Arizona republican., 1920-02-04

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 Mar shall is expected to hold must come back along with the treaty. The lead CTS want some sort of cloture but they do not want so stringent a rule under which many senators already have ex- hausted their full quota of time.
 Would Evade CIoture Restrictions
 The method apparently most in favor for avoiding this difficulty is to re- commit the treaty to the foreign rela- tions committee, a move which parIia- mentary experts say would automati- cally rid it Of it's cloture restrictions. If that is done it probably will be qualified by a stipulation that a report is to be returned immediately. Then when the report is made the republicans will be ready to present reservations and the democrats to suggest modified tions in them.
 Some senators, however, are strongly adverse to opening the gates to debate without any form of clOture and are bringing pressure to bear on the rules committee to act promptly on one Of the proposals for modified cloture be- fore it. Tonight no meeting of the committee had been called and the leaders were not hopeful that any ac- ton would be possible before Monday.
 III case lne uO0S not act it is possible there may be a move to adopt cloture rule in the senate with out committee consideration. It was said that no definite plan to that end had been evolved
 Says Reservations Ineffective
 statement declaring the recent let ter of Viscount Grey and the cablegram of Lloyd George bore out the conten- tions of the treaty's -irreconcilabIe' foes was issued tonight by Senator Borah, republican. Idaho. It said:
 ''The weakening and injury to the sleague which some apprehend from the American reserva tions would not be felt in practice. Thus Niscount Grey disposes of all reservations and renounces them as utterly ineffective and worthless. The sad part Of it Is that he is entirely correct. Those pro posed reservations do not protect our independence. They do not protect America at all They are simply the flimsy excuse for failing to do what it is the plain duty of patriotic men to oo- They are the answer of party politics to the demand by foreign gov ernmentS to surrender our independ- ence-
 "The Grey interview and Lloyd
 Georges cable gram ought to con
 vince anyone that there is just one
 question involved in this contro-
 
 league shall we stay out of it.
 When we enter the league we are
 there for all purposes andsou res
 ervations will never be felt nor
 even respected.
 Pact Is Trap, Says Borah Tt has been known in Washington for weeks that the Lodge reservations were entirely satisfactory to the Eng fish premier. He would have said so publicly long ago but he did not desire to offend the president. But after an effort to reach the president through Vjsceunt Grey, which failed. and after a full study and after consultation with the greatest lawyers of London and some in this country, 1t was concluded that reservations construed bv a politi- cal party from whose construction here was no appeal would be wholly worthless. So Lloyd George oableo: Lodge reservations satisfactory. We wapt the United States to enter the league.'- Come into my parlor, said tke spider to the fly. I will take my own time in odvising you how to get out