Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-11-08
RESERVATIGNISTS
WIN FIRST ROUND
IN TREATY FIGHT
Senate Adopts Foreign ReIa-
ton Committees Preamble;
Republicans Say They Can
Pass the Entire Group,
rpv sopmno IouaaAL specnl LEASED WINS


Washington, Nov. THE first af-
firmative step to qualification of the
peace treaty was taken today by the
senate after administration leaders,
with the backing of President Wilson,
had reaffirmed their intention of
voting against ratification if the res
ervations drawn by the senate ma
jority are adopted
The initial test of strength on the
reservation program of the foreign
relations committee found the repub-
licans almost solidly united behind it,
the group of mild reservationsts who
helped kill the committees amend-
ments and the irreeoncilable group of
treaty foes standing together for the
first time sinte the long treaty fight
began.
BY a vote of As to 40 the senate
approved, after all efforts TO amend
it bad failed. the committees pre-
ambIe to the reservation group, re-
quiring that to make the treaty bind
ing at least three of the four great
powers must accept the senate quail
fications. The only republican who
did not swing into line for the pro-
posal was Senator McCumber of
North Dakota, while three democrats.
Senators Reed, Missouri: Gore. Okla
homa, and Walsh, Massachusetts,
voted with the majority
Republicans Hopeful,
When adjournment was reached,
the first Of the fourteen reservations
was under debate. and republican
leaders were claiming that they had
safe majorities pledged for the entire
group. The mild reservationists, it
was declared, had turned down a new
glaaNa nNFat sNff .A.,s,
while the irreconciliable wing was
devising a plan ofs action by which
they hoped to defeat the treaty en-
tirely, The best claim made by the
administration forces was that the
treaty would be wedged into a dead
lock which in the end would make
compromise inevitable,
The plan to vote against the treaty
and thus deadlock the ratification
fight was declared to have President
Wilson's unqualified support. Sena-
tor Hitchcock of Nebraska, the DEM
ocratic leader suw the president dur
ing the day for the first time since
Mr. Wilson returned from his speak
ing tour and went over the entire sit
uation surrounding the treaty in the
senate. Afterward Mr.. Hitchcock said
the executive regarded the committee
reservations as obstructive" and the
preamble as very embarrassing"
and advised the administration sena-
tors to stand by their guns.
The president was said to have as
serted an aggressive opposition to ac-
ceptance of reservations which would
impair the treaty, but to have shown
a willingness to leave the matter of
compromise in the hands of the adj
ministration senators, to be worked
out after the deadlock stage had been
reached. Mr.. Wilson explained, Sem
ator Hitchcock said. that he had sent
for the administration leader to give
assurance of his support in the con-
templated program and Of his graft
tude over the successful fight against
amendments.
Deadlock, Then n Compromise.
After the White House conference
the democratic loader declared his
conviction that here would be no
compromise until the deadlock
actually had developed He conceded
that most of the committee reserva-
tons would be written into the ratifi-
cation resolution and that after to
latter had been killed by democratic
votes an unqualified ratification res
olution also would probably fail
Then the time would be ripe, he de-
clared, for the senator's favoring ratl-
fication withouv reservations and
those wanting ratification with reser-
vations to get together,
BY leaders Of the reservation repub-