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PACT COMPROMISE
SEEMS INEVITABLE.
MILD REsERvATloNlSTs AND IR.
REcoNcILABLEs STAND TO-
GETHER AGAINST DEMOS
REsERvA7I0NISTs HOPEFUL
Preamble of Reservationists Requiring
Approval of Three Great Powers
to Changes of United States
Passes by Eight Votes

washington. NOV. O. ne llISt al
| firmative step toward qualification OF
the peace treaty was taken yesterday
| by the senate, after administration
leaders, with the backing of Presi-
| dent Wilson, had reaffirmed their in
tention of voting against ratification
IF the reservations drawn by the SEN
| ate majority are adopted.
The initial test of strength on the
reservation program of the foreign re-
lations COMMITTEE found the Republi-
cans almost solidly behind it, the group
of mild reservationists who helped kill
the committees amendments and the
irreconcilable group of the treaty foes
standing together for the first time
since the long treaty fight began.
By vote of 4S to 40 the senate
approved, after all efforts to amend
it had failed, the committees preamble
to the reservation group, requiring
that to make the treaty binding, at
least three of the great powers must
accept the senate qualifications. The
only Republican who did not swing
iHlU liuc lOI Tic pioPoSui wac eoShN'OA
McCumber of North Dakota, while
three Democrats, Senators Reed, Mis-
souri,; Gore, Oklahoma; and Walsh,
Massachusetts, voted with the major
ity.
Among those who voted for the pre-
alnble were Gronna, North Dakota
Kellogg and Nelson, Minnesota, and
Sterling, South Dakota.
Against-McCumber North Dakota;
Johnson, South Dakota; Myers and
Walsh, Montana.
Turn Down Democratic Compromise.
When adjournment was reached, the |
first 70 the IA reservations was under
debate, and Republican leaders were |
claiming they had safe majorities
pledged for the entire group. The mild |
it was claimed, had |
turned down a new Democratic offer
Of compromise, while the irreconcil-
able wing was devising plan of ac-
ton by which they hoped to defeat
the treaty entirely. The best claim
was that the treaty would be wedged
into q deadlock which In the end
would make compromise inevitable.
The plan to vote against the treaty
and thus deadlock the ratification
fight was declared to have President
Wilson's unqualified support. Senator
Hitchcock OF Nebraska, Democrat,
saw the president yesterday for the
'irst time since Mr.. Wilson returned
rom his speaking tour, and went over
With him the entire treaty situation in
he senate.
Afterward, Mr.. Hitchcock said the
Executive regarded the committee res
,rvations as obstructive" and the
preamble as "very embarrassing" and
Idvised the administration senators to
tand by their guns.
The president was said to have as
erted an aggressive opposition to res
rvations which would impair the !
reaty, but to have shown willing
ess to leave the matter of a COM
romise in the hands of the admins
ration senators, to be worked out
fter the deadlock stage had been
cached. Mr. Wilson explained, Sem
tor Hitchcock said. that he had sent
Or the administration leader to give :
ssurance of his support in the con-
,mplated program and of his graft !
Ide over the successful fight against +
After the White House conference I
lie Democratic leader declared his t
)nviction that there would be no b
,mpromise until the deadlock actual O
had developed. He conceded that +
ost of the committee reservations
ould be written into the ratification 4
and that after the latter
i'd been killed by Democratic votes
unqualified ratification resolution
so would probably fail. Then the
ne would be ripe he declared, for 4
e senators favoring ratification !
thout reservations and those want !.
q ratification with reservations to i
t together. =,
BY leaders of the reservation Re-
blicans the possibility of such a,
mpromise was emphatically denied, ii
d it was declared the group had II
ne as far as it would 60 In curtail- n,
3 treaty qualifications. They were u
IRE uncertain as to what might dI
ppen should the irreconcilable enc
es Of the treaty adopt the course Of n,
more drastic reservations st
the price OF keeping the Republic d.
n majority intact. Ell