The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-11-27
RENEWAL TREATY
FIGHT NEXT MONTH
ENEMIES PREDICT LONG STRUG-
GLE
FRIENDS MAKE MOVE.
Democrats May Ask President Wilson
To Feel Out Other Powers.
White House is Mum.

diplomats turned over IN their mlnos
the possible results at home and
abroad that are to follow termination
of the special session of congress last
night without senate ratification of
the peace treaty.
The thoughts of the treaty's friends
in the senate centered on accomplish
ng some compromise for ratification
in the session beginning December 1,
and to that end steps are understood
to have been taken to ask that Presi-
dent Wilson ascertain from the other
powers what reservations they would
accept.
White House Silent.
At the White House silence was
maintained and callers got the i'm
preston that for the present the ad-
ministration was willing to await
quietly the outcome of compromise
efforts among senators. 1t was not
revealed whether the president would
permit that policy to stand in the way
of undertaking the diplomatic ex-
changes suggested.
Everywhere the senate's action was
accepted as meaning at least a long
delay in ratification, and officials
thought the formal establishment of
a state of peace between Germany and
the powers that have ratified would
proceed now without waiting further
for the decision of the United States.
The chief result, it was agreed, would
be commercial and financial.
War Legislation.
Chief among the matters of domes-
tic concern affected by the senate's
delay is wartime prohibition, which
took a new issue on life with the
postponement of legal status OF
peace. In the same class is various
other war legislation, and although
the Republican leaders in congress
will seek to end the war formally by
a resolution, constitutional objections
to that method are likely, in the
opinion of some officials, to tie up the
effort for some time in the courts.
Another line on which speculation
turned was the possible effect of the
senate show down on domestic poll
tics. Although both parties have dis
claimed any desire to put the treaty
into politics, the chances of keeping
it out of 1920 calculations, were ad-
mitted on all sides to have been re-
duced by the bitter clashes in debate
last night.
Democrats Optimistic.
The stubborn struggle which fea-
tured the final hours Of the special
senate session was generally declared
to have made harder the compromise
for which the Democratic leaders to-
day earnestly set to work. They were
optimistic, however, that in the open
ing days of the new session, if not
before, they could reach some agree
ment with the Republican group of
mild reservationists.
Democratic Leader Hitchcock and
Senator Underwood, Democrat, of
Alabama, vino took CONSPICUOUS part
in the administration fight for rati-
fication, called at the White House
today and although they did not see
President Wilson, are understood to
have left for him their estimates OF
the possibilities of compromise.
Eighty Senators Favor Ratification.
Afterward Senator Hitchcock issu-
ed statement pointing out that
eighty senators in all voted yester-
day for ratification in some form and
expressed a belief that the sixty-four
necessa.y to ratify would get to-
gether ultimately.
Tonight the Democratic leader had
drawn up a new set of. compromise
reservations which he did not make
public but which are understood to
propose principally modification of
the preamble requirement in the for
eign relations committee draft which
would require the other powers to ac-
cept affirmatively all the senate's
qualifications.
No Let Up1n Fight.
Everything indicated that the ad-
ministration had no intention OF let
ting the treaty fight lapse, even dur
ing the interval before December l.,
and that there was no thought of
abandoning the treaty and negotia-
ting new one. The general opinion
seemed to be that the president, IN
order to get the treaty into an ad-