The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-11-24
PEACE TREATY
WAITING A WEEK
Unsettled Whether There
Will Be a Compromise Or
Appeal to Public
HITCHCOCK LOOKS
FOR RATIFICATION
Admits That Reservations Are Inevita-
bic - Senators Will Learn Home
Sentiment During the Weeks Re
cess of Congress

WASHINGTON, Nov. 24-The peace
treaty controversy apparently has entered
upon week OF waiting while sentiment
crystalizes for compromise or for a fight
in the 1920 political campaign.
Most of the few senators who remained
here after the closing of the special ses-
sion have gone home and there is no IN
dication at the White House that the
President had changed his decision to let
treaty issues stand where they are until
he sends his message to the new session OF
congress, a week from today.
Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, the adj
ministration leader in the treaty fight, is
sued a statement before starting home
reiteratlng his belief that ratification yet
would be accomplished. He said, howev-
er, that reservations were inevitable"
The stand in favor of carrying the res
ervation fight into the campaign, outlined
il a statement by Republican Leader
Lodge. was declared BY Mr. Hitchcock to
have been actuated more by politics than
by patriotism.
The only word from the White House
during the day was a statement by Sec
Rotary Tumulty saying that ths President
was in thorough accord with Senator
Hitchcock's management OF the fight for
ratification, and was taking no part in the
choice of n Democratic senate leader 20
succeed :he late Senster Martin Tie
statement was directed againsc published
reports that Senator Underwood of Ala
bama would have Mr.. Nilsei,'s backing
| for leadership.
This week many senator's on both sides
are expected TO feel out the sentiment i'll
their home states, while leaders OF both
of the great parties turn their attention
| to the eventualties which would follow
any final decision to ,row the whole
question into the presidential campaign.
| Diplomatic representatives of the en-
| tente powers have been communicating to
| their governments their own. accounts oi
what happened and the prospects FOR the
| future, in the absence Of any official word
| from the state department on the out
come OF the treaty fight in the senate.
| The department. takes the ground that
technically the treaty is still alive, not
having been rejected in the senate, and
that therefore it still is subject TO rcviv-
al and further action
| No doubt is entertained by the various
entente embassies that without action by
| the United States on this treaty, the four
principal powers which already have rati-
fled it and also Germany. will call in the
several smaller statesSwhich have given
their ratification and proceed to organize
the league OF nations Immediately upon
the publication Of the Hproces verbal,
now set for abofit Dee !
Yet the first step in that direction, il
is pointed out, must be made by Presi
dent Wilson. who will find himself in the
position of being obligated to call the in
ital meeting Of the league, although he
may not participate in its deliberations.
As the treaty remains unratified BY
America there is no exact legal obligation
upon President Wilson to convene tn,
league But the other powers have rati
fed the treaty with II provision included
requiring the first meeting is be called b,
the President of the United States anc
it is thought here that he will perform
that function as matter of internationa
courtesy, if not of obligation
In Japanese circles it is considered tina
the door is still omen to China to reeove
Shantung. and that although not one o
/ the sienatories of the Versailles treaty
China's first step is To indicate to Japal
her willingness to begin negotiations.
AS Germany under the terms of tn
treaty. ia obligated to supoly .Ianan with
in a period OF three months after tn
publication OF the ''proces verbal wit
all doenrnents necessary to settle title t
land and other nroaerties in Thing Tao
NEGOTIATIONS with China might be under
taken carly next year.
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