Bisbee daily review., 1919-08-17
WILSON FIRMLY
 AGAINST PEACE
 TREATYCHANGE
Senator Hitchcock Points Out That Failure to Ratify Is To Send Terms Back to Hun
 Without Military Protection

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.-As se-
 quel to the White House conference
 yesterday between President Wilson
 and Senator Hitchcock, administra- ! tion leader in the senate treaty fight, it became apparent today that the ad-
 ministration forces would center their present effort on bringing the treaty
 out of the committee and defeating any textual amendments, leaving in
 the background any negotiations rela- tive to final ratification with reserva- tions.
 Meantime, Republican senators de-
 clared one result of the negotiations
 of the last few days and Senator Hitchcock's statement after he left the
 president had been to stiffen resist ance to any attempt at unreserved ratification and to increase the deter imitation of those who want the treaty amended outright They asserted yes terdays' poll had shown opposition to the Shantung provisions growing stronger in the face of the explana- tory statements from Tokio, and from the White House.
 The reported position of the presi- dent that any textual amendments would send the treaty back for rene gotiationN with Germany without any military force to compel acceptance of the American demands was taken as largely forecasting the trend of the amendment fight. It was understood that feature would be emphasized by Senator Hitchcock in a speech he is expected to make next week in the senate. The fact that Senator Hithc- cock did not quote the president as standing uncompromisingl against reservations for the same reason was pointed out by some of tbe Republi- cans, who under the leadership of Senator McNary, Republican, Oregon, have agreed on set of reservations. They declared all the elements of the situation bore out their claims of Wednesday, that they had information insuring Democratic assent to their program.
 Among the group there was some favorable comment during the day on the new set of reservations shown to Republican senators by Republican Leader Lodge. In the same quarter 1t was pointed out that should Lodge definitely give his support to a reser- vation program acceptable to a large number of senators, the logical out come might be draft of reservations by him would become the rallying point of the Republican reservation forces. I
 Considerable interest was aroused by a statement of MT. Hitchcock that the president had laughingly suggest | ed sending Senators Lodge and Knox 1 to negotiate any future treaty with ] Germany should the present one fail | being amended. Republican l members of the foreign relations com | mittee who are fighting for amend | ments said they welcomed the sug- gestion as challenge"
 The amendment proposal which the | leaders on both sides expect to de 1 velop the greatest strength in the sen ate contemplates striking from the | treaty the provision giving Japan con- | trol in the Chinees province of Shan | tung.
 Advocates of the Shantung amend | ment declare Senator Lodge will line | up with them on the proposal. They | also assert he will support several | other textual amendments in the com mittee, but the reservation group are inclined to think he will not