The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-02
RESERVATIONS TO
Be PART OF TREATY
Proposals Of Seven Republi-
can Senators Will Not
Stand Detached.
sOFTENs DISPUTED POINTS
Monroe Doctrine and Congress
Rights Closely Safe
guarded.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-The reserva-
ton proposal agreed to by seven Re
publican Senators as the basis OF ratif-
cation Of the League OF Nations covenant
Is SO worded, It became known tonight,
that the reservations and understand
ings' enumerated shall become ID part
of the treaty" and shall not stand sim
ply as detached Interpretation by the
Senate.
While some Of the sponsors of the
programme regard 1t as merely Interpre-
tative in effect, clarifying the langua &c
of the covenant without changing the
meaning of any provision, others OF thu
seven believe II goes further and greatly
softens certain features (which they say
violate national rights.
Tho reservations as agreed to in
definite terms are embodied in a pro-
posed ratification resolution reading as
follows:
THAT the Senate OF the United
States advise and consent to the ratifica-
ton of said treaty with the followinf
reservations and understandings to be
made a part of the treaty by the instru-
ment Of ratification. .-..1-
1. That whenever the two years
of Nations shall have been given by
the United States as provided in Ar
ticle l. the United States shall be
the sole judge whether all its in
ternational obligations and all its OBJ
legations under this covenant shall
have been fulfilled at the time of
withdrawal,
Power Only to Congress.
2. That the suggestions of
the council of the League of
Nations as to the means of
carrying the obligations of Ar
ticle K into effect are only advisory,
and that any undertaking under the
provisions of Article X. the execu-
ton Of which may require the use
of American military or naval forces
or economic measures can under the
Constitution be carried out only by
the action of the Congress, and that
the failure of the Congress to adopt
the suggestions of the council or of
the league. or to provide such mill
tary or naval forces or economic
measures. shall not constitute a viola
ton of the treaty.
3. The United States reserves to
itself the right to decide what ques-
tons are within its domestic juris-
diction and declares that all domes-
tic and political questions relating to
Its Internal affairs, including immi-
grafton. coastwise traffic, the tariff
commerce and all other purely do
mestic questions, are solely within
the jurisdiction of the United States
and are not by this covenant sub
mitted In any way either to arbitra-
ton or to the consideration of the
rOnnnI ~ tha q qaa rnh of he I
of Nations or to the decision or rec
ommendation of any other Power
Monroe Doctrine Guarded.
&. The United States does not
bin1 itself to submit for arbitration
or inquiry by the assembly or the
council any questions which in the
judgment of the United States de-
pend upon or involve its long es-
tablished policy commonly known as
the Monroe Doctrine and II is pre-
served unaffected by any provision
In the said treaty contained.
The seven Republicans who agreed 10
this proposal as a basis for the effort TO
bring on a middle ground Senators of
both parties who favor the league plan
in general outline were Senators Nc
Nary (Oregon). McCumber North Da-
hOtS|' NOll NhHOue lSlan0), Spencer
(MissoTD. Cummlns Uowa). Kellogg
(Minnesota) and Lenroot (Wisconsin)
1t became known tonight that the
proposed resolution had not been pre-
sented either 10 Republican leader Lodge
o. to Senator Hitchcock. Administration
leader in the treaty fight. and that the
efforts of the group sponsoring the plan
probably would be directed for the
present toward enlarging their number
in order to hold indisputably the balance
Of power. Negotiations with Admins
tration leaders along the general line
laid down In the resolution have been
In progress, however, for several days.
League opponents declared to-day that
all possibility of unreserved ratification
Of the league had been removed by the
willingness of Senators McCumber and
McNery, regarded as the warmest
friends Of the league among the Re-
publican majority, to accept reservations
To this Administration Senators replied
that vote on ratification still was a
long way of. adding that with seven
Republicans lined up for reservations
Of the character proposed there was no
longer a possibility that more radical
qualifications could be included In the
ratification.