Arizona republican., 1920-01-31
PARTING IF WAYS BRINGS SUDDEN END TO
 NEGOTIATIONS
Democrats Threaten to Re new Fight in Open Sem ate-Lodge. Stands Pat on Position
Republican A. p. Leased Wire

Republican A. p. Leased Wirel
 WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.-Efforts to
 break the peace treaty deadlock by un-
 official bipartisan negotiation, ended
 suddenly in failure today, and demo-
 cratic senate leaders began prepara-
 tions to bring the treaty back into the
 open senate for consideration.
 It was over the long debated article
 10 that the bipartisan movement, af-
 Ter bringing republicans and democrats
 together on many collateral issues.
 finally met disaster. The end came af-
 ter Senator Lodge of Massachusetts
 the republican leader, had renewed his refusal to compromise on that article and had rejected reservation on the
 subject written by former President Taft and presented to the bipartisan conciliation committee by the demo- cratS.
 Plan to Renew Open Fight
 Walking out of the conference with the announcement that further de- Alterations there were useless. the democrats quickly drafted plans to re- new the fight in the open. The act ing party leader. Senator Hitchcock would be given in the senate tomorrow of his intention to move. on February 10, to take up the treaty for ratifica- tfon- Opinion was divided to wheth- CT such a motion would prevail.
 If it does, Senator Hitchcock expects ! to propose. he said. that the senate | adopt those reservations on which ten | tative agreement had been reached in l the committee and then fight differ | ences over the others. A draft of the | committees work. made public by Mir. | Hitchcock. did not correspond with a | review of it's accomplishments given | out by Senator Lodge. however, and | a bitter aftermath seemed in store | should the democratic plan of open | discussion be carried out.
 Tentative agreement. Senator Hitch | cock said, had been reached by the | committee on the preamble and 12 of | the 14 proposed reservations, the only | subjects remaining at issue being ar | ticle 10 and the Monroe doctrine Sen ator Lodge maintained that there | were in all six of the fl on which no | agreement, even of tentative nature, | had been made.
 The Taft Reservation
 The text of the Taft reservation. as presented-by the democrats. is as fol- | lows:
 The United States declines to as- sume any legal or binding obligation to preserve the territorial integrity or political Independence Of any. other country under the provisions of Arti- cle 10 or to employ the military or naval forces of the United States un- def any article of the treaty for any purposes; but the congress. which, un- der the constitution, has the sole power in the premises will consider and de- eide what moral obligation, if any, un- der the circumstances of any parti- cular case. when 1t arises. should move the United States. in the interest of world peace and justice. to take action therein and win provide accordingly"
 Lodge Stands Pat
 The movement of the democrats, in | the Taft reservation came as a surprise, the leaders on both sides having indicated beforehand that any decision on article 10 probably would be put over until next week In rejecting the proposed substitute. Sen- ator Lodge reiterated his announce Inent that no change at all would be , in the article 10 reservation , drafted by the republicans at the last , session of congress Agreeing to final Iy disagree. the conference then broke up in less than an hour after it had ', begun. lt
 What happened was described thus " Senator Hitchcock in announcing he negotiations were at an end.
 We presented the Taft reservation1 m article 10 as our proposition There vas some conversation as to its exact F meaning. We urged them to accept L. or to take few days to decide. But Senator Lodge said definitely he would not accept it. We then asked them if they had 1 ny counter proposal or would make : ne Mir. Lodge said he could not make ( ny counter proposal I suggested l hat we try to agree on way for talk lg up the treaty in the senate, but ( enator Lodge did not want a meeting { n that subject So we are going to roceed to call it up ( The proposed change referred to by I he senator was suggestion by the f emocrats to strike out of the republi- an reservation the words said doc a rine is to be interpreted by the United tates alone" 2 On the question of bringing the I -eaty into the senate. it was apparent s nat sentiment was in an indecisive q tate. There have been some indica- ons that there might not be undivid democratic support for the pove, ut some of the mild reservation re- b ublicans and some senators of the ir- \ .concilabie group have looked with g lvor upon it. Senator Hitchcock said I Q did not know whether a majority a lyored it but believed such was the h lse. He added he would confer with 1T srious democrats and republicans be- Il ire he made his motiou- 5