Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-11-22
Lodge Declares There Is No Room for Further Efforts
 At an Agreement. REV ERSE PLAN TO KEEP
 TT FROM POLITICS On Other Hand, Wilson Will Take Matter to Congress at Special Session in December, He
 Announces.

Washington, NOV. 2l.-COmpfOm- isc efforts to ratfy the peace treaty were thrown into the background to- day by developments strengthening the possibility that the whole con- trovarsy might be transferred to the political arena for decision by the people in 1920.
 Senator Lodge, chairman of the foreign relations committee and re- publican leader of the senate, declar- ed in a statement there was mo room for further compromise" and urged that the reservations of the senate majority be carried into the camL pagn.
 There was no formal expression to determine whether like stand would be taken ultimately by Pres ident Wilson and the administration senators, but it developed that the presidents senate supporters had no assurance as yet that he would re- open the subject for compromise by re-submitting the treaty when the new session of congress begins, De- cember 1.
 The declaration of Senator Lodge reversed the position he and most other republican senators had taken toward injection of the treaty into politics, and was accepted in con- gressonal and official circles as clothed with an added significance by Mr. Lodges conference with Will H. Hays, the republican national chairman, just before the unsuccess- ful fight Wednesday for ratifica- tion with the majority reservations included. The statement follows:
 Reservations to Stand.
 "I have no especial comment to make. The case is very simple. Af- ter four months of careful consider ation and discussion, tre reserva- tions were presented to the senate. They were purely American in their character, designed solely to Ameri- canize the treaty and make it safe for the United States.
 "Under the presidents order, the followers of the administration in the senate voted down those reser- vations. It was also shown by a vote that there was decisive ma- jority against the treaty with the reservations.
 "Those reservations as presented to the senate will stand. There is no room for further compromise be- taween Americanism and the super government presented by the league All I ask now is that we may have the opportunity to lay those reser- vations before the American pco- pie. To that great and final trib- unal alone would l appeal.
 "I wish to carry those reservations into the campaign. I wish the Amer ican people to read and study them. They are not like the covenant of the league. They are smiple, I do not see that there is one of them to which any American can object. want the people to see them, under stand them and think of them in ev- cry household, on every farm. in ev- cry shop and factory throughout the land. Then let them decide"
 Wilson to Act.
 Some of President Wilson's sen- ate followers do not consider it re- mote possibility that he may decide to join the issue and let the majority program stand or fall by popular decision in the campaign.
 Should he take such stand and, declining to resubmit the treaty, let matters stand for the present as they are, it was considered certain on all sides tonight that the result would be to put the ratification fight squarely into the presidential con- test.
 The only expression of the presi- dents intention was a white house announcement early in the day that he would have nothing to say until he sent his message to congress at the beginning of the new session December 1. At that time, it was said, he would go into the treaty situation.
 Senator Underwood of Alabama, prominently mentioned for the dan- cratic leadership in the next session, talked over the outlook with Secre- tary Humility, but did not see the president.
 The general belief on both sides tonight seemed to be that any com promise negotiations will have to wait until the session begins.