Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-11-22
TREATY FIGHT To
Be CARRIED INTO
CAMP PA|GN IN 1920
Indications Now Are That the
Controversy VIII Be Left to.
the Voters to Settle AT the
Polls Next Fall,

fsy MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wiREl
Washington, Nov. 21.-Compromise
efforts to ratify the peace treaty We're
thrown into the background today by
developments strengthening the pos
sibility that the whole controversy
might be transferred to the political
arena for a decision by the people in
1920.
Senator Lodge, chairman of the for
eign relations committee, and repub-
lican leader of the senate, declared
in a statement there was mo room
for further compromise and urged
that the reservations of the senate
majority be carried into the cam
paign.
There was no formal expression to
determine whether a like stand would
be taken ultimately BY President Will
son and the administration senator's.
but it developed that the presidents
senate supporters had no definite as
surance as yet that he would reopen
the subject for compromise by re-
submitting the treaty when the new
session of congress begins December l..
Hays and Lodge Confer.
The declaration of Senator Lodge
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 by Senator
Lodges conference with Will II. Hays
the republican national chairman,
just before the unsuccessful fight
Wednesday for ratification with the
majority reservations included. The
statement follows:
~ have no special comment TO
make. The case is very simple.
After four months of careful con-
sidcration and discussions. the
reservations were presented TO the
senate. They were purely Amer
ican in their character, designed
solely to Americanize the treaty
and make il safe for the United
States.
"Under the presidents orders
the followers of the administra-
ton in the senate voted down
those reservations. II was also
shown by vote that there was
a decisive majority against the
treaty with the reservations.
"Those reservations as pre-
sented to the senate viii stand
There Is no room for further
compromise between American
ism and the super government
o. nppseptcsS Inv & q Ie8gtic Al
ask now is that we may have the
opportunity 10 lay those reserva-
tions before the American people.
To that great and final tribunal
alone would l appeal.
~ wish to carry those rescrva-
tions into the campaign. | wish
the American people to read and
study them. They are not like
the covenant of the league. They
are simple. l do not see that
there is one of them to which any
American can object want the
people to see them, understand
them and think of them in every
household, on every farm. in
every shop and factory through
out the land. Then let them de-
eide"
In his letter advising democratic
senators to vote against ratification
with the majority reservations. Presi-
dent Wilson characterized them as
constituting notification of the
treaty and some of his senate follow
ers do not consider it a remote posi-
bility that he may decide to join the
issue and let the majority program
stand or fall by popular decision in
the campaign.
Wilson'S Intentions Unknown.
Should he take such a stand and,
declining to resubmit the treaty. let
matters stand for the present as they
are, it was considered certain on all
sides tonight that the result would be
to put the ratification fight squarely
into the presidential contest. There
was nothing to establish definitely
that he would do so. however, and the
course of the administration senate
leaders during the day seemed to in
dicate the opposite. They continued to
talk compromise and predicted that
the republicans would modify their at
titude, making it possible to clear
away the whole controversy before the
campaign opens.