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Show 1 ' ' s & 11 FINAL VOTE ON TREATY AT HAND &' & 6 & y , ' , & & ;)& SENATORS PAVE WAY 1 TO DISPOSE OF PACT 1 AIFIAISESSI1 I Bryan's Efforts to Get Some I Sort of Ratification Seem jn to Have Failed jX ANOTHER RESERVATION 1 BY G. O. P. DEFEATED it Several More Questions in the of Way of Final Vote to be Hur- ried Out of Way fij WASHINGTON. March IS. The Re- 0 publican irreconcilables, combining l. with tho Democrats, overturned on the U senate floor yesterday the plan of Re- J publlican leaders to attack to tho II peace realy a general declaration of ID American policy toward future Euro- ffl pean wars. 19 Tho declaratory reservation which MB would pledge the United States to re- 1 gard with "grave concern" any threat jlf to Europe's peace or freedom was vot- ed down 25 to 3D after the irreconcll- if ables had tried, in vain to amend It. S Intended as an offset to the reserva- tion denying the obligations of Article N iX, the proposal had been expected by :wM I the Republican leaders to attract i0 many Democratic votes but on the roll Jf call only two senators on the Demo- Hj cratic side supported it. M Disposition of the reservation was f regarded as clearing up the last doubt- III ful issue of the treaty fight, and the II leaders made plans to bring a vote on H ratification tomorrow. By unanimous consent It was agreed to limit the speeches on all other pending reserva- fi tions to 15 minutes. About a dozen, I reservations remain to be voted on, Q but it generally Is conceded that none m of them will be adopted. 1 Bryan in Conference JE As the ratification controversy near g ed a conclusion, William J. Bryan b gan a series of conferences with Dcni ogratic senators, throwing the weight R of his influence against the advice ol U President Wilson tlat administration I senate forces vote against" ratification Ij with the Republican reservations. Mr ' Bryan Is understood to have told his y friends in the senate to take the best I ratification they could get, but there Hj was no evidence that he had material- m ly weakened the Democratic forces ij standing out against the Republican jTj program. M Action on the declaratory reserva pg tion, which was introduced by Senatot m Lenroot. Republican, Wisconsin, was if, reported after the senate had extricat Hi ed Itself with some difficulty from the m debate started on tho Irish question !a Two propositions intended to aid to ills ward Irish independence were laic )S aside by vote of more than two to one He discussion on each of them being end jwj ed summarily by a motion to lay or If the table, not debatable under senatt H Borah Has Proposal lr Senator Borah of Idaho, leader ol M the Republican Irreconcilables, pro M posed to add tothe reservation a pro BE vlso that the United States would re fil serve jnuepenueni auu uncoiuroucv m power" in deciding what it would dc jjs and at first Senator Lenroot acceptoC m the amendment. Later, however, he with drew his assent, .declaring th( B ; change might eliminate all the oblige. M j Hons assumed by the treaty, and Son , ntor Borah withdrew his amendment jj land announced he would vote against ; the reservatin. In addition to the declaratory res f ; ervations and the two relatiug to Ire j ,' 'land, the senate acted during the daj j . Ion only two reservations. One bj j Senator Norn's, Republican, Nebraska : ! withholding assent to the British pro ! ; ectorato over Egypt was rejected 51 i ' to 15, and one by Senator Owon, Dem locrat, Oklahoma, declaring the armls j ; tlce terms still binding was beater 55 to 12. i |