Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-03-11
TANGLED IN
TREATY DISCUSSION
Pronounced Is Confusion That
|lt Is Agreed to Delay Ratifica-
ftion Vote Until Normal Per-
|ception Returns

Washington. March 10.-Thc peace
atty compromise negotiations enter
a period of fevered uncertainty to-
as the time approached for final
hate action on article ten.
Working desperately for an agree
mt, senators on both sides of the
Lmber confounded the plans of their
'ty leaders and threw the Senate into
n tangle that 1t tacitly was agreed
delay vote for several days in the
pc that all elements might be more
tain Of their ground.
he hopes of the compromise ad-
Gates collapsed and were revived
|irly as the days negotiations pro-
ded In private conferences while de-
e on the floor dragged on without
parent interest or effect. Tonight
conferences continued, with some
ators hopeful and some hopeless OF
outcome but with no one conf
1t Of what might happen.
was the treaty's irreconcilable repub-
IN opponents who started the trouble
demonstrating in militant way
init the decision of some of their
fty leaders to assent to modified
IT of the republican reservation to
Gle ten. SO effective were their rep
entations that the leaders virtually de-
Pd not to offer the new reservation at
his determination sent some of the
81 reservation republicans on the war
h and produced confusion also on the
nocratic side, where senators had Ia
ed several days to line up votes for
republican substitute. Caught in a
ssfire from reservation republicans
reservation democrats. the republican
lers withheld their final decision. but
icated that they probaoTy would pre-
the substitute if assured of enough
nocratic defections to adopt it.
eant'mc disagreement among the dem
bats became more pronounced. partly
a result of meeting in the office of
bator Owen, democrat Oklahoma. at
ch n number of democratic senators
understood to have expressed disap-
val of the course of their party lead
and to have promised active support
the movement to break away from
Fsdent Wilson and accept the best
npromise they could get.
monS some republican advocates OF
npromise il was declared tonight that
democratic votes could be mustered
the article ten substitute and there
re indications that unless the rcpubli
leaders did present it, one of the re-
blican mild reservati tionstS might do
II also was suggested that if the
|uhlicans abandoned it entirely it might
presented by a reservation democrat
Ebile virtually the entire Senate mem
~np was occupied with these ucEo-
lions the article ten reservation tech
|ally was taken up for debate in an
host deserted Senate chamber. But the
fconcilablcS were taking no chances
t the unsettled situation would re-
in stampede, and they got the
pr and kept it, Senators Mccormick,
publican, Of Illinois and Poindexter, re-
blican Of Washington occupying the
ire day with attacks on the treaty and
the recent uttcranccs of President Will
FounterinG the efforts Of the demo-
tic reservationists, Senator Hitchcock
Nebraska, the adninistra tion leader,
nt a busy day in conference with his
leagues, seeking to hold enough in line
balk the acceptance Of distasteful
npromise. He held to his prediction
Rt the compromise movement would
!, though he conceded that consider
g number of democrats were ready
vote with the republicans.