Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-09
WILSON TO STATE
HIS ATTITUDE ON
RESERVATIONS

| " YIN, MARCH, S.-EreS1-
dent Wilson will state his position
on the Lodge reservation to Article
| ten, probably today, it was announc-
ed at the White House.
| His attitude on this and other res
ervations will be outlined in letter
| to Senator Hitchcock, of Nebraska,
| the administration leader.
He will not see Senator Simmons,
Democrat, North Carolina, as re-
| Quested by Senator Hitchcock, but
| will write Senator Simmons telling
HIM the matter is sufficiently covered
in his reply to Senator Hitchcock.
The presidents letter to Senator
Hitchcock was put in final form this
morning. In it the president was said
| 10 have made his position equally as
| clear as he did in his conference with
Senator Glass, Of Virginia, two weeks
ago.
Administration officials said the
president would not accept the Lodge
! reservation to Article X They dis
closed that he had discussed the So
called Taft reservation to Article X
with Senator Glass and that while he
had not stated his approval of it, he
did not say he would not accept it.
A modified reservat ton affirming
national control over ornaments
was adopted by the senate, 40 to 20.
! Nine Democrats, Chamberlain, Ore
gon; Gore, Oklahoma; King, Utah:
| Kirby, Arkansas; Nugent, Idaho;
Phelan, California; Reed, Missouri;
Shields, Tennessee, and Smith, Geor-
gia, voted for it.
The reservation as amended on
motions of Senators New, Repub1i-
can, Indiana, and Mccormick, Illi-
nois, follows:
mo plan for the limitation of
ornaments proposed by the council
of the League of Nations under the
provisions of Article shall be held
as binding the United States until
the same shall have been accepted
by congress, and the United States
reserves the right to increase its
ornaments without the consent of
| the council whenever the United
| States is threatened with invasion.
| or enga ged in war;
On motion of Senator Lodge, the
! Republican leader, the senate agreed
| to liimt debate on all remaining
| reservations to the peace treaty ex-
cept those relating to Article 10 and
| to voting power in the League OF
| Nations.
AS a result Senator Borah, Re-
| publican, Idaho, withdrew his pre-
vious announcement that he would
move today to proceed at once to
vote on Article 10.
| Moving with unusual speed the sen
ate quickly adopted reservations
number II, which reserves to the
| United States the right to permit the
| nationals of covenant breaking
state who live in the United States to
| continue their commercial and per-
| sonal relations with American de-
spite the boycott provisions Of ar
! ticle Is of the league covenant.
| This reservation was adopted by
/ vote of Al to %.
Reservation number IL also was
| adopted, practically without debate
| by a vote of as to 27. 1t protects
| the rights of American citizens hav-
| ing interests in alien enemy property
Reservation number IS, the labor
section, was adopted a moment later
without debate, A to 27.
IN an effort to bring the peace
/ treaty to another ratification vote
within the next few days, senate
1T lers worked today for some agree
ment that would hold down debate
ANU CeIlIeC the uSnC as soon as pos
| sihle on the I decisive question of
| Article x.
| Senator Borah, Republican, Idaho,
| spokesman for the irreconcilable op-
ponents of the treaty, who had an
nounced he would move today to take
up Article X at once, held his mo-
ton in allegiance to see whether some
other method Of fastening action
might not be worked out. Six reser-
vations remain to be disposed of be-
| fore Article X is reached, and Sena-
| tor Lodge, of Massachusetts, the Re-
| publican leader, wants to go on with
out upSetting the regular order of
| business.
While they waited to see whether
the White House would grant the
J requested conference between Presi-
dent Wilson and Senator Simmons,
| Democrat. North Carolina, on Article
| Y, the negotiations for compromise
| on that subject were continued. In
| these negotiations, which some Sena-
| tors believe may succeed, regardless
| of the presidents decision, Senator
| Simmons is acting for the Democrats
and Senator Watson, Of Indiana, for
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