The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-11-28
PACT RATIFICATION
BIG ISSUE IN 1920
RESERVATIONS TO be REFERRED
TO PEOPLE IN SELECTION
or PRESIDENT
N0C0MPR0MIsE, SAYS LODGE
Republican Leader Says Views Of Sen
ate Majority viii Be Taken into
Campsign.--Admini stration At
titude 10 Doubtful

Washington. D. G., Nov. 22-com-
promise efforts to ratify. the peace
treaty were thrown into the back
ground yesterday by Developments
ngthening the possibility that the
whole controversy might be transfer
red to the political arenas for de-
cision by the people In 1920.
Senator Lodge, chairman Of the for
eign relations committee and Repub-
iican leader of the senate, declared In
4 statement that there was mo room
for further compromise" and urged
that the reservations Of the senate
majority be carried into the campaign.
There was no formal expression to
determine whether n like stand would
be taken ultimately by President VIII
son and the administration senators,
but II developed that the presidents
senate supporters had no definite as
surances MS yet that he would reopen
the subject for compromise by result
hitting the treaty when the new SEES
sion of congress begins December /.
The treaty was thrice killed by the
senate previous to adjournment We'd
nesday, after all efforts to arrive at
4 compromise had failed.
The declaration of Senator Lodge
reversed the position he and most
other Republican senator's had taken
toward injection Of the treaty into pol
itics. and was accepted in congression-
al and official circles az clothed with
an added significance by Mr.. Lodges
conference with VIII II. Hays, the Re-
publican national chairman. just be-
fore the unsuccessful fight Wednesday
for ratification with the majority res
ervations included. The statement fol-
lows:
II have no especial comment to
make. The case Is very simple. After
four months Of careful consideration
and discussion, the reservations were
presented to the senate. They were
purely American In their character,
designed solely to Americanixe the
treaty and make 1t safe for the United
States.
"Under the presidents orders the
followers of the administration In the
senate voted down those reservations.
IL was also shown by vote that
there was decisive majority against
the treaty with the reservations,
Those reservations as presented
to the senate will stand. There Ia
no room for further compromise be-
tween Americanism and the super
government presented by the league.
All ! ask now Is that we may have the
opportunity to lay those reservations
before the American people. To that
great and final tribunal alone would
| appeal.
II wish to carry those reservations
into the campaign. wish the Amer
lean people TO read and study them
They are not like the covenant OF
the league. They are simple. l do not
see that there Is one Of them to which
any American can object. want the
people to see them. understand them
and to think OF them in ever house
hold, on every farm, In every shop
and factory throughout the land
Then let them decide"
In his letter advising Democratic
senator's to vote against ratification
with the reservations, President vii
son characterized them as constitute
Ing n notification of the treaty, and
some of his senate followers do moi
consider II Il remote possibility thai
he may decide to join the issue ant
let the majority program stand or fal
by n popular decision In the cam
paign.
should he take such stand and
declining To resuhmit the treaty, lei
matters stand for the present as the,
are, II Is considered certain ON al
sides that the result would be 10 pu
the ratification fight squarely into thu
| presidential contest.
They were confronted with the fact
however. that the Republican grouI
| OF mild reservationists, on whom hops
OF compromise was placed. had serv
cd notice that any further compromise
negotiations must be conducted will
the Republican leader himself.
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