The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-09
TREATY READY
FOR SENATORS
AS AMENDED
Will Leave Committee To-
morrow With Four Dras-
tic Reservations.
LODGE MINCED NO WORDS
Refutes Wilson'S Charges That
Committee Did Not
Study League.
Special DespotcA to TEE suS.


peace treaty with the ratification
resolution modified by four drastic
reservations and the committee re-
port authorized by the Committee on
Foreign Relations will reach the
Senate Wednesday. Senator Lodge
(Mass.). announced this tonight.
The report, of which Senator Lodge
ir the author, is now in the hands
of the printer. The subject of the
treaty and the League of Nations
covenant and the reasons which have
impelled the majority OF the Foreign
Relations Committee to withhold ap-
proval from the document will be
dealt with in the report in the frank
est fashion.
Senator Lodge has not minced mat
ters in setting forth for the benefit Of
the whole Senate the findings Of his
committee after its two months
scrutiny of the peace pact and the
analysis OF the League of Nations
features OF the document. The re-
port win not be colorless document,
nor will it disclose anything to Justify
the Presidents repeated assertions
since he started on his westward tour
that the members Of the Foreign Re-
lations Committee have not studied it
with care or applied regardful analysis
to its multifarious provisions.
After Senator Lodge has introduced
the treaty in the Senate and the report
of the committee is made a matter OF
record Senator Harding (ohio) will ad-
dress the Senate on the treaty and
league covenant. This will mark the be-
ginning of the general debate on tho
treaty, which automatically will become
the principal business before the Senate,
displacing the Edge foreign trade cor
poration measure. which is the "un-
finished business"
Majority of Two for Reservations.
The Republican alignment against the
League of Nations covenant now repre-
sents a solid phalanx of forty-nine votes,
q clear majority Of two in the Senate
In favor of three of the four committee
reservations. The wholly acceptable
reservations are the first, dealing with
the right of withdrawal; the third. deal
ing with American complete control
over all questions of internal policy. ana
the fourth. reasserting the invioiabiilty
of the Monroe Doctrine as an American
policy.
This means that every Democratic
vote cast In favor of a reservation Is
SO much clear profit in the final de-
cision. The Democratic defections are
variously estimated at from eight to
twenty.
On the question OF the second reserva-
ton there are only two Republicans who
have expressed irrevocable opposition to
the section in its present form. Even
they are not irreconcilable. and a slight
modification is likely to win them to
the reservationist side But while Sena-
tors Reed (Mo.) and Gore (Okla.), DEM
ocrats, hold to their present intentions
even the debatable second reservation
has forty-nine sure votes, majority OF
the Senate. Senators Reed and Gore
mean to stick fast.
with the advantage along the side
of the reservationists, and the reaction
showing in the Senate as result OF
the Presidents embittered utterances,
the Administration strength In the
Senate to-day sunk to an even lower
level. 1t was not so low. however, that
Senator Hitchcock (Neb.) was not will
ing to proclaim that all the recalcitrants
among the Democrats were getting
ready to weaken and swing into line
| for the unamended treaty. As one
Republican Senator remarked. ''The late
James K Johns or Arkansas had moth
| ing on Hitchcock as a claimer."
simmons Explains Stand.
Senator Simmons IN. c., regarding
| whom 1t was announced Saturday that
he had determined to support reserva-
/, tions, gave an explanation of his posi-
tion in the Senate to-day, rising u
a question of personal privilege. He
said he was not In favor OF the reser-
vations reported out by the Foreign
Relations Committee, but was convinced
that compromise on some sort OF
reservations would be necessary. Con
servative reservations" he called them
| A Senatorial party composed OF Sena-
tors Borah (Idaho), johnson (Cal.)
! and Mccormick iIii.) viii leave Wash
| ington tomorrow for speaking tour
| in the West. All will speak from the
same platform in Chicago Wednesday
After that the course of Senators Borah
and Mccormick will be directed various
ly about the Middle West, while Sena'
tor johnson will follow the itinerar,
given below:
September IL. Thursday evening
Indianapolis Friday noon, City Club
st. Louis; Friday evening, ste Louis
Saturday evening, Kansas City; Mon.
day evening, Des Moines; Tuesday
evening. Sioux Falls; Wednesday even
ing. Sioux City Friday evening
! Duluth; Saturday, Minneapolis and st