Bisbee daily review., 1920-03-11
TREATY MIDDLE
 BALkS LEADRS
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Working desperately for an agree ment, Senators on both sides of the chamber confounded the plans of their party leaders and threw the senate lu- to such a tangle that it tacitIy wuo agreed to delay vote for several days in the hope that all elements might be more certain of their ground.
 The hopes of the compromise advo- oates collapsed and were revived hour ly as the days negotiations proceeded in private conferences, while debate on the floor dragged on without appar- ent interest OF erect. Tonight .ne conferences continued, with some sen ators hopeiul and some hopeless of the outcome, but with no one confident Of what might happen.
 It was the treaty's irreconcilable Republican opponents who started the trouble by remonstrating in a militant way against the decision Of some of their party leaders to assent to a mod flied draft Of the Republican reserva- tion to article ten. So effective were their representations, that the leaders decided not to offer the new resolution at all.
 This determination sent some of the mild reservation Republicans on the warpath and produced confusion also | on the Democratic side, where sena | tors had labored for several days to i line up votes for the Republican sub Stitute. Caught in a cross fire from | reservation Republicans and reserva tion Democrats, the leaders withheld their final decision but indicated that they probably would prese-- t;le sub i stitute if assured of enough Democra, | defections to adopt it.
 Meantime disagreement among ths | Democrats became more pronounced | partly as a result of meeting in tho i office of Senator Owen, Democrat, Ok
 lahoma, at which a number of Demo | cratic senators are understood to have
 expressed disapproval of the course O 1 their party leaders and to have prom iSed active support to the 1l;ovemen | to break away from President Wlisoi
 and accept the best compromise Jne. l could get.
 Among some Republican advocate,
 of compromise it was declared tonigh that 32 Democratic votes could be mus tered for the article ten substitute, an, there were indications that unless tn,
 Republican leaders did present it, on'
 of the Republican mild reservationisti !, might do so. It also was suggested
 that if the Republicans abandon 1t en
 tirely. it might be presented by a res ervation Democrat.
 While virtually the entire member
 ship was occupied with these sugges
 lions the article ten reservation tech nlcally was. taken up for debate in al
 almost deserted senate chamber Bu the irreconcilables were taking Il,
 chances that the unsettled situation
 would result in a stampede and the.
 got the floor and kept it, Senators Nc
 Cormick, Republican. Illinois. an
 Poindexter Republican, Washington occupying the entire day with attack
 on the treaty and on the recent utter
 ances of President Wilson.
 1 COuntering the efforts of the Demo
 cratic reservationists. Senator Hitcl |, cock of Nebraska, the administration leader, spent busy day in conferenc with his colleagues, seeking to hol enough in line to balk the acceptanc
 of a distasteful compromise. He hel to his prediction that the compromis movement would fail, though he COT
 ceded that considerable number c ! Democrats were ready to vote with tn
 Republicans.