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Show SrHIUDRS VOTE M IPUIIC1 ill W ould Strike All Reference to Japan and China from Shantung Shan-tung Reservation WASHINGTON, March -U Making its first change in the Jtcpublican reservations res-ervations to the pence treaty which were adopted last November, the senate sen-ate voted today on the motion of Senator Sen-ator Lodge, of Massachusetts, the Republican Re-publican leader, to strike from the Shantung reservation all direct reference refer-ence to Jipan and China. The change, worked out in the recent re-cent bi-partisan conference had the approval ap-proval of Democratic lenders and was accepted G9 to 2, Senators Heed, Democrat. Dem-ocrat. Missouri, and Sutherland. Republican Re-publican West Virginia, voting against iL Senator Lodge told the senate that the modification hud been suggested by Democratic members of tho bi-partisan conference and did not change the meaning of the reservation "one lota." It had been thought "more civil," he said, to omit mention of Japan and China by name. Although Senators Lenrool, Wisconsin, Wiscon-sin, and Kellogg, Minnesota, declared the Democrats had agreed in the bl-' partisan conference to accept the reservation res-ervation as amended. Senator Hitch cock, of Nebraska, the Democratic loader, declared that the revised draft was unacceptable. He presented a substitute, arguing that the Republi-j can reservation could do "no possible good" toward restoring to China any rights in Shantung. I Under Senator Hitchcock's substitute, substi-tute, the United States would express ( its understanding that the rights obtained ob-tained through the treaty by Japan in I the Shantung peninsula would be re-j re-j turned to China. |