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SENATE TABLES
IRISH ARTICLE.
Reservation to Treaty D8nOunC-
cd as Politics. =.
BRYAN FIGHTS REJECTION
New Hope For Ratification is Seen in
Proposal to Express Concern" For
Europe's Peace.

Washington, March lS.-IIaStening
to clear The way for final action on
the peace ,rcuty the senate ended a
ST. Patrick's day debate on the Irish
question by tabling, 54 to p, Il pro-
poSal TO declare by reservation Great
Britain should proclaim Ireland free.
The motion To table was made by
Senator Kellogg, Republican, Mime
sofa. who denounced the proposal as
politics.
Thirty Republicans and tWenty-four
Democrats Voted for the motion. -Four
teen Democrats and seven Republicans
opposed it.
The Irish declaration was proposed
by Senator Shields, Democrat, TenneS-
see, as an amendment to Il reservation
offered by Senator Owen, democrat,
Oklahoma, declaring the British pro-
tectorate over Egypt was 10 be con-
sidered il war measure only.
The vote Ia table carried down The
reservation itself and all proposed
amendments, Including that by Sena-
tor Thomas, Democrat, Colorado, for
Korean independence and another by
Senator King, Democrat, Utah, proyid-
ing for freedom for the Philippines,
Porto Rico, the Virgin Islands and
Hawaii.
Senator King said he offered his
amendment merely 10 show how ride
uIous the senate was making itself.
Later the senate voted, Ii to 81, to
table a reservation proposed by Sena-
tor Reed, Democrat, Missouri. Under
his reservation The league council
might recommend by lhree-fourthS
vote Il release Of any country held
by the superior power of another
nation"
Thirty Republicans joined with SIX
teen Democrats in voting to table the
Reed reservation while six liepubli-
cans and fifteen Democrats were
against tabling.
The senate next rejected, IL to II, Il
reservation introduced by Senator
Norris. Republican, Nebraska, similar
10 the owen reservation relating 10
Egypt.
As a result of the Introduction by
he Republicans of 4 new reservation
% the peace treaty, intended TO re-
place the more definite international
pledges of article Zen, of the covenant
rlaimS We're made of further Demo
cratic gains for ratification.
rim II.1 ttpl hN
Senator Lenroot, declares the United
States would view with grave CON
Germ" any threat against the peace of
Europe and would consider what ac-
ton it would take in the premises.
While not many members of the adj
ministration forces have had oppOr-
.tunity To study the reservation, it,
adoption would palliate resentment
over he reservation to article ten.
which President Wilson has declared
would "cut the heart" from The League
of nations.
W. j. Bryan arrived from Florida
and Immediately became Il participant
in the eleventh-hOur negotiations of
Democratic senators working ior Il
compromise.
Although Mr.. Bryan said he did not
intend TO visit the senate nor inter
vene in the treaty situation, Demo
cratic sena forS began 10 consult him
before he had finished his breakfast
For Democratic senators TO join
with the ''irreconcilableS III defeating
the treaty." he asserted, lis unthink-
able in advance of its being actually
accomplished, and it would be IN
speakable afterwards