Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-02-04
SENATORS ATTEMPT
 70 BRIDGE CLOTURE
 RULING ON DEBATE
May Refer Treaty to Commit. tee; Then Bring it
 Back
OTHERS OPPOSED TO
 UNLIMITED ORATORY
Borah Takes Visccount Grey's Appeal
 as Proof That Only Course Open On Matter is that Irrecon. cilables Favor

Washington, Feb. 3.-Senate lead- CTS, preparing to bring the peace treaty again to the surface of senate consideration next week, took up today the problem of clearing away the wreckage of tangled parliamen- tary red tape which the treaty car ried down with it when i, failed of ratificat tion last November
 Not the least of their troubles was the cloture which was invoked to choke off debate just before the ratification vote and which Vice President 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 stringent rule, under which many senators already have exhausted their full quota of time.
 The method apparently most in favor for avoiding this difficulty is to recommend the treaty to tha for eign relations committee, mcve which parliamentary experts say would automatically ,id it of it's cloture restrictions. If that is done it will probably be qual,tied by a stipulation that report IS to he re- turned immediately. Then when the report is made the republicans will be ready to present reservations ard the democrats to suggest moaifica- ton in them.
 Some senators, however, are to debate without any form ot clct. ure and are bringing pressure to bear on the rules committee to act promptly on one of the proposals for modified cloture before it.
 A statement declaring the recent letter of Viscount Grey and the cablegram of Lloyd George bore out the contentious of the treaty's ire conciliable foes were issued tonight by Senator Borah, republican of Idaho. It said:
 Borah's Statement.
 "The weakening and injury to the | league which some apprehend iron the American reservations would not be felt in practice Thus Viscoun, Grey disposes of all reservations and renounces them as utterly ineffective and worthless. The sad part of 1t it is that he is entirely cnrrect Those proposed reservations do not protect our independence. They dc | not protect America at all. They are simply the flimsy excuse for failing to do what it is the plaln duty of patriotic men to do They are the answer of party politics to the demand by foreign governments to surrender our independence.
 'The Grey interview and Lloyo Georges cablegram ought to con vince any one that there is just one question involved in this controversy that is, shall we enter the !eagde or shall we stay out of 1t! when we enter the league we are there fore all purposes and our reserva- tions will never be felt nor even respected.
 "Tt has been known in Washing ton for weeks that the Lodge reserva' tions were entirely satisfactory IL the English premier. He would have said no publicly long ago but ne dlo not desire to offend the president Rnt after an effort to reach the nres;dent through Viscount Grey which failed, and after full study end after consultation with the createst lawyers of London and some in this country, it was conclud' cd that reservations construed pS political body from who's, whose ,,e,,1 con; ] struction there was no appeal WoulG he he wholly worthless. So L!oyo Caorce cabled Lodge reservation satisfactory. We want the United States to enter the league" come into my parlor' said the spider to to the the ,;s;no vou how to get out