Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1919-11-13
PRESIDENT LOSES
IN TREATY FIGHT.
Senate Adopts Preamble Reser-
walton by Vote of 48 to 20.
M'cUMBER JOINS DEMOCRATS
North Dakota Senator Is Only Repub-
Iican to Oppose the Proposal
Mild Reservationists Support
the Recommendations.

washington. NOV. Ollie AAo'
clause of the treaty reservations
drawn by the foreign relations COM
mittee, preamble requiring three OF
the other great powers to accept the
reservations, was adopted by the SEN
ate after many efforts to amend 1t
had failed.
The vote was 4S to 40, the mild
reservation group lining up almost sol
idly in favor of the measure. Inc
only Republican voting in the mega
tive was Senator McCumber (Rep) OF
North Dakota. Three Democrats,
Reed of Missouri, Gore of Oklahoma
and Walsh of Massachusetts, stood
with the Republicans for the pream-
BILE.
Roll Call on Reservation.
For the Observation-Disclosures
Ball, Borah, Brandegee, Calder, Cap
per, Colt, Cummins, Curtis, billing
ham, Edge, Elkins, Fall, Fernald,
France, Frelinghuysen, Gronna, Hale.
Harding, Johnson (Cal), Jones
(Wash.), Kellog, Kenyon, Reyes, Knox
La Toilette, Lenroot, Lodge, McCor-
mick, Mclean, McNary, Moses, Mel
son, New, Newberry, Norris, Page,
Phipps, Poindexter, Sherman, Smoot,
Spencer, Sterling, Townsend, Wads-
worth and Watson-45. Democrats
Gore, Reed, Walsh (Mass.), 3. Total,
48.
Against the amendment - Demo
Gratis, Ashurst, Chamberlain, Culber-
son, Dial, Fletcher, Gay, Garry, Har-
ris, Harrison, Henderson, Hitchcock,
Johnson Is. d., Jones IN. NJ, Ken
drick, King, Kirby, Mcclellan, Myers,
Nugent, Overman, Owen, Phelan, Pitt
man, Pomerene, 'Ransdell, Robinson,
Sheppard, Simmons, Smith (Ariz.),
Smith (Ga.), Smith (Md.), Smith Is.
c., Swanson, Thomas, Trammel,
Underwood, Walsh (Mont.), Williams
and Wolcott Republican: McCum-
Der. Total, 40.
Take Up First Reservation.
An amendment by Senator King
(Dem.) of Utah to make it possible
for foreign power to accept the res
ervations merely "by recognizing the
United States as party to the
treaty." was rejected, 46 to AZ.
The senate then took up the first Of
the committees IA reservations, relat-
ing to withdrawal from membership
in the league. Senator Thomas
(Dem.), Colorado moved to strike out
the provision that notice Of withdraw
al could be given by concurrent res
olution Of congress.
President Wilson told Senator Hitch
cock of Nebraska, administration Iced
er in the senate treaty fight, that he
would be entirely satisfied with any
reservations supporters of the treaty
might feel justified in accepting, pro-
vided they did not nullify the League
of Nations covenant and were designed
for the purpose of interpreting the
terms of the treaty.
First Test on Reservations
In the first test of strength on the
relations committee, the senate refused
by vote of 48 to 40, to strike out
the provision which would require &C.
ceptance Of the reservations by the
other powers.
By the same vote and with the same
partisan alignment the senate rejected
another amendment, offered by Sena-
tor McCumber to the preamble pro-
posing that acceptance Of reservations
s'might be" effected by exchange of
Diplomatic notes. The committee pre-
aable requires such an exchange of
notes.
Reject Borah Amendment.
The senate also rejected proposal
by Senator Borah (Rep.), Idaho, to re-
ouire that all four, instead Of three
Of the great powers, be required to
accept the reservations. On this vote
the mild reservation group of Repub-
licans swung over with the Democrats.
The president, Senator Hitchcock
said, on returning from the White
House, expressed ''his very strong ap-
prevail" of what had been done to
date. and agreed that no compromise
would be offered unless a deadlock
was reached on resolution of ratifi.
cation.
Senator Hitchcock outlined his pro-
gram as first an endeavor to defeat the
reservations reported by the foreign
relations committee, and If that failed,
to vote down the resolution Of ratifi-
cation containing them. His next
move would be to present resolution
of ratification. and should a deadlock
ensue, to attempt a compromise with
Republican opponents.