The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-03-19
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time limit" should be placed on the
presidents action, and Senator
| Hitchcock, of Nebraska, administra-
| tion leader suggested that it was
improbable" that the treaty would
get to the president or that he would
| deposit it.
When debate on the question of
ratification began there was a vir-
tually unanimous agreement among
senators that the treaty would fail,
and speakers on both sides sought to
shift the blame for the outcome. 1t
seemed likely that the session would
run well into the night if the lead
ers carried out their plans TO insist
on a vote before adjournment
A second defeat for the treaty,
with a coalition of "irreconcilables"
and adm -listration democrats again
voting against ratification, was re-
garded as inevitable by the leaders
of all factions in the long drawn
out, bitterly contested fight that
started weeks before President Will
son presented the treaty to the SEN
ate, on July 10 last,
A final burst of oratorical pyro-
technics will precede the vote on the
the Lodge reservations, which,
though rewritten, Senator Hitchcock,
of Nebraska, the administration
treaty manager and his adherents
still refuse to accept.
Until Late Last Night.
At the end of another battle which
lasted until late last night an unsuc-
cessful move was made by Senator
Reed democrat, of Missouri, to limit
speechmaking today to an hour for
each senator. Senator Hitchcock
expressed a willingness that speeches
be restricted to half an hour or less
each. Senator Hoke Smith, demo-
crat, of Georgia, announced his in
tention of talking for at least an
hour today, and as other senators
gave notice of further oratorical eff
forts by them, the efforts of Hitch.
cock and Reed to chop off unlimited
eleventh hour discussion fell by tho
wayside.
Senator Lodge, the republican
leader sought unanimous consent to
fix 3 o'clock this afternoon for
final vote on ratification, but Sena-
tor Lenroot republican, of Wiscon-
sin, objected Senator Lodge was
only able to persuade the senate to
meet at IL o'clock this morning, in
stead of at the customary noon hour.
He declared it to be his intention,
however, to hold the senate in con-
tinuous session until late tonight II
necessary in an effort to force final
action, despite the renewed verbal
onslaughts proponents and opponents
of the treaty were prepared to mako
upon each other.
PAIRING Absentees.
Unless cloture is again adopted bV
the necessary two thirds vote, no
rule of the senate will stand, how
ever in the way of final action being
delayed until tomorrow or next week
by lengthy speeches. The only hope
that final showdown may come un- |
eXpectedly is in the fact that most
senators are unutterably weary of
the treaty and even the most loqua-
cious and argumentative of them may
finally tire of a subject about which
so many hundreds of thousands of
words have been banded.
Another Hitchcock move may also |
develop in the failure thus far to |
provide pairs for all absentee sena- |
tors, although republican and demo- |
cratlc leaders are working to so adj |
Just pairs as to overcome this diff |
Guilty today so that it will not pre-
vent an agreement being reached for
q final vote.
Plans for perfecting the resolution
yesterday were swept aside by tho
bitter controversy over the Irish
rivaling in some re-
spects the long drawn-o out fight over
the reservation to Article X, which
was thrust forward unexpectedly in
an unsuccessful effort at modifca-
tlon. Between the two there was no
time left for other than minor dues-
tions.
1t was believed certain the ratin-
cation resolution would be so framed
as not TO require affirmative accent
ance by other signatories to the |
treaty OF the American reservations
IN order to complete participation by |
TINS country in the trcaty's provj- !
slons. such a course was agreed to |
by Republican Leader Lodge in the
bipartisan compromise negotiations.
Despite the fact that the demo-
Gratis put forward and assisted in the
adoption of the Irish reservation.
senate leaders said today the line-up |
on flnal ratification was not changed |
and many predicted the treaty would
fdll 10 receive the necessary two
thirds majority. In that case mo-
tion to reconsider will be made
promptly the republicans hoping
that some democrats win give assent
TO the pact after having recorded
their objections to the reservations
by the majority. The final
vote. probably will not be reported |.
until late tonight
AIier the Irish reservation was
ADOPTED last night over the protest
OF senator Lodge. an attempt TO
modlty the Article Y reservation was
made by Senator Simmons. demo-
crat' of North Carolina, who declared
ne could not vote for ratification
Otherwise His substitute was voted
uoWn and the senate then reafirmed
It's adoption of Article y.
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