Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-09-11
LODGE PRESENTS
TREATY To SENATE
WITH REPORT OF
RECOMME NDAT|ONS
Forty-FiVe Amendments and
Four Reservations Are Sub
mitted for Consideration of
Upper House.
HITCHCOCK TO SUBMIT
REPORT OF MINORITY
Debate Is Expected to Begin
Monday and Continue Unin-
terruptedly Until Vote Is
Finally Taken,
tsy MORNING ,oussAL spse,Al LEASED wrprI

tsY MORNING JoURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wIREl
Washington. Sept, 10.-Character
lied as an alliance and not a league
which "will breed wars instead of Sc
curing peace" the German peace
treaty, including the covenant for
league of nations was formally re
ported to the senate today by the for
eign relations committee with forty
five amendments and four reserva
tons.
1t will be the first great documen
of its kind to be discussed in the opei
without the confines Of executive
session."
Accompanying the treaty was tn
majority report of the foreign rela
tons committee. subscribed to b,
every republican member, except Sen
ator McCumber of North Dakota, ex
planning the amendments and reser
vations, all of which it was declared
were governed by a single purpos
and that is to guard American right
and sovereignty, the invasion of whicl
would stimulate breeches of faith, en-
courage conflicts and generate wars.
The reservations propose:
/. Unconditional right to with
draw from the league.
2. Declination by the United
States to accept any of the legal
or moral obligations of the much
discussed Article X. or to accept
any mandatory from the league
except by action of the congress
of the United States.
3. Reserving to the United
States the exclusive right to de-
eide what questions are within its
own domestic jurisdiction,
4. Absolute reservation of the
Monroe doctrine to the Judgment
of the United States alone.
The principal amendments are
proposed to provides
Equal voting power for the
United States with Great Britain
in the assembly Of the league.
Giving to China instead of Ja-
pan the province of Shantung.
Relief of the United States from
having representatives on COM
missions deciding matters in
which it has no concern.
Others concern phraseology.
Presenting the majority repor
Chairman Lodge announced that mex
Monday he would ask the senate t.
take UP the treaty. adding:
II shall endeavor to keep it befor
the senate until disposed of"
1t was announced that the minorit
report. written by Senator Hitchcock
would be filed tomorrow.
Minority Report Prompt.
The German peace treaty, wit
amendments and its league of nation
covenant, with reservations, was re
ported to the senate today by the for
eign relations committee, O. majorit
of whose members opposed ratifica
tion in the form submitted by Presi
dent Wilson.
Immediately after it was presente
by Chairman Lodge, two months t
the day from the time the presiden
laid it before the senate, Senate
Hitchcock, of Nebraska, ranking dem
ocratic member OF the committee. an
nounced that the minority report
urging ratification without amend
ment or reservations, would be file
tomorrow.
The fight over ratification will be
gin Monday, Chairman Lodge an
nounced that the treaty would b
taken up them and kept continuousl
before the senate. First will com
the effort to amend the treaty an
then the fight for reservations, mild o
strong. Leaders of the administrator
forces continued to predict today tha
the treaty with the league covenan
would be ratified in it's original form
Would Reject League.
Republican leaders declared, how
ever, that IL put to vote now tn
league would be rejected by the sen
ate. Efforts to reach some agree
nent on the question of reservation
meanwhile are being made,
The formal report of the majorit
was presented with as little formalit
as If it had been bill to carry on tn
routine work of the government
There was larger attendance on tn
floor than usual, however. indicatin
the Interest in the forthcoming bat
tie.
On the heels of it's presentation
Senator Kenyon, republican, Iowa. !
whose state President Wilson mad
an address in support of the leagu
covenant, launched hitter attac
upon it and declared the covenan
never could be adopted as it no.
stands. The big crowd in the gallerie
broke forth into applause as the low
senator concluded, one woman stand
ing UP and waving an umbrella /
great excitement. There were man
references to the treaty in later dc
bate, and tomorrow Senator Hardint
of Ohio, republican member of tn
foreign relations committee, wi
speak against ratification.
Kenyon's Position.
II the league of nations had not bee
,ntertwined In the peace treaty 9TH
Shantung proposition and the over
preponderance of the voting power Q
Great Britain" would have been prac
tically the only thing to have seriousl
delayed ratification, Senator Kenyo
declared.
Declaring the American people ha
had no opportunity to vote on tn
treaty question. Senator Kenyon in
sisted they wanted no politics in tn
adjustment of it; that they want peac
but demand that the league covenan
be "Americanized."
During a side debate on the leagu
of nations today Senator Norris. re
publican, Nebraska, charged tina
President Wilson spent money like
drunken sailor. in Europe and "ca
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