The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-11-14
MILD REsERvATioNisTs AND IN.
REcoNcILAsLEs STAND TO-
oETHER AGAINST DEMOS
REsERvATI0MIsTs HOPEFUL
Preamble Of Reservztionists Requiring
Approval Of Three Great Powers
to Changes Of United States
Passes by Eight Votes


the peace treaty was taken yesterday
leaders, with the backing Of Presi-
dent Wilson. had reaffirmed their In
tention of voting against ratification
II the reservations drawn by the sen
ate majority are adopted.
Ths initial test of strength on the
reservation program Of the foreign re-
latlons committe found the Republi.
cans almost s0lidly behind II, the group
~ mild reservationists who helped kill
the committees amendments and the
irreconcilable group Of the treaty foes
standing together for the first time
since the long treaty fight began.
BY vote OF AZ to 40 the senate
approved after all efforts TO amend
II had failed. the committees preamble
to the reservation group, requiring
that to make the treaty binding. at
least three Of the great powers must
accept the senate qualifications. The
only Republican who did not swing
into line for the proposal was Senator
McCumber OF North Dakota, while
three Democrats, Senators Reed. Mis-
souri,; Gore. Oklahoma and Walsh,
Massa cllusetts, voted with the major
ity.
/ Among those who voted for the pre-
amble were Gronna, North Dakota;
Kellogg and Nelson, Minnesota. and
Sterling, South Dakota.
A-at.~s Ng.r.rnhu. No.th
Johnson, South Dakota; Myers and
Walsh, Montana.
Turn Down Democratic Compounds.
When adjournment was reached, the
first 10 the II reservations was under
debate, and Republican leaders were
claiming they had safe majorities
pledged for the entire group. The mild
reservationists, II was claimed, had
turned down q new Democratic offer
of compromise, while tho irreconcil-
able wing was devising plan Of ac-
ton by which they hoped to defeat
the treaty entirely. The best claim
was that the treaty would be wedged
into q deadlock which In the end
would make compromise inevitable.
The plan to vote against the treaty
and thus deadlock the ratification
fight was declared to have President
Wilson's unqualified support. Senator
Hitchcock of Nebraska, Democrat.
saw the president yesterday for the
first time since Mr. Wilson returned
from his speaking tour, and went over
with him the entire treaty situation In
tho senate.
Afterward. Mr.. Hitchcock said the
executive regarded the committee res
ervations rs obstructive" and the
preamble as Every embarrassing" and
advised the administration senator's to
stand by their guns.
The president was said to have AS
serted an aggressive opposition to res
ervations which would impair the
treaty. but To have shown willing
ness to leave the matter of COM
promise In the hands of the admins
tration senators. to be worked out
reached. MIR. Wilson explained. SEN
ator Hitchcock said, that he had sent
for the administration leader to give
assurance of his support In the con-
templated program and OF his graft
tude over the successful fight against
amendments.
After the White House conference
the Democratic leader declared his
conviction that there would be no
compromise until the deadlock actual.
ly had developed. lie conceded that
NEST of the committee reservations
would he written into the ratification
resolution and that after the latter
had been killed by Democratic votes
an unqualified ratification resolution
also would probably fail Then the
time would be ripe. he declared. for
the senator's favoring ratification
without reservations and those want
ing ratification with reservations to
get together.
Ry leaders of the reservation Re-
rublicans the possibility of such
compromises was emphatically denied.
and II was declared the group had
gone as far as II would 20 In curtail.
ing treaty qualifications. They were
more uncertain as tn what might
happen should the irreconcilahle enc
niles of the treaty adopt the course Of
demanding more drastic reservations
AS the price Of keeping the Republl-
can majority intact.