The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1920-03-05
NUMBER SO
SENATE UPHOLDS
MONROE DOCTRINE
IL Democrats Quit Admins
tration On Peace.
Pact Vote.

""SHihSIOH' warren Z.-SeVentecn
administration senators broke away
from Senator Hitchcock's leadership
and voted for the Lodge reservation
on the Monroe Doctrine in the Senate
today This is the largest vote which
has been given by the Democrats to
ny of the rigid treaty reservations.
The Monroe. Doctrine reservation,
declaring that the United States alone
shall have the right to interpret the
doctrine and that it shall at no time
be under the jurisdiction of the
League of Nations, was adopted SIS to
22. All of the negative votes were
cast by Democrats, while Al Repub-
licans Joined with II Democrats in
supporting it. When the reservation
was adopted last November, it was
with the vote of As Republicans and
Democrats, the vote then being 55-
a.
Beckham Supports Reservation
The reservation Withholding the
settlement of all domestic questions
from the jurisdiction of the league
was adopted, Sc to 25, there being
fourteen Democrats for it. Last No
vember ten Democrats supported it.
Both reservations adopted are in
the exact form in which they were
adopted last November.
The seventeen Democrats who gave
their votes to the Monroe doctrine
reservertion were: Beckham, Ken
lucky; Chamberlain, Fletcher, Gore,
Oklahoma; Henderson, King, Kirby
Myers, Nugent, Owen, Phelan, Pitt
man, Reed, Shields, Smith, Thomas
and Trammell.
If Senators Ashurst, of Arizona,
and Walsh, of Massachusetts, haG
been present they would have voted
for the reservation, so the total num-
Der of Democratic votes would have
been nineteen
Senator Borah, leader of the ir
reconcilable opponents of the treaty
viewed the result of the vote spelling
the certain death of the treaty. He
believes the nipeteen votes thus re-
corded represents the maximum that
may be looked for from the Demo-
cratic side of sny of the essential
reservations.
Reservation No. A, relating 10 10
,,,a tao ouastiooc x,hiob xxros firt uof
ed On, was the subject of considerable
debate Senator Hitchcock offered
substitute to the effect thai any n,
ton in the league might refuse to
permit any domestic question to come
hnoer the jurisdiction of the league.
This was objected to by several sem
ators on the ground that it was T.:
reality an amendment to the treaty.
and it wss defeated, sc tp "A.
An amendment by Senator Fletch.
er to eliminate the word "com-
mcgee" from the list of domestic
questions prohibited from the juris-
6iction of the league was rejected 81
to A. Senator King offered sub
stitute, which was defeated by viva
vOce vote.
When the Monroe Dnctrine reservs-
tion was called up Senator Hitchcock
offered a substitute, which would
have eliminated the provision in the
Lodge reservation that the doctrine
should be interpreted by the United
States 'alone."
Lodge Wants No Altruism.
Senator Lodge objected vigorously
to the substitute, saying:
"This reservation is declaration
of the future and carries out the
policy which has been unbroken thru
out the entire history. The reserya-
ton says the United States alone
shall construe' it. No other nation
has anything whatever to do with it.
I attach great importance to this be-
cause the British delegates at the
peace conference gave out the state
ment that if any question arose over
he Monroe Doctrine the league would
settle 1t. 1t is our doctrine and must
not be disguised in any trappings Of
altruism. To me the maintenance of
the Monroe Doctrine without any al
iteration whatever is the most i'm
portant thing TO be gained by these
and If the reservation
be not adopted l shall vote against
the treaty"
Senator Brandegee. Reed, Town
send and Mccormick also supported
the original Lodge reservation.
The Hitchcock substitute, including
an amendment by Senator Pitnnan.
was rejected. "a % ~,