The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1920-03-12
PRESIDENT WILL SON
REsTATES STAND
Says No to Every Reservation
Suggested by Lodge.
JOIN FREELY OR STAY OUT
Executive Tells Senate in Answer to
Hitchcock-He Wants Article Ten
intact-Says No Hope of Es-
Gaping Moral Obligations.

Washington, March 9.-President
Wilson reStated for Democratic sena-
tors his opposition to any peace treaty
reservations which would weaken arti-
Gle 10 or otherwise materially impair
the provisions of the league covenant.
Without saying specifically what
qualifications he would or would not
accept, he wrote in a letter to Sena-
tor Hitchcock, the administration lead
er, that almost all of the reservations
he had heard suggested were "in effect
virtual notifications" of the treaty ar
ticles to which they applied.
Il hear of reservationists and mild
reservatiOnists, the letter added. "but
/ cannot understand the difference be-
tween nullifier and mild nullifier."
Discussing article 10 particularly,
the president wrote that there was mo
escaping the moral obligations which
are expressed in positive terms in this
article" though there could be no OBJ
lection TO explaining in an interpreta
ton the constitutional methods by
which such obligation would have tc
be fulfilled. The Every heart of the
covenant, he reiterated, would he i'm
periled by weakening article 10.
Pass Armament Clause.
A modified reservation affirming ma
tiOnal control over ornaments was
adopted by the senate, 40 TO 26. Nine
Democrats, Chamberlain, Oregon
Gore, Oklahoma; King, Utah; Kirby,
Arkansas; Nugent, Idaho; Phelan,
California; Reed, Missouri; Shields.
Tennessee, and Smith, Georgia, voted
for it.
The reservation as amended on mo-
tons of Senators New, Republican,
Indiana, and Mccormick, Illinois. fol-
lows:
mo plan for the limitation of arma-
ments proposed by the council of the
League of Nations under the prOvi-
siOns of article 8 shall be held as bind
ing the United States until the same
shall have been accepted by congress,
and the United States reserves the
right to increase its armament without
consent of the council whenever the
United States is threatened with in
yasiOn or engaged in war"
After q slight verbal amendment
proposed by Senator Lodge had been
accepted the senate adopted, A to q.
the reservation providing that the
United States reserves the right to
permit in it's discretion the nationals
of a mountaineering state. residing
In this country or in countries other
than that OF the gOvernment-break1ng
state. to continue commercial, imam
cial and personal relations with Amer
loan citizens.
Five Democrats-Gore and Owen,
Oklahoma Henderson, Nevada; Reed,
Missouri, and Shields, Tennessee
voted with the Republicans for the
reservation.
The reservation declaring that the
treaty should not be construed as val
idating any illegal acts in dealing with
enemy property in this country. was
readOpted without change by vote
of is to q, Senators Chamberlain,
Oregon; Fletcher, Florida Gore, Okla
hOma; Henderson, Nevada; Myers,
Montana: Reed, Missouri. and Shields,
Tennessee, Democrats, supporting it,
and Senator Nelson, Republican. Min
nesOta, voting against it.
Adopt Labor Reservation.
Without debate the senate then re-
adopted the labor reservation which
refuses assent to the labor sections OF
the treaty and which was the subject
of long and bitter discussion last ses-
sion. The vote was A to q, with six
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Gore, Oklahoma;
King. Utah; Myers, Montana; Reed,
Missouri; Shields. Tennessee, and
Thomas. misunderstanding with the
solid Republican membership for adop-
ton
That left only the article 10 and vot-
ing power reservations to be acted on.