The sun., 1919-10-08
PRO-LEAGUERS
HAVE NEW PLAN
Threaten to Defeat Amended
Treaty if Necessary to
Save President.
G. 0. P. CALLS 1T "BLUFF"
Move Believed to Indicate Des-
peration on Part of Ad-
ministrati0n.
sp.cinr ps.ratch TO TIE sus.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7,--AuuuniStra-
,,on leaders in the Senate have dis
closed to the opposition a.new poli,y
IN regard to the peace treaty and
league covenant replacing their atti-
tde of supreme confidence of victory
for the Wilson document with the
hluff that they will vote against rati-
fcation OF the pact altogether IL the
reservations which the Republicans
will embody in the resolution of rati-
fcation are too drastic to suit the
Democratic party leaders.
Confronted with the certainty that
the reservations adopted by the For
eign Relations Committee are certain
70 prevail in the final casting up Of
accounts. this sudden shift of attitude
was announced to-day by Senator
Hitchcock (NebD The new pro-
gramme OF the Administrator readers,
now that the cause of the President is
concededly lost in the Senate, will oe
70 oppose the reservations as voted
rpon and after they have been ac-
c.pted by the Senate vote against the
adoption of the resolution of ratffi-
cation when the concluding phase of
the treaty fight is reached.
Having done this the treaty Will be
In the position of having been rejected
by the Senate. Then, according to Sena-
for Hitchcock, there will hc motion
to reconsider and the treaty once more
will be before the Senate just as 1t
came from the hands of the President,
II such a motion could be carried.
Says Pact Would he snfe.
The situation thus created, In the
opinion of the Democratic leaders. would
be that the treaty would be still be safe
and that the onus of having delayed
ratification would be upon the Repub
licans.
This the Republican leaders fail to
see. There is no doubt that IL the Demo-
Gratis should determine to vote en- bloc
against ratification with reservations
they would in combination with the
irreconcilables suddenly nigh. find them
among the Republicans present almost
two-thirds of the Senate. II the vote
against ratification were cast thus
authorities are at variance as to whether
the motion to reconsider would be
tenable. Further 1t Is pointed out the
irreconcilable suddenly might find them
selves In possession of control of the
situation.
Among the Administration following
In the Senate there has been much bold
nation in the campaign of 1920 with the
defeated treaty as the issue. This sug-
gesticn carries more amusement than
fear to the Republicans Leaders Of
the Republicans point out that 1t would
be somewhat difficult to explain to the
milkman in Omaha and the plumber in
Syracuse that when the Democrat
strength In the Senate was thrown
against ratification with reservations
the Democrats were sincerely trying to
have the treaty ratified.
Argument Lacks Force.
To show a record of the Senate vote
with forty-odd Democrats voting against
ratification with only a handful of Re
publicans assisting them would hardly
be convincing evidence to the average
citizen that the Republicans and not
the Republicans.
The new bluff, SO defined by such Re-
publican leaders as Senators Lodge
tMass.), Penrose (Pa.) and Poindexter
tWash). is believed to be the fruit of
a desperate state of mind on the part
Of Senator Hitchcock and his group of
dyed in the wool Wilsonites. Regard
less of what may be the result of the
votes on pending amendments to the
covenant and the peace treaty the cause
Of the reservationists already Is won.
Every Republican in the Senate is
now practically pledged to vote for three
OF the four. committee reservations. The
remaining reservation. that defining
Americas stand in regard to Article X.
Of the covenant, will be drafted to con-
form to the views of EVERY one of the
fcrty-nine Republicans in the Senate.
Already It satisfies no less than four
Democrats, which means that on the sue
cessive votes on reservations, the oppo-
sition will poll not les than hfty-
three votes with possible gains carrying
the total favorable vote up to sixty.