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Show AMENDMENT TO PACTREJECTED LAST OF FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE PROPOSALS DIS-' DIS-' POSED OF BY SENATE. Forty-six Proposed Amendments Having Hav-ing Been Disposed of, Final Action Upon Pact May Be Had in Near Future. Washington. The forty-six amendments amend-ments attached to the peace treaty passed into history on October 29, when the last survivor, a proposal by Senator Moses, Republican, New Hampshire, to revise the voting strength in the league of nations, was defeated in the senate, 47 to 30. The senate then upset two more proposed textual changes brought in by individual senators. One, presented present-ed by Senator Sherman, Republican, Illinois, and proposing to write into the treaty preamble a reference to the deity, was laid on the table by a vote of 57 to 27. Ihe other, sponsored by Senator JoUuson, Republican, California, Califor-nia, as a new solution for voting inequality in-equality in the league, was killed, 43 to 35. Before adjournment, however, the proposal to hasten final action had been brought up against an obstacle which seemed likely to prevent further fur-ther progress for several days. A determined group of senators will launch a fight to eliminate the labor section, opening a debate which will last, leaders expect, for a week. The battle is expected to be the more spirited spir-ited because it is regarded as holding out whatever hope remains of writing any amendments into the treaty. Nine Republicans joined the Democrats Demo-crats in overthrowing the Moses amendment, which provided that none of the British dominions should rote in any league controversy directiy affecting af-fecting any one of them. Three Democrats Dem-ocrats voted with the Republicans supporting sup-porting it. |