Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-11-19
MOVES ARE MADE :.
To RESCUE PACT
FROM A DEADLOCK
Mild ReSeNationists' Threats
to Defeat Parliamentary
Program Results in Maneu-
verS to effect Compromise,

! Washington, NOV, lS.--COnpFOtnlSo
moves to secure the peace treaty
from the threatened deadlock made
such progress today that its friends
declared it had more than an even
chance for life.
! So far as it had taken definite
form tonight the compromise pro-
!, Sram called for final vote Thursday
9kh. pointed toward acceptance of tho
eSkSh. ntions by the foreign relations
SQo% ee without the requirement
thaT ey must be assented to affirm
atively by the other powers.
The way to compromise was OPEN
ed by the group of mild reservation
republicans, who served notice on the
republican and democratic leaders
that they would not put up the bars
entirely to modification of the com
mittee reservations, but would stand
out against and defeat the admins
tration's parliamentary program.
Lay Their Cards on Table.
with this final announcement the
mild reservationists retired to tho
background The result was that Re-
publican Leader Lodge and Demo-
cratic Leader Hitchcock faced each
other and laid all their cards on the
table.
The conference between the two
leaders brought no final decision as
| to the language of compromise rat
( ification but it did develop an agree
ment that the democrats would have
| the opportunity for which they have
fought to secure showdown vote on
the question of unreseryed ratfica-
tion. This vote, Mr., Lodge sald,
would be permitted before the roll
call on the committee resolution.
Ar fha pnOfnrHnCo
was submission to Mr.. Lodge tonight
of a group of proposed compromise
/ reserv ations with view TO making
4 enough modification in the commit
Tee program already approved by tho
senate majority to enable the demo-
Gratis to support the committee reso-
luton of ratification. on this point
Senator Lodge was said to be insist
ent as he desired all compromise ef'
forts to be made before the vote came
on the committee measure.
i Meantime, in the senate two moro
reservations were added to the thir-
teen already adopted. The mild res
ervationists supported them as the
final qualifications which they would
help to write into the treaty, but tho
| senate extended its session far into
the evening, voting down numerous
other proposals in an effort TO clea'
the way before adjournment for work
tomorrow on the ratification resolu-
ton itself
The two reservations adopted to-
day related to the labor provisions IN
part thirteen of the treaty and TO
voting equality in the league of ma
tons
The labor qualification was offered
by Senator McCumber, republican,
North Dakota, and was accepted, 54
to 35, with nine democrats supporting
IL. A proposed substitute by Senator
King. democrat, Utah, which would
have excluded the United States un-
conditionally from the labor provl-
sions was rejected, As to 43, the mia
republicans joining the administration
senators to override the votes or the
irreconciliables and nine democrats.
The proposal relative to voting
equality, presented by Senator Len
root, republican, Wisconsin, won, op
to 38, on motion to substitute u Tor
a less sweeping proposal by Senator
McCumber. 1t was then formally
adopted without roll call. Previous
llv a reservation on the same subject
by Senator Johnson. republican, CAN
| fornia, had been rejected, 46 to a.
| with eight democrats voting Tor II anu
the mild reservationists lining up SOL
idly in opposition.
The wheels of compromise were
started revolving by the mild reserva-
ton republicans early in the day when
they held a conference ana DECIDED
on these propositions:
That If the democrats voted down
tbo committee resolution of ratifica-
tion they would support a motion 70
reconsider, thus bringing the resolu-
hafnra the senate Tor
changes:
That they would not support
motion to sustain the chair in any
ruling bearing out the admlnistra-
tions plan for a separate resolution
of ratification after the committee
proposal had been defeated;
That they were willing to see somo
modification of the preamble reser~
Iyation requiring the affirmative as
sent of other nations to the senates
qualifications:
That any further compromise ne
gotiations by the democrats must DO
conducted, not with them, put with
the republican leaders.
OF these decisions they informed
Senators Hitchcock and Lodge, with
the added advice to the former 10
move today for any compromise ne
hoped to secure. The conference pe-
tween the democratic and republican
leaders, at which an earnest effort al
compromise was understood to nave
been made, followed almost immedl-
ately.
Senator Lodge was said to have
pressed for quick action and to have
been particularly insistent that the
democratic leaders counter proposals
he in his hands tonight so that
compromise could be worked out be-
fore the committee resolution came
to vote.
Treaty Formally Reported.
Washington, Nov. 1S.-At O'Clock
tonight, after the senate had been in
: continuous session for eleven hours
consideration of amendments in COM
mittee of the whole was completed and
the treaty was formally reported to
the senate.
The question of approving the fif-
teen reservations adopted in commit
tee of the whole was then taken up,
each reservation being considered sep
| arately An effort by Senator Hitch
cock to strike out the preamble re-
Iauirement for acceptance by other ma
tons was voted down, 40 to S6, the re-
publicans opposing 1t solidly except
scr senator McCumber of North Da-
kota.
/ The senate without a roll call then
agreed to all the fifteen reservations
exceDt those relating to mandatory do