Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-03-04
SENATE DEBATE
ON PEACE PACT
WANDERS INTO
FIELDS ABROAD
Borah and Reed FIay Treaty.
Sound Warning Against
Becoming EntangIed in
Affairs in Europe.
RATIFICATION NOT
POSSIBLE, BELIEF
Republican Reservation To
Article Ten Continues to
Be the Center Around
Which the Storm CenterS

10y MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wIHEl
Washington, March 9.-Senat'
sebate today on the peace treaty
developed some sharp passages
" hen it wandered into the field o.
politics.
Senator Borah, republican,
Idaho, asserted that the old
regime still ruled in European
courts and that the stand of
the allied countries in the Ad-
riatic controversy was only
another illustration that the
new day prophesied by Presi-
dent Wilson had not come.
In reply Senator Hitchcock,
Nebraska, the democratic lead
er, declared that some Euro
pean nations. particularly
Great Britain, had become
democracies sin some cases
more responsive to public
opinion than is the govern
ment of the United States.
1.-The voice of an American
has become the pulling, mewl-
ing, mocking voice of a syco-
phant of Great Britain" Sem
ator Reed. democrat. Missouri,
declared. at is the vice or
this treaty that it has poison
ed the fountains of pure pa
triotism for the senior senator
from Nebraska. He stands
here like a brass monkey
claiming that all is pure and
HOLY over there. while the
president is threatening to
withdraw the treaty and the
league of nations because old
Adam still rules the diplomacy
of Europe.
picture to yourself. If you
can, the senator walking down
the streets of the beautiful
city Of Omaha, his white hair
lifted to the native breeZes or
Nebraska, arm in arm with the
mikado of Japan-the Siamese
twins of modern democracy
washington. March S.--Whil'
the treaty debate dragged on II
the senate today without action
the treaty's friends began a fina
determined effort to rescue !
from the deadlock toward which
all leaders agree it again is headed
Republican and democratic sen
ators ioined in the movement, bu
they were only moderately hopefu
nj success. Putting collateral Is
sues aside, they addressed their ell
forts to the republican Reservation
to Article Y, long the storm cen
ter of the whole treaty fight.
Some compromise proponents
professed to see a possibility ina
IN acceptable modification ye
might be formulated. Others be-
Iieyed that despite assurances OF
he democratic leaders, enough
iemocrats to put through the res
srvation as it stands might yet be
Induced to quit the president
ead.
The confidence of the treaty'S
rreconciliable opponents apparent.
IS was not shaken, and leaders ol
he two parties maintained tha'
would fail.
The subject technically before
he senate all day was the Shan
.ung reservation, but it got only a
passing mention. Among other
.hings. the Adriatic question again
vas brought into the debate. while
senator Reed. democrat of Mis-
,ouri. enlivened proceedings with
, bitter attack on Senator Hitch
,ock of Nebraska, the administra-
ion leader. -
The course of President Wilson
n condemning the proposed Adri-
tic settlement was approved by
Senator Borah, republican, Idaho,
who declared the executive was
light in asserting that the United
states could not join in European
unless they were to be
,ased on new rule of justice IN
contracts. But the
lilies Adriatic proposal itself, the
ionator argued, showed that the
I'D regime still ruled in European
In brief statement regarding
hs amendment to the Shantung
eservation, Senator Lodge said the
modification which would
Eliminate specific reference TO
Japan and China, would really
make no difference in the force OF
he reservation.