The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-11-11
Only Direct Orders From Pres
ident Can Save Treaty With
Germany From Absolute Re
lection in Senate.
RESERVATIONS MAY BE
ACCEPTED AT FINISH
It Is Declared President Has In
Dictated He Had Rather Send
an Altered Treaty Back to
Europe Than None at All.
(BY GEORGE Il. MANNlNe).


Washington. d. c.. Nov. 1o.-Only
direct orders from the sick bed Of
President w ilson in the white house
can save the peace treaty with. Ger
many from absolute rejection in the
senate, according to all indications.
The senate is now voting upon res
ervations proposed by the republicans
of the foreign relations committee.
with the certainty of their adoption.
While the vote is being recorded, how
ever, the situation in the senate is re-
solving itself into a final contest Of
resolution of ratification, embodying
the reservations, is voted upon.
The administration leaders of the
senate, seeming the adoption Of strong
reservations to the treaty, have pur
posely produced a situation that is
bound to end with a deadlock over
the treaty.
The only way the deadlock can be
broken, apparently, is for President
Wilson to send word to the democratic
friends of the treaty in the senate at
the last minute that the reservations
that have been adopted and included
in the ratifying resolution. are accept
able to him, and that he would rath-
er send an altered treaty back to Eu-
rope. than no treaty at all.
The president went considerably
more than half way towards accept
ance Of the republican reservations
in his talk with Senator Hitchcock,
administration leader in the senate's
treaty fight, last Friday.
The president told Senator Hitch
cock that he was willing to accept res
ervations that would not "nullify" the
treaty. and even went SO far as to say
that since one phrase in the McCum-
Der reservation to article x had been
changed since the president on his
western trip announced its adoption
would be regarded by him as rejec-
ton of the treaty, the reservation was
still obnoxious but acceptable.
He endorsed. however, the plans of
Senators Hitchcock and the other adj
ministration leaders in the senate, to
continue to oppose all reservations un-
til the situation arose in which the
democrats either would have to join
with Senators Borah and Johnson and
vote to reject the treaty, or accept
the republican reservations at the last
minute in order to secure ratification.
There is a strong belief among dem
ocratic senators that the president will
order the majority members OF the
senate to vote for ratification with the
reservations that are being adopted.
The only thing that would prevent the
president taking such step, it was
declared at the capitol today, would
be the absolute knowledge that Sena-
tor Lodge could not count upon the
votes OF the majority of the senate
to control the parliamentary situation
after the vote was had upon the COM
mittee's resolution of ratification.
The democrats have an alternative
plan to acceptance of the resolution
with the reservations, in a ruling
which it has already been announced
Vice President Marshall will make i'm
mediately after the vote is taken on
the resolution, in case the situation
from a democratic viewpoint, requires
it.
Should Senator Lodge not be as
sured of the support of a majority
of the senate after the vote is had on
the resolution. the administration
senators, led by Senators Hitchcock
and Underwood of Alabama. will vote
to reject the committees resolution,
when the vice president will rule that
the treaty is still before the senate,
and that any other senator can offer
any other resolution of ratification.
Unless Senator Lodge can muster
majority to overrule the decision, the
democrats then will proceed to offer
resolution, until they present one that
can gain the necessary two-thirds