The Washington herald., 1920-01-15
LODGE TREATY
TOPASS THIS
MONTH, BELIEF
Non-Partisan Observers See
Reservations Adopted
Without Hitch.
PRESIDENT WILL YIELD
Senators Feel He Will Not
Refuse to Promulgate
Pact.

Certain Senators who carefully are
following the treaty situation. and
who are sufficiently detached from the
partisan fight to be able to see
clearly, express the opinion that the
treaty, with substantially the Lodge
reservations. will be adopted by the
Senate the latter part of the present
month.
They believe the President will
yield. While he may be opposed to
part or all of the reservations. these
Senators believe his opposition will
not be carried to the point of re-
fusaI to promulgate the treaty. They
do not think the Presidents jackson
Day statement stands in the way OF
such action.
Must Keep Faith.
The President having negotiated the
treaty finds he must be its advocate.
In good faith to himself and the al
lies, he must fight for the approval
OF the treaty as it came from Yer
sailles. The representatives Of the
other powers that participated in the
treaty negotiations urged the ap-
proval of the document upon their
respective governments.
The group of Senators whose views
are summarized above do not believe
any power seriously will object to any
reservation which now seems likely OF
adoption. A refusal by any power to
accept a specific reservation would
raise a distinct issue between that
power and the American Senate, which
would be too unfortunate to be per-
mitted to happen. Thus, the reserva-
tions which seem likely of adoption,
however well they may or may not
better protect American interests, are
not such as to render nugatory the
work OF the peace conference.
Non-PartEsans Get Busy.
An effort to bring about non
partisan action looking toward
ratification of the peace treaty by
compromise was started yesterday
by Senators Kenyon. Of Iowa, Re-
publican. and owen, of Oklahoma.
Democrat
These Senators have undertaken to
call a conference of all friends of
the treaty without respect to party.
for the purpose of seeing whether 1t
will be possible to agree on reserva-
tiOls which sixty-four Senators may
be willing to support
Senator Kenyon agreed to name
eight Republican Senators who will
participate in such a conference,
and Senator Owen expected to sup
ply eight Democratic Senators who
will do likewise. 1t is planned to
have these sixteen Senators formu-
late the call for the conference and
to direct it's activities along lines
that might lead to a compromise.
Senators Kenyon and Owen decided
it would be better not to have Sena-
tors Lodge, Hitchcock and Under
wood take part in the conference.
The presence of these Senators. they
explained, might complicate the eff
forts toward a compr omise by in
jecting partisanship and rivalry into
the situation.
The leadership contest between
Senators Hitchcock and Underwood
is delaying all negotiations between
the ratifcationists of both parties.
This contest is to be settled at the
Democratic conference today. Re
publican and Democratic Senators
alike have agreed to hold of any
definite steps toward agreeing on
reservations until it is known
whether Senator Hitchcock or Sena-
tor Underwood is to be the minority
leader.