New-York tribune., 1920-03-09
< and on equality Of voting power In
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A final vote on RATIFICATION ie ex
pected by Senate leaders before thu
end of the week. Discussion of th'
Lenroot reservation equalizing the vot
ing power Of the United States and thu
British Empire in the league asscmbl!
and council will be concluded to
morrow.
President Wilson's letter to Senator
Hitchcock will shut off much of the
debate about the merits Of the variou!
reservations 70 Article X that had beer
anticipated. Both Republicans ant
Democrats in the treaty fight, however
will pass two or three days in an eff
fort to place responsibility for the sec
ond defeat of the treaty upon the other
political party before final vote is
had.
Four Reservations Adopted
The Senate speeded up the treaty to-
day by adoptipy a unanimous consent
agreement shutting off debate on four
of the six reservations that remained
to be acted upon. The following reser-
vations then we're adopted, after only
a few minutes of discussions:
An amended Lodge reservation on
limitation of ornaments, by vote OF
49 to 26.
An amended Lodge reservation on
a vote of 44 to 2S.
The original Lodge reservation vail
dating acts of the alien property Gus
todian, by a vote Of As to o..
The original Lodge reservation on
the labor clauses Of the treaty, by a
vote Of "a to 81.
When reservation No. 10, on the limi-
tation of armament. was called UP
Senator New Of Indiana, one of the
Republican members Of the bipartisan
conference, offered the bipartisan con-
ference substitute for the original
Lodge reservation. Senator McCor-
mick Of Illinois, an "irreconcilable,' -
then offered an amendment reserving
the right to increase the armaments
of the United States whenever war is
threatened. The amendment was
adopted, 49 to q.
Reconsideration Voted Down
Senator Henderson, Democrat, of
| Nevada, moved to reconsider the vote,
Senator Henderson's motion was tabled
by vote of 45 to 80. The amended
reservation then was adopted, 49 to 26.
The following Dem mocrats voted for
the amended reservation: Chamber
lain, Gore, King, Kirby, Nugent. Phc-
Ian, Reed, Shields and Smith of
Georgia. The text of the reservation
as adopted follows
"No plan for the limitation of arma-
ments proposed by the council Of the
league of nations under the provisions
of Article VIII shall be held as binding
the United States until the same snail
have been accepted by Congress, and
the United States reserves tsfhe right to
increase its armament without the con-
sent Of the council whenever the
United States is threatened with in
vasion or engaged in war"
The amended reservation, No. II,
then was adopted without any discus
sion by a vote Of "A to %. The same
Democrats, with the exception Of SEN
ators King, Kirby, Nugent and Phelan,
voted for it. The text of the reserva-
tion follows:
"The United States reserves the
right to permit, in its discretion, the
nations Of q covenant breaking state,
as defined in Article XVI of the cove
nant of the league of nations, re-
siding within the United States or
in countries other than such cove
nant-breaking states, to continue
their commercial, financial and po-
litcal relations with the residents
of the United States"
Property Provision Adopted
Reservation No. 12, as adopted by a
vote of as to 27, reads as follows:
Nothing in Articles 296, 297, or
/. in any of the anneXes thereto. or in
OF the treaty Of peace with Germany
shall, as against citizens Of the
United States, be taken to mean any
confirmation, ratification or approval
of any act otherwise illegal or in
contravention of the rights of the
citizens Of the United States"
Senators Gore, Chamberlain, Fletcher.
Pomerane, Henderson, Reed, Shields
and Myers, Democrats, voted for the
reservation.
The text of Reservation No. 1s,
Senators Gore, King, Reed, Thomas,
Shields and Myers, voting for it, fol-
lows:
"Ihe United States withholds its
assent to part 13 (Articlcs 3S7 to
427,. inclusive), unless Congress ty
act or joint resolution si.all here
after make provision for repre- nnta-
tion in the organization established
by said part 10, and in such event
the participation of the United
states Will be governed and condi-
! tlpilCQ ny lliN PROVISIONS OIL SQcn act
or joint resolution"
Hitchcock Attacks Program
Senator Lodge proposed the adop-
ton of the bipartisan reservation on
equality Of voting. Senator Hitch
cock, leader of the Administration
orces, attacked the reservation as dis
franchising Canada and the other
British colonies that fought Germany
in the war
"If the Senator from Nebraska had
shown half as much concern for the
interests of the United States as he
has shown this afternoon for the in
| terests Of Canada" said Senator
Lenroot, Of Wisconsin. author of the
reservation, "the treaty would have
been ratified long ago with American
izing reservations. The Senator from
Nebraska is more pro-Brtish and less
American than Lord Grey and the
British Foreign Office"
Senator Knox, of PENNSYLVANIA,
called attention to the fact that in 1912
the United States was given six votes
in the international wireless conven-
iion, in order to equalize the vote of
this country with that of the British
Empire.
cit was Russia that protested against
Great Britain's six votes then" he said
"The United States backed the claim.
| know whereof speak, because l rep
resented the United States"
Text of Amended Reservation