The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-03-18

BALANCE Or POWER
HOLDS UP TREATY
Lenroot Reservation is
Given Smashing Defeat
by Vote Of 80 to Is.
LIMIT TALK TO
FIFTEEN MINUTES
Unanimous Consent to
Hold Session Of Senate
Today Until All Reser-
vations Are Disposed Of
By JAMES r NonRsE

Z -
Washington. March IT, The bal
ance OF power held by the irrecon-
enable opponents Of the peace treaty
prevented the adoption BY the senate
today of the Lenroot reservation.
winch would have permanently COM
mitted the United States to the policy
! OF interfering in all quarreis which
, mgnt again threaten the peace OF
Europe
The reservation was given a srnash-
Ing defeat. the vote being IS ayes to
! 80 noes. The nine votes of the ir-
reconciiables were all cast against
the reservation and thereby deter
! mined the result
Senator Borah and others in the
irreconeiiabie group looked upon the
proposed reservation as particularly
pernicious. as 1t sought to restore the
obligation which the senate disavow-
ed by the reservation to article ten
It was admitted by Senator Lenroot
and others who supported it that it
was advanced solely for the purpose
Of winning enough Democratic votes
to the support OF the Lodge program
to bring about ratification. Only two
Democrats, however. voted for it,.
i these being Smith. Of Geirgia and
Fletcher, OF Florida.
THE AUTHORSHIP.
Authorship OF the Lenroot reser-
walton has been attributed to Former
President Taft or to some other
friend Of the treaty. II read as roi-
lows:
ut shall be the declared policy Of
this government that In event the
freedom and peace of Europe being
again threatened BY any power or
States will regard such a situation
with gfave concern and win consider
what. any. action. It will take in
the pr8kIfise6L s
The Arhate IN the reserystlen was
very bf4ssk SelsRkte fserfedt rAid one
reason ~ introducing II Was because
II had been intimated that the United
States planned TO Withdraw definitely
and permanently from European af-
fairs and he thought it advisable that
some declaration OF policy should be
made In connection with the treaty.
The defeat Of this reservation. adj
mitthdly the last hope CT the friends
of the treaty. convinced leaders on
both sides that time spent on at
tempts TO obtain further modihca-
tions OF the Lodge reservations was
| simply time wasted. Hence they
speeded up the consideration Of all
remaining reservations. none Of which
were adopted.
FIFTEEN MINUTE SPEECHES.
! Senator Lodge obtain ed unanimous
consent to have all speeches tomor-
row limited TO fifteen minutes. and
to hold the senate in session untn
every reservation is disposed OF. This
will make it possible to have the final
vote on ratification taken Friday,
unless there should be prolonged de-
/ bate. which Is not looked for at this
time.
Both sides are anxious 10 have the
issue settled Senator Ashurst. In a
brief SPEECH Just before adjournment.
scolded his colleagues for wasting
time. when every senator knows just
how he intends 70 vote and no votes
will be changed by the debate =
The subject races sought to gain
recognition of their rights to indie
pendence by means of reservations to
the treaty Jared badly and were given
slight consideration by the senate ma
jarity The reservations expressing
the wish OF the United States for the
freedom OF Egypt. Ireland and Korea
all went by the board and were denied
hearing in similar fashion To the
manner in which their cause was re-
jectcd at the Versailles, conference.
Senator Kellogg, Of Minnesota.
turned the trick that made 1t tmpos-
sih1e for the senate to vote on the
Egyptian Irish and Korean questions.
He maze motion to table all three
reservations and this was CARED. "a
to IL. On the motion thirty Repubh-
cans and "a Democrats voted aye"
and fourteen Democrats and seven
Republican, voted no" The roll-calI
was as follows: .
VOTE IN DETAIL.
Ayes Republicans-Ball. Calder.
lCapper, Colt, Cummins. Curtis. Dilling-
ham, Edge. Elkins, Fernald, Freling-
huysen, Hale, Harding. Kellogg. Ken
yon. Reyes, Lenroot. Lodge, McNary,
New, Page. Phipps. sherman. Spencer.
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