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LODGE ISSUES
49,, TREATY Def
Bitter EnderS" Blamed by
Hitchcock For Stand.
THEY WILL ANSWER TODAY
The Democrats Must Take Article x
and Monroe Doctrine Reservation
Without a Change.

Without a Change.
Washington, Jan. 21.-No chahGe III
the reservation affecting article ten,
of the league of nations covenant, or
the Monroe Doctrine provision OF the
peace treaty will be acceptable IT, the
Republicans.
senator Lodge, Republican leader,
SO informed Senator Hitchcock ohH
other members of the informal Demo-
cratic committee which has been con-
ferring with Senator Lodges commit
tee in an effort to reach a compro-
mise on the treaty.
Senator Lodges statement was Tor
mulated after his conference Satur"
day with Senators Borah, Idaho; John
son, California, and other Republican
senators opposing the treaty.
Immediately after the statement
was presented the bipartisan confer
ence adjourned. Senator Hitchcock
and his associates retiring for a pri-
vate conference. They will make their
reply to Senator Lodge today.
Senator Hitchcock issued this state
ment:
when the conference assembled
Senator Lodge advised the senator's
present he had been called into a
meeting by certain Republican senat-
orS and for that reason had not been
able to attend the last conference Fri
day. He regretted to say he found II
impossible to resume the conference
for compromise except upon the I'M
Outstanding no change shall be made
in the reservations on article ten, or
on the Monroe Doctrine. The Demo-
cratic members retired for private
conference and will make their reply
20 Senator Lodge this morning.
"The conference up to the time It's
meetings were interrupted had ten
tatively agreed upon the preamble ana
all sections of reservations except that
relating to article ten, the Monroe
doctrine and one or two minor matters
and an agreement was apparently also
consummated on article ten, when ad-
iournment suddenly came, followed by
the intervention Of irreconciliable Re
publicans."
Senator Lodge said:
81 have only this to say about the
committee meeting That l said 20
the committee there is a very strong
feeling among many senators against
any change in the Lodge reservations.
Either in words or in substance and
l thought it only fair to say now what
l have already said in public, there
can be no compromise of principle and
it would be impossible to secure, in
my judgment, two-thirds of the senate
if any change was attempted in such
articles as two and i've, those relat-
ing to article ten and the Monroe Doc
trine, l said this was mere statement
of the situation"
The text of the Monroe Doctrine re-
servation, framed by the senate for
eign relations committee, follows:
"The United States will not submit
to arbitration or to inquiry by the as
sembly or by the council of the league
of nations, provided for in said treaty
of peace, any questions which in the
Judgment of the United States depend
upon or relate to its long established
policy, commonly known as the Mon
roe Doctrine; said doctrine is to be
interpreted by the United States alone
and is hereby declared to be wholly
outside the jurisdiction of said league
of nations and entirely unaffected by
any provision contained in the said
treaty of peace with Germany
Se7 MilIionaires in Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia, Jan. 27.-Pennsylvania
is the residence Of S97 millionaires,
according to the United States income
tax report for 1917, which IS nearing
completion. New York is first, with
1888; Pennsylvania second; Nevada,
where they make 1t and move else
where 70 spend 1t, has none.