The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-09-11

Washington, Sept 4.-Ihe ce
treaty and League Of NationS% me-
ordered reported to the Sena54 tate
this afternoon by the foreien IA.
tions committee, thus ending TIT on-
sideration Of tho treaty by TIN am
lnittee.
| While the committee finished /, its
work today it will be a week III Ten
days before the report will be ffil11ly
transmitted to the Senate. Craftsman
Lodge has to write the majority Re
port submitting not only the SreSGfwa-
tons adopted today, but the amend
ments previously voted by. the COM
mittee. Those amendments are: ss
| /. Restoring Shantung to China.
2. Taking the United States off the
membership of the many information
al commissions created by the league
and Peace Treaty.
3. Providing that the United
States shall have an equal vote in
the League of Nations to Great
Britain and her colonies.
The resolution of ratification with
the reservations adopted follows:
Resolved (two-thirds Of the SEN
ators present concurring therein)
that the Senate advise and consent
to the ratification of treaty of peace
with Germany, signed by the pieni-
potentiaries of the United States and
Germany and by the plenipoteptiar-
les of the twenty-seven Allied and
Associated Powers, at Versailles,
June 28, 1919, with the following
reservations and understandings to
q os,l =
such ratification, which ratification
is not to take effect or bind the Unit
ed States until the said following
reservations and understandings |
have been accepted as a part of and a
condition of said instrument of ratifi-
cation by at least three of the four
principal Allied and Associated
Powers, to-wit: Great Britain.
France, Italy and Japan.
I. The United States reserves to
itself the unconditional right to
withdraw from the League of Ma
lions upon the notice provided in
Article of said treaty of peace with
Germany
e.. That the United States declines
10 assume, under the provisions OF
Article 10 or under any other article,
any obligation to preserve the terri
orial integrity or political independ-
,nce OF any other country or to IN
erfere in controversies between 9TH
r nations members of the league or
lot, or to employ the military or
laval forces of the United States in
uch controversies; to adopt econ
mic measures, for the protection OF
ny other country, whether a mem
'er OF the league or not, against ex-
ernal aggression or for the purpose
i Intervention in the internal con-
licts or other controversies which
nay arise in any other country. and
o mandate shall be accepted BY the |
United States under Article 22. partiI
, OF the Treaty of Peace with Ger-
1any, except by action of Congress
+ the United States. IL
3. The United States reserves to
self exclusively the right to decide
hat questions are within its domes-
c jurisdiction and declares that all
omestic and political questions re-
ting to its affairs, including imm- g 8
ration, coastwise traffic, the tariff - -
and all other domestic ~
lestions, are solely within the juris- p.
ction of the United States and are lH
1t, under this treaty submitted in 70
~ way either to arbitration or to =,
e consideration of the council or ~
the assembly of the League of Ma 81
ons, or to the decision or recon- ~
endation of any other power. -
4. The United States declines to
bmit for arbitration or inquiry by ~
e assembly or the council of the ~
:ague of Nations, provided for in -
i'd Treaty of Peace, any questions =:
hich, in the judgment of the United =, =.
ates. depends upon or relates to its ~
ng established policy, commonly
own as, the Monroe Doctrine; said
ctrine is to be interpreted by the
nited States alone and is hereby
clared to be wholly outside the III,
of said League of Ma II,
ms and entirely unaffected by any he,
DIVISION contained in the said Treaty ret
Peace with Germany. IA,
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