Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-10-18
TWO ADDITIONAL AMEND
MENTS CUT OUT OF PACT
BY SENATOR'S VOTE
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Nobody knows under what author
! ity these troops are being sent said
/ senator Brandegee
Senator Wadsworth stated:
Il was given to understand that the
] dispatch of this force was due to some
arrangements made by the American
| peace commission at Paris. Il was
| intimated also that the authority for
sending them springs from the fact
| technically We still are at war with
! Germany
Nelson Defends Action.
Senator Nelson interrupted to sug-
gest that the plebIscite was to de-
| termine whether upper Silesia should
| become a part of Poland, and added:
They simply want our troops there
| to see that there is fair plebiscite,
| that's all. Unless the senator opposes
| the establishment of Poland as free
| country he ought not to object to
| this"
Senator Hitchcock democrat. said
| the president had the power TO rein
force the American expeditionary
| force along the Rhine and that when
| the troops reached Cobenz, it would
| be decided whether they should go
| to Silesia. He added that under the
treaty Germany was required TO pay
the expenses of policing that country
| during the plebiscite,
Senator Wadsworth said that it had
been intimated to him at the war
department that authority to send the
troops was found in the rejection by
the senate of the amendment to the
treaty by Senator Fall, republican, OF
New Mexico, proposing that the Unit
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Silesian plebiscite
Senator Nelson interjected that,
like the senate's criticism of landing
Of American marines on the Dalma
tian coast, the present controversy was
a tempest in a teapot"
Attack on Administration.
Replying to Senator Wadsworth,
Senator Hitchcock declared the criti-
cism of the Silesian expedition APP
peared to be another attack on the
administration,
al the votes that have been taken
W the senate on this treaty" Sena-
or Hitchcock said, indicate that the
senate will ratify it without textual
change; that an overwhelming major
ity propose to ratfy it without the
lotting of an T. or the crossing of
t. and that any other action will be
n the form Of reservations. The only
question remaining is whether those
for ratification with qualifications
and those for ratification without
qualifications will be able to unite"
He added that the treaty stipulated
that troops for the Silesian plebiscite
must be sent within fifteen days of
he treatys ratification and that
therefore the dispatch of the troops
At this time was necessary.
Senator Borah, republican, Idaho,
interjeCted that the statement of Sem
ator Hitchcock gave the fundamental
reason for his opposition to the treaty,
Warren Opposed to the League.
american troops will be constantly
crossing the ocean if it is ratified"
said he.
II believe that if the treaty is rat
fled and the league of nations put into
effect" retorted Senator Hitchcock,
there will be a reduction of arma-
ment and maintenance of world
peace
This treaty can't be ratified with
out reservation providing that Amer
lean troops shall not be used without
the consent of congress-" declared
Senator Lenroot, republican, of Wis
Consin. IF the senator from Nebfas-
ka doesn't know that, he will find it
out"
Making his first senate speech on
the treaty, Senator Warren, republic
can, of Wyoming, announced he could
not support the league of nations COW
enant until it had been American
2ed" by reservations He deplored
| any tendency to undermine the ma
ions prestige and said he could not
| gree with President Wilson when he
declared the league was greater than
the American government