Arizona republican., 1919-11-22
MAY MAKE PEACE
 PACT B|C ISSUE 1920 ELECTION
Lodge Declares In Favor Of Submitting Reservations To People In Campaign President May And May Not Join Issue
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 WASHINGTON Nov 2l.-Compro- mise efforts to ratify the peace treaty were throRn into the background to- day by developments strengthening the possibility that the whole controversy might be transferred to the political arena for decision by the people in 1920.
 Senator Lodge, chairman of the for elsn relations committee and repub- llcsan leader of the senate, declared in statement there was mo room for further compromise" and urged that the reservations of the senate majority ma ybe carried into the campaign.
 There was no formal expression 10 determine whether a like stand would be taken ultimately by President Will son and the administration senators, but it developed that the presidents s senate supporters had no definite aS- surance as yet that he would reopen the subject for compromise by resub- hitting the treaty when the new ses- sion of congress begins December l. The declaration of Senator Lodge reversed the position he and most other republican senators had taken toward injection of the treaty into politics and was accepted in congress sional and official circles as clothed with an added significance with Sena- tor Lodges conference with Will H Hays. the national chairman. just be- fore the unsuccessful fight "Wednesday for ratification with the majority reser- vations included.
 Senator Lodge Makes Statement
 The statement follows:
 q have no special comment to make fe- months of careful consideration and discussions, the reservations were pre- sentedto the senate. They were purely American in their character, designed solely to Americanize the treaty and make it safe for the United States.
 Under the presidents orders, the followers of the administration in the senate vote ddown those reservations It was also shown by vote that there was a decisive majority against the treaty with the reservations.
 Those reservations as presented tC the senate will stand. There is nc room for further compromise between Amer;canism and the super govern ment presented by the league. All ask now is that we may have the op- portunity to lay those reservations be- fore the American people. To that Great and final tribunal alone would 1 ap' peal.
 q wish to carry those reservations lntothenew campaign. l wish th' American people to read and stud! them. They are not like the cove nant of the league. They are simple do not see that there is one of then 10 which any American can object. want the people to see them, under tsand them, and think of them in ever. household, on every farm, in ever. shop and factory throughout the land Then let them decide"
 Wilson May Join issue
 In his letter advising democrats senators to vote against ratllcauoi with the majority reservations. Presi dent Wilson characterized them d constituting a notification of tn treaty, and some of his senate follow CTS do not consider it a remote possi bility that he may decide to join tn issue and let the majority program stand or fall by a popular decision Il the campaign.
 Should he take such a stand ano declining to resubmit the treaty, le matters stand for the present as the are. if was considered certain on al sides tonight that the result would b 10 nut the ratification fight squarei into tho presidential contest Ther was nothing to establish definltel that be would do so, however, and tn course of the administration senat leaders during the day seer ed to In dicate the opposite. They continue to talk compromise and predicted tha the republicans would modify their at titude, making it possible to clear ava hofara tho raj paign opens.
 They were confronted with the fac however, that the republican group c mild reservaticnists on whom hope c a compromise was placed, had serve notice that any further conpromis negotiations might be conducted wit the republican leader himself. Th closing stages of the fight which pre- ceded the ratification vote multiple evidences of republican solidarity be hind the reservations, many decision in the preliminary maneouvering be ing decided by very strict party vote
 Even among the irreconciiable foe of the treaty on the republican sid the statement of Senator Lodge wa accepted with satisfaction. Some ( this group have said openly the would leave the party unless it de clared next year TOT outright rt lection of the league of nations covt nant, with or without reservations, bt they took the view tonight that u situation was developing with a sai: . factory speed. By the time the ns tional convention met, they predicte it would be ready to go further tha Senator Lodge did in his statement.
 The only expression of the pres dents intentions was a white hous announcement early in the day tn; he would have nothing to say unt he sent his message to congress at tf beginning of the new session Decen Dor L
 At shat time, it was said, he wou go into the treaty situation. Senate Underwood of Alabama, prominent mentioned for the democratic leader ship in the next session, talked ov' the outlook with Secretary Tumuli put did not see the president.
 The general belief on both sides tC night seemed to be that any compr' mise negotiations will have to wait ur III the session begins.
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