Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-09-08
SENATE WILL GET
PACT WEDNESDAY
Treaty Cannot Be Defeated,
But Reservations Are
Certain.
DEBATE OPENS MONDAY

The peace treaty will be reported to
the Senate next Wednesday noon, Chair
man Lodge of the foreign relations COM
mittee announced today. 1t is planned
to call up the treaty for debate begin
ming next Monday.
7 Senator Lodge declined to predict how
long the Senate would require TO dispose
ticle by article and. Mr.. Lodge said, the
frst amendment to be taken up prob
ably viii be that providing for equality
of voting between the United States and
Great Britain.
Majority Report Is Brief.
The majority report of the committee
on the treaty Is said to be unusually
brief. comprising about $500 words. in
Guiding texts OF all proposed amend
ments and reservations.
The minority report also is nearing
completion. but the time of it's pres
entation has not been determined.
1t is quite within the range of pos
sihilities that the disposition of the
peace treaty. with reservations to the
covenant of the league of nations, will
take a definite trend this week.
Mr.. Simmons for Concessions.
Senator Simmons. democrat Of
North Carolina, announced to the
Senate today that while he favored
ratification of the treaty without
amendment or reservation he was
convinced that concessions must be
made to those favoring reservations,
and that he has been discussing with
democrats a compromise" on con
sentative resolutions of an interpre-
tative character"
Forces May Com blue.
Administration managers in the SEN
ate are being urged to take advantage
of the known inclination of several
republican senators toward mild reser-
vations and to effect a combination
with them. President Wilson has been
informed of this attitude of the repub-
licans in question and it has been sug-
gested to him that he lend counte-
nance to the proposed deal now. and
not postpone until the opportunity
may have passed and shifting condi-
tons give the upper hand to the re-
publican majority.
While Senator Hitchcock is under
stood to have authority from the
President to consider negotiations for
mild amendments, not going to the
essence of the treaty, it is said to be
appreciated by some of the admins
tration senators that the President
hates to yield fTom a position once
taken, and his position has been a de-
mand for unqualified ratification of
the treaty. He is now being asked to
let his friends do the yielding in the
face of we'll established conditions, his
consent, of course, being understood
tacitly though not openly.
Two Outstanding Facts.
Two facts are well established in
connection with the treaty and the
league of nations, admitted privately
by well Informed senator's.
First that the treaty cannot by any
possible combination be defeated.
Second, that it cannot by any pos
sible combination be ratified without
reservations.
The logical question follows then,
who will perfect and ratify the treaty
the administration forces with the aid
of the mild reservation republicans or
the republican majority, holding all
their own men on reservations mild
| enough to attract several democratic
senators known to be leaning that
way?
Lineup After "Wednesday.
Probably no public demonstration of
the lineup will be made until after
! Wednesday. and until Senator Hitch
cock has submitted the minority report
| from the committee on foreign rela-
lions, defending the original draft of
the treaty: this. of course. for the pur-
pose Of keeping the record straight
But the leaven of compromise is work
ing, and working fast.
| Republican leaders In the Senate are
besought by national party managers
outside of the Senate. including some
| observant republicans in the popular
branch of Congress. not to let the
opportunity slip by of perfecting the
! treaty and getting the credit for the
! party Of doing SO. 80
Want Party Advantage.
| Indeed. some Of the mild-reserva-
| ZIONIST republicans are alive to the
desirability of republican unity and
| the party disadvantage which would
ensue from letting the administration