Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1919-08-17
TREATY FORCES
I0F|CHT 7OBAR
TEXT CHANGES
Reservations a Bridge to
Cross When Reached
by Ratifiers.
LODGE VOTE MAY DECIDE
CHOICE Of ANNOTAT|0Ns
Group That Would Cut
Shantung Deal Out
Is Increasing.

Washington, August 16.-As a sequel
between President Wilson and Senator
Hitchcock, administration leader, it be-
came apparent, today, that the admins
tration forces would center their effort
on bringing the treaty out Of committee
and defeat any textual amendments,
leaving in the background any negoti-
ations to final ratification with re-
servations.
Meantime republican senator's declared
one result of the negotiations and OF
Senator Hitchcock's statements after
he left the president had been to stlffen
resistance to any attempt at unreserved
ratification and to increase the determl-
nation Of those who want the treaty
amended outright. They asserted yester-
days poll had shown opposition to the
,Shantung provision growing stronger in
che face of explanatory statements
from Toxic and from the White House.
Expect Democrats to Yield.
The reported position of the president
that any textual amendments would send
the treaty back for ne-negotiation with
compel acceptance Of the American de-
mands was taken as largely forecasting
the trend of the amendment fight. 1t
was understood that feature would be
emphasized by Senator Hitchcock next
week in the senate.
The fact that Senator Hitchcock did
not quote the president as standing un-
compromisingy against reservations for
the same reason was pointed out as
significant by the group of republicans,
who, under the, lead of Senator McNary,
republican, Oregon, have agreed on
set of reservations. They declared all
the elements of the situation bore out
their claims Of Wednesday that they had
information insuring democratic assent
to their program.
Lodge StudIng All Drafts.
Among the groups there was some
favorable comment during the day on
the new set of reservations shown to
republican senators by Republican Lead
er Lodge. In the same quarter, it was
pointed out that, should he definitely
give his support to a reservation pro-
gram acceptable to q large number or
senator's, the logical outcome might be
draft Of reservations by him which would
become the rallying point of republican
reservation forces.
1t is known that Mr.. Lodge has been
studying u number of drafts, including
tnOSe uruWn Dy lne Mc4Sdfy group ana
those suggested by Elihu Root, William
II. Taft and Charles +. Hughes. He is
understood not to have stood sponsor
for the draft he showed to the republi-
can senators, however, but to have mere
" submitted it to them for consdera-
ion.
Democrats Still Bak.
Republicans assert that the only pos
sible outcome, if reservations are to be
adopted in place of textual amendments.
will be agreement on a draft drawn by
Mr.. Lodge or some other senator. which
must be accepted by the democrats. The
only open question, they declare. is how
irastic the reservations are to be-
The democratic leaders, however.
maintained there has been no change ia
their stand for unreseryed ratification
and in some quarters the outcome of the
conference between the president and
Senator Hitchcock was interpreted to
mean that Mr.. Wilson would fight un-
compromisingly against both amendments
and reservations. 1t was inferred by
some senator's that the president had re-
fused to countenance the negotiations
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