Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1919-11-26
SOUTH CAROLINA. swEDNEs kRY, NOV. q
TREATY COMPROMISES EXPECTED
Republicans Would Throw Question
Into National Politics.

!. Washington, Nov. 22.-Dem ocrat-
tc Leader Hitchcock, in a statement
replying to the declaration Of Re-
publican Leader Lodge that the peace
treaty issues should be settled In the
coming campaign, said to-day that he
was confident compromise would
be worked out by which ratification
could be secured. .@
Ex-senator Lodge expresses an
ardent wish to carry the treaty and
the reservations which the Senate de-
feated into the campaign as an isS
sue. - t.&, @
II regret to say that Senator
Lodge is evidently thinking more Of
politics than he Is Of patriotism. To
my mind the highest interests OF the
United States and of the world de-
mand ratification Of, the treaty.
The reservations to which Sena-
tor Lodge refers did not even receive
a majority vote Of the Senate,
although the party which Senator
Lodge leads, controls the Senate.
His party Is split on ratification in
the Senate as we'll as throughout the
country. &
THE reservations were not framed
for the purpose Of ratifying the
treaty. They were framed for the
purpose Of making 1t impossible for
many supporters Of the treaty to
vote for ratification in that form.
THE reservations were supported
by 8 Senators who would not vote
for the treaty under any circumstan-
ces and who voted against every
form Of ratification. Those Senators,
after helping Lodge to force these
reservations upon the Senate, voted
no when the resolution containing
them came to a vote.
"Reservations in the ratification
Of the treaty are Inevitable, but
they must be framed and agreed to
by Senators who expect to vote for
ratification. When the Senate meets
in December there will be 81 Sena-
tors out of the SO who favor ratifica..
ton in some form When Ga of
those Senators can agree upon reser-
vations, as believe they can agree,
ratification will take place. h; sS.5. y a
May Go TO People 81
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further compromises efforts are t. be-
made to ratify the peace treaty, or
the whole controversy thrown into
the 1920 Presidential campaign for
decision, was a question which
| aroused lively speculation to-day in,
official and political circles.
1t was agreed everywhere that the
statement issued last night by Sena-
tor Lodge, the Republican Senate
leader, declaring the time for COM
promise had passed, and that it was
his desire that the majority reserva-
tlon program be carried into the
campaign, had advanced materially
the movement to leave the treaty
situation just as 1t is for the present
and give the people chance to de-
eide the issue next year.
Senators Defiant.
me first expressions of admins
| tration Senators regarding the
| statement were defiant in tone.
though they still predicted that be-
fore the campaign has advanced ma
terfally the Senators who favor ratf-
fcation In some form would come
into compromise agreement that
would make ratification possible.
Senator Hitchcock, the acting ad-
ministration leader, declared that
while the Democrats would be loath
to see the treaty made a political is-
sue, they would accept it, II the Re-
publicans insisted, with entire conf
dence Of the outcome.
If the Republican leader wants
to make political issue," said Mr..
Hitchcock, "of course we will not
compromise But II he really wants
the treaty ratified he will make a
reasonable effort to compromise.
me question is one Of partisanship
or patriotism
Senator Hitchcock predicted that
President Wilson would re-submit
the treaty at, the beginning of the
next session of Congress on Decem-
Der l, and that compromise would
result. 1t was admitted by the ad-
mipistration leaders, however, that
they had no definite assurance the
President would prefer that course
to postponement of further action
until the people had snnken In 1aon