Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-09-12
TREATY ACTION IS
RUSHED BY SENATE
Committee Votes to Ratify Pact
After Vital Changes.
OFFERS FOUR AMENDMENTS
Ratification Resolution Provides That
All Reservations Must Be Accept
ed by at Least Three of Five
Allied Powers.

Washington, Sept. 5.-The peace
treaty was ordered reported to the
senate by the foreign relations COM
mittee with four reservations and Tour
amendments. The reservations are
made part of the resolution or ratl-
fication, which also provides that tney
must be accepted by at least three Oh
the principal allied powers. Great
Britain, France, Italy and Japan, be-
fore the United States consents TO De
party to the treaty. Senator Lodge
will write the committee report.
The Vote Was 9 to Z.
The resolution for ratification or
the treaty with reservations adopted
by the senate foreign relations COM
mittee is as follows:
Resolved, Two-thirds Of the senators
present concurring therein, that the
senate advise and consent to the ratl-
fication of a treaty of peace with Ger
many, signed by the plenipotentiaries
of the twenty-seven allied and associ-
ated powers, at Versailles, on June
%, 1919, with the following reserva-
tons and understandings to be made
a part and condition of such ratif1ca-
ton, which ratification is not to take
effect or bind the United States until
the said following reservations and I'M
derstandings have been accepted as
a part of and a condition of said In
strument of ratification by at least
three of the four principal allied and
associated powers, tO-wit: Great Brit
ain, France, Italy and Japan.
Reserves Right to Withdraw.
1. The United States reserves to
itself the unconditional right to with
draw from the League of Nations
upon the notice provided in article
of said treaty of peace with Germany.
2. That the United States declines
to assume, under the provisions of
article X or under any other article,
any obligation to preserve the terri
torial integrity or political independ-
ence of any other country or to inter-
fere in controversies between other
nations members of the league or not,
or to employ the military or naval
forces of the United States in such
measures for the protection of any
other country whether a member of
the league or not, against external ag-
greSsiOn or for the purpose of coerc-
ing any other country, or for the pur-
pose of intervention in the interna-
tional or other controversies which
may arise in any other country, and
no mandate shall be accepted by the
United States under article XXI, part
l of the treaty except by action of the
congress of the United States.
To Decide Own Questions.
8. The United States reserves to it.
self exclusively the right to decide
what questions are within it's domestic
jurisdiction and declares that all do
nestle and political questions relating
to it's affairs including immigration,
coastwise traffic, the tariff, commerce.
and all other domestic questions, are
solely within the jurisdiction OF the
United States and are not under this
treaty submitted in any way either to
arbitration or to the consideration OF
the council of the assembly of the
League of Nations, or to the decision
or recommendation of any other power
4. The United States declines to SUBJ
nit for arbitration or inquiry by the
assembly or the council of the League
of Nations, provided for in said treaty
of peace, any questions which in thu
Judgment of the United States depend
upon or relate to its long-established
policy, commonly known as the Nom
roe doctrine; said doctrine is to be in.
terpreted by the United States alone,
and is hereby declared to be wholly
outside the jurisdiction of said League
of Nations and entirely unaffected by
any provision contained in the said
treaty of peace with Germany.