Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-10-22
SHOWDOWN IN
TREATY FIGHT
NOW IMMINENT
Democrats Asked Squarely to
Accept or Reject Republican
Reservation Program
NINE POINTS COVERED
IN G.. O. p. REQUESTS
McCumber's Views on Domestic Cues
tons, Montroe Doctrine, With
drawal of u. s. and Article
Ten Followed.


ton of accepting the peace treaty
ton was earnestly considered Sby
democratic senate leaders today UNI
der the pressure of developments
ratification fight.
| The treaty opposition forces, an
nouncing a complete agreement ON a
reservation program by, the senate
majority, brought the situation to an
unexpected issue by serving notice
that their proposal would go before
! half the foreign relations committee
tomorrow, when the administration
leaders would be asked to go on rec
ord definitely as accepting or re-
jecting it.
Described by the majority spokes
men as in the nature of an ultima
tum, the announcement was follow
ed by conference on the admins
tration side, which lasted all day, but
resulted in no final decision.
The reservation program as it is to
be presented to the committee for
approval, was not made public, but
il, was understood to embrace nine
reservations, evolved from suggest
ions gathered from many sources.
The subjects said to be covered we're
the following:
The right of this country to
Judge whether in it's obligations
had been fulfilled in case Of with
] drawal from the league Of ma
| tions.
The unimpaired power of con-
gress to decide questions of peace
or war under article 10.
! Domestic decision of all do
nestle questions.
Preservation unaffected of the
| Monroe doctrine.
| Refusal to be party to the
! Shantung settlement.
Equalization of voting power
in the league.
! Congressional selection OF
! American representatives in the
| league.
Limitation of the powers Of
such representatives and those
on international commissions.
Notification Of the right Of
the international labor conference
to challenge the eligibility Of
American representatives in in
ternational labor bodies.
One disturbing element in this
program for the administration lead
Iers was the fact that they had heard
the article 10 reservation followed
closely the language Of one presented
in the senate during the day by Sem
ator McCumber, republican, North
Dakota, which in turn was in almost
the exact language which President
Wilson announced in his Cheynne,
Wyo.. address would be regarded by
him cas- rejection of the treaty"
McCumber's Idea Followed.
In their conference today. the
democratic leaders did not have be-
fore them, the actual wording Of the
reservations, as agreed upon bv the
majority, but they had been told that
the four generally regarded as most
important, relating to withdrawal
domestic questions, the Monroe doc
trine and Article x. followed "al-
most word for word" the LANGUAGE Of
those put into the senate record by
4 Senator McCumber. Most Of the
argument, therefore, was over these
four as presented by the North Da-
kota senator.
| In all seven reservations were in
the McCumber series, the other three
relating to Shantung and equal votes
in the league:
Il Withdrawals:
/. 1. That the United States under.
stands, and SO CONSTITUTES article
. that in case Of notice Of withdraw
! al from the league Of nations, a
) provided in said article, the Unitet
! States shall be the sole judge as tx
l whether all it's international ohliga
= itions and all it's obligations undel
{ the said covenant have been fulfilled
!. Article X.
I'll 2. The United States assumes m
obligation to preserve the territorial
integrity or political Independence o
any other country or to interfere u
controversies between nations, wheth
err members of the league OF nation
: or not under the provisions Of Articl
x, or to employ the military or nava
! forces of the United States unde
:. lany article of the treaty tor an!
= purpose, unless in any particular
: case the congress, which, under tn
!; constitution, has the sole power t.
. declare war or authorize the en-
:. ployment Of military and nAval force
- of the United States, shall, by &C
9 Tor joint resolution SO declare.
Domestic Questions.
2 8. The United States reserves 4
: itself exclusively the right to dec!dl
what questions are within its d.
imestic jurisdiction and declares tha1
all domestic and political 0peat50UI
3 ro1atinr IN ~ internal n4zSifX. III