Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-28

| let's know just where we are going.
The traditional policy of this country
has been abandoned by the great Re
publican party. God help it.
Senator Bruce of Maryland, Demo
crat, as soon as the vote had been
announced by the Vice President, re-
piled to Senator Johnson.
Il DESIRE" he said, ito congratulate
| the Republican and Democrat, mem
bers of this body who under the
| leadership of our honorable President,
| have this day done n great and meas
| urable thing that will promote the
cause Of international justice and
peace"
There was a scattering applause
which died quickly away.
Mrs Wilson Hears Debate.
! Throughout the long seven-hour SEES
! sion, which terminated in the voctory
of the court supporters, Mrs. Woodrow
| Wilson, widow of the President who
gave his best efforts for the league
and the court, listened to the debate
and followed with interest the vote as
1t was taken.
The victory of theWorld Court forces
is interpreted as a distinct victory
for President Coolidge, who has urged
| the entry of the United States into the
proposed by his predecessor and him
self ever since he entered the White
House. 1t is considered all the more a
Coolidge victory since II is well under
stood at the Capitol that had not the
President put his shoulder back of
the wheel, the court proposal would
have been allowed to sleep Indefinitely
in the foreign relation committee.
Vote Long Delayed
The vote on the court has been long
delayed. President Harding on Feb
ruary "a, 1928. first sent a special mes
sage to the Senate urging that the
Senate devise and consent to the sign
ing of the protocol of the World Court
by the United States. The Harding
hughes reservations We're sent along
with the message
The opponents of the World Court
tried in vain today to have adopted
additional reservations and amend
mentS to the resolution of ratification
They We're defeated overwhelmingly
Much OF the debate yesterday ragged
around reservation proposed by
Senator Moses of New Hampshire, an
anu-court Senator, which provided
that all the nations should agree that
no decree or opinion of the court
should be enforced by war. 1t finally
was defeated by vote of 90 to %
Senator Reed Of Missouri then
called up a reservation proposed by
Senator Borah which would have pro-
vided that adherence of the United
States to the statute of the World
Court is conditioned upon the under
standing that in the election of the
judges in each electoral body each
siSnatory state shall have only one
vote, but not more than one vote
shall be cast in either the assembly
or the council by the British Empire
and the states included therein"
This, too, was defeated, by a vote
of 7S to 20.
Other Reservations Beaten.
Other reservations, offered bv Sen
ator Reed, Senator Shipstead of Min
nesota and Senator Frazier of North
Dakota, We're defeated in rapid sue
cession. Finally, Senator Moses Of
fered as a substitute the Pepper
resolution of May 20. 1924. divorcing
the court from the league, but this
too. was defeated. Senator Wads-
worth Of New York. Republican, voted
for 1t. Another substitute resolution
offered by Senator Williams of Mis-
souri, went the same course
When the resolution was reDorted
from the committee of the whole into
the Senate, Senator Reed proposed an
amendment whereby the Senate
should advise" without "consenting'
to the signature of the United States
to the protocol. His contention was
that the Senate could not properly
consent to something that was not
really before 1.-THE protocol The
amendment was bowled over. how
ever.
One reservation offered by Senator
Frazier and defeated would have
made adherence of the United States
TO the court conditional upon the es-
Enlistment of an international police
OF the seas under the League of Ma
tons and the scrapping of all armed
vessels not needed for this purpose.
1t was intended only to embarrass the
supporters of the court.
An interesting sidelight on the
amended reservations to the Swan
son resolution of ratification, which
was finally adopted without change,
developed today. John Bassett Moore.
the American judge on the World
Court bench, now in this country,
was recently in Washington. He was
consulted by Senator Swanson and
other Senators supporting the World
Court and gave his advice and assist
ance in the drafting of the resolution
n its final form.