The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1920-02-06
VOL. XXXII.
DECKS CLEARING
FOR TREATY ACTION
CIoture Question Worrying
Grey's Statement
Discussed

Washington, Feb. 3.-Senate lead
ers, preparing to bring the peace
treaty again to the surface of Senate
consideration next week, today took
up the problem of clearing away the
wreckage of tangled parliamentary
down with it when II failed of rati-
fication last November.
Not the least of their troubles was
the cloture which was invoked to
choke off debate just before the rati-
fication vote and which Vice Presi-
dent Marshall is expected to hold
must come back into the Senate along
with the treaty. The leaders want
some sort of cloture, but they do not
want to be string halted by so strin-
gent rule, under which many sena-
tors already have exhausted their full
quota of time.
The method apparently most in
favor for avoiding this difficulty is
recommite the treaty to the foreign
parliamentary experts say would au-
tomatically rid it of its cloture re-
striction. II that is done it probably
will be qualified by stipulation that
report is to be returned Immediately
Then, when the report is made, the
Republicans will be ready to present
reservations and the demands to sug-.
gest notifications in them.
Some Want Cloture.
Some senator's however, are strong
ly adverse to opening the gates to
debate without any form of cloture,
and are bringing pressure to bear on
the rules committee to act promptly
on one of the proposals for modified
cloture before it. Tonight no meet
ing of the committee had been called.
and the leaders were not hopeful that
any action would be possible before
the treaty comes up Monday.
In case the committee does not act
il is possible there may be a move to
adopt a cloture rule la the senate
without committee consideration. 1t
was said tonight, however, that no
definite plan to that end had been
evolved.
A statement declaring the recent
letter of Viscount Grey and the cable
gram of Lloyd George bore out the
contentious of the treaty's irrecon-
ciable foes, was issued tonight by
Senator Borah, Republican, Idaho.
1t said:
1.-The weakening and injury to the
league which some apprehend from
the American reservations would not
be felt in practice. Thus Viscount
Grey disposes of all reservations and
renounces them as utterly ineffective
and worthless. The sad part of it is
that he is entirely correct. Those
proposed reservations do not protect
our independence. They do not pro-
tect America at all. They are simply
the flimsy excuse for failing to do
what it is the plain duty of patriotic
men to do They are the answer of
party politics to the demand by for
eign governments to surrender on
independence.
: 1.-The Grey interview and Lloyd
Georges cablegram ought to convince
anyone that there is just one ques-
ton involved in this question-that
is. shall we enter the league or shall
we stay out of it? When we enter
the league, we are there for all pur-
poses, and our reservations will never
be felt or even respected
Satisfactory to English.
at has been known in Washington
for several weeks that. the Lodge res
ervations were entirely satisfactory TO
the English premier He would have
said so publicly long ago, but he did
not desire to offend the President.
But after an effort to reach the Presi-
dent through Viscount Grey failed,
and after full study and after con-
sultation with the greatest lawyers of
London and some in this country, it
was concluded that reservations con-
strued by a political body from whose
construction there was no appeal
would be wholly worthless. So Lloyd
George cabled: Lodge reservations
satisfactory; we want the United
States to enter the league Come
into any parlor'. said the spider to the
fly. Il will take my own time in
advising you how to get out.
Explaining the references to Pre-
mier Lloyd Georges cablegram' SEN
ator Borah said he understood that
such cablegram as he quoted was