Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-16
STENOGRAP HERS
To TAKE COPY Of
Conf FERENCE At
THE WHITE HOUSE
President Wilson Tells Senator
Lodge in Letter That He is
DeSirous Of Giving Widest
Publicity to Talk.
HITCHCOCK EXPECTS
REPORT IN TEN DAYS
Democratic Foreign Relations
Leader and Administration
Spokesman Refuses to Com
nit Himself.

ICY MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED WtREl
Washington, Aug. 15.-Negotiations
between democratic and republican
senators looking TO ratification of the
peace treaty with reservations,
reached more definite stage today
while President Wilson and the for
eign relations committee were getting
together on unprecedented measures
to give the public all the details of
their discussion of the treaty next
Tuesday at the White House.
Democratic leaders, feeling out sem
timent on the republican side, were
told that the treaty never could be
ratified without qualification, but that
more than twenty republicans wanted
to see it accepted in the near future
with reservations along the line Of
those agreed on by seven senators Of
that party some days ago.
This information came from mem
bers of the group of seven, after conf
pletion of a poll began Wednesday
on receipt of the first democratic
overtures, The twenty, needed by the
democrats to make the necessary rat
ification majority of sixty-four, had
not accepted the reservation program
in exact form, it was asserted, but had
given their assent 10 its generat pro-
visions.
President Against Reservations.
After that, Senator Hitchcock, the
democratic leader, went to the White
House and is understood to have laid
the Whole senate situation before the
president He made no formal an
nouncement after the conference but
indicated that the administration
stand for unreserved ratification re-
mained unchanged. Some of the seven
reservation republicans, however, in
sist that they have had information
assuring democratic assent to their
program.
A new draft of reservations was
shown to several republicans during
the day by Senator Lodge, the repub-
lican leader. 1t is understood to cover
the four points embraced in the pro-
gram agreed by the seven senators
and to include also a provision that
appointment of the American repre-
sentatives on the league council must
have senate approval . The other four
provisions relate to the Monroe doc
trine, withdrawal from membership,
jurisdiction over purely domestic
declare war under Article X of the
league covenant.
Press May BE Represented.
Plans for the White House confer
ence Tuesday were virtually complet-
ed during the day. with an agreement
that both White House and committee
stenographers should be present, and
that a transcript of the discussions
should be issued to the press. Chair
man Lodge also gave his assent to the
presence of newspaper correspondents
at the meeting, but said that was a
question for the president to decide.
The proposal that stenographers be
present came from the president in
reply to a request that the committee
members should not be restrained to
secrecy about the discussions. Mr..
Wilson said he would provide a stem
ographer and suggested that the COM
mittee also bring one Chairman
Lodge said it would be done.
Although it began discussion of
proposed amendments to the treaty
today, the committee decided to vote
on none of them until it had talked
with the president. There will be no
meeting tomorrow and most of next
week probably will be devoted to
hearing the five additional witnesses
summoned yesterday.
Question of Time Vital.
The question of how soon the COM
mittee would report to the senate was
one of the subjects most earnestly
discussed in the many conferences
held among senators during the day.
While the democratic leaders said
they believed twenty republicans
would exert their influence for early
committee action. it was made clear
by the reservation republicans that