Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-25
Only MCCumber Stands With
Democrats Against DecIar-
ing Shantung'S Return to
China as Part of Treaty.
NO COMPROMISE NOW
APPEARS POSSIBLE
Mild G. 0, P, Men Say Defini-
tons Will Not Suffice and
That Reservations Must Be
in Document Itself.
BY Charles Nicholson.
Correspondent of the Albuquerque
Journal and New York WORLDLY

Journal and New York Worldly
Washington, Aug. 24.-The expect
ed agreement of the mild reserVaI
tionists with the democrats on pro-
gram that would quickly put through
the, peace treaty and the league o;
nations is off for the present.
Senator Key Pittman of Nevada, by
tossing in a resolution of interpreta-
tions. conforming generally to the
mild reservations but which were not
to be part Of the ratification reso-
luton, has scared away the senatorial
dove of peace.
Also the foreign relations commit
tee has passed two significant resolu-
tons. one Of tfcm writes into the
treaty Tfovision ft. the immediate re-
ffgn OF Shantung to China The
other calls upon the president for in
formation which the committee says
he has withheld and without which 1t
will not further consider the league
of nations covenant.
The president has said there was no
objection to interpretations that would
not require a resubmission of the
treaty to the other powers, and in all
probability things would have worked
around to much the same solution
contemplated by the Pittman manifes-
tation, but the time was not ripe.
The radical-~as distinguished from
the mild--republcans scented the
danger and the Nevadan's plan was
hardly broached before the unsteady
brethren were all lined up with dec
larations that they would agree to no
reservations that were not part of
the ratification resolution
Wilson Gave HIS Approval.
The Nevada senator says the idea
was all his own; that he consulted no.
body about it, but saw in the plan a
method of compromise that the mild
ones could not oppose, if they were
sincere.
THE president did not initiate the
resolution" said Mr.. Pittman, "but
he approved of ii. 1t meets his viewt
as outlined to the foreign relations
committee. If the men who advo-
Gated the propositions embraced in
my resolution refuse to accept them
it means that the whole matter of the
treaty will have to be fought out on
the original lines. If they had their
way the treaty would have to go back
to Germany and the entente powers
and nobody can tell when we will see
the end of it."
The president admits that the
league covenant doesn't have to be re-
submitted to Germany. as that nation
is not a member.
Expressing reservations to the
treaty, a separate resolution was in
troduced by Senator owen. who has
been an advocate of unreserved rati-
fication. In general the reservations
he proposed would cover the same
ground os those included in the Pitt
man resolution.
The missionary work of Senator'S
Walsh, Simmons and others who have
been advancing the compromise will
have to be done all over, for the back
sliding of the mild reservationists ia
positive. They were flushed too soon
and now will be twice wary.
Become Standpatters
All those republicans classified as
mild reservationists at once hastened
to make it clear that they will not
subscribe to the plan advocated by
Mr.. Pttman. All of them, without
exception, announced they would in
sist on reservations as a part of the
ratification resolution.
1.-The resolution proposed by Sena-
tor Pittman will never be adopted,