Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-03-07
PRESIDENT STANDS
PAT ON ARTICLE X.
Declines to Participate in Plan to
Effect Compromise on
Reservation.
READY TO END STRUGGLE
Treaty's Friends and Foes Say
They Will Bring Senate
Fight to Close.
READY TO END STRUGGLE
tBy Associated pre-.l


WASHINGTON. March 6.-The move
to bring President Wilson actively
into the peace treaty compromise ne
Gotiations, go. such setback ut tho
White House today that the trrecon-
cilao!e opponents OF ratification again
pronounced the treaty dead and gave
notice that they would move Monday
TO bring the debate speedily TO an ond
OFFICIALS close to the President de-
clared that Democratic Senators al
ready were fully advised Of tho atti-
tude OF the executive and that pro-
poSais should be addressed; not to M.
sachusetts. tho Republican leader in
i wiso, scr senate ts. IT. vas not revealed
the requested conference with Senator
Simmons, of North Carolina, represent
ing the Senate Democrats, In a final
House officials intimated that they
thought further efforts to inquire the
Presidents views would be supertiu-
Gus.
Causes disappointment
The development caused unconcealed
disappointment among the Republican
ana DemoGrat!c Senators working for
tons. Some on both sides openly de-
ahead with the effort at aEreement
and then. If ratification were accom-
pliShed. let the President decide after
ward whether he would accept Or re-
iect it
Among tho irreconcilables. however.
II confidently was asserted that no
such An uncertain basis, and that II the
declarations OF tho White House Of
iicials reflected the view OF the Presi-
vote was only SO. much time wasted.
The notice OF their intention to force
hnai action was given in the Senate
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who eaid he would move Monday to
take up at once the knotty problem OF
article "A \. which had been put over
might be secured while the Senate
worried Its way through the long list
o. collateral reservations.
Are Ready to Vote.
Senator Borah,s proposal at once
Nebraska, the Democratic leader. who
said he and his colleagues wore ready
60 vote at an early date" and that
views OF tho President before taking
t IN o action -, Senator Lodge however.
to reach Article y. was to proceed
with tho program rs it now stands.
SIX reservations besides that relat-
posed Of. tho Senate having acted
during the day on the seventh OF the
list us. OF mo fourteen adopted last Novem-
that eNcmptinS tho United States from
paying expenses Of the league Of ma
lions without congressional action.
and it was rcadopted, &C to IS, after a
Proviso had been added excluding
from the stipulation tho office eX-
penscs. and salary OF the secretary
general. Senator Kellogg. Republican,
Minnesota, offered the provso. which
had been agreed to in the bipartisan
conference. and it was accepted, so to
IL, with both Republican and Demo-
cratic leaders supporting it.
Glass Not Acting for Others.
In discussing the request for a con-
terence between the President and
Senator simmons, White House Of
hcials pointed out that Senator Glass,
democrat, Virginia. recently had talk
cd with Mr.. Wilson. who on that occa-
sion: they said. made clear his views
on Article Y.
Later in the day. however. Senator
Glass denied on the Senate floor that
he had como to the White House as an
emssary OF Democratic Senators. whilo
many OF his colleagues asserted pri-
vately that they had not received from
i'm any report that they considered
hnal or definite as to what tho Presl-
dent would accept as compromises