The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1919-11-28
ACT RATIFICATION
BIG ISSUE IN 81 ,
RESERVATIONS TO BE REFERRED
TO PEOPLE IN SELECTION
OF PRESIDENT
NOCOMPR0MlSE, SAYS LODG(
Republican Leader Says Views of Sen
ate Majority Will Be Taken into
INSTRUMENTATION At
titude Is Doubtful

Washington, D. c., Nov. 22.-Com
promise efforts to ratify the peac
treaty were thrown into the back
ground yesterday by Development
strengthening the possibility that thu
whole controversy might be transfer
red to the political arenas for de
cision by the people in 1920.
Senator Lodge, chairman of the for
eign relations committee and Repub
ican leader of the senate, declared in
a statement that there was mo room
for further compromise" and urged
that the reservations of the senate
majority be carried into the campaign
There was no formal expression to
determine whether a like stand would
be taken ultimately by President VIII
son and the administration senators,
but it developed that the presidents
senate supporters had no definite as
surances as vet that he would reopen
the subject for compromise by result
hitting the treaty when the new Ses-
sion of congress begins December l..
The treaty was thrice killed by the
senate previous to adjournment We'd
nesday, after all efforts to arrive at
a compromise had failed.
The declaration of Senator Lodge
reversed the position he and most
other Republican senators had taken
toward injection of the treaty into pol
itics, and was accepted in COMPRESSION
al and official circles as clothed with
an added significance by Mr.. Lodges
conference with VIII H.. Hays, the Re
publican national chairman, just be-
fore the unsuccessful fight Wednesday
for ratification with the majority res
ervations included. The statement fol-
lows:
II have no especial comment TO
make. The case is very simple. After
four months of careful consideration
and discussion, the reservations were
presented to the senate. They were
purely American in their character,
designed solely to Americanize the
treaty and make it safe for the United
States.
under the presidents orders the
followers of the administration in the
senate voted down those reservations
1t was also shown by vote that
there was decisive majority against
the treaty with the reservations.
"Those reservations as presented
to the senate will stand. There is
no room for further compromise be-
tween Americanism and the super
government presented by the league.
All ask now is that we may have the
opportunity to lay those reservations
before the American people. To that
great and final tribunal alone would
appeal.
81 wish to carry those reservations
into the campaign. / wish the Amer
lean people to read and study them.
They are not like the covenant OF
the league They are simple do not
see that there is one of them to which
any American can object. l want the
people to see them, understand them,
and to think of them in ever house
hold, on every farm, in every shop
and factory throughout the land.
Then let them decide"
In his letter advising Democratic
senator's to vote against ratification ,
With the reservations, President VIII ;
son characterized them as constitute :
ng notification of the treaty, ana
;ome Of his senate followers do not !
consider it remote possibility that :
lie may decide to join the issue and !
ct the majority program stand or fall
" popular decision in the cam
,aign. :
Should he take such stand and,
Ieclining to resubmit the treaty, let
natters stand for the present as they
re, it is considered certain on all
ides that the result would be to put q
he ratification fight squarely into the II
residential contest.
They were confronted with the fact u
owever, that the Republican group
f mild reservationists, on whom hope r
( compromise was placed, had serv- 9
notice that any further compromise
egotiatiOns must be conducted with y
1e Republican leader himself.