The sun., 1919-09-28
40 VOTESFOR
RESERVATIONS
Entire Republican Member
ship Ready to Support Three
Lodge Specifications.
ARTICLE Y. DOOMED TOO
Only Difference of Opinion Is
in Exact PhraseOlogy Of
Qualification Made.
ARTICLE Y. DOOMED TOO
Specia, DespatcA to THE suS.

WASHINGTON. Sept. 81. President
Wilson will return to Washington to
confront a grave situation in his fight
for ratification of the peace treaty
without modification. 1t Is accepted
to-day as substantially certain that
the entire forty mine Republican sena-
tors will support the reservations pro-
gramme dealing With withdrawal. Ar
ticle X, domestic questions and the
Monroe Doctrine.
On all these except that dealing with
Article X, the solid Republican force
Is lined up for the programme re-
ported by the majority OF the Foreign
Relations Committee - the so-called
Lodge reservations" On one dealing
with Article X. agreement is certain,
although its phraseo.ogy may vary
slightly from that of the committee
formula. But the substance will be
the same and the effect identical.
President Wilson's active and dill
gent friends in Washington seem to
have committed him to an unfortunate
position in the speech which he made
at Salt Lake City. In that address he
returned to his old insistence that Ar
ticle X. was the heart OF the cove
nant." Then he read a form of reser-
walton as to Article X. saying 1t was
under consideration in Washington,
and proceeded to denounce it roundly.
1t would If adopted. he assured his
audience, cut out the heart of the
covenant.
Reservation He Opposes.
The particular form of reservation
which the President read at Salt Lake
| and thus bitterly attacked. read:
The United States assumes no obliga.
tons under the provisions of Article x
u preserve the territorial integrity oil
political independence of any other coun-
try or to interfere in controversies be
tween other nations, whether members
| OF the league or not to employ tn,
military or naval officers OF the United
States under any article OF the treaty
for any purpose unless in any particular
| case the Congress, which, under tn,
| Constitution, has the sole power to de-
| clare war or authorize the employment
OF the military and naval forces of tn,
United States, shall by act OF joint reso
luton 30 declare"
Now, II happens that at the very tim,
when the President Illuminated his par
ticularly acrimonious denunciation o.
this proposed reservation, he kicked ovel
a most promising pail of milk. For tina
formula was at that very time beinl
employed In Washington In the effort t,
obtain compromise that could hav'
been claimed as a victory for the Presi
dent. Some of his Senate supporters en-
trrtained real hopes that it might b.
adopted, and that. by substituting 1t 10
the form of reservation which the com
mittee's majority had supported, the!
| could claim, at least, that at the vita
point they had defeated the opposition
forces.
Reservations Arc Admitted.
1t must be understood that for som
| weeks the most that the Presidents sup
porters on the Senate floor have hope,
for Ii q Pyrrhic victory Of this sort Tha
there would be reservations. and rigor
Gus ones, they have been compelled l.
recognise, and in private most of then
have admitted. They have been spar
ring for points, making the committed
report the object of attack. To Ian
the faintcst blow on that report woul'
be enough to justify them. as they hav
been feeling, In claiming a victory. T
be privileged to make such a claim OF
however weak a justification was al
they could hope.
The reservation which the Presiden
read and denounced represented thei
fondest hopes. 1t never had been In
troduced In the Senate and never wa
given publscity until the President rea
Il at Salt Lake. But Il had been quletl,
circulated in the Senate chamber. espe