The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-04
Senator Lodge to Phrase the
Report to the Senate at
Early Date
REPUBLICANS CLAIM
SAFE MAJORITY
United States Will Not Leave Decision
of War to Other Nations, Reserves
Right to Withdraw from League and
Exempts Monroe Doctrine.

WASHINGTON, Sept. Almost COIN
cidently with the publication of President
Wilson's first speech in the string of 30
he purposes delivering before his return
to Washington, rhe form and phrase of
the vital reservations to the league of ma
tions covenant, framed by the Republi-
cans of the senate committee on foreign
relations, will be disclosed.
The opponents of the treaty and league
of nations covenant in the committee,
numbering nine and all Republicans, are
virtually unit upon the reservations and
almost ready to bring them to the senate
floor embodied in their recommendations
as to the action of the senate in dealing
with both documents.
The Republicans know now the pur-
pose of the reservations and they have
determined upon the exact measure of
vitality which shall be drafted into them.
There remains only the final choice as to
phraseology.
The measure of vitality will be the max
imum The phraseology will be that of
CtLdlOI LOuSC N4hdSS.Is tDdH man VI biit
| foreign relations committee, who within
the ensuing two days will put into fin
| ished language his own and the ideas of
'his colleagues in the senate, in and out OF
the committee, upon whom the opponents
| of the league depend for the votes neces
| sary to take intefnationaiism out of the
| documents.
| The reservations will include assurance
to the United States of the right to &C
to war i'll a just cause or refuse to fight
in one deemed by the nation to be I'M
| just, without the interference or dicta
tion of any body of nations. This mean,
the striking out of the embarrassment;
of Article Y
Another reservation will make it per
fectly definite that the United States re
serves to itself the right to withdraw from
/ the league of nations at any time it may
see fit upon proper resolution of the law
making body of the land
A third will explain the position o
America with regard to the Monroe Doc
trine, asserting it to be an American pol
icy and one effective throughout the West
ern Hemisphere, which in no circum
stances can be called into controversy ano
which is supreme above any regional un
derstandings such as the mandates of tn,
league over partly civilized or weak dc
minions.
Another will express it to be the un
derstanding of the United States that a
question of internal political economy
the tariffs, revenue laws, immigration
laws and regulations, and all such mat
tiers of an exclusively domestic character
should not be under the jurisdiction Q
the league in any way.
1t will set forth in the resolution G
ratification of the peace treaty, with it
Article l., the league of nations covenant
that the reservations thereafter set fort
are considered by the treaty making pow
er of the United States to preclude the ea
ercise of any of the powers of the leagu
over the will of America pending thei
acceptance by the signatories to the treaty
Upon such reservations the Republica
leaders are confident of obtaining certain
ly not less than so votes in the senate
Estimates of conservative characte
raise this number to 50 or SO. 1t Is po.
sible also that in addition to the tw
Democrats already known to favor tn
material alteration there are three, an
perhaps four others, who once the brea
in the administration ranks has been dis
closed, will flop over and vote for tn
reservations