Arizona republican., 1920-01-26
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 TREATY DISPUTE
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 WASHINGTON, Jan. 25-Limits to which republican senate leaders are willing to go in modifying the Lodge reservations to the peace treaty will be transmitted to democratic members of the bipartisan compromise commit tee tomorrow at a meeting upon which may hinge the success or failure of the present compromise negotiations
 Although there was official definition of the limits set by Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, and his as sociates available tonight, it was Jun derstood that the democrats would be told that changes m the two main reservations, those relating to Article Ten and to voting power in the league of nations must be changed in lang uage and not in principle. Such an answer to democratic proposals for composition was said by several mem- bers of the republican committee to reflect the majority sentiment on the republican side of the senate and also to be agreeab for the most part to Senators Johnson of California, Borah of Idaho and the others of that group who Friday called Senator Lodge and Senator New of Indiana into confer ence and demanded to know whether the negotiations for compromise were going and how far.
 Neither Senator Lodge nor Senator Hitchcock, the administrations treaty leader, would predict tonight the out come of tomorroW's meeting. the for mer confining his comment to the statement that he was "a poor prophet in such matters" and the latter aS serting merely that he was hopeful but not confident" In other quarters the belief was expressed that even though an agreement on the basis of the republican answers might be viewed by the democratic confereeS as hopeless, the negotiations might be cny for hoff,rc "a final break came.
 Should there be a break between the two informal committees. 1t was con- sidered possible that the mild reser vation" republicans might again send out 'feelers among the democrats and new negotiations be started.
 Would Require Re-Submission
 NEW YORK, Jan. 25.--Adoption of the Lodge reservations by the senate would require the re- submission of the peace treaty to the allied nations and Germany in order to make the treaty legal and binding instrument George w. Wickershapn, former attor- ney general of the United States, de- clared in statement tonight which he has prepared for the league to en- force peace. The fourth reservation by which the United States would reserve to itself exclusively the right to decide what questions are within it's domestic Jurisdiction MT. Wicker sham declared, would remove from the jurisdiction of the league "a series of questions of the highest importance and peculiarly provocative of internal difficulty"
 The tenth reservation. which gives the United States the right to increase it's armament whenever threatened with invasion or engaged in war, Mr. Wickersham maintained, is against the spirit of the covenant and amounts to an amendment to the treaty. He also objected to the eleventh reservation, which says the United States will use it's own judgment about boycotting of lending nations, stating that 1t modl- fled article XVI of the covenant.
 These examples appear to me to be sufficient" continued Mir. Wickersham. ito demonstrate that the reservations as proposed. involve a mOdificating in essential provisions of the treaty. and a ratification upon condition Of the adoption, in my opinion. would be in- valid until accepted by the other pow CTS to the peace treaty. My conclusion is that a ratification of the treaty, in- cluding the Lodge reservations, would require a submission of the whole treaty to those powers which shall have accepted it. including Germany.