The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-11-19
PREDICT DEATH OF TREATY IF
 LEAGUE GOES

Washington, D. C., Nov 19-Close followers of the fight in the Senate against the Treaty of Peace, and es- pecially the League of Nations cov- enant, assert they can now perceive the rift within the Lodge lute, and predict considerable trouble for the titular leader of the League oppon- ents once his reservations have been agreed to. The Lodge plan, as is well known, is to load the Treaty and covenant with every reservation pos sible that would mean the death of the League if adopted by the Senate, then to await the defeat of the Treaty at the hands of it's friends who de- cline to stultify themselves by voting for its camou1aged death, and finally to place the blame for the failure to pass upon it's friends.
 All the Republican Senators, in cluding the mild reservationists, are bound by a pledge to vote for all the Lodge reservations and then for the resolution of ratification which Will embody these reservations. After that they are free because Senator Lodge has an impression-which many Washington political observers consider nisapprehension of the s1tuation-that if his ratification fails of passage any attempts at resuscitat- ing 1t will be futile.
 The unswerving supporters of the Treaty and the League have an nounced that they will not be dra- gooned into voting for a resolution of ratification that Is intended to kill the Treaty in effect, but that having voted against 1t to the extent of at least one-third of the membership of the Senate they will insist upon a fn fN-
 amended and without reservations. and to make Senator Lodge and his temporarily aligned phalanx either vote for or against it It is unuues donab1e that both the Lodge and Hitchcock proposals will fail of the necessary two-thirds vote Then will come the real time of compromise when ratification of the Treaty will be possible because the mild reserva uonfsts, none of whom desires to see the Treaty killed, will then be releas- ed from the Lodge promise and can com pine with the Administration forces that are seeking a ratification that will protect the United States and carry out this country's agree ments with Allies for the future peace of the universe.
 The impression has .been spread broadcast by certain Lodge 1ieuten- ants that the Democrats reflected res erWat1on proposals rendered by the mild reservationists" It is stated authoritatvely that no reservations ever were submitted to the Admins tration as compromise despite ef- forts to secure that action.
 More than four months time has been killed, chiefly by open or se cretive opponents of the Treaty, and senator Lodge showed no signs of a desire for speed until he secured inc pledges of the mild reservationists,' to stand by his committee reservations In order that public opinion might cease to pillory the opposition for di1- atory lactlcs Then he desired to snut OH debate few days of that and then apparently some one threw monkeyWrench into the machinery as 1t halted and longwinded senatorial Leasue-haters were called upon to kill time until the machinery could be patcheo up. But when Senator Hltchcock endeavored to have a cIo- tLre rule passed restraining unbound ed debate on the Lodge reservations great Republican opposition arose, ana aided by a complaisant presiding officer, Senator Cummins, the Hitch cock motion was tabled. AItI1oueb senator Hitchcock had retained the noor It was taken from him in order that Senator Lodge might make his tabling molten.
 Washington observers are certain that when Senator Lodge, having wit messed the defeat of his strangling reservations to the Treaty attempts to prevent a record vote against the document as it came from Paris, or With reservations approved by Presi- dent Wilson, the mild reservation 1sts must vote with the Admfnisfrs ton forces for chance to formulate a ratification resolution that two- thirds of the Senators can agree upon. This means that it will be possible to ratify the Treaty early in the regular session of Congress. which begins Dec. 1.
 A new alignment of the "irrecor- cileables" has appeared in the Treaty fight, not openly. but the daily meet ings of the quartet have attracted sufficient attention to this faction. The watchword is taThe, Peace Treaty shall not pass at the special session, and i