The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-11-13
TOLD TO STAND
BY THEIR GUNS
PRESIDENT WILSON ADVISES AD-
MINISTRATION FORCES.
BLOCK RESERVATIONS.
Majority Senators Plan to Oppose
Ratification if Republicans In
sist on Changes.

Washington, Nov. 1.-The first af-
firmative step toward qualification of
the peace treaty was taken today by
the Senate after administration lead
ers, with the backing of President
Wilson, had reaffirmed their inten-
tion of voting against ratification if
the reservations drawn by the Senate
majority committee were incorporat-
ed in, it.
The initial test of strength on the
reservation program of the foreign
relations committee fround the Re-
publicans almost solidly behind it,
the group of mild reservationists who
helped kill the committees amend
ment, and the irrecon ciliable group
of treaty foes standing together for
the first time since the long treaty
fight began.
By a vote of>4S to 40 the Senate
approved, after all efforts to amend it
had failed, the committees preamble
to the reservation group, requiring
that to make the treaty binding at
least three of the four great powers
must accept the Senate qualifications.
The only Republican who did not
swing into line for the proposal was
Senator McCumber, of North Dakota,
with three Democrats, Senators Reed,
Missouri; Gore, Oklahoma, and
Walsh, Massachusetts, voting with the
majority.
Turns Offer Down.
When adjournment was reached
the first of the fourteen reservations
was under debate, and Republican
leaders were claiming they had safe
majorities pledged for the entire
group. The mild reservationists, it was
declared, had turned down a new
Democratic offer of compromise,
while the irreconcilable wing was de-
vising plan of action by which they
hoped to defeat the treaty entirely.
The best claim made by the admins
tration forces was that the treaty
would be wedged into a deadlock
which in the end would make COM
promise inevitable.
The plan to vote against the treaty
and thus deadlock the ratification
fight was declared to have President
Wilson's unqualified support. Senator
Hitchcock, of Nebraska, the Demo-
cratic leader, saw the President dur
ing the day for the first time since
Mr.. Wilson returned from his speak
ing tour and went over with him the
entire situation surrounding the
treaty in the Senate. Afterwards Mr..
Hitchcock said the executive regarded
the committee reservations as "de-
structive" and the preamble as
Every embarrassing, and advised the
administration Senators to stand by
their guns.
The President was said to have as
serted an aggressive opposition to ac-
ceptance of reservations which would
impair the treaty, but to have shown
a willingness to leave the matter Of
a compromise in the hands of the ad-
ministration Senators, to be worked
out after the deadlock stage had been
reached. Mr.. Wilson explained, Sem
ator Hitchcock said, that he had sent
for the administration leader to give
assurance of his support in the con-
templated programme and of his
gratitude over the successful fight
against amendments.
No Compromise.
After the White House conference
the Democratic leader declared his
conviction that there would be no
compromise until the deadlock actu-
ally had developed. He conceded that
most of the committee reservations
would be written into the ratification
resolution and that after the latter
had been killed by Democratic votes
an unqualified ratification resolution
also would probably fail Then the
time would be ripe, he declared, for
the Senators favoring ratification
without reservations to get together.