New-York tribune., 1919-11-26
Come Out From Behind
Smoke Screen and Offer
a Concrete Compromise
Proposition, Jones Says.
No Hearing Till They Do
Washington State Senator
Declares the Reservations
Must Stand as Draw,
Ne'r York Tribune
Wdshft atom Bnrco,,

WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.-The ADJ
mlnlstration forces in the Senate must
submit concrete proposition for a
compromise on the peace treaty before
the Republican Senators who want the
treaty ratified with reservations will
take any step toward reaching an
agreement, Senator Jones, of Wash
lngton, one of the middle ground Re-
publlcans, asserted in statement to-
day.
Senator Jones warned the Democrats
that they must get down to brass
tacks' and come out from behind their
smoke screen" if they really wanted
any compromise. When they do that,
he said, their offers of compromise
may be onsidered by those who are
willing to accept an Americanized
covenant, and not before"
The Democrats have misrepresented
the result of the voting in the Senate
last Wednesday, when the treaty was
rejected. said the Senator. The state
ment follows:
democratic Senators who voted
against ratification of the peace treaty
are doing a lot of talking now about
compromising. They are trying to
throw q smoke screen around their
vote.
Told To by President'
"They say eighty Senators are for a
league Of nations. Forty-one voted for
IT. What of the other thirty-nine :?
They voted against it. Of the forty
one voting nay, thirty-four were Re-
publcans and seven Democrats. The
thirty-nine who claim to be Cor the
league of nations but who voted no
are Democrats. Why did they vote no {?
Because they were told to do so by
the President. Everybody here knows
that and the country will know it.
Every reservation adopted by the
Senate protects American interests and
rights. No Senator ever charged any
of them was injurious to the United
States. They AmericaniZed the league
of nations for us. American interes is
were not protected in the treaty and
have not been protected in any way by
our representatives in Paris. These
reservations do with the treaty what
they ought to have done.
These reservations are themselves
the result of compromise among those
who were friendly to an Americanized
treaty. The treaty cannot be ratified
without them. Many voted for it with
the reservations with much mlsgving
and only because our representatives
at Paris have got US so tangled up in
European affairs that it may be worse
+ to come out than to stay in.
Demands Reservations Stand
"We may agree to a change in the
preamble, but I'll the other reserva-
tions will have to be agreed to sub
stantially as they are if the treaty is
to be ratified.
"ThOse Senators who now talk COM
| promise but who voted no must submit
something concrete. They must come
down to brass tacks. They have been
against compromise all the time. With
them it has been tie treaty without
the crossing of IT or the dotting of
an 81 They defeated the league cove
nant. They voted against purely
American interests. When they come
from behind their smoke screen and
say just what they are ready to do to
protect the United States their offers
Of compromise may be considered by
those who are willing to accept an
Americanized covenant and not be-
FORE