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Show SENATE ADOPTS PREAMBLE. First Step Toward Qualification of Peace Pact is Taken. Washington. The first affirmative step toward qualification of the peace treaty was taken on Friday by the senate after administration leaders with the backing of President Wilson had reaffirmed their intention of voting vot-ing against ratification if the reservations reserva-tions drawn by the senate majority are adopted. The initial test of strength on the reservation program of the foreign relations re-lations committee found the Republicans Republi-cans almost solidly united behind it, the group of mild reservationists who helped kill the committee's amendments amend-ments and the irreconcilable group of treaty foes standing together for the first time since the long treaty fight began. By a vote of 48 to 40 the senate approved, after all efforts to amend it had failed, the committee's preamble to the reservation group, requiring that to make the treaty binding at least three of the four great powers must accept the senate qualifications. The only Republican who did not swing into line for the proposal was Senator McCumber of North Dakota, while three Democrats, Senators Reed, Missouri ; Gore, Oklahoma, and Walsh, Massachusetts, voted with the majority. |