Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-02-10
TREATY APPEARS
IN UPPER HOUSE
s5UT IS SHELVED
IN SHORT TIME
After Parliamentary Barrier
TO Its Consideration Is
Removed, Peace Pact Is
SheIved for the Present,
DELAY OF AT LEAST
WEEK Is PREDICTED
Document Is Sent 10 the
Foreign Relations Com
mitteei IrreConCiIabIe Foes
Are Still Standing Firm

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Washington, Fbe. 9.-The peace
treaty was formally brought back
into the open senate today, but as
soon as parliamentary barriers to
! its consideration had been removed
it was put aside again for a period
of waiting which the leaders said
would last at least week.
Suspending its rules by bi-par.
tisan majority of seven to one and
virtually without debate, the senate
reconsidered in short order tho
action by which ratification failed
on November 10, and then, as n
matter of formality, sent the treaty
TO the foreign relations committee
with instructions to report II back
at once with the reservations
framed by the republicans at the
last session of congress.
The committee expects to act to-
morrow, but it was announced to-
night that Senator lodge would ask
that its report be not taken up for
consideration until next week.
Urgent legislative matters, 1t was
said, including appropriations and
tariff legislation, were expected to
occupy the senate's time in the in
terval.
The complicated technical ope-
ration of taking the treaty from its
pigeon hole was accomplished in
accordance with a program previ-
ously agreed on by republican and
democratic leaders, and with no
one but the lrreconcilable foes of
ratification raising a voice in OPP
position. The debate was kept
strictly to parliamentary questions,
and was of short duration, disap.
pointing the largest crowd which
has gathered in the senate galleries
since the treaty was laid aside in
November.
Thirty -four democrats and TWEEN
ty-nine republicans voted to slis-
pend the senate rules so that tho
treaty again could be considered
while nine republicans, all of them
of the irreconcilable group, voted
against. The action was taken on
motion of Senator Lodge after ono
of the irreconcilables, Senator Nor
ris, of Nebraska, had blocked sus-
pension of the rules by unanimous
consent
BY accIamation, and again on the
motion of the republican leader,
the senate then ordered reconsid-
GRAFTON of it's previous roll call on
ratification and sent the treaty to
a committee The latter step. 1t
was explained was taken to abro-
gate the cloture which was inn
posed last session and which Vice
President Marshall held must come
BACK into the senate with tho
treaty.
Only two roll calls were taken,
one on the motion to suspend the
rules and another on sustaining
the vice president when he over
ruled Senator Norris point of order
against the motion to reconsider
tho ratification vote. The latter
resulted in a count of sixty-two to
ten, the irreconcilables alone re-
fusing to back up the ruling of the
chair. Later Senator Norris made
speech bitterly criticising tho
parliamentary methods by which
the treaty's reconsideration was
accomplished.
In asking that the committee be
instructed to return the republican
reservations along with the treaty,
Senator Lodge declared the stipula-
ton would bind no one and was
requested merely to get the reser-
vations back before the senate for
provision. After that had been
done the republican leaders ex-
pected to propose notifications
agreed on by the disbanded bi-par
tisan compromise conference, thus
opening again the whole field OF
compromise discussion.
In all quarters 1t was emphasized
tonight that the smoothness of the
days proceedings was not TO be
taken as assuring any agreement
between the parties on reserva-
tions. Although senators professed
to be very hopeful of ratification
it was conceded everywhere that
many differences still stood in the
way. There were evidences also
that the irreconciable group had
plans of it's own to magnify these
differences as much as possible.
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