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Show Senate Foreign Relations Rela-tions Committee Approves Ap-proves More Proposals; J May Be Additions, j J Possibility That a Vote! ! Will Be Reached To-j ! day on Senator John- son's Vote Resolution.) 1 i WASH I-N'GTOX, Oct." Fuur more reservations were approved by the senate foreign relations committee today as part of its new program for qualified acceptance accept-ance of the peace treaty. j Tts action brought the number of reservations reser-vations approved by the committee up to j fourteen, and. while i: was said no more i were to be considered for the present, il is considered nicely t:-.a: there will be additions as senate consideration 01' the treaty proceeds. The four accepted by t.ie committee majority today provide for decision bj. congress as to who shall represent this country in the league of nations and as to what other international representatives shall be chosen under tiie treaty; for validation of proceedings relative to enemy en-emy properly only in so far as such proceedings pro-ceedings do not violate the laws of the United States; for renunciation by this I government of any part ia tiie German colonies, and for a blanket provision to conserve the "national honor and vital interests" in-terests" of this, nation. MAY VOTE TODAY ON JOHNSON PROPOSAL. One of the subjects on which reservations reserva-tions still are to be drafted is the equality of voting power in the league, action being be-ing delayed until the senate has acted on two pending committee amendments dealing deal-ing with voting strength in the council and assembly. One of these, by Senator Johnson, Republican. California, was debated de-bated in the senate all of today and may be brought to a roll call tomorrow. It generally is conceded that both will be defeated. Not all of the reservations adopted in committee today had tho solid support of the reservation forces, but tbs Republican Re-publican leaders declared a majority of the senate had been pi edged to them. Senator McCumber, Republican, 'North Dakota, who stood with the other Republicans Re-publicans in favor of all of tho ten approved ap-proved yesterday, voted in the negative on the one relating to congressional choice j of American representatives in the league , and that concerning the German colo-( colo-( nies. Senator Shields. Democrat. Ten-I Ten-I nessoe. stood with the Republics. n ma-I ma-I jority throughout. NO HARD AND FAST GLUP BY EITHER SIDE. j Meantime evidence developed that the j leaders on neither side had a hard and ! fast grip upon the attitude of their re-; re-; spective forces as to the committee's res-j res-j crvatlon pros ram. Some senators sland- ing with t he reservatiouist,'; were ur.der-! ur.der-! stood to i'C dissatisfied with the com-imittee's com-imittee's p.-oposal regarding the Monroe doctrine, while on the Democraric si.lo : the sena mr.s who belike some reservations reserva-tions sh'nhl be r c-epten nrough: incveas-: incveas-: ting pressure to be:r on St;, tor H;;"h-i H;;"h-i .n-'k of Nebraska, the administration '.ea der. The siti;a:ion seamed to forecast a pro-lOTig'-d fighi on the sena tf- floor iv hd eTori ;o modify tiie program now being ! forumi-ited by the co:nmi;leo majorit '. j TEXT OF THREE OF I NEW RESERVATIONS. I Onlv three of the fo'ir rs , : Linr. j ndnpti'! today were rut into e::act form, I the phraseology of the fourth being left j to "hairman r.odir'v The thr foilotv: i "The . oncre.-s of the "nited Stiite..-. by I law. will prnvid or '.he appnjnl rnn t of j 'the rep; ee:itrtt Ives of fll1 I'm fed Slate! : :n the :ii-nibiy and the cnuneii of thp ! :' league of nations ami may in its discro- ' t;;.,n provide for the partiipa ;nn 0.' the ; i L'nited S-.i'es in any co'iiinl.ion. com- I : ivtitTf1, t-ih-.inai. court, couiirii or con- '. M"--r.Mie. r,' :ri seb-v n ;iny r.iein- ' : th'M-e"f. n--i for the a ..;..: n tn-.nt of I i iT."rr.bv-s . -f sa:'" -'on-. :v. : '. -r s. on.init- ' tes. c-:r:v. .::." u - ont'err;:.-es. r.r ' j u at of pn.- in t'nvyh.g o-t n pro-t pro-t vi.-;.v . z-.6 ?'i.'h .a -t ; i.-j ; P n f ; ri-.lon; i h - I'lr.'i t : : 'i; r i r t hr 't ) .- i (Continued on P?. c 8. Coiumn 3.) 