Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1919-11-22
No CONF PROM|SE,
SENATE LEADER
SAYS;T TAKE PACT
BEFORE PEOPLE
Mild Reservati ionists
Dash Hopes Of a Deal;
Leave All to Lodge.
EYES NOW UPON WILSON
To SEE WHAT HE'LL Do

Washington, Nov. 21.-Com-
promise efforts to ratify the
peace treaty were thrown into
the background today by de-
velopments strengthening the
possibility that the whole con-
troversy might be transferred to
the political arena for a decision
by the people in 1920.
Senator Lodge, chairman of
the foreign relations committee,
and republican leader of the SEN
ate, declared in a statement
there was mo room for further
compromise and urged that the
reservations of the senate ma
jority be carried into the cam
paign.
There was no formal express
sion to determine whether a like
stand would be taken ultimately
by President Wilson and the ad-
ministration senators, but it de-
yeloped that the presidents sem
ate supporters had no definite
assurances as yet that he would
reopen the subject for compro-
mise by resubmitting the treaty
when the new session of con-
gress begins December ].
Revsrses Other Party Chiefs.
The declaration of Senator Lodge re-
yersed the position he and most other re-
publican senators had taken toward in
lection of the treaty into politics, and
was accepted in congressional and of
ficiai circles as clothed with an added
significance by Mr.. Lodges conference
with VIII II. Hays, the republican ma
tional chairman, just before the unsuc-
cessful fight, Wednesday, for ratifica-
ton with the majority reservations in-
cluded. The statement follows:
II have no especial comment to make.
The case is very simple. After four
months of careful consideration and dis
cussion the reservations were pre-
scented to the senate. They were purely
American in their character, designed
solely to Americanize the treaty and
make it safe for the United States.
No Compromise, He Says.
Under the presidents orders, the fol-
lowers Of the administration in the sem
ate voted down those reservations. 1t
was also shown by vote that there was
a decisive majority against the treaty
with the reservations.
Those reservations as presented to the
senate, will stand. There is no room for
further compromise between American
ism and the super-goyernment presented
by the league. All / ask is that we may
have the opportunity to lay those reser-
yations before the American people To
that great and final tribunal alone would
l appeal.
Wants People to Study Them.
II wish to carry those reservations
into the campaign. wish the American
people to read and study them. They
are not like the covenant of the league.
They are simple. I do not see that
there is one of them TO which any Ameri-
can can object ! want the people to
see them, understand them, and to think
of them in every household. on every
farm, in every shop and factory through
out the land. Then let them decide
Must Deal with Lodge.
LII uis itttcE oGNiSiiis sCus
tors to vote against ratification with
the reservations, President Wilson
them as constituting
of the treaty and some OF
his senate followers do not consider f
a remote possibility that he may decide
to Join the issue and let the majority
program stand or fall by popular de-
cision in the campaign.
Should be take such stand and. de-
clining to rr-submit the treaty, let mat
tars stand for the present as they are,
+ was considered certain on all sfces.
tonight that the result will be to put
the ratification fight squarely into the
presidential contest.
They we're confronted with the fact
,owever. that the republican group OF
mild reservationists. on whom hope of a
was placed. had served no.
ice that any further compromise nego-
iations must be conducted with the re.
.uhlican leader himself.