New-York tribune., 1919-12-25
Senator King Prepares
Tentative Draft of Com
promise Reservations
After Seeing Hitchcock
Dissenters Only
Few i'm Number
Bitter-Enders Opposing
Willingness to Talk of
Any TreatyCompromise
New York Tribune
TFdsIil,OtOn Bure0r

" USH'UgtOn bureau
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.-Dissatis-
faction of few Senators of the two
extreme wings of the Republicans
with Senator Lodges attitude toward q
compromise on the peace treaty was
hailed by the Administration leaders
in the Senate to-day as a serious re-
volt against the Lodge leadership.
group of six or seven mild rescr-
vationists' are privately criticizine
Senator Lodge in the Republican cloak.
room for his refusal to concede SO pei
cent toward a compromise on reserva-
tons in order to secure speedy rati-
fication of the treaty.
The group of "irreconcilables" who
want the treaty to remain dead are
criticizing the Republican leader be-
cause he has announced his willing.
ness to consider any proposal for q
compromise the Democrats might sub
NIT. They want him to reject all over
lures, so that the treaty will never be
ratified.
Neither the mild reservationsists'
nor the "irreconcilabes," however. are
talking of revolt against the leader
ship OF Senator Lodge. The mild res
ervatlonists" are continng themselves
to discussion among themselves as to
whether they should make an indie
pendent effort to secure d compromise
Criticizing Lodges Stand
The "irreconcilables" are criticizine
Senator Lodge for an entirely opposite
reason. They declare that the Repub.
llcan leader is counting compromise
and they are opposed to any compro.
mise. The BorahJ johnson group, how
ever, would break with Lodge on the
treaty issue az soon as compromise
is effected, and their criticism. which
has been confined to private discussion
in the cloakroom, is not regarded as
at all serious.
The Administration forces in the
Senate have heard of the whispered
criticism Of the Lodge leadership, and
are spreading the idea that serious
revolt is brewing among the Repubi.
cans. They are doing all they can tc
split the Republican Senators far
apart by contining their negotiations
for compromise to the small group
of mild reservationists," and suggest
ing that the mild reservationists" take
charge Of compromise negotiations in
seventeen or eighteen Of the forty-nine
Republican Senator'S at the maximum
who are dissatisfied with the course
Senator Lodge is steering.
The combined votes of the mild res
ervationists" and the 'rreconclables' ~
is considerably less than half of the
Republican Senators, the middle ground
Republicans pointed out to-day. They
insisted Senator Lodges leadership
was not in danger, as he has the sup
port of about two thirds Of the Repub-
licans.
King Has Compromise
Senator King, of Utah, who has been
assisting Senator Hitchcock in the lat
ter's efforts to win over the Republican
"mild reservationists." announced to-
day that he has prepared tentative
draft of compromise reservations. He
submitted them to Senator Hitchcock
who suggested that he turn them over
to the mild reservationists" and try to
get them to adopt the reservations as
their own.
The mild reservationists" must take
the initiative in proposing a compro-
mise, Senator Hitchcock said. The mild
reservationists, said the Administra-
tion leader, are in the best position to
go to Senator Lodge and tell him that
they want certain changes made in the
Lodge reservations. They would have
more weight with the Republican
leader than the Democrats would, Sen
ator Hitchcock added.
Senator King announced that he will
introduce in the Senate a resolution
of ratification, embodying his reserva-
tions, when Congress reconvenes. SEN
ator King has written the preamble
and the reservations on Article X, the
Monroe Doctrine and Shantung. The
other Lodge reservations, he said, have
been adopted practically without
change.