U.S. DEADLOCK.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 March 1920, Page 5

U.S. DEADLOCK.

THE PRESIDENT'S ATTITUDE. NO RESERVATION ON ARTICLE TEN. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received March 8, 5.5 p.m. Washington, Feb. 6. The reservation declining to bear the expenses of the League of Nations except by Congressional authorisation, was re-adopted by 40 votes to 25. It is understood President Wilson has again informed the Democratic Senators that 'he will not accept any reservatipn of Article Ten.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. PEACE, OR A BIG NAVY f ' AMERICA AT THECROSS ROADS. Received March 8, 7.25 p.m. Washington, March 0. Mr. ,T. Daniels (Secretary to the Navy) has put forward three naval proposals which are dependent on the Senate's action regarding the Treaty. Mr. Daniels said that if the Senate r«; jeflts the Treaty the Uaiited States must •have incomparably the greatest navy in the world, including an additional ten Dreadnoughts and battle cruisers. If the Senate accepts the Treaty, only minor naval additions will be necessary, but if the Senate does not accept the Treaty the United States" must build sixty-nine vessels, costing 105,000,000 dollars.

Mr. Daniels added that whether the League of Nations ex'wted or not, the United States must have a navy equal to, | if not bigger than, that of any other country in the world. Britain was encouraging her colonies to build naval vessels.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. The Republican reservation •to the League of Nations Covenant regarding the safeguarding of American rights in regard to domestic questions is as follows:—''The United Stages reserves to itself exclusively the right to decide what questions are within its domestic jurisdiction, and declares that all domestic and political questions relating wholly or in part to its internal affairs, including immigration, labor, coastwise, traffic, the tariff, commerce, the suppression of traffic in women and children, and in opium and other dangerous drugs, and nil other domestic questions, are solely within the jurisdiction of the United States, and are not under the Treaty to be submitted in any way, cither in arbitration or to the consideration of the Council or of the Assembly, or the League of Nations, or any agency thereof, or to the decision or recommendation of any other power." The reservation in regard to the Mon'roe Doctrine states i l —"The United States will not submit to arbitration or inquiry by the Assembly, or by the Council of the League of Nations, provided for in said Treaty of peace, any questions which in the judgment of the United States depend upon or relate to its longestablished policy, commonly known as the Monroe Doctrine; the said doctrine i-i to be interpreted by the United States alone, and i* hereby declared to be wholly outside the jurisdiction of the said League of Nations, and entirely unaffected by any provision contained in the said Treaty of peace with Germany."