The Washington herald., 1920-03-03
Reservation Withholding
Monroe Doctrine From
League Passes.
OBNOXIOUS TO WILSON
Greatest Number Of Admin
istration Senators Ignore
Warning of President.
BY ROBERT T. BARRY.

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mand for a modification of the
Lodge reservation Withholding the
Monroe Doctrine from jurisdiction
of the league of nations and setting
forth in positive terms that the
United States is to be the sole in.
terpreter of that long established
policy" The vote was 5S to 22 foI
readoption OF the reservation WIN
out change.
Seventeen Democratic Senators
voted for the reservation. despite
the warning sent to the Senate by
the President that he would pocke,
the Senate ratification unless the
Monroe Doctrine and Article Y res
eryations were modified. When the
reservation was adopted by the
Senate on November 15. the vote
was 5s to "a, nine Democrats join
ing the Republicans.
Democrats Who BoItea.
The Democratic Senators voting
yesterday for the Monroe Doctrine
reservation that is obnoxious to the
President wefe: ]. c. w. Beckham
! Kentucky; George f. Chamberlain,
oregon; Duncan. T.. Fletcher, Flor
ida: Thomas =. Gore. Oklahoma
Charles Il. Henderson. Nevada: will
! liam II. King, Utah: william F.
Kirby, Arkansas: Henry l.. Myers
Montana; John +. Nugent, Idaho;
ID. Phelan. California; Key Pittman
Nevada: James A. Reed, Missouri
John X Shields, Tennessee: Hoke
Smith, Georgia: Charles S. Thomas
Colorado. and Park Trammell. Flor
| ida. This was the greatest number
of Democrats that ever voted for a
reservation that the President did
not approve. There was a large,
vote on the reservation dealing
| with mandates. but the Presiden;
had Endorsed that. a.
! kepubiicnns stfii Laek votes.
or the Democrats supporting the
Monroe Doctrine reservation, Sena-
tors Chamberlain. Gore. Kirby.
Owen. Reed. Shields. Thomas and
Trammen voted for il in November.
in addition to Senator avid / Walsh
of Massachusetts,, who was absent
Senator Henry L. Ashurst. of Ari-
zona. who voted earlier yesterday
for the Lodge reservation relating to
dopestic questions reserved from
Jurisdiction of the league, also was
absent when the oMnroe Doctrine
| reservation was approved, bringing
| the total of reservation Democrats
to nineteen. Republican leaders
must have twenty-nine Democratic
votes to ratify the treaty with the
Lodge reservations. They expect to
have as many as twenty-four. They
have no hope of getting twenty
nine. Democratic leaders do not be
lieve the number will exceed twenty.
Reject Wilson Substitute.
A reservation relating ~ the
Monroe Doctrine, acceptable to the
President, was rejected by the Sem
Democrat voting against il. This
substitute proposed by Senator Gill
bert NJ. Hitchcock was amended on
motion of Senator Pittman so that
il differed only from the odge reser-
cation to the extent of removing
Language that is offensive to other
nations" according to its author.
Senator Charles T.. Townsend. of
Michigan, a Republican, developed
in colloquy with Pittman, that the
primary purpose of the substitute
was to eliminate the blunt statement
that the United States would be the
sole interpreter of the Monroe Doc
trine.
Senator Lodge declared the Mon
roe doctrine to be exclusively an
American policy to safeguard and
protect American interests and mot
! disguised in any of the trappings of
altruism." He held the reservation
to be, with the single exception of
that relating to Article y. the
most vital thing" at stake in the
league and insisted that the main
tenance of the Monroe doctrine
without any misundersta nding''
was the only basis on which he
would vote to ratify the treaty.
Refuge for south America.
II know that some of the South
American nations have objected To
! the Senate determination that the
United States alone shall interpret
the Monroe doctrine" Lodge added
1T Is not their doctrine. 1t is ours
and ours alone. although it incl
dentally had great value to them
when II was declared, the South
American colonies having been al
that time engaged in a contest with
Spain. They never have attempted
to interpret it although occasion.
ally some of them have denounced
1t as Carranza did a short time ago
At other times they run to its shell
ter as Mexico did after the civil
war and as Venezuela did. II Ii has
not been understood by all the
world that we are not going to per.
NIT anyone else to interpret the
Monroe doctrine the time to say II
Is now"
How Senators voted.
L The roll-cail for adoption Of the
! Lodge reservation unchanged fol.
lows:
For the reservation-5S.
, Republicans-41: Ball, Borah
Brandegee. Calder .Capper. Colt
Cummins, Curtis, Dillingham;. Eige
Elkins. Fernald. Frelinghuysen
lGronna, Hale. Jones Cwashington)
Kellogg. Kenyon. Keyes, Knox. Len.
rot. Lodge. Mccormick. Mclean, Nc.
Nary Moses. Nelson. New. Norris
i Page. Phipps. Poindexter. Sherman
Smoot. Spencer. Sterling. Sutheil nj
Townsend. wadsworth. Warren Wat,
! son.