A League of Nations Volume 3 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...has voted. RESOLUTION OF RATIFICATION, being the preamble and the 14 reservations passing the Committee of the Whole, two-thirds vote required; vote, November 19, yeas, 39; nays, 55; Bitter-enders, nay. MOTION TO RECONSIDER; REED; vote, November 19, yeas, 63; nays, 30; Bitter-enders, nay. Motion to adjourn; Hitchcock; vote, November 19, yeas, 42; nays, 51; Bitter-enders, nay. Chair rules: "That the vote whereby the rejection of the resolution of ratification was ordered puts the treaty back into the Committee of the Whole;" vote on decision of the Chair, yeas, 42; nays, 51; Bitter-enders, nay. Chair rules "That other amendments may be offered, or rather a resolution of ratification may he offered if the majority of the Senate so wants to proceed;"--point of order, Poindexter: "No amendments are in order under the express and explicit provisions of" Rule XXXVII; overruled by Chair; appeal from ruling, Lodge; vote, yeas, 43; nays, 50; Bitter-enders, nay. Same appeal sustained; same vote. "That the treaty, the resolution of ratification, and the reservations heretofore presented to the Senate be referred to a committee of conciliation composed of six Senators to be appointed by the President of the Senate, among whom shall be the leader of the majority, the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Lodge), who shall be chairman of the committee, and the leader of the minority, the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Hitchcock), and that said committee be instructed to prepare and report to the Senate such a resolution of ratification and reservations as in their judgment will meet the approval of not less than two-thirds of the Senate;" Pomerene; motion to table, La Foluette; vote on tabling, yeas, 48; nays, 42; Bitterenders, yea. "Th...