Arizona republican., 1920-02-08
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Senator Hitchcock Makes Letter from the President Public; Wilson Afraid Reservations Will Chill El1rODe
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 WASHINGTON, Feb. "A letter from President Wilson renewing his objection to some features of the peace treaty reservations framed by the senate republican leaders furnished the basis of earnest discussion today in a conference of democratic senators called to consider what course the treaty's friends should pursue when it again comes before the senate next week
 The only decision reached was to cooperation in the parliamentary action necessary to reopen ratification and to work for an acceptable compromise on reservations. Just what compro- mise should be considered acceptable was debated in the light of varying in- terpretations of the presidents letter, but there was no attempt to frame a program
 Strikes at Reservations
 Striking at the republican reServa- ton on article ten and postponed sub stitutes, MT. Wilson wrote that any reservation which sad that "the Unit ed States assumes no obligation under such and such an article unless or ex- cept" would be likely to "chill'' the re- lationship between thi Scountry and other powers. A substitute article ten reservation containing this language, under consideration by the recently disbanded bipartisan compromise committee the president wrote, was very unfortunate" in form though he agreed with it's substance The let ter was written on January 26 While bipartisan negotiations were in prog ress and before publication of the let ter of Viscount Grey, former British ambassador to the United States on the acceptability of the republican res ervations- It was addressed to Senator Hitchcock, democratic leader. who laid it before the conference today.
 1n T lfzo " conference and in private discussion among senators regarding the probable effect of the communication on the treaty's chances of ratification Some interpreted the letter as a reiterat1on of the presidents views previously ex- pressed while others professed- to see in it a tendency toward compromise, comparing it with former utterances, these senators pointed out that it con- +ained no statement that he considered the language quoted as nuilifying the treaty or constituting recognition.
 Senator Hitchcock declared no change in the democratic attitude was indicated
 The democratic forces remained de- termined, he said, not to accept the re- publican article ten reservation un- less modified.
 Tn some quarters significance was seen in the fact that the letter of the president was written four days be- fore the bipartisan negotiations col lopsed, following refusal of the re- publicans to consider modification. of the reservations on article ten and the Monroe doctrine Besides article ten, the president touched on the reservations respecting withdrawal and mandatories. saying he had no objection to qualifications on these subjects.
 Letter Made Public
 The letter was made public by Mir. Hitchcock in the following statement: 1.-The presidents letter dated Jan uary 26 was called forth by a letter which I wrote him on the evening of the day in which the bipartisan con- ference in Senator Lodges office came so near to agreeing to a reservation on article ten
 My letter to him was as follows: !" My Dear MT. President:
 The conference between Lodge and his three associates and myself and four democratic senators has now reached the sixth day.
 ".On article ten the effort to reach a compromise has now reached stage where both sides are seriously consid ering proposition as indicated by the inclosed clipping.
 I've resume consideration of it to- morrow afternoon.
 Yours truly,
 tsG. H. HITCHCOCK. January 9, 1920' The clipping referred to in the
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