Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 227, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1919 — AMENDMENTS PROPOSED BY UNITED STATES SENATE. [ARTICLE]

AMENDMENTS PROPOSED BY UNITED STATES SENATE.

ments proposed by the U. S. senators who favor reservations to the present form of the league of nations : Amendment No. 1. “The United States reserves to itself the unconditional right to withdraw from the League of Nations upon the notice provided in Art. 1, said treaty of peace with Germany.” Amendment No. 2. “That 'the United States declines to assume, i under Art. 10, or under any other article, any obligation to preserve the territorial integrity or political independence of any other country or to interfere in controversies between other nations, members of the league or not, or to employ the military or naval forces of the United States in such controversies, or to adopt economic measures for the protection of any other country, whether a member of the league or not, against external aggression or other country, or for the purpose of intervention in the internal conflicts or other controversies which may arise in any other country, and rjo mandate shall be accepted by the United States under Art. 22, part 1, of the treaty of peace with Germany, except ‘by action of the congress of the United States.” Amendment No. 3. “The United States reserves to itself exclusively the right to decide what questions are within its domestic jurisdiction and declares that all domestic questions relating to its affairs, including immigration, coastwise traffic, the tariff, commerce and all other domestic questions, are solely within the jurisdiction of the United States and are not under this treaty submitted in any way, either to arbitration or to the consideration of the assembly of the League of Nations, or to the decision or recommendation of any other power.” Amendment No. 4. “The United States declines to submit for arbitration or inquiry by the assembly or the council of the League of Nations, provided fbr in said treaty of peace, any questions which, in the judgment of the United States, depend upon, or related to, its longestablished policy, commonly known as the Monroe Doctrine; said doctrine is to be interpreted by the United States alone, and is hereby declared to be wholly outside the jurisdiction of said League of Nations and entirely unaffected by any provision contained in the „ said ■ treaty of peace with Germany.