Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-03-11
PACT SITUATION f.
BADLY TANGLED;
DATE FOR FINAL
VOTE POSTPONED
Treaty Compromise Nego-
tiationS Become So Un-
certain That Action on Ar
tiCIe Ten is Postponed,
DISAGREEMENT AMONG
DEMOCRATS GROWING
Several Administration Sen
atorS Are Understood to
Have Expressed DiSap-
provaI of Party'S Course,


Washington, March 10.-The
peace treaty compromise negotia-
tions entered a period of fevered
uncertainty today as the time APP
preached for final senate action
on Article X.
Working desperately for an
agreement, senators on both sides
of the chamber confounded the
plans of their party leaders and
threw the senate into such tam
gle that it tacitly was agreed to
delay a vote for several days In the
hope that all elements might be
more certain of their ground.
The hopes of the compromise
advocates collapsed and We're re-
vived hourly as the days negotia-
tions proceeded in private confer
ences, while debate on the tloor
dragged on without apparent in
terest or effect. Tonight the con-
ferences continued, with some sem
ators hopeful and some hopeless OF
the outcome, but with no one con-
fident of what might happen. 4-
1t was the treaty's irreconcila-
BILE republican opponents who
started the trouble by remonstrat-
ing in militant way against the
decision OF some of their party
leaders to assent to a modified
draft of the republican reservation
to Article Y, SO effective We're
their representations that the
leaders decided not to offer the
new resolution at all.
This determination sent some of
the mild republican reseryationist5
ON the war path and produced con-
fusion also on the democratic side,
where senators had labored for
several days to line up votes for
| the republican substitute. Caught
! in a crosS-f fire from reservation re-
lpublicans and reservation demo-
Gratis, the leaders withheld their
final decision, but indicated that
tney probably would present the
substitute II assured o. enough
democratic defections to adopt it,
| Meantime the disagreement
among the democrats became more
pronounced, partly as result of a
! meeting in the office OF Senator
| owen, democrat, of oklahoma, at
which a number of democratic sem
ators are understood to have ex-
pressed disapproval of the course
of their party leaders and to have
promised active support to thu,
movement TO break away from
[ President Wilson and accept the
best compromise they could get.
Among some republican advo-
Gates II was declared tonight that
thirty-two democrats could BIS
mustered for the article ten sub
stitute, and there were indications
| that unless the republican leaders
did present 1t, one of the republican
| mild reservationists might do 80.
1t was also suggested that If the re-
publicans abandon 1t entirely, II
might be presented by a reserva-
ton democrat.
While virtually the entire mem
bership was occupied with these
suggestions, the article ten reserva-
ton technically was taken up for
debate in an almost deserted sem
ate chamber But the irreconciia-
bles were taking no chances that
the unsettled situation would re-
suit in a stampede and they got
the floor and kept it, Senators Nc
Cormick, republican, of Illinois.
and Poindexter, republican, OF
Washington, occupying the entire
day with attacks on the treaty and
on the recent utterances Of Presi-
dent Wilson.
! Concerning the efforts of the
democratic reservationists. Senator
Hitchcock Of Nebraska, the admin
istration leader. spent a busy day
in conference with his colleagues.
seeking to hold enough in line to
balk the acceptance of a distasteful
compromise. He held to his predic-
tion that the compromise move
ment would fail, though he con-
ceded that considerable number
of democrats were ready to vote
with the republicans.