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FAR more hopeful of compromise than
Senator Lodge appeared to be-
We are going to get together" said
Senator Pomerere. "Of course, it is
understood t at there will have to be
concessions on both sides. But I feel
confident that we will be able to reach
compromise"
There is no reservation that has
been approved by majority Of the
Senate that is worse than no treaty"
SAID Senator Pomerene after his c M
ference with Senator Lodge "The
country expects tie treaty to be rati-
fed and is not lying awake nights diff
Terminating between reservations. Rat
ification of the treaty is tho first step
toward reconst, uction. and the sooner
tho Senate octs the better the pubic
will be satisfied"
Senators F,merene and Lodge both
said that they did not feel at liberty
to discuss the details OF their con
versation.
1t became KIN w, however, that SEN
ntor Lodge lnsis.cd at the conference,
that the only bass for a comnrom So
must be the Lodge reservations. The
tons in principle, said Sen-tor Lodge,
but the Repu blicans are willing to
make some changes in their phrase
oogy
Uitimatum to Democrats
The only way that a compromise
can be arranged, the majority leader
told the Ohio Senator, is for the Demo
Gratis to accept virtually the same pro-
gram OF reservations that they re-
1ccted in the Senate on November 49,
Senator Lodge also strong opposed
the adoption Of the Underwood rcso-
luton providing for the appontm Mt
of q committee on conci iation to com
pose the differences regarding the
treaty Senator Hitchcock also is op-
posed TO the resolution, which Senator
Underwood expects to call up as soon
as the Senate reconvenes next Monday,
although Mr.. Hitchcock has said he
w7"'d vote fOr it. The opposition of
Senator Lodge to the proposal prac-
stcally kills it for the time being
49,. -4ougo tJld oenaJor POmerene
20 work among individual Democratic
Senators and try to get them to sup
port the principles OF the Lodge res
erva ions. He said he would oppose.
any agreement that carried with j. any
concessions on the part Of the Re-
he had told Senator McNary and other
Republican Senators with. w ON he has
conferred to go ahead and try to get
the necessar sixtyfour votes pledged
to compromise, but that the COM
promise must be upon the basis of the
reservations the ID mocrats rejected
on November 10. The on h )pe of a
compromise, Senator Lodge added lay
IN the informal negotiations that are
nOw being conducted
D>A~cruts at Sea on Wilson
Senator Lodge said later that in his
talks with Democrat Senators h. had
no, found one of them wha had anv
idea what Pres dent Wilson will do
with regard to any compromise that Is
made.
During the last few days, Senator
Loaee said, he has been doing bit
of mindreading" with Democratic
Senators as subjects. He said his
mind reading had convinced him
that the Democrat.c members Of the
Senate are no, going to carry Wood
row Wilson burdens any longer He
Is convinced, said Senator Lodge, that
the Democrats have male up their
minds that If the President wants the
treaty killed he must take the rsspop-
sibilty himself
No specific proposition for any agree
ment mas been brought to HIM. SAID
Senator Lodge. He added that he did
not see how any compromise can be
worked out aith ugh ne wan1s ncko.ia-
lions to continue.
mpromlse must have the support
of sixty-four Senator's, Mr.. Lodge aid
There are fourteen Republicans who are
opposed to ratification, leaving thir1v-
five who want the treaty ratified with
reservations, he added. The Dem ocrats.
therefore, must secure twenty-nine
votes for compromises
Knox Resolution Qaiescent
The Knox resolution declaring the
existence of a status of peace between
the United States and Germany will
not be broug hit up for the present. SEN
ator Lodge aid. The resolution is now
on the Senate calendar and can be
called up by Senator Knox at any time.
Senator Lodge said that there was
no dispo; ition to press it un.il it be-
reservations can be reached.
Senator New, Republican, of Indiana,
tonight assured Senator Lodge that
there are at least forty Republicans
who will. support his stand on q COM
promise. Senator New has made a
careful canvass Of the Repub leans in
the Senate. He told Senator Ledge
tAo AoAty oi IuVlc Ncpuo lCanS Will not
stand out stubbornly for the exact
p raseology the Lodge res rvations,
but they will stand out, ne said. against
corccding anything of the princip .es
of those reservations.
The only change in the situation In
che Senate. Senator New to the chair
man OF the Foreign Relations Commit
te" il The realization by many Demo
Gratis that it will be imposs bic to rat
IL, me treaty without reservations yir
tmally as strong as the Lodge reserva-
Mons. He added there was hopeful.
sicn IN ne f2cs 'Sat raNy Senator's are
nSw taking OF conproa.isc wac were