The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-11-17
TREATY Will
Be REJECTED
SAYS WILSON
Lodge Reservations Mean
rundown, Says President
in Conference With Demo
cratic Leader.
LONG FIGHT EXPECTED
(By Associated PresS1

WASHINGTON. Nov. 17-President
Wilson will pocket the peace treaty,
if 1t contains the Lodge reservations.
he told Senator Hitchcock at a con-
ference today at the white house.
The president had read and con-
s1dered the Lodge reservations" Sen
ator Hitchcock said "and he consid-
ers them a notification Of the treaty.
and utterly impossible"
The program outlined by Senator
Hitchcock, after he had seen Presi-
dent Wilson last week, will be carried
through in the senate. Mr.. Hitchcock
said. This contemplated defeat of the
ratification resolution, with the Lodge
reservations attached. and the offer
Ing OF the resolution for ratification
with reservations. With the defeat Of
this resolution a deadlock would fol-
, low the compromise sought.
President Much Improved.
Senator Hitchcock was with the
| president for an hour.
Il find the president Is very much
! improved since saw him last" the
Senator said on leaving the white
house. "He looks better, talks better
and Is much more aggressive. fnd
that he has read and considered the
| Lodge reservations and that he con
| stders them a notification OF the
! treaty. and utterly impossible"
Did the president tell you what his
course would be in the event the
Lodge reservations are accepted by
the senate?" he was asked
The president will pocket the
treaty." was the reply.
Even If reservation Is Is stricken
outo"
| Yes. That would make no differ
ence in the presidents decision"
Senator Hitchcock did rot interpret
the presidents stand to mean that the
treaty was dead, declaring he still re-
lieved a compromised reservation pro
gram could be worked out
Preamble Objectionable.
The preamble OF the committee res
olution, requiring that the senate res
ervations must be accepted by three
the Democratic leader to be particu-
larly Objectionable to the president
who regarded Il, he declared, as kill
ing the treaty absolutely He indi-
Gated also that the article Z reserva-
ton was entirely unacceptable to Mr..
Wilson, but said the executive might
be willing to accept some Of the other
proposals ON the committee program
AS soon as he left the white house
Senator Hitchcock began plans for a
conference OF Democratic friends of
the treaty. It was said Il might be
held tonight The plan at first had
been to have the mild reservation Re
publicans In the conference. but 1t is
understood they Informed the Demo
Gratis they were unwilling to negotiate
until the committee program had
come to vote.
today upon eleventh-hour efforts TO
bring a compromise between the ad-
ministration forces and the mild res
ervationists on the Republican side OF
the senate.
Unless such compromise could be
reached. 1t was predicted in all quar-
ters that the treaty would be rejected
The situation also was beclouded BY
a parliamentary disagreement, Vice
President Marshall and the Democrat
ic leaders holding that less drastic
ratification resolution can be voted on
after one has been defeated, and the
Republicans declaring they have +he
majority to override any such effort
Many reservations by individual
senators are to be considered afte-
completion of the committee program
but with cloture in effect it was
thought a final vote would not be long
delayed. Most senators predicted i,
would be reached tomorrow or Wed
| nesday