Evening star., 1920-02-22
|SHOW OF REVOLT
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from PRESIDENTS
TREATY LEADERSHIP
Four Who Fought All Changes
Help Repass Resolution as
to Leaving League.
TEN DEMOCRATS IN ALL
! JOIN WITH REPUBLICANS
If We Vote Our Convictions We
! Will Have Treaty." Says
Senator Ashurst.

Will Have Treaty." Says
Senator Ashurst.
The first OF the reservations to the
peace treaty adopted by the Senate
last fall was readopted unchanged
yesterday Afternoon by a vote of 4s
to 20. 1t relates to withdrawal from
(. the league of nations.
! Ten democrats Joined with the re-
| publicans in the final vote readopting
the original reservation. Four Of
these democrats had stood last fall
, against any qualifications of the
| treaty. They we're Senators Ashurst
of Arizona, Fletcher of Florida, Hem
derson of Nevada and Nugent OF
Idaho.
One of the four. Senator Ashurst.
announced to the Senate beforehand
his intention to go over to the reser-
! vationists. Having become convinced
, that rat fication of the treaty in some
was ready to vote for any reserve.
ton or amendment that will rstify
the treaty
"If we'll vote our own convictions
and not those of the President." he
said to his democratic colleagues,
we'll have treaty."
| Attempts to Amend Fail.
4 10 tutS dCtIOu. ocudtoE IAIlCm~
cock, the democratic leader. attempted
/ TO mo'ify this reservation. which pro-
vides that in case Of withdrawal fron
! the league of nations the Uniteo
States shall be sole judge as to
! whether il has performed all oblign-
/ tions under The league covenant. and
! that instead of withdrawal notice ~
| league may be given by cOncurrenf
| resolution of Congress. He propoDo0
| that instead OF withdrawal notice my
4 q Mt rasalufinn nf CnnUrQwU
| the notice be given by a joint res0lu-
| ton, requiring the Presidents ap-s
proval. His amendment was defeated,
however. 3S to 26.
/ ment to the reservation. submitted
! by Senator Lodge as compromise
! but which Senator Hitchcock de-.
| clared to be worse than the original
proposed that notice Of withdrawal
should be given either BY the Prect-
dent or by a resolution adoptea b.
| both houses of Congress-
| The irreconcilable republicans. w.
are opposed to the treaty In isayI
| form, holding the balance Of powe4t
voted with Senator Hitchcock an
those democrats following his 1eA4
against the Lodge amendment. A.
ssna,os a'ffaass q ~ e
speakine for the frrecoAcilabie repoo-
| licans, announced they would s<nn1i
against any attempt to amend or nlo45-i
| fy the reservations adopted by the -
ate last session.
Only One Ray ~ Hope.
| The evidence of democratic revolt
against the dictation of the White
House that the Senate reservations SL
| last fall must not be adopted was the
only hopeful sign yesterday that nnAi
ratification of the treaty by the Sem
ate might come. Whether the treaty
| is to be ratified or not, 1t was discloseo
last night. will depend entirely upon
the number of democratic senators who
are willing to vote their own convic-
tions and not those Of the President.'' =
in the language of Senator Ashurst. -
There is no doubt that senator's with
in the democratic ranks are working
toward this end. Whether they win be
successful remains to be seen. Senator
Hitchcock, the administration leader u
the treaty fight. insists that enouGD
democrats will stand by him and the
President, added to the fourteen trrec>
oncilable republicans. to prevent rst 3
fication with the original Senate reser~
vations. So
The seven other democrats who vp{,
ed yesterday with the republicans Gnr
the original Senate reservation. were
Senators Chamberlain. Gore. Myers.
Shields. Smith of Georgia and TraHt-
nell. If these ten senators are ready
to go through with the entire program
Of Senate reservations. then adding three
democrats. who voted for ratification
last fall. with these Senate reserv;.-
tions. thirteen democrats can now be
counted upon. The three democrats who
voted for ratification with the Senate
reservations last fall, and who were
included in the ten yesterday, were Sem
ators Owen. Pomerene and Walsh of
Massachusetts,.
Need Sixteen More Democrats.
1t will be necessary to find sixteen
more democratic votes. however. in
view of the fact that fourteen repub.
licans are ciassed as irreconcilabfes
and ready to vote against ratihcatiou
of the treaty in any shape. Thirtys
five republicans are ready to vote fer
ratification with the Senate reserva-
tiens, and they must have at least
twenty-nine democrats. with them to
make up the necessary two-thirds ma.
jority to put the treaty through
Many of the senators took the view T
last night that the DEVELOPMENTS. yes
terday only intensified the deadlock
and made more certain the injection Z
of the. treaty, into the political cam
paign.
Foreshadowing the same conclusion,
most OF the debate preceding the roll :.
call reyolved about the treaty as
campaign issue and drew from COM
spicuous figures on the republican side
a volley of criticism of the utteranceS
thu Root in his address before tbs
New York republicans
Calls Root Plan sIlly.
Senator johnson of California. an
active candidate for the party's presi-
Dental nomination, pronounced "ut-
terly silly" the declaration of Mr..
Root that the United States should
enter the league of nations with res-
ervations and then move to reform
IL after a new President is inaugurat-
ed. Senator Lodge of Massachusetts
the republican floor leader, declared
of the league covenant
once it was ratified would be '.prac-
tically impossible" and Senator BorAh j.
of Idaho. leader among the repue
ican irreconcflables. gave notice fhae
ne would carry on his fight before the
people regardless OF the action OF the
oarty's national convention. [
Senator Walsh. democrat. Montana
said he apprehended no disagreement
With Mr.. Roots proposal among the
because it was "realised
IN this side of the chamber that the
eague covenant IL not perfect any
United States was perfect"
II would like to join With 1frt s
Root" said Senator walsh. "in the 5
uggestion that after we enter the 8
eague we take steps 70 get the na-
ions together to reform, not only the u
Covenant. but some other features Of a
he treaty" $50
senator johnson read article XVI q
he covenant, requiring ameadmento
ng membership on the, council aDd Ok :
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