Yet when we had tire Versailles treaty. under consideration the Senator would not accept tire language I have read. declaring that questions deternmlned to be domestic tinder international law should not le considered by the council of tir League of Nations. As I sid!(i before. when considering the covenant of tire league. lie realized that it was so important to keep our domestic affairs to ourselves. that he assisted in the preparation of. and ie presented to this body tie reservation I an about to read. arnd this reservation was aidopted by a majority vote of this body as a part of the resolution of ratification of the Versailles treaty. I am reading from reservation 4: The United States reserves to itself exclusively tIhe right to decide what questions are within its domestic Jurisdiction and declares ttt all domestic and political questions relating wholly or tin part to its internal affairs. including immigration. labor. coastwise traffic. tariff. commerce. the suppression of traffic in women and children and in opium and other dangerous druigs. and all other domestic questions. are solely within the Jurisdiction of the United States and are not trnder this treaty to be submitted in any way either to arbitration or to the consideration of the council or of the asseni)ly of the League of Nations. or any agency thereof. or to the decision or recommendation of any other power. Yet the Senator fron Massaichusetts himself. by miin force and.the power of lris position. prevents a reservation of similar import. which the framers of this treaty had in the treaty. fron being read or considered by this body. and absolutely wipts it out of existence. Having done that. lie refuses to perinit the same reservation to this fourpower pact which lie himself puresented and had adopted to tire Versailles treaty.
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