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CABLES
Debate in Senate on League
Covenant Involves ParIia-
mentary SnarI Which
Must Be Untangled.
GREY'S LETTER AGAIN
CITED BY B0RAH
Bears Out Contention of Re-
publiCans That Allies Will
Take u. S. on Own Terms,
Says Idaho Senator.

10y MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wIHEi
Washington, Feb. 3. - Senate
leaders, preparing to bring the
peace treaty again to the surface
of senate consideration next week.
took up today the problem of clear
Ing away the wreckage of tangled
parliamentary red tape which the
treaty carried down with 1t when
it failed of ratification last NoYem-
ber
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 Marshall is expected to
hold must come back along with
the treaty The leaders want some
sort of cloture, but they do not
want so stringent rule under
which many senators already have
exhausted their fun quota of time.
The method apparently most in
favor for avoiding this difficulty
is to recommit the treaty to the
foreign relations committee, move
which parliamentary experts say
would automatically rid it of its
il probably will be qualified by d
stipulation that a report is to be
returned Immediately. Then when
the report is made the repuhl'
will be ready to preser
tions and the deme
notifications >T
Want N~<<frc Rule.
Some senator's, however, are
strongly adverse to opening the
gates to debate without any form
OF cloture and are bringing pres
sure to bear on the rules conmittea
to aet piauptlss ore aneaHt sfe pfA-
posals for modified cIoture BEFORE
II. Tonight no meeting of the com
mittee had been called and tho
leaders were not hopeful that any
action would be possible before
Monday.
In case the committee does not
act II is possible there may be u
move to adopt cloture rule in tho
senate without committee consider
alton. 1t was said that no definite
plan to that end had been evolved.
A statment declaring the recent
letter of Viscount Grey and the
cablegram of Lloyd George bore
out the contentious of the treaty's
"irreconciliable foes" was issued
tonight by Senator Borah, republi-
can, Idaho. 1t said:
Cites Viscount Grey.
"The weakening and injury to
the league which some apprehend
from the American reservations
would not be felt in practice. Thus
Viscount Grey disposes of all reser-
vations and renounces them as ut
terly ineffective and worthless. The
sad part of 1t Is that he is entirely
correct. Those proposed reserva-
vations do not protect our inde-
pendence. They do not protect
America at all. They are simply
the flimsy excuse for falling to do
what it is the plain duty of patri-
otic men to do. They are the an
swer of party politics to the de-
mand by foreign governments to
our independence.
"The Grey interview and Lloyd
Georges cablegram ought to con-
vince anyone that there is just one
question involved In this controv
that is. Shall we enter the
league or shall we stay out of II?
When we enter the league we are
there for all purposes and our res
ervations will never be felt nor
even respected.
lloyd George Willing.
ut has been known in Washing
ton for weeks that the Lodge reser-
vations were entirely satisfactorily
to the English 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 Wis
count Grey, which failed, and after
full study and after consultation
with the greatest lawyers of Lon
don and some in this country, 1t
was concluded that reservations
construed by a political party from
whose construction there was no
appeal would be wholly worthless.
SO Lloyd George cabled Lodge res
eryations satisfactory. We want the
United States 10 enter the league
Come into my parlor, said the
spider to the fly. / will take my
own time in advising you how to
get out "