1 would withdraw from the league at the end of two years unless league members had abandoned the policy of peace-time consul ipLion and a satisfactory settlement had been made in regard to s-hantung. Ireland and Kgypt. The reservation was j taken up on motion of Senator Fall, Re- j publican. New Mexico, and the others , voting lor it were Senators Borah, Idaho Ida-ho ; Knox, Pennsylvania; Johnson, California; Cali-fornia; New, Ind'i ana, and Moses, New Hampshire, all Kepubltcans. It also was decided to incorporate in the reservation adopted yesterday regarding; regard-ing; national jurisdiction over domestic u est ions a provision retaining national supervision over "the suppression of the traffic in women and children and in opium and other dangerous drugs." Ur'iny . his amendment to equalize voting- power in the league assembly, Senator Johnson today pleaded in the s-nate that the question be considered consid-ered from a national standpoint only. , Kvery other nation, he said, was acting ' in its own national Interest. ! Johnson Repeats Argument. ! Under the treaty, ho said, British col-j col-j onies might secure places on the league i council as well as the assembly, the way I having- been paved when the peace con-I con-I ference fixed their status as that of i "separate, distinct and sovereign states." i It was only "the pall of internatlonal-I internatlonal-I Lsm," declared the California senator, ; which influenced senators to oppose mak-! mak-! ing American representation In the league ! equal to that of any other nation. ! "What is this unholy thing," asked the j speaker, "that makes us fear to claim for j our country the thing that Is her due? I Almost everywhere it is accepted that the United States is entitled to as many votes as anv power in the world. It is not denied de-nied in Europe; It is not denied In Canada, Can-ada, and it is denied in the United States senate alone." Senator Johnson assailed what he called the Anglo-Japanese press in this country, which, he declared, was ready to "club and bludgeon" anyone who spoke for American interests against the interests of the British or Japanese empire. The committee's new reservation program pro-gram got into the debate when Senator Lie n root. Republican, Wisconsin, took exception ex-ception to a reported statement by Senator Sena-tor Hitchcock, the administration leader, that the committee preamble, requiring specific acceptance of the reservations by three of the principal powers, would require re-quire renegotiation of the treaty. Senator Sena-tor Uenroot said he could not believe Senator Hitchcock held a view so clearly erroneous. Action by the powers, he said, could be had by notes through the usual diplomatic channels. Attacking the Johnson amendment. Senator L,enroot declared it did "not pro- urging them to write to their senators and representatives in tho Interests of the Williams bill. There also was much discission regarding regard-ing the Associated Press dispatches as to the findings of the Habord mission, the majority of which unofficially reported unfavorably regarding tho mandate, de- : daring that the duty of the United Stales I lies nearer home. tect a single American right nor safeguard safe-guard any American interests," and urged instead a strong reservation regarding equality of voting In the league. Lenroot Takes Hand. Senator Lenroot presented a draft of a reservation which would provide that the United States should not be bound by anv league decision In which any nation and its dominions had had more than one vote. Senator T. enroot said he could not stand with senators seeking to defeat the treaty. Senator Colt, Republican, Rhode Island, declared the Johnson amendment "absolutely "abso-lutely unworkable," impracticable and unjust. un-just. He favored the Uenroot reservation as "the best way to euro the inequality of voting" in the league. Senator Kdsre, Republican. New Jersey, also announced that he would vote against the amendment because, "it would not protect pro-tect America In a practical way" to the extent, that the result would be accomplished accom-plished by a reservation. The amendment was opposed by Senator Sena-tor McCumber, Republican, North Dakota, ae not only impracticable, but as making for "gross inequality," beca use it would give the United States six votes in many matters whpre the great nations more nearly concerned, such as France and Italv, had only one. Taking exception to some of the methods meth-ods employed in tho arguments against the league in its present form, Senator McCumber said be was becoming weary of being called un-American because he stood for world peace. "I do not question the red-blooded Americanization senator from California or any other senator," hp said, "hut I am tired of seeing them swell up their chests and boast that they are the only true Amrieans and that anyone who disagrees with them is necessarily a traitor to the cause of the United States. There are too many great and good men fighting heart and soul for the league to make that argument tenable." Time Limit Expires Today. PARTS, Oct. 23. The extension of time accorded to the Bulgarian peace mission to reply to the peace terms submitted by the allied governments will expire tomorrow. tomor-row. Tt is supposed that the Bulgarian peace delegation, which recently returned to Paris, has brought the Bulgarian answer an-swer and that it will be communicated to the supreme council tomorrow. Ratification Is Urged. