Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-10-18
TWO MORE TREATY AMENDMENTS
DEFEATED BY SENATE FRIDAY:
ONLY. TWO REMAIN FOR ACTION
Debate Over Amendments Is
Sharp; Senate Expects To
Bring Last Two OF The
Forty-Six Amendments To
IA Vote Early Next Week.

Washington. Oct. 17.-After a brief
debate and without the Formally Of al
record vote, the senate today threw
out two more Of the amendments
written into the peace treaty by the
foreign relations committee.
The W amendments had been in
troduced by Senator Fall, Republican,
New Mexico. and had as their COM
mon purpose curtailment of the pow
er of the American representative on
the reparations commission. an inter-
national body set up by the treaty to
fix and collect Germany's reparation
bill.
The vote came sooner than had
been expected, the leaders agreeing
to it as part Of a plan to complete the
consideration of amendments as soon
as possible so that the senate might
get down to the real work Of drafting
a ratification resolution. Only two
of the committees 46 amendments
now remain to be considered, and it is
hoped to bring them to vote carly
next week.
They both relate to equalization Of
voting strength in the League of Ma
tons. i.
Another Sharp Debate.
Action on the two Fall amendments
came near the end of a session which
had been e%nlivened by a sharp de-
bate over the dispatch Of American
troops to Europe for service in con-
nection with the Silesian plebiscite
n by a new move from adminfstra-
ton quarters to meet the objections
of Irish-Americans to the league
covenant.
Both sides had mustered their fore
es in the senate chamber as the time
for action on the Fall amendments
approached. Senator Fall did not re-
quest q roll call, however, saying that
1t would be useless since he realized
the measure would be beaten. In
! quick succession the two votes were
then taken by exclamation, no one
asking for a count
Fall and kellogg Speak.
The only speeches made on the
amendments were by Senator Fall and
by Senator Kellogg, Republican, Min
nesota, who argued that the purpose
could be served sufficiently by res
ervations. In the course of the da,
various other features of the treaty
cussed, Senators Brandegee, Repub'
lican, Connecticut. and Wadsworth
Republican. New York, attacking tn.
dispatch of troops for Silesian duty
and Senator Hitchcock and Senator
Nelson, Republican, Minnesota, de
tending the action.
Irish Question Again.
The move to further Ireland's Gauss
in the league was made by Senate;
Walsh. Democrat. Montana. who in
PRODUCED a resolution expressing it a
the sense of the senate that once tn
league is organized the United State
should bring before it, under Articl
H., the right of the Irish people t
self-government. 1t was this article
which permits any member state t
call attention to any condition threat
ening the peace of the world, which
President Wilson repeatedly quoted o,
his western trip as holding out hop
for subject peoples, and embodyin
his views on the Irish question. Al
though no formal action was take
by the foreign relations committee o
the offer of Col. House to tell it wha
he knows Of the Versailles negotia
tons as soon as his health permits
it was said. there was a possibilit
that he might be asked to appeal
even though the committee ha
; completed its work on the treaty.
:, In their reading of the treaty tex
the senate clerks about complete
, during the day the first half Of the:
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