Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-10-28
SENATOR JOHNSON
Amendment loses
BY VOTE Of 81 TO 40
Senate Takes Unexpected
Action on Senator Lodges
Suggestion-Many Sena-
tors Were Absent

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.-By a
vote of SO to 40, the senate today
defeated the Johnson amendment ia
the peace treaty to equalize voting
strength within the League of Ma
tions.
The vote was unexpectedly at the
request of Senator Lodge after Sen
ator Hitchcock, administration lead
er, announced that he would ask
for unanimous consent to vote at
1870 p. m.
II see no reason why we cannot
vote right now" Senator Lodge de-
clared, and the roll was called with
out further delay.
Immediately after the defeat of the
amendment, Senator Johnson, Cali
fornia, introduced a second amend
ment which seeks to accomplish the
same object as his first one.
A number of senators were absent
when the roll call was called, no adj
issued The final result, however,
would not have been changed as all
absentees were paired with Senators
taking opposite positions.
The senate prepared to vote i'm
mediately nthe Moses amendment
The Roll Call
The roll cal follows:
For Adoption-Republic Ball,
Borah, Brandegee, Capper, Cummins,
Curtis, Dillingham;. Fall, France, FIRE.
linghuySen, Gronna. Harding, john
son of California; Jones, of Wash
ington; Kenyon, Knox, LaFollette,
Lenroot, Lodge, Mccormick, Mclean,
Moses, New, Newberry, Norris, Page,
Penrose, Phipps, Poindexter, Sher-
Townsend, Wadsworth and Warren
thirty-Six.
Democrats-Gore and Shields-two.
Total, thirty-eight.
Against Adoption - Republicans:
Colt, Edge, Hale. Kellogg, Keyes,
McCumber. McNary. Nelson and Ster-
ling-nine.
Democrats - Bankhead, Chamber.
lain, Culberson, Dial, Fletcher, Gary,
Gerry, Harris, Harrison, Henderson,
Hitchcock, Jones, of New Mexico;
King, Kirby Mcclellan, Myers, Nh.
gent, Overman, Pomerene, Ransdell,
Robinson, Sheppard, Simmons, Smith
. of Arizona; Smith, of Maryland;
Swanson, Thomas: Trammell, Under
wood, Walsh. of Montana, and Will
1iams-thirty-o
Several Democratic senators, IN
Guiding Phelan. California; Smith.
Georgia, and Ashurst, Arizona, enter
ed the chamber after the vote on the
johnson amendment was taken and
protested that they had been taken
unawares by the sudden veto and
asked permission to state their at
titude on the question.
OF the eighteen senators voting,
Senator Walsh, Democrat, Massa-
chusetts, voted for the Johnson
amendment, but later withdrew his
vote iTA the absence of his pair, SEN
ator Stanley, Democrat, of Kentucky,
who opposed the amendment. Others
absent or paired and not voting were:
For, adoption-Senator Calder, Re-
publican, New York; Reed, Democrat,
Missouri; Elkins, Republican, West
Virginia; Fernald Republican, Maine,
and Watson, Republican Indiana.
Against-Ashurst, Democrat, Ari-
IONA; Beckhanl, Democrat, Kentucky;
Johnson, Democrat, South Dakota:
Kendrick. Democrat, Wyoming; Mar
tin, Democrat, Virginia; Owen. Demo-
crat, Oklahoma; Phelan, Democrat
California; Pittman, Democrat, Ne
vada; Smith, Democrat, Georgia.
Smith, Democrat, South Carolina. End
Walcott, Democrat, Delaware
At least half a dozen senators
were attending a Roosevelt memorial
meeting in another part of the citS
when the vote was taken.