Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-09-04
[SIDENT sure
|vFNANT FIGHT
Ill Be VICTORY
.ock Assures Him That
Il;ug Reservations" Are
Doomed.
'ARES OPPONENTS
FrRLOOK ADVANTAGES
sopech Proposing Rejection is
Called Mixing of Pol
trOOnery ana
Folly.

hington, Sept. 3.-President
left tonight on his western
% tour in behalf of the peace
confident of ultimate ratifi-
Of the instrument by the SEN
khout amendments, or "destruc-
reservations, which would re-
re-negotiation.
hal survey of the senate situa-
Eas given the president late
by Senator Hitchcock, Of Ne
ranking democrat of the for
Felations committee, who call
The white house at Mr.. Wilson's
/ The president was inform
1t republican leaders plan to
out the treaty within a few
probably not later than next
slay and was assured that
amendment involving and
3 reservation would be de-
overwhelmingly. Specific re-
ions, it was said, were not dis
IRE comforting with the presi-
Senator Hitchcock made a leng-
beech in the senate in reply to
attacks on the treaty by re-
hn leader Lodge and Senator
republican, Pennsylvania. The
5 proposal for defeat of the
was characterized by Mr..
Eock as "a mixture of poltroon-
ID folly" and calculated to make
hited States "a deserter."
Form Reservations.
rings on European territorial
ions, involving the Aland
and disputes between Hun
|and Czecho- Slovakia, were con-
today by the foreign relations
|lttee. Tomorrow, representa-
LOT Jugo-Slavia will be heard
Friday, the committee plans to
its hearings and consider the
ption Of ratification, including
Eations.
so-called mild" and "strong"
Vatlons among the republican
ors continued negotiations to-
oward a compromise agreement
senator Lodge was to have ap-
q three Of the formers pro-
Those dealing with the Mon
octrlne, domestic questions and
rawal from the League-but
agreement still to be reached
reservation affecting article
! the League covenant.
owing conferences of republi-
eader late today, it was said
possible, the proposed reserva-
Would De made public textually
laArlng the real purpose of the
= relations committee majority
eiiulng the peace treaty was to
= treaty entirely and that such
Is e. would be suicidal to the
i, states, Senator Hitchcock, of
SKA a democrat leader, asserted
ellate speech that the majority
senator's never would accept
.ne committee changes. The
,r Upponents. he said, "crawl on
;,vun !. with a miscoroscope
.ng Tor pitfalls" in the League
:. and overlook substantial
7 tha "n al! the treaty would
q , vote of nine to eight.o said
~, : hitchcock. "the committee
1 r. relations is to bring
y before before the Senate the cues,
"a +Se ~ y the pending treaty.
= ~ ,ile - Senate should vote in
~ .te Shantung amendment or
81 What would happen?
l.. Japanese Matter.
AL AL me president would refuse
. snhals y with the treaty, or he
, submit a tho amendment to the
associated so with the United
aoa Ives any one believe thew
bst te ~ 1t? Does any one be-
"a, rat;f treat It Britain who has al
! ~ the treaty and is also
nt, p,eage to Japan with regard
, ~ NY !; would accept the Shan
mat n France, also under q
!, : n Japan would ratify this
ho, uoes any one suppose that
,t;ns seiI would submit to this
''' before the eyes Of the
Nd 1'o OF conceive cor Of any intelli-
,uch ,anoi ~. man who would as
uld a thing. as a possibility.
: ~ ao oe met by an instant re-
her accept the amendment. and
ss,t e would the United States
= 81 m this interra+;or.1 80
H. We We would find ourselves
W, wer Gald' ii Isolated from the rest
a hv', ID. The work Of ratifying
~ would proceed without us.
eslsasy itself provides that
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