South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-01-10
SKATER HOPES
TO RAT|FY PACT
Split Between Bryan and Viii
son Will Have No Bear
ing on Senate.

lican mild reservationists Friday de-
clared hey will go right ahead seek
ing compromise on the peace
treaty in sympathy with Pres't
Wilson'S letter OF appeal 10 demo-
Gratis az the Jackson day banquet.
They agree with William Jennings
Bryan that the treaty must not be
taken into 1920 campaign.
Within "A few days a small group
will confer with Sen. Lodge and
discuss changes in the so called
Bryan reservations submitted this
week by Sen Kendrick and hand
the reservations back 10 the demo-
Gratis.
William ]. Bryan's split with vii
son will nave no effect on the treaty
situation az far as the senate is
concerned, il was believed.
Would Regret Action.
Several senators pointed out that
even IL the democratic members
should align themselves with Bryan
and accept the Lodge reservation on
article 1O-which is virtually what
Bryan advocated in his Jackson day
speech-the resulting ratification by
the senate would never become eff
fective because the president would
reject it.
Politically. however, the Bryan
Wilson split was admitted to be OF
the greatest importance. Bryan will
fight, they said, 10 control the demo-
cratic national convention and if he
wins, will counsel senate democrats
TO yield 10 the Lodge reservations
and ratify the treaty right after the
convention, believing that the presi-
dent would yield with his party's
verdict against him.
VIII Support Wilson.
But democratic senators declared
that Bryan will not succeed. Will
son, they said. will have the strong
est kind Of support from his party.
The treaty situation as affected by
the presidents letter was the sub
iect of many senatorial conferences
today. Formal statements are TO be
given out later by Sen. Lodge, for
the Lodge reservationists, McNary
| for the mild reservationists and
| Hitchcock for the democrats. Sen.
| Underwood said ne still thinks his
resolution for a Cancellation com
mittee offers way out The presi-
dent. Underwood said, is still willing
| TO accept explanatory reservations,
as he predicted that many republic
cans will be found cOunseling Lodge
TO a more moderate stand rather
than accept the challenge of cam
paign on the treaty.
Sen. Borah, speaking for the out
and out foes OF all ratification said
| he was glad the president has come
/ to the view that a national referen
dunn should be held. That, BOrah
pointed out, has been his position
all along
Lodge In Statement.
Sen. Lodge, republican leader in
the senate declared he was willing
/ for the treaty to go into the next
( presidential campaign and said the
/ presidents attitude made COM
promise impossible. Lodge said:
"The president has made his posi-
ton very plain. He rejects abso-
/ lutely the reservations adopted by
the majority Of the senate. He says
We must take the treaty without
any change. which alters it's mean
| ing, or leave it. He will permit
/ interpretations whatever they may
mean, expressing it's undoubted
meaning when there is hardly a line
OF il which has not been questioned
and given many meanings. This
permission is valueless. He stands
as ne has always stood. for the
treaty as It is.
The issue is clearly drawn. The
reservations. intended solely to pro-
tect the United States in its sover-
eighty and independence. are dis
caried by the president. The presi-
dent places himself squarely in be-
half OF internationalism against
Americanism.
Il had hoped that in the senate
we might have come together and
ratified the treaty protected by the
principles set forth in the IA reser-
vations. The president. 7 fear, has
made this hope impossible. II II
is impossible then we must bear the
delay inseparable from the presi-
dents attitude and appeal 10 the
people. which I for one shall most
cordially welcome"