Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-16
REACHING MORE
 DEFINITE STAGE IN SENATE

Washington, Aug. 15.-Negotiations between democratic and republican senators looking to ratifica tion Of the peace treaty with reservations reached a more definite stage today while President Wilson and the foreign re- lations committee were getting to- gether on unprecedented measures tc give the public all the details of their discussion of the treaty next TneSday at the. White House.
 Democratic leaders, feeling out sen timent on the republican side. were told that the treaty never could be ratified without qualification but that more than twenty republicans wanted to see it accepted in the near future with reservations along the line of those agreed on by seven senators Of that party some days ago.
 E This information came rom mem bers of the group of seven after com pletion of a poll begun Wednesday on receipt of the first democratic over lures. The twenty, needed by the de mocratS to make the necessary rat- fication majority of sixty four, had not accepted the proposed reservation pro- gramme in exact form, it was asserted but had given their assent to it's gen. eraI provisions
 Afterward Senator Hitchcock, the leader, went to the White House and is understood to have laid the whole senate situation before the president. He made no formal an-
 
 indicated that the administration stand for unreserved ratification re- mained unchanged. Some of the seven reservation republicans, however, in sist that they have had information assuring democratic assent to their programme.
 A new draft of reserva tions was shown to several republicans during the day by Senator Lodge, the repub-. lican leader. It is understood to cover f hra n O. gramme agreed on by the seven sena- tors and to include also a provision that appointment Of the American representa- tive on the league council must have senate approval. The other four provisions relate to the Monroe Doctrine, withdrawal from member ship, Jurisdiction over purely domes- tic questions, and the right of congress to declare war under article ten of the league covenant.
 Plans for the White House confer ence Tuesday were virtually complet- ed during the day with an agreement that White House and committee stenographers should DC present and should be issued to the press. Chair man Lodge also gave his assent to the presence of newspaper correspond ents at the meeting. but said that was question for the president to de. eide. ~2@3
 Although it began discussion oe pro- posed amendments to the trealy to- day. the committee decided to- vote on, none of them until it slaad@talked with the president. There will be no meet ing tomorrow and most of next weex proba bly, will be devoted to hearing the five additional witnesses summoned yesterday.
 The question of how soon the com mittee would reportsto the senate was one of the subjects most earnestly discussed in the many conferences held among senators during the day.
 After his White House conference. Senator Hitchcock said the committee might report within ten days or two weeks. He made it clear that get ting the treaty into the senate as soon as practica ble was the present con- cern of the administration