The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-01-26
SENATE, NEARS
FINAL V0TE0N
WORLD COURT
Proponents Confident of Hav,
ing Greater Margin Than
on ClOture Vote
AMENDMENTS NUMEROUS
II Is Believed the Final Vote
Will Come Late Today
or Tomorrow
NO VOTE TODAY

VScuAu8tOus Jan. I6s-(Hl-SO
many senator's insisted on talking
today on the world court, % we'll
ss other subjects that pro-court
leaders gave up hope Of reaching
= final vote before tomorrow.
It took IS minutes pickering
before the senate agreed on the
procedure to be followed in con-
*ldcrattOn of the various rcscrva-
tiOns.
Reservations offered by Scna-
tor Swanson. Democrat, Virginia,
were taken up.
Washington, Jan. 26.-LR)--Under
the tight lid of cioture the senate
approached today the vote which will
take the lllitcd States into the world
court.
Whether the final roll call will
come before adjournment today or
be deferred until tomorrow was pro-
blematieal. Proponents of adher-
ence nave concluded their arguments
and opponents now are not inclined
to prOlong the discussion.
More than score of reservations
to the Swanson substitute resolution
Ut adherence have been offered, how
ever, and these must be disposed of
before the final vote. Roll calls will
be demanded in a number Of cases.
One Hour Limit
Under the rule which the senate
invoked yesterday, GO to 26, for the
second time since adoption in 1917,
each senator is limited to one hour
on the resolution Of adherence and
all amendments which have been Of
fered
Some of these. amendments will
provoke more or less general dis
cussion, but leaders of the pro-court
forces are hopeful that final deci-
sion can be reached by tonight 50
that the tax reduction bill can be
called up Wednesday.
On the decisive vote the leaders
2 for ratification are confident they
will be able to muster an even great
er margin than the five above the
necessary two thirds recorded yes
terday o.. the cloture issue. They
count upon several Democrats as well
as some Republicans who voted
against cloture to join in the ma ajor-
ity for the resolution of adherence.
Hope To Reject Amendments
Likewise. they are confident that
they have the votes to- reject all
amendments to the Swanson SUBJ
'stitlte resolution, although only a
majority will be necessary to adopt
amendments.
The position Of pro.court leaders
is that the additional reservations in
the Swanson substitute embody the
senate figures contained in the great
er number Of the proposed amend
ments and they plan to point this
out as an added argument for early
action.
Opponents of the court make no
effort to conceal their satisfaction
with the reservations which Senator
Swanson and his assistants have
added to the original Harding
Hughes Coolidge reservations. They
hold the view that these have been
framed to meet most of tho objec-
tions raised in the debate which be-
gan last December II.
After half hour had been spent
in agreeing on the order in which
reservations arc to be considered,
Senator Heflin. Democrat. Alabama.
took the floor for the full span Of
the hour permitted him under the
cloture rule adopted yesterday.
Defends Woodrow Wilson
He spent the time defending Wood
row Wilson from the recent criti-
csms of Senator Blease, Democrat,
South Carolina.
Senator Gillett, Republican, Massa-
chusetts, expressed regret that friends
of the court had seen fit to so great
ly modify the original Swanson res
olution of adherence. He was fol-
lowed by Senator Frazier, Republican,
North Dakota. an opponent of ad-
hesion.
Senator Frazier asked whether
. those who oppose entry into the
court arc to be disciplined for not
adhering to the world court plank in
either the 1924 Republican or Demo-
cratic party platform.
"Nothing half so radical as this
said Senator Frazier. appeared in the
progressive party platform"
Frazier Offers Substitute
No reservations, he said, could re-
move all the objections. He urged
approval of his proposal to substitute
an international system Of policing
the seas.
In his maiden speech, Senator Robi-
son, Republican, Indiana, opposed the
, court.