Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-11-19
SENATE DEAL


vote on the question Of unreserved
ratificatin. This vote, Mr.. Lodge
said, would be permitted before the
roll call on the committee resolution.
Another result Of the conference
was submission to Mr.. Lodge to-
night of a group Of proposed COM
promise reservations with view to
making enough modification in the
committee Program already approved
by the Senate majority to enable the
Democrats to support the committee
resolution of ratification. On this
point Senator Lodge was said to be
insistent as he desired all compro-
mise efforts to be made before the
vote came on the committee measure.
Meantime in the Senate two more res
eryations were added to the Is already
adopted The mild reservationis,s sup
ported them as the final qualifications
VIII CHI they would help to write into
the treaty, but the Senate extended :ts
session far into the evening. voting
down numerous other proposals i'll an
effort to clear the way before adjourn
ment for work tomorrow on the ratiica-
ton resolution itself.
The two reservations adopted today
related to the labor provisions in part
thirteen of the treaty and to voting
equality in the League of Nations.
nFayo1 hy
Sen. McCumber. Republican. Of North
Dakota. and was accepted "a to 81 with
nine Democrats supporting it. A 7so.
posed substitute by Senator sKing, DcT-
ocrat, of Utah. which would have ex-
cluded the United States unconditional
" from the labor provisions was reject
ed 4s to 43. the mild Republicans foin-
ing the administration senators to over
rifle the votes OF the irreconcilables AMI
rine Democrats.
The proposal relative to voting equal
. ity presented by Senator Lenroot. Re-
publican, Of Wisconsin, won IS to IS on 4
mot on TO substitute 1t for less sweep
ing proposal by Senator McCumbcr, 1t
then was adopted formally without d
,oll call Previously a reservation on
the same subject by Senator Jotnson.
Republican, California. had beer re-
itcted 46 to 43, with eight Demo Gratis
voting for it and the mild reservation
lists lining up solidly in opposition.
The wheels of compromise were start
ed revolving by the mild reservation Re-
publicans early in the day when they
! held a conference and decided on these
propositions:
That If the Democrats voted down
they would support motion to recon-
slider. thus bringing the resolution back
before the Senate for changes.
That they would not support mo-
| ton to sustain the chair in any ruling
| bearing out the administrations plan
; for a separate resolution Of ratification
after the committee proposal had been
; defeated;
That they were willing to see some
modification of the preamble reser-
walton requiring the affirmative as
! sent of their nations to the Senate's
| qualifications:
That any further compromise ne
gotiations by the Democrats must be
CO1uuClSQ, IlOL Will OuI WA
| the Republican leaders. T
OF these decisions they informed
| Senators Hitchcock and Lodge, with
| the added advice to the former to
move today for any compromise he
| hoped to secure. The conference be-
| tween the Democratic and Republic
| can leaders, at which an earnest eff
| fort at compromise was understood
! to have been made, followed almost
| Immediately.
Senator Lodge was said to have
| pressed for quick action and to have
| been particularly insistent that the
Democratic leaders contemporaries
be in his hands tonight so that a
compromise could be worked out be-
| fore the committee resolution came
to a vote. The exact nature of these
proposals was not revealed but they
were understood to have been aimed
particularly at the preamble require
ment. to which President Wilson OBJ
jected vigorously at his White House
conference Monday with Senator
Hitchcock.
| How the President would regard
the committee reservations with the
preamble stricken out also was I'M
certain, but it was learned he had
| written a letter to Senator Hitch
cock, which the latter will lay be-
| fore a conference of Democratic sem
| ators tomorrow morning. Time for
such a meeting was granted by Sem
| ator Lodge, who assented to Mr..
Hitqhcock's request that the Senate
should not meet until noon.
The modification plan of the Dem
| ocrats is understood to make it pos
sible for the. other Powers to ac-
cept the reservations by mere "ac-
ceptance" rather than by a specific
exchange of notes. The practical re-
suit would be, it was said, to pro-
| vide for Tacit acceptance which
| could be taken for granted unless
| the other nations protested.
| At 9 o'clock tonight after the Senate
had been in continuous session for II
| hours, consideration of amendments in
committee of the whole was completed
and the treaty was reported formally to
| the Senate.
The question OF approving the Is res
, ervations adopted in committee Of the
| whole then was taken up, each reserva-
ton being considered separately. An
effort by Senator Hitchcock to strike
out the preamble requirement for ac-
| ceptance by other nations was voted
down 45 to 36, the Republicans oppos-
ing it solidly except for Senator Nc
Cumber Of North Dakota.
|. The Senate without a roll call then