The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-11-17
HITCHCOCK POINTS
|0UT DIFFICULT TIES
OF SEPARATE PEACE
Administration Senate
Leader, Still Full OF
Fight, Declares Peace
Treaty Is Not Dead

A~0&y 80 VS. ~~0&
Washington, Nov. is,~-The treaty
! is not dead. according 10 Senator
Hitchcock. the administra ton senate
i tea dor. notwithstan riding the declara
+ ton of Senator Lodge. the leader of
tho opposition 10 the contrary.
] Senator Hitchcock showed him
self today 10 be full of fight in views
j nc expressed which practically sum
med up the situation
When Senator Lodge said the
/ treaty was dead" Mr. Hitchcock
said he meant that his resolution
/ will he beaten. Perhaps hr thinks
that this would heat the treaty, but
+! it will not When his resolution is
beaten we. can offer resolution of
ratification ourselves IL that he
beaten then we may get compro-
mise under which the treaty may go
through. II a compromise he impos-
sible then there wifi he new situa-
ton but there is certainly none to-
day
III there be no compounds ard
m treaty 1t is manifest that the sit
uation then created will he had. A
condition of no treaty would demon
alize the plan that was made for a
treaty Of peace with the cooperation
OF the United States. II would cause
a dislocation of tho whole peace set
| tlement. II would weaken immeas-
urabIy the efforts TO bring about tho
1- 80 ~ Il L..
that respect failure of the United
States to act would have an ex~
tremelv adverse effect on conditions
of course pretiicated on the coop
Grafton IF the United States and as !
have said the absence of the United
States would disorEanize and disrupt
tho well r1stured p!an 70 restore
pence to tho world by means Of the
present treaty.
Difficulties Of Separate Peacc
II think there would be several
grave difficulties In the event It would
be necessary TO make treaty with
Germany alone. In the FIRST place.
the present treaty was @xacted OF
! Germany by force: II we proposed
move TO nerosfa tr~a treary WIN Ger
vention would be eaua ts Force
would apparently he out If the cues
ton, We have onAv about 1000 OF a
military force I'M Eurone today and
that under circumsta noes Of grave
disagreement would he, simply no
force at all 1t is therefore nbvious
that thu terms that We would he able
10 get from GERMANY II 4 separate.
neace treaty would simply be those
that Germany would he willing to
agree TO. Germany agreed To nay
certain amounts Of damages While
that is true. unless Germany agreed
To our terms We would he obliged
to give MP the ships We have taken
from her 100000 or 100000 tonnage
Tbs present treaty ba.wse,y.e,,. safe
suards all that -
Another difficulty would he this.
We have. say $500 on0. eco worth IT
German citizen property in this cour-
try, II vas the treaty that provided
we could use that money 70 pay the
claims of our citizens against Ger
many But without the present treaty
We could not enforce that obligation
on the part Of GERMANY. without
new treaty or one to which German
would agree fhe property ths: belongs
here To German citizens must he paid
over to them. That is however, only
sorsfe ef the diMculties that would
present themselves " IL became neces-
sary To negotiate a treaty with Ger
MANY
No one car predict what the alta
tude of GERMANY would ne towards
the ohliEationse she is under hyg the
treaty now before the senate II that
treaty is ahsoiutel, defeated II il
certain. however, that what Germany
has agreed to do wss forced hy thu
armies OF the allies and of the United
States What Germany would dc+ ii
that obligation inrosed by force ts
eliminated no one can tell. That ele-
ment of uncertainty. however. Of it.
self presents one OF the most impoe-
tant OF the difficulties in approaching
the subject of a new treaty"
Senator Hitchcock,s whole attitude
is ono OF fightinE for the treaty to
the last ditch. From what he and
other senator's said today he viii take
advantage o.. every step of parliA-
mentary usage In, his power The
fact that he commented today on /,
possible compromise shows again that
If the Lodge resolution ii beaten and
his own substitute is beaten then
there vii, be sArne YER, intricat.
work by the administration leader TO
secure'a COMPROMISE,
Made No Predictions.
Mr.. Hitchcock, how ever. today con-
tented himself with plain stata-
ment Of the situstion today and for
the immediate future. He made nc
predictions az fotthe success OF his
own substitute ,resolutions or as to
the fare Of efforts at compr omIse.
He did not desire 10 speak of o.
separate peAce with ,Germany except
in the general terms he used today.
II was evident. however. from hts
expressions and the, force he gave To-
the difficulties In separate treaty
that he does not much relish the idea A
He spoke If 1t ~ possibility onlv
that could be discussed only after all
other remedies had died and were
buried
He thinks the treaty,in some ssh a. pc
that may be accountable to the Ad-
mi nittraticn stili very live issue, He
seems to he com United tn the idea
that II would She useless to attempt
a separate treaty with Germany nm.
less the United States had the fight-
ing force on the xfoundeto force Ger
many to 3 stand by the obligations
which she agreed to- under the pres I
emit treaty of peace. @4I
Mr.. Hitchcock could, mot confirm,
the report that Senator JInderw0od