Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-09-12
Both Sides Certain of Victory,
Each Claiming All Doubtful
Votes as Absolutely Sure
for Their Side.
SOME RESERVATIONS
ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN
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BY Charles Nicholson.
Correspondent of the Albuquerque
Journal and New York World.

journal ana New AorK Worlu.
Washington, Sept. 1l,-Democratic
senators are eager for the league of
nations and treaty amendments and
reservations to come to vote, so that
definite knowledge can be obtained as
to where the senate stands on the va
rious phases of the controversy.
Lodge claims to have six demo-
Gratis safely in his paddock. The DEM
ocrats say he has roped and tied only
two, while the presidents supporters
list five republicans pledged in writ
ing not to support the reservations
drawn by the foreign relations COM
mittee and soon to be presented by
Senator Lodge.
Every time a democrat indicates
that he would be willing to have the
Monroe doctrine section of the league
rewritten his conversion to the Lodge
creed is Proclaimed. Every time q re-
publican expresses desire not to see
the treaty entirely rejected, Hitchcock
claims him ftlr the administration
program.
For Treaty as Ii Is.
simmons says he would vote for
the treaty and the league as they
are written tomorrow, but if he
cannot have them as presented by
the president he is willing to take
them with the minimum of changes
that will insure their adoption by the
senate.
He will accept reservations that do
not change the sense of the treaty
rather than have it fail.
Many republicans as we'll as most
of the democrats feel the same way.
The democrats concede to Lodge
only Reed and Gore. OF Hoke Smith
OF Georgia, Shields of Tennessee,
Walsh OF Massachusetts, Thoufas of
Colorado and Chamberlain of oregon,
they say that though each of these
takes issue with the president on some
detail or feature of the covenants, all,
or nearly all, will be found on the
presidents side in most of the propo-
sitions that come to vote.
Republicans Lodge Loses.
The five republicans definitely lost
to the Lodge-KnoX Borah-J johnson
combination. according to Hitchcock, |
are Kellogg and Nelson of Minnesota, |
McNary of Oregon. McCumber of |
North Dakota and Colt of Rhode Is |
land With them he thought were
likely to stand Lenroot of Wisconsin |
and Kenyon and Cummins of Iowa. |
Ru. Kenyon has lined UP strong with |
Lodge, and Lenroot and Cummins are
likely TO do likewise.
OF the reservations only one. that |
relating to the Monroe doctrine, is
likely to get through, according to
Senator Hitchcock, andFthe president
las already said that the Monroe doc
trine is as definitely accepted as out
side the action of the league of ma
tions as anything possibly could be.
SO that this reservation. he believes,
to nothing more than a slap
on the presidents wrist and does not
change the covenant.
The president has authorized mo-
body to offer a compromise resolution
of ratification. So far as known, he
maintains the position that the treaty
should be accepted as presented, or
rejeced.
No Rcsubmission.
Senator Hitchcock is making his
fight on these lines. but il is believed
by some of the most loyal of the
presidents supporters that the nee
essary two-thirds cannot be secured
without some reservations, but this
does not mean such reservations as
would require the resubmission of
the treaty.
On the other hand Senator Lodge Is
quite confident that the program. as
outlined by the majority of the for
eign relations committee, will pass
the senate.
A dozen or so of the most practical
democratic senators have been nego-
iating for weeks with such republi-
,ans as Lenroot, McCumber. McNary, |
tones of Washington, Kenyon and
others in an effort to have them out
inc their objections to the treaty and
he league, in he effort to get some-
hing that would enable them to get
he treaty ou. of the way. That they
nave been measurably disappointed, Is
Missionaries of Compromise.
Simmons, Underwood, Myers, Cham
,erlain, Fletcher. Harrison. Kendriek, {
Martin, Overman, Smith of Maryland, !
swanson and others have been the !
lnofficlal missionaries of this move
nent They think that If the presi- '
tent Eot Id indicate his agreement to
/ moderate program of reservations, =,
t would not take long to get the nec- !
ssary s!1ty-fiye senators to ratify the
reaty.