Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-10
Further Delay on
 Treaty in Senate
Sent Back to the Foreign Re- lations Committee Will Be Set Back at Least a Week.

Washington, Feb. 9-The peace treaty was formally brought back into the open senate today but as soon as parliamentary barriers to it's consider ation had been removed it was put aside again for a period of waiting which the leaders said would last at least week.
 Suspending it's rules by a bi-parti- san majority of seven to one and vir- tually without debate the senate re- considered. in short order the action by which ratification failed on Novem- Der 19 and then, as matter of form ality, sent the treaty to. the foreign relations committee with instructions to report it back at once with the res ervations framed by the republicans at the last session of congress.
 The committee expects to act to- morrow, but it was announced tonight that Senator Lodge of Massachusetts. the republican leader, would ask that it's report be not taken up for senate consideration until next week Urg- ent legislative matter, it was said in cluding appropriations and tariff leg islation, were expected to occupy the senate's time in the interval.
 The complicated technical opera tion of taking the treaty from it's pi- geonhole was accomplished in accord ance with programme previously agreed on by republican and demo- cratic leaders, and with no one but the irreconcilable foes of ratification rais- ing voice in opposition.
 Thirtyf four democrats and twenty nine republicans voted to suspend the senate rules so that the treaty again could be considered while nine repub- licans, all of them of the irreconcilable group, voted against it. The action was taken was taken on motion of Senator Lodge after one of the ire concludes. Senator Norris, republi- can, Nebraska, had blocked suspen- sion of the rules by unanimous con- sent
 By exclamation, and again on the motion of the republican leader, the senate then ordered reconsideration of it's previous roll call on ratification and sent the treaty to a committee. The latter step, it was explained, was taken to abrogate the cloture which was imposed last session and which ] Vice President Marshall held must come back into the senate with the treaty.
 Only two roll calls were taken, one on the motion to suspend the rules and another on sustaRing the vice presi- dent when he overruled Senator Nor ris' point of order against the motion to reconsider the ratification vote The latter resulted in a count of 62 to 10, the irreconcilables alone refusing to back up the ruling of the chair. Later Senator Norris made a speech bitterly criticisipg the parliamentrv 1 methods by whfeh the treaty's recon l sideration was accomplished.
 In asking that the committee be in- stru cted to return the republican res ervations along with the treaty. Sen ator Lodge declared the stipulation
 would bind no one and was requested merely to get the reservations back %before the senate for possible revision When that has been done, the repub-
 iican leader is expected to propose
 qualifications agreed on by the dis 1 banded bipartisan compromise con-
 ference, thus opening again the whole
 field of compromise discussion.