Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-03-03
MANY DEMOCRATS
GO WITH MAJORITY
Reservation Withholding Domes-
tic Questions From League
Also Is Adopted.
SUBSTITUTES VOTED DOWN
Irreconcilable Leader, Borah, De-
clares Votes Forecast Ultimate
Defeat of Treaty.
rBy Universal Service


WASHHNGToN. March 2.-Seventecn
Democratic Senator's voted for tho
Lodge reservation on the Monroe Doa-
IN the ssnats ,naaS today This is tho
the Democrats to any of the rigid treaty
rcservations.
declaring that the % United stases stasssanons aiones
shail hayc the. right to interpret the
doctrine. and that 1t shall at no time
be under the jurisdiction of the league
? President Wilson as the Lodge reser-
Sation to Article ". was adopted. 5S to
S, All OF the negative votes were cas-.
by Democrats. whilo forty-one Republi-
cans Joined with the seventeen Demo-
Gratis In supporting IT.. When the res
was with the votes OF forty-six Repub-
lican and nine Democrats, the vote
then being 30 10 "a.
tlcmept of all domestic questions from
asaopted; 5s 70 eS, there being. four
Der ten Democrats supported IT,.
In Same Form Last November.
Both reservations adopted are IN the
exact form in which they were adopted
last November.
The seventeen Democrats who gave
their votes to the Monroe Doctrine res
eryations We're; Bcckham, Kentucky;
Gore, okIahoma: Henderson. Nevada;
King, Utah; Kirby. Arkansas: Myers.
;,h ;Monlana; Nugent; idaho: Owen. Okla
vada Reed. Missouri; Shields, Ten
nessee; Smith, Georgia: Thomas, Colo,
rado. and TraInmel, Florida
IF Senator'S Ashurst, of Arizona, and
Walsh, OF Massachusetts, had been prcs-
Eent they would have voted for'thc res
srration. so that the total number of
teen.
Senator Borah, leader OF the ire
e2ncii9ble opponcnts of the treaty.
ing the scertniny.death Of tho treaty.
sIte bel lieves the nineteen Votes thus re-
ookea ie fre slm sas
stts ION any OF tho essential reserya-
Defeat Hitchcock substitute.
Iieservation number four, relating TO
domestic questions. which was first
voted on, wus tlie subject OF consider
able debate. Senator Hitchcock offered
zion in the league might refuse to per-
nit any domestic question to come 'un-
der tho jurisdiction OF tho league. This
upon the ground that It was in reality
an amendment OF the treaty, and II was
defeated, IS to "a.
to eliminate the word commerce" from
Tho list OF domestic questions pro-
hibited from the Jurisdiction OF the
King offered a substitute. which was
defeated by a viva voce vote.
When the Monroe Doctrine rescrva-
lion was called, UP, Senator Hitchcock
offered q substitute. which would have
eliminated the provision in the Lodge
reservation that the doctrine should be
Interpreted by the United States
alone"
Lodge objects vigorously.
Senator Lodge objected vigorously
tostthe substitute, saying:
.This reservation is declaration
Which has been unbrokcn throughout
our entire history. Tho reservation
says the United States alone shall con-
strue 1t. No other nation has anything
whatever to do with it. / attach great
Importance to this because the British
delegates at.the peace conference gave
out tho Statement that il any question
arose over the Monroe Doctrine the
leagIaswo settle It.. 1t is our doc
$trfre, and must not be disguised in
any $tTsppings of htruism. no me the
maintenance of tho Monroe Doctrine
without any alteration whatever Is the
most important thing to be gained by
these reservations. and if the rcserva-
stion be not adopted shall vote against
: tho treaty.
Senators Brandegee, Reed. Townsend
and Mccormick also supported the
original Lodge reservation.
Tho Hitchcock substitute. including
an amendment by, Senator pittman, was
rejected by the vote of "a to 43.