The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-04
ANTI-LEAGUERS'
DRAFT Is READY
Reservations to Treaty Cove
nant Will Be Phrased Forci-
bly, by Lodge.
CONVERTS ARE EXPECTED
Some Democrats Likely to Join
Forces Against Interna-
tionalism Idea.
CONVERTS ARE EXPECTED
Special Despatch TO TIE sus.


cidently with the publication of Presi-
dent Wilson's first speech in the
string of thirty he purposes delivering
before his return to Washington, the
form and phrase of the vital reserva-
tions to the League of Nations cove
nant, framed by the Republicans of
the Senate Committee on Foreign Re-
lations, will be disclosed.
The opponents of the treaty and
League of Nations covenant in the
committee, numbering nine and all
republicans, are virtually a unit upon
:he reservations and almost ready to
BRING them to the Senate floor en-
bodied in their recommendations as to
tie action of the Senate in dealing
with both documents.
The Republicans know now the
purpose of the reservations and they
have determined upon the exact meas
ure of vitality which shall be drafted
into them. There remains only the
final choice as to phraseology.
The measure of vitality will be the
maximum. The phraseology will be
that Of Senator Lodge (Mass). chair
man of the Foreign Relations Com
mittee, who within the ensuing two
days will put into finished language
lis own and the ideas OF his colleagues
| in the Senate, in and out Of the COM
| mittee, upon whom the opponents OF
the league depend for the votes neces-
sary to take internationalism out OF
| the documents.
Rcservations to BE Made.
The reservations will include assur-
| ance to the United States Of the right
to go to war in a Just cause or refuse
I to fight in one deemed by the nation to
be unjust. without the interference OF
dIctaticn OF any body of nations. This
means the striking out of the embar-
easements OF Article X.
Another reservation will make IT per-
tfectly definite that the United States re-
serves TO itself the right to withdraw
from the League of Nations at any time
1t may see At upon proper resolution oi
the law making body of the land,
A third will explain the position OF
| America with regard to the Monroe Doc
trine, asserting II TO be an American
policy and one effective throughout the
Western Hemisphere. which in no cir
| cumstances can be called into contro-
! versy and which is supreme above any
regional understandings such as the
I 1.-Nl .NfN
| ihzed or weak dominions.
| Another will express 1t to be the un'
derstanding of the United States that al
questions of internal political economy
the tariffs, revenue laws immigration
laws and regulations, and all such mat
| ters of an exclusively domestic char
acter, should not be under the turisdic-
ton of the league n any way.
L. s. Power to Remain Supreme
It will be set forth in the resolution
of ratification of the peace treaty, with
its Article l., the League OF Nations
covenant, that the reservations there
| after set forth are considered by tho
treaty making power of the United Statei
| to preclude the exercise of any of the
powers OF the league over the will OF
| America pending their acceptance by. tht
other slgnatories to the treaty.
Upon such reservations the Republican
leaders are confident of obtaining GER
tainly not less than fifty votes in tht
Senate. Estimates of conservative
character raise this number to fifty-twc
or ffty-thres. It is possible also thai
In addition to the two Democrats al
ready known to favor the material al
teration there are three, and perhaps
four others. who once the break in tn,
Administration ranks has been disclosed
will flop over and vote for the reserva
tions.