The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-10-06
Massachusetts Republicans
Demand Early Ratifica-
ton of Peace Treaty
NO AMENDMENTS
SHOULD BE MADE
Democrats Demand Changes in the
League Covenant - Lodge Declares
He Will Stick to His Demand for
Textual Amendments.

Textual Amendments.
BOSTON, Oct. 6-Senator Lodge was
rebuked for his attempt to amend the |
peace treaty by the Massachusetts state |
convention of Republicans Saturday |
After an all-night fight, in which friends
of the chairman of the foreign relations
committee tried to commit the party to
support of the entire program of the
senator, the best that could be got for
him was a resolution in favor of reserva-
tions, coupled with msistence on early
ratification.
In dramatic speech, Mr.. Lodge, who
was here guiding the fight for full in
| dorsement of his course and appeared
! before the committee, served notice he
would stick to his plans to try to put
teXtual amendments in the treaty. He
| also declared that unless reservations he
outlined were adopted the treaty is
dead
The Democrats also had long fight
over the league. A strong element of the
Irish Democrats have been against the
covenant and they threatened holt from
/ the convention if the leaders should put
through resolutions calling for the rati-
fication of the treaty without reserva
tions. In the end a compromise was
reached and the party was committed to
reservations
The treaty plank of the Republican
convention, which was adopted unani
mously reads:
Zone diplomatic outcome of the great
conflict has been league of nations in
which the United States is a major party
concerned. In this controversy rigorous
| party lines have not been drawn and the
question is matter of national rather
than partisan policy.
"All are agreed that this nation
should do everything in its power to Sc
cure and perpetuate world peace, and to
substitute forever for the horrors and
miseries occasioned by warfare a Just
and permanent method of settling with
honor and certainty the inevitable dis
putes between nations and peoples. All
are also agreed that the sooner final
disposition of this problem is made the
better it will be for the peoples of the
world.
1--WE therefore favor prompt ratifica
ton of the treaty of peace without
amendment, but with such uneQuvoca
and effective reservations as will make
clear the unconditional right of tn,
United States to withdraw from th'
league upon due notice, as will provide
that the United States shall assume NJ
obligation to employ American soldiers
or sailors unless congress shall, by ac
or resolution, so direct; as will make i
clear that no domestic questions, such a
the tariff and immigration, will be takel
j from the control of the United States
and that the United States shall be sol
nudge as TO the Interpretation of tn
Monroe Doctrine.
There must be no abridgmentgof tn
sovereignty of the nation, of the contro
= of its own domestic affairs or of tn
1 maintenance of its national pouicies."
The Democratic plank reads:
"We believe in the ratification of tn
peace treaty and approve of the leagu
of nations, provided. however, the cove
nant is so amended as to give to n
other nation more votes than the Unit
ed States. to protect the sovereignty o
the American people, to protect tn
right of self determination and to re
4 frain from adding to the burdens of pee
Piles wanting to be free and indepenC
Ient."