Evening star., 1919-11-09
SENATE VOTES j. s.
JUDGE OF OWNR|CHT
T0QU|T TIKI: LEAGUE
Committee Reservation to
Peace Treaty Adopted bv
Majority of Fifteen.
SIX DEMOCRATS LINE UP
FOR THE PROPOSITION
Decision Expected Monday on the
Suggested Qualification of
Article K.

Suggested Qualification of
Article K.
A reservation TO the peace treaty
! with Germany which would make the
| United States sole judge of the ma
tons right to withdraw from the
league of nations, was adopted late
yesterday in the Senate by a vote OF
so to 35. Every republican and six
democrats either voted for the reser-
walton or were paired in its support.
| The reservation, the first Of those
| offered by the Senate foreign rela.
| tions committee following the pre-
amble-which was adopted Friday
also authorizes Congress, by concur
rent resolution. to give notice of with
, drawal of the United States from the
league. A concurrent resolution does
not require the approval of the Pres
ident. and it was brought out in the
debate that it was precisely that end
desired by the proponents of the res
ervation. a
Opponen5 Suffer Defeat.
Attempts were made by administra-
| tion senator's and by two of the So
called mild eservationists on the re-
publican side-Senators McCumber and
NelSon-tO strike out the clause Civ
| ing Congress power to take the nation
out of the league without the ap-
proval OF the President. But all at
tempts were defeated, and in the end
Senator McCumber and Senator Nelson
| voted for fhe eDtjre recarvat tiop
The strength OF the reservations Of
fered by the foreign relations commit
tee was developed more and more
fully during the afternoon. It has
been claimed that Senator Lodge.
chairman Of the committee, would be
able to muster 55 votes for the res
ervations as against Al in opposition
to them. In the vote on the reserva-
tion yesterday this proved precisely
the strength Of the supporters; forty
nine republicans aud six democrats
making up the support.
Senator Lodge and other senator's,
who are supporting the reservations,
were clearly pleased with the way IL
which the fight over the treaty is de-
veloping. They believe that they viii
committee reservations to the end. 4
raft of other reservations will be Of
fered by individual senators. and some
of them also may be adopted.
Senator Lodges Warning.
| Senator Lodge reiterated his belief
last night that if the opponents of the
reservations defeat the resolution OF
ratification after the reservations have
been attached to it by a majority Of
| the Senate the treaty will be dead
to all intents and purposes.
! Whether the democrats, following The
lead of Senator Hitchcock. will vote
against ratification of the treaty with
the reservations proposed by the Senate.
/ in an attempt to bring about a dead
lock from which compromise may be
negotiated acceptable to them and to
the President, remains to be seen. They
may expect fifteen to eighteen 'frreson-
cilables," nearly all Of them republicans
! to join with them in voting against the .
ratification resolution proposed by Sena-
tor Lodge. But il is realized that in at
! tempting to bring about such a dead
lock these senators are playing with
fire, and in the end may prevent rati-
fication of the treaty in any FORM
Text of Reservation Adopted.
The reservation adopted by the Sen
ate yesterday follows:
THE United States so understands
and construes article 1 that in case OF
notice of withdrawal from the league
of nations. as provided in said article.
the United States shall be the sole
judge as to whether all it's interna-
tional obligations and all its obli-
cations under the said covenant have
been fulfilled, and notice of with
drawal by the United States may be
given by concurrent resolution of
the Congress of the United States"
Five democrats were recorded vot-
ing for it--Senators Reed. Missouri;
Gore, Oklahoma; Smith, Georgia;
Walsh, Massachusetts,. and Chamber
lain, Oregon. A sixth democrat
Senator Shields-was paired in favor
of it.
Vote in Detail.
Following is the vote in detail:
For adoption
Republicans-Ball. Borah, Brande-
gee, Calder. Capper, Colt. Cummins.
Curtis, Dillingham;. Edge. Fail, Fer
nald, France. Gronna, Hale. Harding,
Johnson Of California, Jones of Wash
ington, Kenyon, Keyes, Knox, La
Toilette. Lenroot, Lodge. Mccormick,
McCumber. Mclean. McNary. Moses,
Nelson, New, Newberry, Norris, Page,
Penrose, Phipps, Poindexter, Sherman,
Smoot, Spencer, Sterling. Townsend,
wadsworth, Warren and Watson
As.
Democrats - Chamberlain. Gore,
Reed, Smith of Georgia and Walsh of
Massachusetts,.
Totai. 50.
Against -republicans-nonc.
Democrats-Ashurst, Cu1berson, Dial,
Fletcher, Gay, Gerry, Harris. Harri-
son, Henderson. Hitchcock, johnson
of South Dakota, zones Of new Next
CO. Kendrick, King. Kirby, McEeI!e...
Myers, Nugent. Overman. Owen, Phe-
Ian, Pittman. Pomerene, Robinson,
Sheppard, Smith of Arizona, Smith of
Maryland; Smith of South Carolina.
Swanson, Thomas. Trammell. Under
wood, Walsh of Montana, Williams
and Wolcott. Total, 35.
The eleven senator's not voting were
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