Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-03-13
LODGE OFFERS NEW SUBSTITUTE FOR H!S
 ARTICLE < CLAUSE
Possibilities of Agreement, However, Remain Be-
 clOuded
IRRECONCILIABLES IN
 WAY OF ANY ACTION
Democrats judy Proposal With Ap- parent Suspicion and Withhold Decision as to Their
 Plans

Washington, March 12.-~A substi.
 tute for the Lodge reservation te
 article 10, which has stood unaltered
 many weeks as the storm center ot
 the peace treaty controversy, was
 proposed m the senate today by it's author, Senator Lodge of Massachu-
 sets, the republican leader.
 The move. described by the republi
 can managers as a step toward har-
 mohy and compromise, at first led
 the senate in exactly the opposite
 direction by starting discussion whether the new draft was weaker In it's terms than the old. The mild reservationists, backed by most of the republican membership, said ii was not. The republican irreconcila- bles said it was, and served notice they would not help adopt it as they did the original. The democrats. Keeping silent, studied the proposal With apparent suspicion and with held any decision as to what they would do.
 As a result the possibilities of a final agreement remained as be- clouded as ever and party leaders re- vlsed their predictions of an early vote on article 10. It had been hoped to reach roll call today, but toni ght no one was predicting action before Monday or Tuesday.
 Characterizing the proposed changes as "terms of republican equalization" to the White House. Senator Mccormick of Illinois, le l in the attack of the republican ir- roconcilables. "A set of weasel words" was the way Senator Rran- degee. republican, of Connecticutt. described the comnromise proposal. while Senator Knox. republican Pennsylvania, asserted that it would leave upo nthe United States theI moral obligation for which President Wilson has contended.
 Matter of Words.
 In general form the new reserva- tion follows the language worked out bv Senator Watson of Indiana for the republicans and SenatorI Simmons of North Carolina for the democrats in their compromise nego- tiatons. For this language 30 demo- cratic votes are understood to have been promised. but several last min-i ntes chances in wording, made byI Senato Lodge and Watson before the reservation was presented, were held to have invalidated the demo- cratic pledge and new canvass had not been completed tonight.
 On the republican side the defect-I ion was not confined to the irrecon-I cilable alone. Senator Frelinghrysenl of New Jersey. who had voted for of the original reserva- ticn. declaring on the floor that he never would take the substitute and Senator Wadsworth of New York telling his party leaders, he conld not see where in they had simnroved on their original mea sura. The re- publican leaders insisted however they could hold at least 30 votes in line and the democrats who favored the substitute hoped to deliver more than 30 from their side. It takes GA to ratifv.
 McKellar Opposes It.
 In presenting the substitute Sena- tor Lodge declared it did. not alter in any respect the substance of the or weaken the denial of the nations obligations under ar ticle 10. He made the move. he said because he did not feel justified in insistino on mere matter of 
 Only two democrats expressed their oninion on the floor. Senator Smith of Georgia, who has supported the oricinal reservatio declarino him. self for the substitute. and Senator Mcclellan of Tennessee, who have stood consistently with the adminis- | tration forces. announcing his op- position to the new pronosal. It was however. that Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska. the adminjs- ! tration leader. objected to the sub stitute as he had the Watson Sim mons draft, and would make an ef- fort to line up enough democrats to prevent ratification should the be adopted
 Senator Lodges presentation of the substitute apparently took the by surprise and aside from their declaration on the floor. there were many private expressions of their dissatisfaction. They had and successful eXerted pressure during the bipartisan ne, yotiations and during the Watson Simmons negotiations to prevent any of the original Lodge and until today they apparently believed they had con- 1inced him that he should not put in he new substitute.