Arizona republican., 1920-03-13
PRESENTS SUBSTITUTE FUR ARTICLE --MOVE DELAYS BALLOT I
Irreconcilables Hold New Reservation Equalization To White House-Demo- crats Regard It With Suspicion
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WASHINGTON, March PA sub- stitute for the Lodge reservation 10 article ten, which has stood unaltereo for many weeks as the storm center of the peace treaty controversy, was pro- posed in the senate today by its ao- thor, Senator Lodge of Massachusetts the republican leader.
 The move. described by the repubii- can managers as d step toward mar nonv and compromise, at first led the senate in exactly the opposite dlrec- ton by starting a discussion whether the new draft was weaker in its scope than the other The milo reservation ist. backed by most of the republican membership, said it was not. me re publican irreconcilables said 1t was ana Served notice they would not help adopt it as they did the original. The demo crats. keeping silent, studied the pro- posal with apparent suspicion
 Vote Expected Next Week
 As result possibilities of final Q oo,raement remained beclouded and nartv Readers revised their predictions of an early vote on article ten.
 Tonight no one was predicting ac- tion before Monday or Tuesday
 Characterizing the proposed changes as "the terms of a republican capltu- lation, to the white house, Senator Mc- Cornick of Illinois led in the attack Of the republican irreconciiables.
 "A set of weasel words" was the way Senator Brandegee, republican, Con- necticut. described the compromise proposal, while Senator Knox, repuo- iican. Pennsylvania, asserted that IL would leave upon the United states the moral obligation for which Presl- dent Wilson has contended-
 Has Support of Democrats.
 a. ton follows the language worked out bv Senator Watson of Indiana for the ren,,blicans and Senator Simmons or North Carolina for the democrats in their compromise negotiations. tor this language, 30 democratic votes are understood to have been promised. but several last minute changes Tn word ing made by Senators Lodge and Wat son before the reservation was pre- sented, were held to have invalldateu the democratic pledge and a new can vass had not been completed tonight
 On the republican side. the defectlon was not confined to the irreconcliables alone. Senator Frelinghuysen of New Jersey. who had voted for ratification with the original reservation. deciar- ing on the floor that he never would take the substitute and Senator Wads- worth of New York saying he could not see wherein they had improved on tnelr original measure. The republican lead CTS insisted, however, they could hoio at least 30 votes in line and the demo crats who favored the substitute hoped to deliver more than 30 from their side It takes 64 to ratify.
 Senator Read today paid his respects to the Louisville Courier Journal. the New York World and other news papers advocating ratification of the peace treaty and said he doubted whether there were 50 editors in the country "who could get a rating of l5 per cent on an examination on the League of Nations
 State Department Silent
 State department officials refused today to deny or confirm published re- ports that France had protested to the American government against Presi- dent Wilson's statement in his recent peace treaty letter to Senator Hitch cock "that militaristic party under the most powerful leadership now was in control in France" In some official and diplomatic quarters it was sug gested that hao the French govern ment taken cognizance of the presi- dents statement it's communication would be the form of an inquiry rather