Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1919-08-16
|EACE TREATY
DUT IN Z WEEKS,
| WILSON IS TOLD
% Republicans Ready to
Vote for Pact if Res
ervations Are Made.
Totes TO Be TAKEN At
| WHITE HOUSE COUNCIL

Washington, Aug. i5.-Negctia-
tIons between democratic and re-
publican senators, looking to ratifi-
cation of the peace treaty with re-
servations reached a more definite
stage, today, while President Will
son and the foreign relations COM
mittee were getting together on un-
precedented measures to give the
public all the details Of their dis
cussions of the treaty next Tues
day at the White House.
Senator Hitchcock, Nebraska,
ranking democrat of the foreign
relations committee. told President
Wilson, today, he believed the peace
treaty will be reported out by the
committee within ten days or two
weeks.
Democratic leaders, feeling out
sentiment on the republican side,
were told that the treaty never
could be ratified without quailfica-
tion, but that more than twenty
republicans wanted to see It ac-
cepted In the near future with
reservations along the line of those
agreed on by seven senators of that
party.
biTUATI0N BEFORE PRESIDENT.
This information came from members
If the group Of seven after compile
ion Of a poll begun Wednesday. on re
feipt of the first democratic overtures.
[rhe twenty needed by the democrats
TO make the necessary ratification
r1ajority of sixty-four had not accepted
he proposed program in exact form, il
WAS asserted, but had given their as
sent TO its general provisions.
Afterward Senator Hitchcock, the
democratic leader. went to the White
House and is understood to have laid
] he whole senate situation before the
president. He made no formal an
nouncement after the conference, but
Indicated that the administration stands
for unreserved ratification Of the treaty.
Some of the seven republicans, how
ever. insist they have had information
assuring democratic assent to their
program.
Lodge Has New Reservations.
A draft of reservations was shown
to several republicans during the day
BY Senator Lodge. the republican leader.
1t is understood to cover the four
points embraced in the program agreed
on by the seven senator's and to include
n lso provision that appointment OF
tlt Aultl lSpi VIZ LIE
league council must have senate APP
proval The other four provisions re-
late to the Monroe doctrine. withdraw
al from membership. jurisdiction over
purely domestic questions and the right
of congress to declare war under article
10 Of the league covenant.
Predicts Defeat of Reservations.
The administration forces are not
now disturbed about possible reserya-
tions. said Mr.. Hitchcock. adding:
we will cross that bridge when We
get to it.
The thing now is to get the treaty
reported as quickly as possible. The
fight in the committee is on textual
II may be reported with
some amendments and then they will
be voted down in the senate, one after
another In my opinion
Would Give Germany New Chance.
Senator Hitchcock said the president
took the position that textual changes
in the treaty are absolutely impossible"
and cannot be accepted. as it would
mean the amendments would have to be
acceptable to Germany and the treaty
could not be forced on Germany by mil
itary action. The same condi-
tions, he said, does not ex-
ist now, Germany having ratified the
treaty, ending the state of war that ex-
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