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Show FALL PACT AMENDMENTS INJECTED BY SENATE; VOTE TAKEN AFTER SHARP QnALJATTLE Roll Call Is Dispensed With, New Mexican Explaining He Expected Expect-ed Defeat of Proposals. Decks Nearly Clearec for Consideration oi Reservations to Ratification Ratifi-cation of Covenant. WASHINGTON", Oct. IT. After a brier debate and without the formality of' a record vote, the senate today threw out two more of the amendments written into the peace treaty by the foreign relation? committee. The two amendments had been introduced intro-duced by Senator Fall, Republican, New Mexico, and had as their common purpose, pur-pose, curtailment of the pewcr of the American representatives on the reparations repara-tions commission, an international body set up by the treaty to fix and collect Germany's reparation bill. . The vote came sooner than had been expected, the leaders agreeing to it as part of a plan to complete the consideration considera-tion of amendments as soon as possible, so that the senate might tret down to the real work of drafting- a ratification resolution. reso-lution. Only two of the committee's forty-six amendments now remain to be considered, and it is hoped to bring: them to a vote early next week. They both relate to equalization of voting strength In the ieag-ue of nations. ACTION PRECEDED BY SHARP DEBATE. Action on the two Fall amendment?! came near the end of the session, which had been enlivened by a sharp debate over the dispatch of American troops to Europe Eu-rope for service in connection with the Silesian plebiscite, and by a new move from administration quarters to meet the objections of Irish-Americans to the league covenant. During the day some progress was made In the formal reading of the treaty text, and the foreign relations, rela-tions, committee took under advisement an offer from Colonel E. M. House to appear before it. In anticipation of a roll call, both sides had muBtered their forces in the senate chamber as the time for action on the Fall amendment approached. As the question was put, however. Senator Hitchcock Hitch-cock of NebtTanka, the administration leader, asked Senator Fall whether it was his purpose to request a roll call, and the New M exioo senator replied that it would be useless, since he realized the measures would be beaten. In quick succession suc-cession the two votes were then taken by acclamation, no one asklnjr for a count. ONLY TWO SPEECHES MADE ON PROPOSAL. The only speeches mad; op the arnenrl-mcnt arnenrl-mcnt were by Senator Fall and by Senator ICl!opg. Ttcpublican, Minueso' a. who argued that the purpose could be served sufficiently by reservations. In the course of the day various other features of the treaty and the peace negotiations were discussed, Senator Brandt-gee, ltep';bl!c:'.n. Connecticut, and aosworrh, Kcpubllry -.i, New Tori;, attack ing the dh pa ten vf iroops fur Silesian duty, and Senator Hltchcocly and Senator NeKon. Republican, Republi-can, Minnesota, defending Hit action. Tiie move to further Ireland's caii.ii' :n the league v. as made by Senator Walsh, Democrat, Montana, who Introduced a resolution ox Dressing it a a the s'mne of the senate that once the league Is orKai,-h.eri orKai,-h.eri the Fnlted Stales should bring before be-fore It, under article XI, the right of Die Irish people to nelf-frovernment. It van this article, which permits any member st ate to call attention to any condlt loa threatening the peace of ihc work), which 1 'resident Wit fori r'i"'" ' edly quoted on his western trip as holding out hope f-r' subject p'Tjr'lcH and embodying ik vle-ii on the Irish question. COLONEL HOUSE MAY GIVE HIS TESTIMONY. Although no forma 1 action v. as taken by the foricn relations committee on thj ofOr of Colonel House to tell it what be knows of the Wrs Hies negot ia t Iohh an soon as hie health permits, it wbh sain, thtere was a poflibiHty that he might b1 ashed to apppar. even (hough the committee com-mittee h:.d competed Its work on t.:e treaty. their T-ea-iing o" tb- treaty ,e;..t. forrunJIty required by sewtt'.' ' ruler,, the f-.-Miilo c.erka about rcnji-it'l'-ij ourinj, the day thf llrt hair of li.cir t.'t. .. .Most nf t'it thru- ti.'.-y were nroning r.v.ay ?,ith an aunltnce of les th;m haif a dov.en !,ent-tor.