New-York tribune., 1919-11-17

sas drawn. l cannot understand any
other line of reasoning. FOR the time
has passed when there is any hope Of
obtaining any further compromise"
Senator Hitchcock himself carefully
avoided any Fat statement that the
President or the Democrats in the
Senate would refuse to vote for rati-
fication with the Lodge reservations.
Are you really convinced that the
President will desire the treaty re-
5ected If no compromise can be OBJ
tanned and the Lodge reservations are
finally voted upon the treaty." Mr..
Hitchcock was asked.
Hitchcock Hoped for Compromise
Il do not want to say that" he re-
.plei, "but the indications would seem
70 point that way. Personally, | am
very hopeful of a compromise. par
-ic-larly on the preamble. In the
present state of the British and French
governments II would put them in a
very embarrassing position to have to
formally accept in writing these rescr-
vations."
What kind of compromise do you
hope for?" Mr.. Hitchcock was asked
IL hope that some of the Republicans
who are Tor the treaty. rather than
have it beaten. will agree to modify
the preamble requiring the assent of
three of the four principal powers and
also a further modification of the
Article \ reservation the Admnistra-
tion leader replied.
A canvass of the Republican friends
of the treaty. however, disclosed little
hope Tor such working out of the
situation.
A long conference as to the pro-
scedure under parliamentary rules, es-
peclally IN view of the Vice Presidents
decision yesterday on the effect of
cloture. was neld by some OF the Re-
publican leaders to-day at the home of
Senator Lodge. Among those present
were Senators Brandegee, Borah, Knox,
Watson and Lenroot. Many other Re-
publican Senators dropped in during
the day
Administration Leader Hitchcock
passed most of the day playing golf,
his partner being Senator Kellogg. one
of the mild reservationists," but who
JOINS the rest Of the Republicans in
saying there can be no compromise
now on the Lodge reservations The
the two Senator's.
League Issues Statement
Confirming the view expressed in The
Tribune this morning that the friends
OF the league of nations. such as for
mer PRESIDENT TAFT and President
Lowell of Harvard. would hold that the
Lodge program, while they might not
like it, did not destroy the treaty, but.
on the contrary, left much of good in
II which ought to be saved and not
pigeon -holed. the League to Enforce
Peace issued a statement tonight
which is considered significant.
The statement apparently pertains
only to reservation No. Is, the So
called Reed reservation, which would
take all questions affecting the ma
tlonal honor or vital interests of the
United States from under league juris-
diction. The statement declares this
reservation would make the treaty
worthless.
The significance of the statement
lies in the fact that it was approved
Thursday night. after the Senate had
voted in favor CT the preamble and the
Article reservation. Yet at this
meeting of eighteen members of the
league executive committee q unani-
nous vote was taken to the effect that
The Reed reservation would kill the
treaty. There was no such comment
on any OF the reservations in the actu-
III committee program, since Senator
Lodge and others have always stated
there was no agreement on this partIc-
NIar reservation, and all the news
papers have printed time and again
that the Reed reservation had no
chance.
Inference Favors Treaty
The inference is strongly drawn
here. therefore, that the league to en-
force peace, or at least those eighteen
members Of the executive committee
who were present at this meeting, do
not believe either-the preamble or the
Article reservation, or for that
matter any reservations on the COM
lnlttee program, will kill the league or
The treaty.
The eighteen men present at this
meeting were President Lowell of Har-
ward, eX-Prcsident Taft, Oscar S.
Straus, William G. McAdoo, Vance Nc
Cormick, William L. Saunders, Herbert
). Houston, Talcott Williams, Judge
Wadhams, Of New York, and vii lam
II. Short.
The meeting took place in New York
Thursday night. While comment wao
refused at the Office of the league here,
members OF the organ .zation declared
the league within day or two will
issue statement demanding the rati-
hcation OF the treaty with the Lodge
reservations, rather than no ratification
at all, and calling on the Democratic
Irlends OF the treaty TO accept the
Lodge reservations.
The two remaining reservations on
the committee list of fifteen will be
taken up by the Senate at noon to-
morrow. 1t rs expected that both will
be defeated. Senator France, of Mary
land, lis particular anxious to beat No.
-. which would rclinquish the claim
of the United States to a onc-iifth in
terest in the German colonies. He in
tends to introduce another reservation
later which WOULD claim the African
colonies Of Germany for the United
States. Tho committee has no real in
tcrest in No. IA, and probably it will
Tor that reason be defeated.
Reed Sure Of Defeat
;. The Reed reservation will then almost
surely be defeated. Then will come
abe two additional reservations in which
the committee is intere stcd one being
"a substitute for the Johnson amend
ment, which would have given the
sUnlted States an equal vote in the
league assembly with the British En-
tpire, and the other on the labor sec
,Ilons. The reservation on equality
of voting. which probably wiz be
adopted, is that proposed by Senator
.lNnroot, while that on. labor was writ
ten by Senator McCumber, of North
l,akota. These two reservations. with
The thirteen already approved, will be
shown to the President by Mr.. Hitch
eocls as the lodge program"
Following is the text of the Lenroot
reservation on the equality OF voting:
That Tho United States assumes no