The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1919-10-24
VOL. XXXII.
RESERVATIONS TO
MARK PEACE TREATY
Administration Leaders Are
Beaten-Would Accept
Compromise.

Washington. Oct. 21.-The admin
istrations fight to bring about rati-
flcation of the peace treaty with out
reservations completely collapsed to-
day.
Faced by the realization that Re-
publican Leader Lodge has enough
votes pledged for his reservation pro-
gram to secure its adoption, Demo-
cratic senators now are urging that
overatures be made to the Republic
can side in an effort to get the best
they can in the way of reservations
which will not mean the rejection of
the treaty.
Although Senator Lodge has def
nitely announced that the time for
compromise has passed, the support
ers of the President still cling to the
hope that they may be able to effect
some changes in the reservation pro-
gram which will save the treaty from
reservations which the President in
his speeches declared would cut the
heart out of the league covenant"
This hope may not be realized. for
one of the reservations which Sena-
tor Lodge declares his fifty-five sem
ators will support is the very one the
President denounced in his Salt Lake
speech.
Hitchcock Faces Revolt.
The first step toward the collapse
of the administration fight came this
morning when a number of Demo-
cratic senators were called together
by Seantor Hitchcock to confer with
the Democratic members of the For
eign Relations Committee upon the
policy which those members should
follow in the important meeting of
the committee which has been called
for tomorrow morning. AT this meet
ing the Lodge program, embracing
about fourteen reservations. will be
submitted to the committee, and in all
probability, adopted by a majority
vote.
When the Democratic conference
convened. Senator Hitchcock was i'm
msdiately faced by a revolt among
the senators of his own party who
flatly told him they would refuse to
follow his program of voting to kill
the treaty If reservations are adopted
by majority vote of the Senate.
These senator's informed Senator
Hitchcock in plain language that they
did not believe it would be either wise
or polite to make any move that
would not give their votes to such a
program.
Lodges Figures Correct.
1t was mentioned in the conference
that neither Senators Pittman, of Ne
vada, nor Chamberlain. of Oregon;
both of whom were absent, would sup
port such a program, while no other
names were given. unmistakable evil
dence was presented to Senator Hitch
cock to the effect that such a pro-
gram could not be carried out.
Senators in the conference declar-
ed they believed Senator Lodges fig
ures to be absolutely correct; namely,
that forty-nine Republicans and six
Democrats will vote for his reserva-
tions. This being true, only nine
more votes would be needed to bring
about ratification, and the Democrat
ic senators informed Senator Hitch
cock they were quite sure that more
than nine Democrats would vote for
ratification on the final roll call
The position of the "revolters"
against the Hitchcock program was
that it was useless longer to carry
ON a fight which can have but one
ending, and that the best course Tor
them to pursue was. to join in the
fight for reservations and make the
best deal with the majority that they
could.
Senator Hitchcock refused to be
entirely convinced of the wisdom OF
such plan and left the conference to
dispatch a letter to Admiral Grayson
einforming him that there was no ne
cessity of "bothering the President
now" with any matters connected
with the treaty. Admiral Grayson
was advised in the letter that within
two weeks or ten days 1t might be-
come necessary to consult with the
President and obtain his advice as to
what the Democrats in the Senate
should do in the event the reserva-
lions are adopted.
A new solution of the vexing Shan
tung problem was proposed today by
Senator Johnson, of California, in tine
form OF an amendment, which he VIII
6ffer in the Senate. The amendment