Omaha daily bee., 1920-03-13
Lodge Offers Substitute for
Reservation to Article 10
acceptable to ''MiId Reserva-
tiOniStS" and Democrats.
VOTE ON PROPOSITION
EXPECTED NEXT WEEK
Move Made as Step Toward
Harmony Leads Senate in
Opposite Direction by Start
ing Discussion on Changes.

Washington, March IA sub
\ stitute for the Lodge reservation to
article 10, which has stood unaltered
for many weeks as the storm cen
ter of the peace treaty controversy.
was proposed in the senate BY Its
author, Senator Lodge of Mas
sachusetts, the republican leader.
The move described by the repub-
lican managers as a step toward
harmony and compromise at first
led the senate in exactly the oppo-
site direction by starting a discus
sion whether the new draft was
weaker in its terms than the old The
mild reservationists, backed by most
of the republican membership, said
it was not. The republican ire
concilables said it was, and served
notice they would not help adopt it
as they did the original. The demo-
Gratis keeping silent. studied the
proposal with apparent suspicion.
Situation Beclouded.
As a result possibilities of hna!
agreement remained beclouded and
party leaders revised their predic-
tions of an early vote on article 10.
Tonight no one was predicting action
before Monday or Tuesday.
Characterizing the proposed
changes as "the terms of a repub-
lcan capitulation' to the White
House, Senator Mccormick of Illi-
nois, led in the attack of the re-
publican irreconcilab ables. "A set OF
weasel words" was the way Sena-
tor Brandegec. republican, Connecti-
cut, described the compromise pro-
pcsal, while Senator Knox. repub-
lican, Pennsylvania, asserted that 1t
would leave upon the United States
the moral obligation for which
President Wilson has contelded.
Follow Watson's Draft.
In general form the new reserva-
ton follows the language worked
out by Senator Watson of Indiana,
for the republicans. and Senator
Simmons of North Carolina for the
democrats, in their compromise ne
gotiations. For this language 81
democratic votes are understood to
have been promised, but several
last-minute changes in wording,
made by Senator's Lodge and Wat
son before the reservation was pre-
sented, were held to have invalidated
the democratic pledge and new
canvass had not been completed
tonight
On the republican side the de-
lection was not confined to the
irreconcilables alone. Senator Ere
linghuysen of New Jersey, who had
voted for ratification with the or
iginal reservation, declaring on the
floor that he never would take the
substitute, and Senator Wadsworth
of New York, saying he could not
see wherein they had improved on
their original measure. The repub-
lican leaders insisted, however, they
could hold at least 80 votes in kre,
and the democrats who favored the
substitute hope to deliver more than
80 from their side. 1t takes "a to
ratify.
Text of Reservation.
The text of the new reservation
follows:
"The United States assumes no
obligation to preserve the territorial
integrity or political independence
OF any other country by the EN-
ployment of its military naval
forces, its resources or any form OF
economic discrimination, or to in
terfere in controversies between ma
tions whether members of the
league OF not under the provisions
on article 10, or to employ the mill
tary or naval forces of the United
States under any article Of the
treaty for any purpose unless in any
particular case the congress, which
under the constitution has the sole
power to declare war or authorize
the employment of the military or
naval forces of the United States,
shall in the exercise of full liberty of
action, by act, or joint resolution so
provides"