Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-11-21
OFFICIALS TRY To
STIMATE EFFECT
OF TREATY STATUS
Statesmen and Others Are
Specializing As to the Pos
SibIe Result Here and Abroad
of Failure to Ratify

tsY MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wrss1
Washington, Nov. 20.-Avenues of
speculation leading many ways were
opened up today when officials and
diplomats turned over in their minds
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
ing some compromise for a ratifica-
tion in the session beginning Decem-
ber / and to that end steps are un-
derstood to have been taken to ask
that President Wilson ascertain from
the other powers what reservations
they would accept.
AT the White House silence was
maintained, and callers got the inn
preston that for the present the ad-
min1stration was willing to wait
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
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
Wartime Prohibition.
Chief among the matter of dom esIic
concern affected by the senate's de-
lay is wartime prohibition which
took new lease 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 objection
to that method are likely, in the opin-
ion of some officials, to tie up the
effort for some time in the courts
Another line on which speculation
turned was the possible affect of the
senate showdown on domestic poll
cies Although both parties have
disclaimed any desire to put the treaty
INTO politics, the chances of keeping
1t out Of 1920 calculations were adj
mitted on all sides to have been re-
duced by the bitter clashes in debate
last night when republican and dem
ocrat senators hurled across the sem
ate chamber their challenges to go to
the eorhtsy on The ish.se
The stubborn struggle which featur- |
ed the final hours of the session was
generally declared to have made |
harder the compromise for which the |
democratic leader today earnestly |
set to work. They were optimistic |
hot f,, =, o
the new session. if not before, they |
could reach some agreement with the
republican group of mild reservation
lists who held out in yesterdays de-
bate against all efforts to divorce
them from the republican organiza-
tion.
Suspended Hostilities.
In military sense, the senate de-
lay continues a state of suspended
hostilities' say the war department
officials, some of whom are turning
over in their minds the possibilities
of the situation should a separate
peace with Germany be necessary
They said this might be taken up by
President Wilson and Secretary
Baker as soon as the secretary re-
turned from his trip to Camp Taylor,
Kentucky.
During the senate debate, admins
tration leader Hitchcock declared that
If the treaty failed and a separate
peace became necessary the United
States would find it awkward to at
tempt to exact drastic requirements
from Germany
Among republican senators this
position has been ridiculed, however
and in the war department it is said
gross violation of the armistice agree
ment by Germany, such a military
movement into one of the neutral
zones, would be the only contingency
which would lead to a resumption of
military effort on the part of the
United States (
Democratic Leader Hitchcock and S
Senator Underwood, democrat Ala
bama, who took a conspicuous part {
in the adequate fight for ratification,
called at the White House today and (
although they did not see the presi- (
dent are understood to have left for c
him their estimates for the possibili- I
ties of a compromise. T
Hitchcock Issues Statement. |
Afterward Senator Hitchcock issued
a statement pointing out that eighty (
in all voted yesterday for rat
ification in some form and expressing [
a belief that the sixty-four necessary Z
to ratify would get together ultl- Y
mately. t
Il realize" he said. 'that It will re- r
quire very genuine efforts at COM 7
promise to bring this about, and that i
on both sides must be real e
and not merely nominal" f
Tonight the democratic leader had :
drawn up new set of compromise \
reservations which he did not make I
public but which are understood to {
propose principally a modification of +
the preamble requirement in the for r
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