and although the republican
managers iffterposed no objection. 1t
failed to meet the approval OF some
senators and a sharp debate ensued.
senator FAN, republican, New Mex
leo. objected that the parliamentary
situation would not permit such a
vote, since the senate was acting as a
committee of the whole. Senator
Hitchcock then modified the request
to permit the session as committee Of
the whole to be terminated, but Sem
ator LenToot, republican. Wisconsin,
asked that a provision be included to
permit a later ratification vote that
should include reservations. Then
Senator Jones, republican, Washing
ton, ended the discussion by obJectlng
directly to the whole arrangement
Having failed 70 secure unanimous
consent Senator Hitchcock then made
motion to the same effect. but Sen
ator Lodge called attention thai his
motion to take up reservations was
the pending business, After the vice
president had overruled Senator I'm
derwoods point of order. the reser~
vations at last were formally laid be-
fore the senate.
The first paragraph of the reserva-
ton group, the only part considered
today, recites that the reservations
must be accepted by three of the other
four great powers to make the treaty
binding. AS presented, it had been
slightly modified from the original
committee draft, so that the accept
ance would be secured 'by exchange
of notes" Senators Lodge and Edge,
republican, OF New Jersey, spoke in
support of the preamble, and Senator
McCumber, republican, of North Da-
kota, and Thomas, democrat, of Colo
RADIO, against It.
During the day two new reservation
proposals were placed before the sem
ate. together with several others pre-
scented by individual senators, viii be
taken I'D after the committee list. One
was by Senator Knox, republican, of
Pennsylvania, proposing that the
United states become only a consult
ing member" of the league with full
liberty to govern it's own course in all
respects: and the other was by Sena-
tor Johnson, republican, of California,
relating to equalization of voting
power in the league,
In his ruling against Senator Un-
derwood's point of order, Vice Presi-
dent Marshall made an extended
statement of his general attitude to-
ward construction of the senate rules
as the relate to the treaty
This is the most important treaty
he said that ever was presented to
the senate of the United States
THE chair is unwilling to make any
sort of a technical ruling that will
prevent the senate from ratifying this
treaty either without reservations or
with any sort of reservations that a
majority chooses to pat into the reso-
luton of ratification.
The chair is unwilling to construe
these rules in SO strict and narrow a
way that the treaty may be pigeon
holed or hung up by such marrow con-
struCtion.
THE chair is going to hold that a
majority of the senate can present
whatever it pleases to the senate in
the way of reservati tons or interpreta-
tons and the chair thinks that these
reservations, as they are called, ought
to We considered as in committee oil
the whole in justice to certain sena-
tors of the United States, who have
been voting against amendments tC
the treaty with statements made thai
they voted against the amendments
because they thought they could pre-