Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-11-11
FATE OF ARTICLE TEN UP 10 I'VE
 SENATE TO-DAY
Reservation, Not Acceptable to Administration, Probably
 Will Be Adopted.

Washington, Nov. 10.-The fight over article ten of the league ot na- tions covenant neared a conclusion today in the senate, with develop ments promising adoption of res ervation wholly unacceptable to the administration.
 During the day, the reservation drafted by the foreign relations com- mittee, almost identical with one which President Wilson has an- nounced he would regard as rejec- tion of the treaty, weathered all at tempts to alter it and rallied sup port which seemed to insure it's final acceptance.
 A vote is expected tomorrow. The reservation provides that under the article, which pledges member states to preserve as against eXter- nal aggression the territorial intreg- | rity and political independence of all other members, the United States shall assume no Cbligation to use it's . naval or military forces except on express authorization of congress in every specific case.
 The debate, which summed up six months of senate discussion of the subject, reached high pitch of bit terness several times during the day. It developed another spirited clash on the question of Ireland's status under the article, Senator Williams, democrat of Mississippi assailing Irish Americans who oppose the lea que, and Senator Walsh, democrat, , of Massachusetts, replying in a speech charging that the administra- tion had undertaken to deprive him of all federal patronage because he did not support the treaty without qualification.
 G. o. P. Near Split. Just before adjournment the united republican forces backing the reser- vaticn almost were split by demo- cratic proposal to make the qualified tion even more sweeping in it's terms But the republican leaders soon re- covered their hold on the situation , and declared that danger of amend ing the committee draft had passed The amendment on which the re- publicans momentarily divided was i introduced by Senator Walsh, demo- crat, of Montana, a staunch admin i istration supporter, and would have ! e'NNSN CO CiiS iSoCi VttCioll q PiOVloN that the United States releases all members of the league from any ob- ligation to it under article ten, and declines to participate in any pro- ceedings by the council authorized thereby"
 Republicans of the group irrecon- | cilable opposed to the treaty quickly displayed their pleasure over the possibility of writings such pro- vision into the treaty.
 Three of them-Senator Borah, o1 Idaho; Fall, of New Mexico, and Me Cormick of Illinois, announced they would support the proposal, and the mild reservationists on that side o1 the chamber were thrown into hur ried conference at the likelihood thai it would prevail.
 After some discussion the irrecon cilables, however, became suspicion! that the democrats, intending to vott
 against ratification of the treaty
 once the reservations were attached
 had set out to make the qualification
 as obnoxious as possible. Senate
 Fall withdrew his previous announce
 ment, pronouncing the propose,
 amendment a trick" and the senat
 adjourned, without vote, but witt
 the republican forces apparent,
 again solidified.