Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-13
COMP PROMISE BY
WHICH SENAT IS
To D. k. ACTIONS
Of LEAGUE LIKELY
Business Men, Laborers and
r, Everybody Else in Windy
City Want End of Discussion
and Right Thing Done.
DOMESTIC PROBLEMS
REQUIRE ATTENTION
Attitude of Labor and High
Cost of Living Are Problems
Of interest to Heart Of PGO-
lie They Tell Seibold,
By Louis Seibold.
of the Albuquerque
Journal and New York World }

Correspondent or Inc Alpuqueta"0
Journal and New York World)
Chicago, Aug. 12-There is much
more interest on the part of profess
sional men and the man on the
street" in the city as to when the Unit
ed States senate is going to ratfy the
peace treaty than over the phrasing
OF that important document.
The average Chicago man is more
yitally concerned over the domestic
problems of reconstruction which con-
front him than he is regarding the
reservations which the senatorial crit
les of Mr.. Wilson insist shall serve as
a sort of interpretatiye addenda 10
set the European mind right as to the
policy the United states will observe
in promoting the purposes of the
league of nations.
The atmosphere Of Chicago, both in
the seuuestered councils of the busi-
ness elements and on the street, is de-
cidedly pessimistic. There is no deny
ing this fact. But the pessimism is
not due to any difference of opinion
regarding the controversy between the
president and the republican major
ity in the senate but rather to fea-
lures of the domestic situation.
The impression seems to be nearly
unanimous that the senators Will spon
get tired of talking and devote their
abilities to providing solutions for the
domestic problems, the most vital ana
important of which are the high cost
of living, the unrest due to threatened
labor disturbances and interference
with prospective plans for extending
trade of the United States into foreign
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tremendous amounts of supplies al
ready ordered but held up by the lack
of machinery for transportation and
distribution.
Compromise Is Likely.
There is scarcely any doubt among
the leading business men of Chicago
and the imam in the street that the
senate will finally consent to be in
fluenced by the widespread sentiment
in favor of Immediate action on the
peace treaty and league of nations
covenant. and move to it's inevitable
task.
This conclusion on the part of bank
ers and business men with far reach
ing connections is due to information
of the same character that is obtained
in Pittsburgh. This in effect is that
the steps toward effecting compro-
mise between the president and the
senate without loss of honor or pres
tige to either already have been be-
gun, The most definite information
regarding the character of this prob
able compromise is that 1t will save
the face of the senate" and not in
volve any sacrifice Of principle on the
part of the president.
1t is believed by many here that one
reservation which the president viii
accept ultimately will recognize the
right of the senate to counterslgn
agreements between the United states
and its associates in the league OF ma
tions.
1t is also predicted in financial cir
cles that the president will assent 10
the adoption by the senate of reser-
vation affirming the unalterable alie-
glance of the senate to the Monroe
doctrine and reserving to 1t the rlght
to adjust without consultation Win
other members of the league propleIhs
of a purely domestic nature.
Must Agree to Help Business.
The supporters of the president
among we'll informed men here assert
that reservations of this character VIII
not in any way affect the principles
or functions of the league of nations.
The one hope, uppermost in the
minds of Chicago's business men is
that the president and senate will
soon reach an agreement over the
peace treaty and put it through be-
cause it is considered the one insup-
erable obstacle in the way of business
and private ambitions.
On the whole the average man here
does not seem to care very much what
the senate report contains so long as it
is speedily put through and the gov
ernment turns its attention to mat