Arizona republican., 1920-03-11
DELAY VOTE ON
 PACT TO PERM|T I 'MOb|L RATION OF SENATE FORCES
Final Action On Article X Not Expected For Several Days-Forces Demora1- ized AS Result of Ne gotiations
TRep lbIioan A. p. Leased Wirel

WASHINGTON, M a c h 10- The peace treaty compromise negotiations entered T period of fevered uncertainty today as the time approached for final senate action on Article x.
 Working desperately for an agree ment senators on both sides of the chamber confounded the plans of both party leaders and threw the senate into such a tangIe that it tacitly agreed to delay a vote for several days in the hope that all elements might be more certain of their grounds.
 Conference Continues Into Night
 The hopes of the compromise aSxo cates collapsed and were revived hour ly as the days negotiations proceeded in private conferences, while debate on the floor dragged on without apparent interest or effect. Tonight the confer ences continued. with some senators hopeful and some hopeless of the out come but with no one confident of what might happen
 It was the treaty's irreconcilable re- publican opponents who started the trouble by remonstrating in a militant way against the decision of some of their party leaders to assent to a modi fled draft of the republican reServa- ton to Article \. So effectively were their representations that the leaders decided not to offer the new resolu- ton at all.
 This determination sent some of the republican reservationists on the war path anG produced confusion also on the democratic side, where senators had labored for several days to line up votes for the republican substitute Caught in cross-fire from reservation republicans and reservation democrats. the leaders withheld their final deci- sion. which indicated that they woulo present their substitute if assured enough h democratic deflections to pass it.
 Meantime disagreement among the democrats became more pronounced. partly a result of meeting in the office of Senator Owen, democrat Oklahoma. at which a number of democratic senators are understood to have expressed. disapproval of the have promised active support to the movement to break away from Presi dent Wilson and accept the best com promise they could get.
 Democratic List Grows
 Among some republican advocates of compromise ii was declared tonight that g democratic votes could be mus tered for the article 10 substitute and there were indications that unless the republican leaders did present it, one of the republican mild reservationists might do so. It was also suggested that if the republicans abandon it entirely, it might be presented by a reserya- tion democrat
 While virtually the entire member ship was occupied with those sugges- tions. the article To reservation tech nicaliy was taken up for debate in an almost deserted senate chamber. But the irreconcilables were taking no chances that the situation would re- suit in d stampede and they got on the floor and kept it. Senators Mccormick. republican, Illinois, and Poindexter, re- publican, Washington, occupying the entire day with attacks on the treaty and on the recent utterances of Presi- dent Wilson.
 Countering the efforts of the demo- cratic reserva tionists, Senator Hitch cock of Nebraska. the administration leader. spent busy day in conference with his colleagues, seeking to hold enough in line to balh the acceptance of a distastefuI compromise. He held to his prediction that the compromise movement would fail though he con ceded that considerable number of democrats were ready to vote with the republicans.