Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-07
Senate Has Taken Up
 Treaty Reservations
One Provides That Reserva- tions Must Be Accepted By Three Great Powers to Make Them Binding.

washing lon, NOV. 6.-Whefller to rat1fy the treaty with Germany with out reservations or amendments seemed for a while shis afternoon about to be decided by the Senate.
 Thrown into the thick of dramatic parliamentary battle, request for an immediate showdown On unuualified acceptance of the treaty got the backing of the leaders on both sides who seemed anxious to outdo-, each other in pressing for a roll call. But before the stage of action was reach ed the move was blocked by repub- lican senators who objected that it might cut off any later attempt to put reservati tions into the ratification. Then the senate got back to it's regular order of business and having voted down the last of the lcng list of proposed amendments, began work on the reservations presented by the foreign relations. committee, said to l have the backing Of majority of the senators. When q recess was taken until tomorrow, the first of the lift | teen committee ,proposEls hadi not yet come to a vote.
 The reservations got before the senate only after point of order i against them had been overruled by l -ce President Marshall, who declared | no technicalities of the senate rules would be permitted to stand in the way of the right of the senate ma ajorIty i to frame its ratification oe the treaty as it chose. The ruling, which fol- lowed an hour of bitter argument, l was accepted as containing a signiti- cant declaration of policy with re- s"ant to the parliamentary tangle de- veloping around the treaty.
 ,lrst paragraph of the reserva- | ton group. the only part considered | today, recites that the reservations
 must be accepted by three of the
 other four great powers to make the i treaty binding. As presented, it he'd been slightly modified from the orlg ] inal committee draft, so that the ac-
 ceptance would be secured "by ex-
 change of notes."
 | During the day two new reserya- l tion proposals were placed before the senate, and, together with several others presented by individual sena- ! tors, will be taken up after the com mittee list. One was by Senator Knox, republican, Pennsylvania, pro- posing that the United States become 1 only consulting member" of the
 league with full liberty to govern its own course in all respects, and the l other was Dy senator JCnilSOIl, re- publican, California, relating to equl-
 ization of voting power in tho league.
 In his ruling against Senator Un- derwood's point of order, Vice Pres 1 ident Marshall made an extended
 statement of his general attitude to. ward construction Of tLA senate rulet I as they. relate te the 'treatss
 This is the most important treaty. I lie said. sffhat ever was presented tC ! the senate of the United S.ates.
 taThe chair is unwilling to make any sort of a technical ruling that vii prevent the senate from ratifying this i treaty either without reservations ol 1 with any sort of reservations that z majority chooses to put into the res olution of ratification
 "The chair is unwilling to construt these rules in so strict and narrow { way that the treaty may be pigeon
 holed or hung up by such marrow construction.
 '4The chair is <oing to hold that { | whatever it pleases to the senate il the way of reservations or interpre tations and the chair thinks that thes reservations, as they are called. ougn to be considered as in committee O 1 the whole in justice to certain sena tors of the United States who hav' been voting against amendments U the treaty with statements made Una thev voted against the amendment De cause they thought they could pre- serve their views by way Of reser
 vation and interpretation"