Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-14
RESOLUTION SEEKS
TO FORCE DECISION
|NTREATY CONTEST
Interpretation Bloc Decides
to Take Initiative in
Pact Dispute.
COMMITTEE is ASKED
TO REPORT ITS VIEWS
Senator Reed, 0mitting Debate,
Lets Measure Lie Over
One Day.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The group holding out for an inter-
pretative declaration to accompany the
Kellogg anti-war treaty decided today to
take the initiative and submit reSo-
luton to the Senate asking for an in
depreciation of the pact by the foreign
relations committee.
Standing firm against the administra-
tion, which holds that no Interpretation
of the treaty is necessary, the Repub-
lican-Democratic bloc in opposition to-
day drafted the resolution, which is ex-
pected to force a decision in the treaty
contest
Senator Reed, Democrat, Missouri,
brought the resolution to the Senate
floor. He wants immediate considera-
tion. It reads:
Resolved. That in view of the i'm
portance of the pending treaty (the So
called Kellogg BRAND treaty.. and in
view of the many different interpreta-
tions which have been placed upon said
treaty by members of the Senate, and
in view of the fact that the committee
on foreign relations has not made any
report giving its reasons for recon-
mending ratification. the committee is
respectfully requested to report to the
to the proper Interpretation of the
treaty"
After presenting the resolution Sena-
tor Reed acceded to the Senate rule re-
quiring that all resolutions lie over for
one day. He did not debate his pro-
posal, which was listened to attentively
by Chairman Borah of the foreign re-
lations committee in charge of the
treaty.
To Fight Limited Debate.
Fortified with a ''round-robin petit
ton" bearing "a signatures, the group
demanding an Interpretation decided in
a Sabbath day conference to hold their
ground against efforts to limit debate.
This decision was reached despite
stubborn opposition to the proposal for
an Interpretation by President Coolidge,
who called in on Saturday night Sem
ator Bingham, Republican, of Connecti-
cut, one of the sponsors of the petition.
Unconcerned by the round-robin
petition for the interpretative report
by the foreign relations committee on
the treaty, Chairman Boral1 Of the
committee prepared today to renew his
request for limitation of debate on the
treaty.
The "interpretationists" have an
lowed. This means more delay on a
vote on ratification, but Senator Borah
realizes also it means more delay In
getting to the cruiser construction bill
in which he is not SO much interested
but which the 'interpretationiSts" al
most to a man are very anxious to get
to. So the treaty advocates were con-
tent TO hold against the Interpretation
and let things take their course.
Meanwhile, the President, who is con-
cerned for both ratification of the
treaty and passage of the cruiser bill
is doing the worrying. But he is just
as anxious that no manner of reserva-
ton be attached to Americas ad-
herence to the treaty which his Sec
retary of State was so instrumental in
negotiating. He insists that even a
report by the foreign relations commit
tee would amount to a reservation.
Senator Bingham stood his ground
against this contention and argued just
as firmly that under practices of inter-
national law committee report inter-
preting a nations position under a
treaty could not be regarded as a
reservation.
Formal Report Asked.
The round-robin petitioners ask that
a
up formal report on the treaty en-
bodying the views expressed in Senate
debate by Chairman Borah that Amer
ica's right of self defense is not abro-
gated or embarrassed by the treaty MOI
Is her Monroe Doctrine infringed upon
in any way.
Unless that request is allowed, the
petitioners assert their belief that il
will be necessary to adopt resolution
of Interpretation such as has been pro.
posed by Senator Moses, Republican, o.
New Hampshire.
While Senators Bingham, Moses ant
Reed. Democrat of Missouri, who arr
circulating the petition are confden
of getting more than one-third of tn,
membership to sign the petition-th,
necessary votes to defeat ratification O
the treaty-they disclaim any intention
Of defeating ratification.
Likewise treaty advocates are smiling
at the petition, confident of votes t
ratify the pact and of the votes to in
woke the cloture rule limiting debat
if a filibuster develops. They insis
that many of the signers Of the peti
ton, whose names have not been di
vulged, will not stand in the way o
ratification of the treaty.