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Oct. 23. Resolutions Reso-lutions urging ratification of the league of nations covenant "without amendments and with only such reservations as shall .strengthen the mora! influence of the United States'' were sent to Washington today by the National Council nf tho Congregational Con-gregational church in convention here. other resolutions considered today dealt with the proposal that the United States assume the mandatory in Armenia. Foch Outlines Preparations. PARIS, Oct. 23. (Mavas.) Marshal Foch appenred before the supreme council coun-cil today to outline the preparations for the military occupation of regions in which, according to the peace treatv. plcbls"ites will bo held, and other military mili-tary measures involved in the coming into effect of the treaty. There is reason to belive that the concentration and transportation trans-portation of the allied troops which are to occupy tho plebiscite areas will be ended by the beginning of November, so that tho treaty could then be put Into effect. ef-fect. Wallace May Be Member. PARIS, Oct. 23. American Ambassador Wallace probably will be named as tile American member of the committee on interpretation and execution of the German Ger-man ' peace treaty, as the organization which will be charged with supervising the execution of the treaty of Versailles after tho adjournment of the- supreme council is named. Italy, Franco, Great Britain and Japan have named their ambassadors am-bassadors at Paris to represent them on the committee and the United States Is following the example in selecting Ambassador Am-bassador Wallace. The committee will not come Into being be-ing until the supreme council lias finished its work. Owen Defends Covenant. Ni;V YORK, Oct. 23. Tho league of nations covenant has been so "distorted and falsified" by its critics that "some good citizens have been induced to distrust dis-trust it." Senator Robert L. Owen of Oklahoma declared here tonight In' an address at : bamiuet in his honor given by the League of Nations association. "Although the language of the covenant "be not perfectly drawn," .Mr. Owen said, it "proposes to promote international cooperation co-operation ami the maintenance of justice and good understanding between nations." na-tions." lie stated it was tho "greatest International document ever drawn." iiiscusslng tiie demerits of the covenant, cov-enant, Senator Owen said from begln-nin:;' begln-nin:;' to end it breeds a "spirit of liberty and justice.-' "The co enant, of course, like the United States constitution, ran be criticised crit-icised for its alleged Imperfections, but in a compromise draff tho common denominator de-nominator of main' opinions cannot ba free from some criticism," Mr. Owen said. RESERVATION PROGRAM IS ABOUT Bl (Continued from Page One,) under, and no citizen of the United States shall be selected or appointed as a member of said commissions, committees, commit-tees, courts, councils or conferences except ex-cept with the approval of the congress of the United States. HOLDS TO RIGHTS OF YANKEE CITIZENS. "Nothing in articles 1'tiG, 1"J7 or In any of tho annexes thereto or in any other iirticlc, .section or unncx of tho treaty of peace with Gcrniuny .shall, as aMin.st citizens of the United States, be taken to mean any confirmation, ratification or approval of any act otherwise illegal or in contravention of the lights of citizens citi-zens of the L'nited States. "The United States declines to assume an trustee in her own iiht or any responsibility re-sponsibility for tho Kovei nment or disposition dis-position of the overseas possessions of Ceruianv to which Uermany renounces 'her rights and titles' to the principal allied and associated powers under articles ar-ticles j. I'J to Z1 , Inclusive." , Tho rourth reservation was authorized on motion of Senator Shields. Democrat, Tennessee, who said tho suujtest ion had been made to him by Senator Kecd, Democrat, Dem-ocrat, Missouri, who Is nut a member of the committee. Hy a vote of ten to five, with Senators IioUumber and Smith, Democrat, Arizona, absent, tin' committee commit-tee insl ructetl its chairman to drait a I'oservat ion "to conserve the national honor nod vllal interests of the Culled Stales" in laiiKiniKo .similar to that used In tho Itoot tloalies. lly a vote of -levrn to si:; the committee commit-tee rejected a reservation pro posed by Senator Jones, Keribliean. Washington, t'lviliK botico tlia'- tho United States Support Armenian Mandate. ;UA1 K.M'll'S. Midi.. Ovt. 2.. Tho C i r i m i-rui) tit rial 11:1 1 Inna I council, in sion tH'ic, today li'iss.-d a rr.soliitinn n sk -hiK inai the I ' 1 1 i t 1 Shitns iiHsumo the rna tidal n of A riniMiia. Tim i;-'V. nu'M W. P.1lt;;-h vt ! ar-...itt, ar-...itt, Ai'Micnia. wiim (t!indnt'i for I lie ;: t( iT''-ntinj,' tho matte-'- f) tlio Cuukh'Kji tluual cijunilu-a of tho counLry, |