The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-03-02
Republican Reservation to
Peace Treaty Adopted by
Vote of 56 to 20.
Ia DEMOCRATS WITH COP.
Administration Leaders Fail
in Repeated Efforts to
Amend Motion.

Washington, March 2.--The repub.
hcan peace treaty reservation
lodges fourth reservation) deelar.
ING the right OF the United States
to decide all domestic questions un.
der the league of nations was re-
adopted by the senate today by a
vote of Sc to 25 after repeated ef-
torts by the democrats to amend il
, had failed.
Fourteen democrats voted with the
solid republican membership for the
reservation. ON ITS original adoption
last November the vote was 80 to
So, with eleven democrats voting in
the affirmative.
Adoption unchanged OF the repub-
IIean reservation regarding domestic
questions was forecast in the senate
today when a substitute offered by
Senator Hitchcock, OF Nebraska, the
administration leader, was rejected,
s6 30 "a.
Text of Reservation.
The fourth Lodge reservation Is as
follows:
"The United States reserves to
itself exclusively the right to decide
what questions are within its do
nestle jurisdiction and declares that
all domestic and political questions
relating wholly or In part to It's in
tclnal affairs, including immigration,
labor, coastwise traffic, tariff, COM
merce, the suppression of traffic in
women, in children and in opium,
and In other dangerous drugs, and an
other domestic questions are solely
within the jurisdiction of the United
states and are not under the treaty
10 be submitted in any way either
to arbitration or to the consideration
of the council of the assembly of the
league of nations, or any agency
thereof, or to the decision OF rec
ommendation of any other power"
Democrats for Adoption.
The democrats who voted for
adoption today were Ashurst, Ari-
zona; Chamberlain, Oregon; Gore.
Oklahoma; Henderson, Nevada
King, Utah, Myers. Montana; Nu-
gent; Idaho; Phelan, California;
pittman, Nevada; Reed. Missouri
Shields, Tennessee; Smith, Georgia;
Thomas, Colorado, and Trammell,
Florida.
Following the adoption of the
fourth Lodge reservation, the SEN
ate toeK ~p the nth one. that In
volving the Monroe doctrine.
II was upon this amendment the
Lodge reservation to Article X that
the rccnt bipartisan conference split,
the republican side refusing TO ac-
cede to democratic demands that
both reservations he modified mate |
rally.
Shields With G. o, p.
The ten democrats voting for the
fourth reservation on Nov. Is were: |
Chamberlain, Oregon: Gore, okla
homa; King, Utah; phelan. Caliior-
MIA: Reed, Missouri; Shields, Ten
nessee; Smith, Georgia; Thomas,
Colorado; Trnmmell. Florida, and
Walsh, Massachusetts. Walsh did not
vote today.
Principal Fight.
The principal tight OF the admlnis-
tratlon forces to amend the rcserVa-
tions was made on a substitute by
Senator Hitchcock, of Nebraska, the
democratic leader. 1t was rejected
the same as one which was rejected
last November and was voted down
90 " 81 TWO bfIllbtIulSt f1fnhiOIH
Reed, of Missouri. and Shields of
Tennessee. voting with the repub-
llcans against It.
Before the final roll call there was
n long wrangle over the question
whether commerce should ho in
clhded among the subjects specn-
cally enumerated In the reservation
as excluded from the leagues iurs-
diction. Declaring inclusion of this
work as IL stands In the republican
draft would mean declaration that
foreign as wen as domestic COM
merco could not he dealt with by the
league, Senator Fletcher. democrat,
Florida, moved TO strike it out. but
he was voted down. a. 90 "a
WAS STORM CENTER.
Washington, March 2.--The Mon
roe doctrine reservation, which has
been one OF the storm oenters OF the
peace treaty fight, was readopted IN
the senate today in the same form
as written by the republican leaders
and approved by the senate at the
last session.
The vote was IS 10 %. with fif-
teen democrats voting with the re-
publicans for adoption On its orig
inal adoption last November the ma
jority for II had been 55 to %, only
nine democrats supporting 1t.