Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-14

| " nave ueCIdEeu lHe committee COuIQ
not be expected TO pass inteligently
on all the obligations embodied In
! the treaty until the other treaties be-
ing negotiated at Versailles were be-
| fore it,
| Senator Hitchcock told the commit
tee that virtually every senator has
made up his mind how he would vote,
and that the country wanted tho
treaty disposed of one way or another
Shantung Not in Discord.
Although discussions about reser-
vations have centered on the league
covenant, the Shantung provision has
not been lost sight OF by opposition
senators and 1t was said today that an
amendment covering IL would be
urged both in the committee and in
the senate. 1t is expected that Sem
ator Fall also will urge an amend-
ment striking out all reference to
American representation on the vari-
Gus commissions to be set up to su-
pervise reconstruction in Europe.
What amendments or reservations
will be attached to the treaty IN COM
mittee Is said by members to depend
largely on Chairman Lodge The re-
publicans have q majority of three,
but one OF them. Senator McCumber,
Gratis against any radical amendment.
Should the chairman also accept
reservation program similar to the
McCumber-McNary plan. the anti
amendment group would be In the
majority. ~
Estimates of members as to how
long the committees would require to
consider amendments and reserva-
tiops differed widely. Some thought
a report might be possible within two
weeks. Tomorrow sections other than
the league covenant are to be taken
up under present plans. the members
having many proposals for change In
the economic and political provisions.
What may have been the part play
ed by the White House In the negotia-
tions between democratic senators and
the reservation republicans, has not
been revealed. Members of the latter
group who have talked with President
Wilson have been confident that he
would be willing in the end to accept
such a program, but publicly there
has been no change in his stand for
unreserved ratification.
Hitchcock"s Warning.
Senator Hitchcock. Nebraska DEM
ccrat, of the committee, WAS under.
unless there was early committee
action IN attempt might DO made to
force vote on the treaty In the sem
ate.
Chairman Lodge ard others wero
understood to have expressed assent
te the proposal to hasten the commit
tees consideration, but Senator Fail.
republican, New Mexico, was said to
have taken the position that any pre-
cipitate action would be impossible.
During the debate. which was IN
executive session, 1t was reported
members had bitter arg nent.
Senator Fall, republican, declaring
that Senator Hitchcock had ques-
toned the motives of Tho republicans
and made unfair reflections ON the
committees course Senator Hitch
cock was said to have leplial with
equal vigor.
II was said Senator Hitchcock told
the committ-e there was an incraas-
ing demand throul'hoI: the country
n = t'e tr.arY be disposed If AMI
that he believed virtually every sena-
tor already had determined how he
wuuLi vote.
Senator Lodge is understood to
have replied that he also favored
action as soon as practicable, but that
80 far there had been no avoidable
delay in the treaty's consideration.
Senator Fall thought that to hasten
ratification would be unwise, a. set
Elements to which the United States
would be asked to assent we're to he
determined in other treaties nUt yet
III the hands og tlia senate
The discussion in the committee
was interpreted as related to the in
sistence for action by the group CT
republican senator's who have agreed
on a reservation prog III which they
believe will have the ultiinain assent
Of the democratic leaders. They also
expect that in their .,lth they will
bave the cooperation uf Char pan
Lodge.