New-York tribune., 1920-01-27

written in the bipartisan meetings
last week so that it provided in sub
stance that the United States might use
moral force without the direct sane
tion Of Congress to protect the terri
torial integrity of other members Of
the league, but not the army or navy
or trade boycott without such sane
tton. Republicans suddenly discovered
they had omitted the question of finan-
cIal assistance and retired to Il caucus
Of their own and when they returned
the Democrats adjourned the meeting
The bipartisan conference to-day
lasted only q few minutes. When it
ended Senator Lodge made this state
ment:
81 have only this to say about the
committee meeting this morning: That
said to the committee that there is
a very strong feeling among many
Senators against any change in the
Lodge reservations. either in words
or in substance, and that ] thought it
only tair to say now what | already
have said in public, that there can be
no compromise of principle, and that
IT would be impossible to secure, in
my Judgment, two-thrds of the Senate
II any change was attempted in Ar
X and the Monroe Doctrine. | said
this was a mere statement Of the situa-
ton"
Democrats to Answer To-day
Senator Hitchcock made this state
ment:
when the conference assembled
Senator Lodge advised the Senators
present that he had been called into
q hN ~
tors ,and for that reason had not been
able to attend the last conference Fri
day. He regretted to say that he
found 1t impossible to resume the con-
ference for a compromise except upon
the understanding that no change shall
be made in the reservation on Article
\ or on the Monroe Doctrine. The
Democratic members retired for a pri-
vate conference and will make their
reply to Senator Lodge tomorrow
morning at meeting at 10:30.
The conference, up to the time its
meetings were interrupted, had tenta-
lively agreed upon the preamble and
all sections of the reservations except
that relating to Article X, the Monroe
Doctrine and one or two minor mat
ters, and an agreement apparently
was almost contaminated on Article x
when adjournment suddenly came, fol-
lowed by the intervention of the ire
concilabls Republicans"
Democrats Claim SO Votes
There were Democrats who predicted
that at least forty-three Of their parry
and fifteen Republicans would be Will
ing to vote to ratify the treaty if it
should be taken up on the floor. and
who believed firmly, they said, that it
would be an easy matter to get the six
more necessary from the Republican
ranks before a vote on ratification itself
actually is taken.
To bring the treaty up on the floor
Will require only a majority vote. In
any event, it it came to ruling.
either favorable or adverse, by the
Vice ce-President, majority could sup
port him If he said it was proner 10
take 1T up or it could overturn hi.
rule If he declared it could not be
taken up. How many Republicans vii,
be willing to 60 the whole distance and
run tho chance of siding throuph g
long fight on the floor with the Demo.
Gratis Is problem that is worryine
the Republican leaders, but which theS
have not solved. eS
~ they keep on and put the treaty.
IN the campaign they'll elect Herbert
Hoover" said one Republican senator
tonight ""'"'