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Show HULL 111 No Amendments or Substitutes Sub-stitutes Can Be Offered Under Ruling WASHINGTON. Nov. 15 A cloture to chut down debate on the peace-treaty peace-treaty was adopted today in the sesi ate. I Republican ,-nj Democratic senators voted together for the courc Which means that until the treaty is deposed of no tenator m.iy jpeak in all more than one hour. It wrs estimated Ihat the step would bring 'inal action with in a week The vote adopting the cloture clo-ture V'25 78 io 10. The action, irivo! r.g cl -turc for the first time in the -enate's history, resulted re-sulted In an .remediate speeding speed-ing up of the reservation progr?m, the next reservation tn Ine committee list being adopted within one minute with out debate or a roll call. It rclited tc mandates The text of the reservation adopted follows: "No mandate shill be accepted by the United States under Article 22, part 1, or any other provision of the treaty of peace with Germany except by action of the cong.ess of the United States." In taking up the commil'ee reservation reserva-tion to retention by this government of control over domestic qu;stions, the senate by a voce of o? to 44 rejected a substitute proposed ry Senator Hitch cock. A parliamentary jam developed when Vice President Marshall undertook under-took to 6tate his construction of the colture rule. Senator La Follette, Republican, Re-publican, Wisconsin, made a point of order contending th.it the chair phoulo put the motion. The objection was overruled Sena tor La Follette appealed from the dect-' dect-' slon and Senator Ashurst, Democrat, Arizona, moved to ly the appeal on the table. Senator LaFollctU's .ffor. .o cut off the vice president's ruling was tab'ed, 62 to 30, all of ihe latter being cas". by Republicans, while eighteen Republicans Repub-licans joined the Dcmocrate in sustain ing the vice president. The vice president then ruled when t one reservation of ratification had been tejected it wis oosible, if a ma. jority des.red, to take smother in hope of a final compromize The decision bore out the stand of administration cenatoro who hope tr. bring action on a resolution of their own after dsfcatinj that containing the committee resr vations. j The committee reservation relating to domestic questions then wis adopted adopt-ed An amendment to the committee res-'crvatior. res-'crvatior. so as to make it include questions ques-tions iegarclir,3 boundaries of the United States and its posscscicns, was adopted 52 to 40, with party Imes on both sides divided. WASHINGTON, Nov 10. When , the "enate met today Democratic (Leader Hitchcock presented several 'substitutes for committee reservations to the peace treaty so as to nav' them within the rules, which that no amend ! lutnts or substitutes can be offered , once cloture becomes effective His move was taken by some senators to forecast Democratic support of the cloture mution. Among the measures Senator Hitch cock presented was a resolution for ratification without reservations. He pul also a ratification resolution embodying em-bodying ;s "part of the ratification." thf five substitute reservations offered by him several days ago. Those reservation? provide: That tllB I nitfd Slates would be the i-ole judge whether Its obligations were iulfl ied if it withdrew from league membership That no question which the United could come before the P i.gue. Monroe Incident. That the Monroe doctrine should not in i.n way be impaired or af fecjted. That the council s recommendations under Article Ten shall be considered us "merely advice." That no dominion or colony shall vote lb any league dispute to which any sister dominion, or colony, is a party. I In addition Senator Hitchcock presented pre-sented a new substitute for the Article Ten reservation already adopted by the I senate. It proposes that the United States "does not assume any obligations." obliga-tions." regarding the article's guarantees guaran-tees until in an particular case con- ' gross shall so provide. The language Is much the same as that of the reservation reser-vation adopted. Notice was given b Mr. Hitchcock i that he would later move to tdnke out the preamble requirement that the reservation must be accepted by three great powers. |