-i. When they je sumed in a ni'i-u cnam-her cnam-her a ft er the oxi on the Fail a menu - (Continued oil P?,e 4, Column 2.) IE TIE! AFTER SHARP 01 DEBATE (Continued From Page One.) ments, their voices were drowned out so effectively that Senator Kobblns, liemo-erat. liemo-erat. Arkansas, asked that they "bo called to order so as not to Interfere with the conversation on the floor." The reading will be resumed tomorrow, and tho leaders hope to complete it during the day. WALSH INTRODUCES AN IRISH RESOLUTION. A resolution giving it as the sonse of the senate that whenever the United StHt.es becomes a member of the league of nations it should present to the council coun-cil or the assembly the "state of affairs af-fairs in Ireland and the right of its people peo-ple to self -government " was introduced today by Senator Walsh. Democrat, of Montana. It went over until tomorrow, under l ho rules. Dispatch of additional American troops to Kurope for the ultimate purpose of policing po-licing Silesia, during the - plebiscite proposed pro-posed in the peace treaty, formed tho text of. another chapter of senate debate today on the treaty. The authority of the war department to take, such a step was questioned by Senator Brandt-gee, Republican, of Connecticut, Con-necticut, and the scarcity of information available to the senate on such subjects was deplored by Chairman Wadsworth ot the military committee. The department's depart-ment's action was defended by Senator Nelson, Republican, of Minnesota, and others. "Nobody knows under what authority these troops arc being sent,'' en id Senator Sen-ator Brandegec. STILL TECHNICALLY AT WAR WITH GERMANY. Senator Wadswortlv stated: "I was given to understand that the dispatch of this force was due to some arrangement made bv the American peace commission at Paris. It was intimated inti-mated also that the authority for sending send-ing them springs from the' fact that, technically, we still are at war with Germany." Ger-many." Senator Xelson interrupted to suggest that the plebiscite was to determine whether upper Silesia should become a part of Poland, and added: "They simply want our troops there to see that there is a fair plebiscite, that's ; all. Unless the senator opposes the es-i es-i tablishment of Poland as a free country, : he ought not to object to this." Senator Hitchcock, Democrat, of Ne-1 Ne-1 braska. said the president had the power ! to reinforce the American expeditionary j force along the Rhine and that when the troops reached Coblenz it would be de-, de-, elded whether they should sro to Silesia. He added that under the treatv Germanv was required to pay the expenses of po-' llchig that country during the plebiscite. Senator Wadsworth said that it had been intimated to him at the war department de-partment that authority to send the troops was found in the rejection by the senate of the amendment to the treaty by Senator FaJl. Republican, of New Mexico, proposing that the United States should not participate in the Sileeian plebiscite. Teapot Tempest, Nelson Says. Senator Nelson interjected that, like the senate's criticism of landing of American marines on tho Dalmatian coast, the present controversy was "a tempest in a teapot." Replying to Senator Wadsworth. Senator Sena-tor Hitchcock declared the criticism of tho Silesian expedition appeared to be another attack on the administration. "All the votes that have been taken bv the senate on this treaty." Senator Hitchcock Hitch-cock said, "indicate that the senate will ratify it without a textual change; that an overwhelming majority proposes to ratify it without the dotting of an 'i' or the crossing of a 't.' and that any other action will be In tho form of reservations. reserva-tions. The only Question remaining is whether those for ratification with qualifications qual-ifications and those for ratification without with-out qualifications will be able to unite." He added that the treaty si inula ted that troops for the SHcsfan plebiscite must be sent within fifteen days of the treat y's rat if icat Ion and that t he re fore the dispat i-h of tho troops at this time was necessary. Senator P.orah. Republican, of Idah,o. Interjected that the statement of Senator Hitchcock gave the f unda mental reason for his opposition to the treaty. "American troops will ronNtant ly be crossing the ocean if It is ratified," said he. "I believe that if the treaty is ratified and the league of riatUuuj put Into effect," ef-fect," retorted Senator H ltt:hco"k. "there will tie a rc-duct Ion of armament and maintenance of world peace-." "This treaty can't be ra t if ted without a reservation providing that American troops shall not bo used wiihout consent of congres?," d-clarerl Senator Lenroot, Republican, of Wisconsin. "If the senator sena-tor from Nebraska does not know that, he will find it out." |