The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-11-26

Congress.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.-An APP
pointment has been made for Senator
Hitchcock, acting leader of the senate
to confer with President Will
day, when Mr.. Hitchcock will return
to Washington from Nebraska. At
that time, it is expected, the policy of
the minority respecting the treaty at
the next session of congress, which be-
gins the following Monday, will be
agreed upon,
BY the time Mr.. Hitchcock returns
to the capital, the sentiment of the
country will have been sounded out by
senators as to ratification of the treaty
with such reservations as the admins
tration might accept
President Wilson has given no in
timation of the attitude he will take
as to the treaty at the next session, but
there are Inducements which convey
| the impression that he may advocate
an agreement based on reservations
| that would not eliminate any vital
| phase of the treaty, while at the sam.
| time meeting the viewpoint of senators
among the Republican forces who argu.
that some reservations must be en-
braeed in the ratifying resolution.
While President Wilson, it is stated
viii decline to yield his insistenee tina
| the majority reservations virtually Xii
| the treaty, he Is understood to be i,
isympathy with Mr.. Hitchcock s posi-
tion that friends of the treaty ought t
lind the way to an agreement.
Senator Hitchcock s assertion tina
reservations in the ratification of tn
Treaty are Inevitable" has been accept
ed at the capitol as rejecting the opin
ion. of. the, President as TO the palic
that must be pursued
The President, it is understood. Wi
| go over with Mr.. Hitchcock that par
| of his message to congress which wi
/ deal with the treaty. and the polio
to be outlined by Mr.. Wilson will guild
the administration forces when the ser
ate reconvenes.
1 There is a distinct feeling on III
part of many leaders at the eapito
Democrats and Republicans alike. tha
| agreement win not seem so Difficult
once the senators are back next MOI
day. 1t is believed that, with oppo,
tunity for reflection upon the ernvit
CT the situation, senators who held O,
against compromise in the final hon,
of the, last session. will be found j
a more yielding mood.
Although Senator Lodge appcars I,
be anxious 10 have the treaty nut I'M
the next political campaign as an i
sue, the feeling is apparent on the pa
OF many Republican senator's that IL
question ought 10 be decided now.
that congress, in the next few month
can devote itself to pressing after w;
legislation, which, because of II
treaty, was neglected during the Sc
sion ended last week.
A wish that the Republican senato
and representatives should apply then
selves this week, while at home. to a
eertaining sentiment on the treaty,
believed to have been one of the m,
| | tives back of n letter sent to all r.
| publican members of congress by Wi
liam II. Hays. chairman of the nations
| committee The letter. while dealir
| with the entire political situation, w;
| taken as being directed principally t
| ward the situation affecting the treat
| 1t read:
I | THE national committee will be u
4 der obligations if you viii write us fu
| ~ and frankly about the general .
Il
! you go homo during the recess, y,
will, of coufse. have very definite i
| formation; and in any event, be hett
advised than any one as to eonditio
there; we are anxious to get this
fully and definitely as possible fro
everywhere before the meeting of t
national committee III December, al
will appreciate it very much if v