Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-11-19
Will Accept Reservations With out Requiring Assent of
 Other Powers. C. 0. P. LEADER WILL
 CONSIDER PROPASLS Mild Reservationists Open Way to Agreement-Iab0r and Equal
 Voting Plans Are
 Adopted.

Washington, Nov. 18.-Com promise moves to rescue the peac, treaty from threatened deadloc made such progress today that its friends declared it had more than an even chance for life.
 So far as it had taken definite form tonight, the compromise pro gram called for final vote Thurs day and pointed toward acceptance of the reservations of the foreign rela- tions committee without the re- quirement that they must be assent ed to affirmatively by the other powers.
 The way to compromise was opened by the group of mild reserva- tion republicans, who served notice or the republican and democratic leal- CTS that they would not put up the bars entirely to modification of the committee reservations, but wou | stand out against and defeat the ad- ministration's parliamentary pro- gram.
 1 With this final announcement of how their deciding strength would be used in the closing stages of ths treaty contest, the mild reservation ists retired to the back ground. Ths result was that Republican Leada, Lodge and Democratic Leader Hitca cock faced each other and laid ;i their cards on the table.
 The conference between the tive 1 leaders brought no final decision |. to the language of compromisa ratification, but it did develop al agreement that the democrats would have the opportunity for which tli have fought to secure showdov ! vote on the question of unresery x ratification This vote, MT. LoG said, would be permitted before { roll call on the committee resolutio
 Another result of the conferen was submission to Mir. Lodge tonigl of group of proposed compromiss reservations, with a view to making enough modification in the committee program already approved by the senate majority to enable the demo crats to support the committee reso- lution of ratification. On this point Senator Lodge was said to be insist ent as he desired all compromise ef- forts to be made before the vote CdiflS OIl tHC COIlIIlttCC IACaSuACs
 Labor Qualification.
 Meantime in the senate two noa. reservations were added to the already adopted. The mild reserv tionists supported them as the qualifications which they would h to write into the treaty, but the s ate extended its session far into t evening, voting down numerous Q b CT proposals in an effort to clear way before adjournment for wv tomorrow on the ratification resol tion.
 The two resolutions adopted tod <, related to the labor provisions rl part 13 of the treaty and to voting equally in the league of nations. | The labor qualifications was offer ed by Senator McCumber, republican of North Dakota, and was accepted 54 to 35, with nine democrats sup porting it.
 A proposed substitute by King ol Utah, democrat, which would have excluded the United States uncoLd tionally from the labor proposal was rejected AS to 43, the mild republi- cans joining the administration s-..n tors to override the, votes of the ir reconcilables and nine democrats.
 The proposal relative to voting equality, presented by Lenroot Q Wisconsin, republican, won 55 to 5 on motion to substitute it for less sweeping proposal by McCumbes It then was formally adopted with out roll call. Previously resar vation on the same subject by John son of California, republican, has been rejected 46 to 43, with eight democrats voting for it and the mils reservationists lining up solidly il opposition.
 The wheels of compromise wer started revolving by the mild reser- vation republicans early in the da. when they held conference and de cided on these propositions: That if the democrats voted down the committee resolution of ratification they would sup
 port motion to reconsider, thus ! bringing the resolution back be-
 fore the senate for changes.
 That they would not support
 a motion to sustain the chair in
 any ruling bearing out the ad- | ministration's plan for a sep
 arate resolution of ratification I after the committee proposal
 had been defeated.
 That they were willing to see
 some modification of the pre-
 amble reservation requiring the
 affirmative assent of other na-
 tions to the senate's qualifica-
 tions.
 That any further compromise
 negotiations by the democrats