The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-05-19
SAYS OPPONENTS
 OF TREATY ARE MISREPRESENTINC
Hitchcock Claims President Has Not Refused to Al low Any Changes. Wilson Approved Five
 Compromise Changes Bitterly Opposed To Those Reservations Offered
 By Lodge.

Washington, D. C., May 19.---7e- peaited statements made by RepuibM- can members of the Senate that the President has refused to accept any change in the League of Nations GOV enant are disproved by the record it. self, asserts Senator Gilbert M. Hitch cock, who led the Democrats in the treaty fight. Senator Hitchcock says that he himself offered five comFro- mise reservations to the peace treaty, and that they were approved by the President.
 Partisan claims that the President has demanded the adoption of the treaty without the dotting of ''T or the crosxzing of "T,r Senator Hitchcock declares, constitute an ex- ample of the campaign misTepresent- ation indulged in by treaty opponents. The Presidents recent letter. said Senator Hitchcock, declared his de- votion to the League of Nations and denounced the Lodge reservations. That is all it did I dencunce them. I will never consent to them and many other Senators never would, and millions of people never would.
 But those Lodge reservations were matched Iby reservations on this Dem ocratic side of the chamber. I had the honor to offer five reservations. and they were endorsed by the Pres ident and they were a tender of com promise. On article Ten I offered a reservation which was a compro- mise. There was some doubt as to whether the President would accept that but we on this side of the aisle were willing to stand for it. You did not accept it. Yet that reservation was drawn by a former Republican President of the United States (Wil- liam IT. Taft), but you refused to ac-
 Y mise; the Republican side offered none You refused ah.''
 Quoting the claim of Senator Knox that the President had kept the coun- try in an alleged state of war for al most a year now because he would not yield one jot or tittae the treaty, Senator Hitchcock said:
 How can a man say a thing of thai sort to the Senate with straight face? The President came fback hert with the e.treaty and delivered it to thu Senate in July. 1919, and the Senate sent it to the Foreign Relations com mittee, of which the Pennsyfvanis Senator, MT. Knox, is a member Tha' cornfittee looked up the treaty with in the four walls of the committe, room for two months, although the. might as well have reported it out il one week Bpt1they kept it there, de laying peace,
 .~T.he Senator from Pennsylvania author of the Knox peace resolution was one of the Senators whose vote. made that outrageous defay possible and when it came into the, Senate il Segyternber 1t was debated until tn 18th of November. 1t had been de tated even before September, and i was talked about for7a all these month and when finally patience ceased t. be a virtue I offered resolution O clotafre to stop debate and the Sen ator from Pennsylvania voted agains it. He did not want to stop debate He was not then afraid of delav''
 For the second time, Senate Hftchcock pointed out, the Senat debated the treaty for weeks, hnalI rejecting it a. short time ago. Sena tor Knox, he said, voted against rati flying in any form.
 ~Yet he now talks about the -Presi dent of the United States keeping tn country in a state of war;" exc1aime Senator Hitchcock, when he was in strumenta1 in confirming that per fectfy outrageous delay. and if he ha had his way we would have been de batting the question even to this day!