The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-02-04
MUCH RED TAPE TO
Be CLEARED AWAY
IN TREATY BATTLE
MODIFIED CLOTURE =
MAY BE ADOPTED
Borah Issues Statement, For
the Irreconcilables. Attack
ing the Pact

WASHINGTON. Feb. 3.-Senate lead.
crs preparing 10 bring the peace treaty
again 10 tho surface OF senate consider
GtIon next week. took up today the pron.
l"n of clear ng away the wreckage OF
tangled parliamentary red tape which
the treaty carried down with il whoa
IT failed Of ratification last NovemDcr.
Not the least Of their troubles was
tho cloture which was invoked 20 cnoke
of debate Just before the ratificalon
vote and which Vtce-President MaLsnan
is expected TO hold must come back inio
the senate along with the treaty. Ihc
leaders want some sort Of cloture, but
they do not want TO be string halted ny
SO stringent a rule. under which many
senators already have exhausted lneiF
full quota Of time.
The method apparently most In favor
for avoiding this difficulty - 70 re-
commit the treaty to the foreign IS
tionS committee, move Wnlcn pAf.
mentary experts say would auUnmE
cally rid 1t Of its cloture restriction.
II that Is done. It probably Will %
qualified by a stipulation that ..
port is to be returned Immediately.
Then when the report Is made the he.
pubicans will be ready to present re.
ervations and the Democrats 10 suSSeps
notifications in them.
For Modified OloturS.
Some senators. however, are stfoaeY
adverse TO opening the gates 10 deootS
without any form Of cloture, ana ~
bringing pressure to bear on the rules
COMMITTEES to act promptly on one OF the
proposals for modified cloture before IL;
Tonight no metig Of the committee hea
been called. and the leaders were n9'
hopeful that any action would De possl'
BILE before the treaty comes up Mono.t
In case the committee does not ase
II is possible there may be . move 70
adopt a cloture rule In the senate WIZ
out committee consideration II W.
said tonight. however. that no defn'ss
plan 10 that end had been evolved.
Borah's Otatsuasnt- -
A statement declaring the recent let.
ter Of Eiscount Grey and the caole6te0
of Lloyd George bore out the conten.
tions of the treatys irreconcilaols toes
was issued tonight By Sen. Senator s"faA'
The weakening and injury to the
league which some apprehend from lGe
American reservations would not Do 5Sn
in practice. ThuE Viscount Grey ois.
p< ses Of al reservations and rencuncea
less. The sad part Of It 10 that he ID
entirely correct Those proposed seset.
yations do not protect our independenca
They do not protect America at all. ThsS
are simply the flimsy excuse for ialf
tr;otic men TO do. They are the IN:
, swer Of the party politics to the demand
by foreign governments 10 surrenost
our independence. ,,..a
The Grey interview and Lioyo
GEORGES sablegram ought to convinca
anyone that there is just one questton
involved in this controversy-that u.
shall we enter the league or small ata{
out Of II. When we enter tbs t4A&oe.
we are there for all purposes ana ous
reservations will nsvsr Be felt nor sSs1
, respected ,,..,. f.,
weeks that the Lodge reservations 80 Exa
entirely satisfactory TO the EnxIkh
premier He would have said 50 pup.
licly long ago. bus he did not desire -
offend the president But after On oL.
fort TO reach the president throvga
Viscount Grey. which failed. ana A1tes
a full study and after consultation VITA
the greatest lawyers Of London ana
some i'm this country. 1t was conciuaeu
that reservations construed BY q pontt.
cal body from whose construction thora
was no appeal. would be wholly worth
less. So Lloyd George caoled:
Lodge reservations satisfactory, ye
want the United States 70 enter ehs
league. . ..,x 81.
spider 70 the fly will take my cIn
time in advising you how to get OUT