The sun., 1919-09-07
WILSON TREATY
HYSTERIA FADES
Overman Expected to Follow
Simmons Into Ranks of
ReservatiOnists.
SMITH, GA, NAY JUMP TOO
Presidents Comment on Sem
ate Viewed as Showing No
Chance of Compromise.
SMITH, GA, NAY JUMP TOO
Special Despatch to TIE sus.

WASHINGTON, Sept 6.-There was no
outburst of indignation in the Senate
to-day because the President in his
speaking tour has resorted to call
ing his adversaries names. The only
outstanding effect to-day of the adop-
tion of this method to try to revive
dying League of Nations sentiment
throughout the country. and have this
sentiment appear as pressure from the
home folks on their Senators, was the
detection from league supports of an
other Democrat Senator Furnifold
NJ. Simmons On. c. let It be known
that the treaty and the covenant, as
drawn in Paris and thrust upon the
Senate, would not receive his vote
The acquisition of Senator Simmons
is regarded as the most important of
the growing list of Senatorial con-
verts to the platform of Americanism.
He is a leader Of great influence in
his own State and throughout the
South. His desertion of the League of
Nations band wagon is important also,
| as it interpreted to mean that his
colleague, Senator Lee S. Overman,
will follow in his footsteps into the
| camp of the reservationists,
As published in THE SUN several
weeks ago, Senator Simmons long has
been out of sympathy with the Presi-
dents insistence on the sanctity of his
league covenant and his argument that
| America should accept the results of his
Paris endeavors without the slightest
change. That the Senator has deferred
openly taking this stand until now is
due to the wish 10 prevent If possible
jarring his amicable relations with the
| White House. There has been no Sug-
gestion. though, that ultimately the. Sem
ator would do otherwise than follow his
convictions. which lead along the pam
taken by the reservationists
Had Hoped for "A Compromise.
Senator Simmons's personal views
have not been concealed from his friends
| in the Senate, Republicans and Demo-
Gratis alike, He had been hoping until
| now that some compromise might be
worked out by the White House with
the reservatlonists In the Senate that
| the President might yield to the grow
| ing clamor for revision, that something
would turn up to save the Americanism
of the Democratic party and relieve him
of the embarrassment which breaking
away from the White House moorings
would entail.
The course of the President In his
westward journeyings, with the growing
| bitterness Of his comment on the Senate,
his persistent limitations that his obli-
cations to the coordinate power I'm treaty
making, the Senate of the United States,
were of negligible Importance, have
brought not only Senator simmons but
a considerable and growing faction of
Southern Democrats to the same way of
| thinking. The Simmons detection has
| surprised few and delighted many OF the
men who know and understand the
Americanism of the framer of the three
most important revenue bills ever drawn
in an American Congress,
For six years Senator Simmons was
head Of the powerful Finance Committee
| OF the Senate. he participated IN all
three war revenue measures and with
Senator, then Representative, Underwood
| (Ala.), drafted the Underwood Simmons
| tariff law.
The intimacy and sympathy between
| Senator Simmons and Senator Overman
| is of the stanchest character Through
out the eight long months that the
League OF Nations has been a topic in
Congress. the views of the junior Sena-
tor have been crystallizing. 1t is ar
open secret around the Senate that Sen
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