Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-09-12
TREATY BATTLE: " IN SENATE ' NOW
 READY T0 BEGIN

haJorltY-t0nceSSio on Both
 Sides Being Made, 1t Is Reported
 1 Washington Sept. 11.-With sub mission of the foreign relations com mlttee minority report, the peace treaty with it's covenant for a League jof Nations was made ready today for the ratification battle in the senate. By general agreement this will not begin until Monday. Meanwhile. 1 however, republicans claiming enough votes to prevent ratification without reservations, were urged by Chair man Lodge of the foreign relations committee to stay on the job until fnal disposition is made of the treaty, weeks hence perhaps. With as little formality as that at tending the presentation yesterday of { the majority report, Senator Hitch cock, leader of the administration forces today submitted the minority report signed by all democratic mem bers of the committee except Senator Shields, of Tennessee, who stood out for reservations to the league cove nant.
 Without attempting specifically to answer majority charges against cer- tain reservations of the league, the minority urged speedy adoption with out modification.
 Formal reporting of majority and minority views was of secondary in- terest however, to continuation of private conferences by republicans in 1 efforts to agree upon a compromise tive in the negotiations said complete agreement was near-one which would insure support of all forty nine republicans and probably num- 1 Der of democrats. This program does not contemplate formal or informal announcement of compromise in the near future and probably not until the close of discussion of the treaty when reservations will be in order.
 Modify Reservations.
 It was said new assurances had been given by democratic senators to- day that modification of the Lodge reservations, predicted now by lead CTS of factions advocating both strong and mild reservations, would make considerable democratic support vir- tually certain.
 After the minority report had been presented Senator Harding of Ohio, republican, member of the foreign re- lations committee, spoke at length against the treaty and it's League l hn galleries broke into vigorous applause which Vice President Marshal en- deavored to check. Warning was given by the vice president that the rules committee would have to say whether the rule against applause during consideration of the treaty was to be enforced, declaring visitors paid no more attention to standing regulations "than to last years bird nest"
 Senator Williams, democrat Missis- sippi, put into the record an editorial from a New York newspaper charac- terizing the Lodge report as "Prus- sianized."
 "The spirit of insult" the senator declared, "is oozing out of that report against everybody in the world with whom we are allied"
 Minority Report.
 Rejection of the peace treaty with it's league of nations covenant, or adoption of amendments would mean sacrifice by the United States of all concessions obtained from Germany under a dictated peace, minority members of the foreign relations committee declared in report pre- sented today to the senate.
 The report, prepared by Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, ranking democratic member of the committee urged speedy ratification of the treaty without amendments or reser.. vations. It deplored' "the' long and unnecessary delay to which the treaty has been subjected while lock- ed up in the committee whose recom' mendations were from the start 3 foregone conclusion" and asserted these recommendations could have been made in July.
 Senator Shields, democrat of Ten nessee, did not sign the report, hay ling announced that he favored league covenant reservations prepared by Chairman Lodge. It was stated thai he would present separate report Those signing it in addition to Sena tor Hitchcock, were Senators Will Hams of Mississippi. Swanson o. Virginia, Pomerene of Ohio. Smith O Arizona and Pittman of Nevada, al democrats.
 The minority denied the claim pu forward in Chairman Lodges repor that the peace conference still was il sesison and has power "to bring Ger lman representatives to Paris" saying l Continued on page three.)