The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-08-23
MAY NOT RATIFY
AT THIS SESSION
Democrats Fear Vote, On Treaty a
This Time-Reservations Must
Be Admitted.

/ WASHINGTON, Aug. 23-Republican
leadership in the senate, working patient.
ly and inteligently, has gradually brought
about situations with respect to the COW
enant of the league sof nations when 40
Republicans are in substantial agreement
over reservations. But the logic of events
has forced the mild reservationists to con.
clude that dapgereto the country threat
ems in mildness rather than in firmness.
! Consequently the reservations on which
| final agreement is made promises to be
! stronger than ansTfor which at least seven
hesitant Gentlemen would have been will
| ing to vote 10 days or two weeks ago.
| The Presidents friends in the senate
were ready yesterday to concede that he
has already been decisively defeated in
the issue which he created no later than
Tuesday of this week. The treaty will
not be ratified without reservations to be
| made a part of the resolution of ratitica.
ton, they admitted, and they will now
! bring strong pressure to bear on him to
| accept some compromise scheme which
will be devised later But in searching
around for a suitable compromise, the
| Democrats admitted total lack of sue
cess, for they are now operating entirely
without sympathy from the mild reserva.
tionists among the Republicans
| Furthermore, the Democrats are genu.
| lnely alarmed at the manifest get-together
tendency among the Republicans, and
i they fear that unless they act quickly the
] wedge which they hoped to drive between
the republican factions will prove to be
a wedge of paper. The Pittman resoh
ton, they say, has made their comprom
llse efforts appear almost hopeless at tais
time, although they insist that the ten
dency of number of Republicans to ac
tcept some sort of league of nations plan
will eventually prove the ground for a
compromise. This compromise, however
is long way off, they frankly confess
and the demands will not oppose for tn,
ltime being the delay on ratification 81
the treaty which some opponents of the
treaty have sought to bring about The
administration knows very well that il
the treaty were brought to any kind o.
'vote at this time the result would b,
disastrous from its point of view, and un
It'll the compromise proposal is framed
and under way, the administration vii
not press in any way its previous demand
that the treaty be ratified at once
The first. manifestation Of the willing
mess of the, Democrats to delay treat,
matters tan1a &ith their virtual ACQUIRES
dency of a number of Republicans to ac
give hearing to various sationalities OF
treaty matters. Representatives of tn,
Irish, Egyptians, Koreans, Let's, Lithu
anians, Esthonians, Ukranians, anC
Greeks will be heard before the senat,
, foreign relations committee maks its re
, port on the resolution of ratification
!. Furthermore, the other witnesses called
by the committee some time ago, includ
ing Prof. +. T. Williams of the Univers
ity of California, Captain Hornbeck. for
merry OF the American missions far East
!, crn staff; William G. Bullitt late mem
, Der OF the American delegation, and one
or two others not called before, will al
rbe heard before the committee begins ii
nal work on the resolution This mean.
J, indefinite delay on the treaty, if the pro
gram is carried out, and seems to justif,
ithe statement made by one of the fore
most Republicans in the senate that tn,
\ treaty cannot be ratified at this session
of congress.
!, This statement, if true, would seem t.
/, blast the hopes of the vets that letuy
on wartime prohibition might be in sigh
for the first of November or earlier. fol
until the treaty has been ratified tn,
United States still will nomnally be a
war with Germany.