New-York tribune., 1920-03-03
Senate Adopts Reserva.
tons on Domestic Is
sues and Monroe Doc
trine; Substitutes Lost
Twelve More Votes
Needed to Ratifv
Hitchcock Says Limit of
Detection Is Reached
and Pact Is Doomed

From The Tribume's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, March 2.-The SEN
ate to-day readopted the original
Lodge reservations on domestic ques-
tions and the Monroe Doctrine by
overwhelming majorities. The votes
showed, however, that the treaty can
not be ratified unless twelve more
Democratic Senators break away from
the President and accept the Lodge
program.
The Administration Senator's solidly
supported notifications of the reser-
vations proposed by Senator Hitchcock,
of Nebraska, but after the substitute
reservations were defeated the Admin
istration ranks broke.
A total Of eighteen Democratic Sena-
tors voted for one or both of the
original Lodge reservations. With Sena-
tor Walsh, of Massachusetts. who is
known to be for the reservations, but
who was absent to-day, the number of
Democratic votes so far secured for the
Lodge program vas increased to nine
teen. Included in these, however, are
Senators Reed and Thomas, who are
expected to vote against ratification on
the final roll CALL
Democrats with Lodge
The Democrats who voted for one
or both of the Lodge reservations to-
day were Senators Ashurst, Breckham,
Chamberlain, Fletcher, Gore, Hender-
son, King, Kirby, Myers, Nugent, Owen,
Phelan, Pittman, Reed, Shields, Smith,
Of Georgia, Thomas and Trammell.
Senator Lodge hopes to secure thirty
five Republican votes for ratification
with his reservations. Twenty-nine
Democratic Senators, therefore, must
accept the Lodge program before the
necessary sixtyfour votes for ratifca-
tion can be secured. To-day's roll calls
showed that seventeen of the necessary
twenty-nine votes have been won over
The votes to-day on two of the most
important of the fourteen Lodge reser-
vations-domestic questions and the
Monroe Doctrine-were regarded as
showing the maximum of the Demo
cratic defecti0ns that the friends OF
the treaty can hope to secure.
Hitchcock Substitute Defeated
The Lodge reservation on domestic
questions was adopted by vote OF
b6 to 25, after a substitute proposed by
Senator Hitchcock had been defeated
"A to Sc. The Senate then adopted the
Lodge reservation on the Monroe Doc
trine, So to o.
A substitute to that reservation. also
proposed by Senator Hitchcock. pre-
vlously was defeated, 43 to 81.
The twenty-five Democratic Senators
who voted against the Monroe Doctrine
reservation are expected by the Admin
1oo dovo 70 l.
President Wilson's wishes throughout
the treaty fight, even to the extent of
voting against ratification with the
Lodge reservations.
With hope of securing ratification
practically gone, the Senate leaders
are rushing the treaty to a final vote
OF the remaining Lodge reservations
there is serious Opposition to only
two, the reservation on Article X and
the one on equality of voting power OF
Great Britain and the United States.
Delay In Vote Probable
Prospects of having a final vote on
Friday dwindled to-day, when Senator
Norris notified Senator Lodge that he
expects to speak at length on the Shan
tung reservation, and Senator Reed
prepared to discuss the Lenroot voting
power reservation at length. The Arti-
Gle X reservation apparently will be
discussed for two or three days, so a
vote on ratification is not expected now
until the middle of next week.
When the treaty was called up to-.
day Senator Mclean, Of Connecticut
one Of the middle ground" group OF
Republicans, opposed any modification
of the Lodge reservations.
Senator Fletcher, Democrat, OF
Florida, submitted an amendment tc
the Hitchcock substitute for the Lodpe
reservation on domestic questions
which was pending Senator Fletcher
proposed that the Hitchcock substitute
apply only to the United States, In.
stead of reading: "That no member
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