The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-10-03
FALL AMENDMENTS
ARE DEFEATED BY
BIC MAJ0R|TIES
Opponents of Ire atty
Muster Thirty Votes in
Favor of the u ps c t
Plan.

Washington, Oct 2---Tffrty seven
amendments to the peace treaty, pro-
posed by Senator Fall. were defeated
in the senate today by overwhelming
majorttee.
Opponents Of the treaty mustered
thirty votes an the first test Pairs
showed four Of their mum Der absent.
From this, the opponents Of the treaty
took much comfort assuring them
selves that with thirty-four votes they
e,ssaaia- -siasaa1 the tresste itself, which
requires two-thirds majority for adop-
ton.
Tho test vote was on the first of
the Fan amendments, which were in
tended to exclude the United States
from participation in the European
comn4issions created by the treaty.
The amendment was rejected by the
vote of thirty to fifty eight. Twenty
nine Republicans and Senator Gore,
Democrat voted fer the amendment,
and seventeen Republicans and forty
one Democrats voted against IT.
amendment, and Martin, King. John
son. Page. Reed and Sutherland. ali Of
whom would have voted for the
amendment, ann Martin, King. John
Eesss, of South Dakota. asYGe 'ssssitf O.
South Carolina, who would have voted
against. The maximum strength
which eoufa have been mas
tered by the treaty opponents on this
amendment would be thirty-four
votes. one more than necessary to re-
ject the treaty
All of tho amendments proposed ny
Senator Fan on the subject OF Ameri-
can participation IN the reimbursement
or Europe wsre dcreHt@d except that
relating to the reparations commits
son. upon which no action was taken.
There were four roIl-cafls on The
Fan amendments. The amendment
upon which the first roll call was had.
provided for exclusion of the Amer.-
can represertati tive on tho com m ssion
tn TX the Eeisian- German boundary
Thtrt three Of the amendments were
defeated by q viva voce vote en- hloc
at the suggestion OF Senator Hitch
cock and with the consent 1T Senator
Fall The second roll-cafi was on the
amendment TO exclude the Unit I'd
States from participation III tho conn
mission on tho Saar Basin: the
amendment WAS rejected by the vote
of thirty-one to 7fty-six. senator
Thomas, Democrat, changing from, the
negative IN the affirmative.
The third rofl-call was or the
annen dment rotating to the CzschO-
Hovak treaty, tho vote being twenty
cfEHh 10 fffip-tflFG6
Tho fourth roIl-car was or two
amendments 10 the article providing
fer thu creation of commission, 80
supervise tho plchiseite In ffpper
Silesia, and requiring the United
ssatea to maintain troops there, The
kcpoh!icans mustered thirty one
votes for this Mmendmert tn spite OF
fine fact that Senators Gore, Diiling-
ham, Warren. Sherman and Thomas
did not vote, The accensions or this
rofl-can were Senators Jones OF Wash
ingtoD, Kenyon, OF Iowa. Ctnmins, of
Iowa. and Sterling OF South Dakota,
tt the i've other senators just named
had voted The Repu hiteatss would
have reached n maximum strength of
forty votes on this particular amend
mant,
Senator I4enrset, Of wisconsin
Senator Hale OF Maine, and Senator
Spencer OF Missouri, announced that
they voted against the amendment fer
the sole reason that they irtend tn
support reservations which win eevor
the same subject, The senatorsstatad
they were inherently opposed to tex
tual amendments, but that they
would not permit tho treaty to be
ratified without strong reservations to
place within the hands of the com
gress complete Jurisdiction over the
rusn named on tho comissiens as the
American representatives and TO pre-
scribe their duties and functions.