Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-11-20
PEACE PACT LAID ASIDE
AFTER THREE ATTEMPTS
ARE MADE TO RAFIFY IT
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/ luton before the senate and charged
| that an attempt was being made TO
/ drive an unwilling majority to accept
/ the dictates of a small minority
Underwood Pleads With senators.
/ Senator Underwood urged al sem
ators who had voted against the Lodge
| resolution 10 "repudiate it, He then
/ explained what further procedure
could he had.
/ we shah maintain that We are en-
titled to offer other resolutions Of rat
/ ification he declared.
"The vice president has ruled cor
rectly lhac we have that right. But
q majority of the senate destroyed mis-
ruling When this resolution COT
/ Senator Lodge) is voted down again
we must face the fact whether a par
| tisan majority which intends 10 de-
stroy this treaty can be controlled,
and by indirect measures say to the
! senate, You shall ratfy as we present
( il or not a. all
THAT is the issue and I am pre-
/ pared to meet it and the American
/ people will know who is to ratify this
| treaty and who is to destroy It,
If further resolutions are kept out
I by q majority vote after the Lodge
resolution is again defeated, Senator
/ Underwood said Senator Lodge either
/ would have to adjourn the senate or
/ notify the president ~ a resolution
! that the senate would take no further
action on the treaty,
Senator Borah, republican, Idaho,
reiterated his objections to the league,
/ saying he believed it would be his
last chance as he expected prompt
! ratification with the reservations.
"a believe he said, that sooner or
| later--entirely too soon-this treaty
! will lie ratified with the league in il
! ana the reservations as they are writ
ten, although there might be some
/ possible changes in order that there
may be common sharing of parentage.
My objections to the league are not
met by the reservations.
You who are quarreling oyer res
ervations. Tell me which of your
n reservations preserves the doctrines
of the fathers against entanglement
in the affairs Of Europe? Not one
The essential thing Of all remains in
the covenant unaffected
Parliamentary situation.
The parliamentary situation eN-
planned privately by leaders on both
sides, was that with prospective re-
lection again Of the Lodge resolution
Mr.. Hitchcock again would seek &c
offer substitute resolutions, be sus-
tanned by the vice president and have
a majority overrule the vice president
shutting out the Substitute resolutions
THIS, they explained, would leave the
senate in the position of refusing tt
ratify the treaty but without reject
ing it.
Several courses then would be open
leaders stated The president couc
withdraw the treaty If he desired
they said and re-submit it in presen
or amended form; or the treaty coul(
le left pending in the senate or re-
committed to the foreign relations
committee. .....
Cancellation Move Beaten.
A democratic move to have the
treaty referred to a Cancellation com
mittee of democrats and republicans
was defeated, the mild reSerVationist!
lagain lining up solidly with the Other
republicans.
The senate voted. As to. AZ, il
tabling Senator Pomerene's motion t.
Iappoint a Cancellation committee. Al
of the republicans present eNcep
senator McCumber who did not vote
voted the motion down and wert
joined by Senator Reed and Shields
democrats.
A new effort to secure considera
tion Of substitute reservations wa
made l3y Senator Hitchcock who pre-
scented q motion TO re-commit TIL
treaty to the committee of the who'll
with instructions 10 report his pro
posed reservations.
Senator Hitchcock's motion to re
commit was voted down with usua
tline-up. .# #
The vote on the Hitchcock motion
was 81 to Al.
Pleads For Compromise.
Senator Smith democrat, Georgia
who had voted for ratification witt
the reservations, made a plea for {
compromise and moved that the sen
rate adjourn until tomorrow to per
init negotiations between the tW'
Sides The motion was voted down.
The vote on the motion to adjour
was As to AZ.
AT g:4S tonight the senate begal