New-York tribune., 1919-09-11
as Amendments and Four
Reservations Carried in
the Majority Report
Presented by Lodge
Minority to Offer
Conclusions To-day
Kenyon Assails Wilson;
Says Vote Reservations
or We Will Kill Pact
By Carter Field
NeW York Tribune
Washington Bureau

w ASHINGlON, sept. lV.-lhe peace
treaty was reported to the Senate by
the Foreign Relations Committee to-
day This marked apparently the final
crystallization of sentiment in the
upper house. There may be more ma
nnuvring, but candid leaders of all fac
tions admit privately that the align
mcnts are pretty we'll established.
The majority report, submitted by
Chairman Lodge along with the treaty,
recor .mended the adoption of four res
ervations recently voted by the COM
mttee and forty-fve amendments.
The reservations reported give the
United States the right to withdraw un-
conditionally from the league; refuse
to guarantee the territorial integrity
Of foreign countries or to assume man
dates under Article x without the
sanction Of Congress; retain exclusive
jurisdiction for the United States in
domestic questions, and provide for the
Interpretation of the Monroe Doctrine
solely by this country.
The principal amendments proposed
are that the United States be given
equal voting power with Great Britain
in the assembly of the league of ma
tiors; that German rights in Shan
tune be transferred to China instead
Of to Japan, and that the United States
be not represented on international
commissions when this country is not
interested in the issues involved. The
reporc describes the league covenant
as can alliance and not league"
Administration leader Hitchcock an
nounced that he would submit the
minority report or the committee to-
morrow and Senator Lodge stated that
the treaty would be taken up Monday
by the Senate.
Kenyon for Amendments
The feature of the day, aside from
the physical reporting of the treaty
with vigorous defence by Senator
Lodges report of the committee both
as to length of time consumed and as
10 amendments and reservations, was
set speech read by Senator Kenyon,
of Iowa, through which state the
President on his tour has just passed.
The Iowa Senator not only went
the whole route, SO far as the reser-
vations urged by the committee are
concerned, indorsing them and defying
the President to argue against them,
but he favored also the amendment
giving the United States an equal num-
Der Of votes in the league of nations
assembly with Great Britain.
Senator Kenyon warned the Demo-
Gratis that the treaty would be ratified
with reservations and urged the Ad-
mnistration supporters to "come out
of the Valley Of Stubbornness
Warns Democrats of Defeat
The votes are here to defeat the
whole treaty, regardless of conse-
quences, if substantial reservations are
not adopted" said Senator Kenyon
Make no mistake about that. 1t
cannot be, ratified and will not be un-
less reservations are adopted substan-
TALLY like those presented by the For
eign Relations Committee Abuse and
viltication, even from the highest
sources Of the land will not change the
minds of men who have given long, con-
scientious, deep thought to this subject
and believe that ratification in the pres
ent form of the league of nations is &
betrayal of this country.
"1n standing for reservations they
are not standing against any plan tc
carry out the terms of the Paris con
ference. They are not contemplate
cutters, nor are they mere time serv-
ers. They are trying to Americanize
this league.
"Contemptible Cutters"
"They may reply to Presidential
billingsgate, to the charge of 'contemp
tible quitters, that the most contempti
BILE cutters in the history of the worle
were those who assembled with higl
ideals at the Paris conference and per.
mitted Japan to take over Shantung ir
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