The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-10-21
WITHOUT ROLL CALL
AMENDMENTS WERE
i QUICKLY DEFEATED
Those Relating to Reparations
Commission Promptly Kill
ed By Committee
IRISH QUESTION UP AGAIN

is Formed to Demand SeIf-Govern.
ment-Colonel House Will Testify
II Wanted i'm Connection With the
Peace Treaty.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2o.-After a
brief debate and without the formali-
ty OF recorded vote, the senate Fri.
day threw out two more of the
amendments written into the peace
treaty by the foreign relations COM
mittee.
The two amendments had been in
troduced by Senator Fall, Republican,
OF New Mexico, and had as their COM
mon purpose curtailment of the pow
er Of the American representative on
the reparation 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 plan to complete the
consideration of amendments as soon
as possible so that the senate might
get down to the real work Of draft
ing ratification resolution. Only
two of the committees As amend
ments now remain to be considered,
and it is hoped to bring them to a
vote early this week. They both re-
late to equalization of voting strength
In the league OF nations.
Action on the two Fall amendments
came near the end OF a session which
had been enlivened by a sharp de.
bate over the dispatch of American
troops to Europe for service in con-
nection with the Silesean plebiscite,
and by a new move from administra-
Gion quarters to meet the objections
? OF Irish-Americans to the league Gov.
enant. Some progress also was made
in the formal reading of the treaty
text. and the foreign relations COM
mittee took under advisement an of.
fer from Col. E. M. House to appear
before It.
In anticipation of a roll call, both
sides had mustered their forces in the
senate chamber as the time for ac-
tion. on the Fall amendments ap-
preached. AS the question was put,
however, Senator Hitchcock, of Ne.
braska, the administration leader,
asked Senator Fall whether it was his
purpose to request a roll call. and the
New Mexico senator replied that It
would be useless since he realized the
measures would be beaten. In quick
succession the two votes then were
taken by acclamation, no one asking
for count.
The only speeches made on the
amendments were by Senator Fall
and by Senator Kellogg, Republican,
OF Minnesota, who argued that the
purpose could be served sufficiently
by reservations. In the course of the
day various other features OF the
treaty and the peace negotiations
were discussed. Senators Brandegee,
Republican, of Connecticut, and Wads.
worth. Republican, of New York, at.
tacking the dispatch of troops for
Silesean duty, and Senator Hitchcock
and Senator Nelson, Republican. Min
nesota. defending the action.
The move to further Ireland 3
cause in the league was made by Sen.
ator Walsh. Democrat. OF Montana,
who introduced a resolution express.
ing 1t as the sense of the senate that
once the league is organized the Unit.
ed States should bring before II un.
der article XI the right Of the Irish
people to self-government. 1t was
this article. which permits any mem.
ber state to call attention to any con.
dition threatening the peace of the
world, which Presiden Wilson repeat.
edly quoted on his western trip as
holding out hope for subject peoples
and embodying his views on the Irish
question. -
In their reading OF the treaty text
a formality required by senate rules.
the senate clerks about completed
during the day the first half of their
task. Most of the time they were
droning away with an audience OF
less than half dozen senators, and
when they resumed in a filed cham.
ber after the vote on the Fall amend.
ments. their voices were drowned out
80 effectually that Senator Robinson,
Democrat. of Arkansas, asked that