The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-27
comp PROM|SE
REESE ERvAT|ONS
Republicans Have Agreement
With Democrats to Throw :.
Peace Treaty Into Open
Debate.
NEED sIXTY-FOUR VOTES
Plan is to Take Up Reservations in
Senate One by One Permitting
vs. Submission OF Sug-
aestions.
[By l.. c. Martin, United Press staff
Correspondent


WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.-Republt-
can mild reservationists today had
practically worked out an agreement
with democrats to throw the treaty
into open debate in the senate, in an
effort to thresh out compromise on
reservations which can obtain sixty
flour votes for ratification.
This coalition will act as soon as
the breaking off of bipartisan CON
ferences in Senator Lodges office be-
comes a certainty. This is expected
| to occur today when the democrats
! handed Senator Lodge written reply
! to his ultimatum Of yesterday.
The democrats, according to infor-
nation today, will say to Lodge that
they cannot accept his terms for con-
tinuation Of the conferences. The
democratic conferees also have
authorized Senator Hitchcock, their
spokesman to make public state;
Il ment setting forth the exact status
| of compromise negotiations when the
Iirreconcilable republicans broke UP
the parleys last Friday This state
tment is to show that a proposal
drafted by Senator Kellogg, Mime,
sofa, mild reservationist, and
amended by Senator Simmons, North
! Carolina, a democrat, was acceptable
to majority Of the conferees; that
lust at the time it was scheduled to
be approved the irreconcilables up
Iset this plan. Al
The mild reservationists have as
surances that thirty-two democrats
will join with fifteen republicans to
lput the treaty again before the SEN
|ate. they said today. The plan is to
take up the reservations one by one,
letting senators submit whatever sug
sestiors for a compromise they wish
Still Up In the Air.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.-Bi-partl'
Isan treaty conferences today ad-
journed after a two hour meeting,
leaving the whole treaty situation
as much in the air as ever. The ex-
Epected final breaking off of the dis
cussion did not occur, another ses'
sion being set for Thursday.
Following the meeting, Senator
Hitchcock, democratic spokesman, is
sued the following statement:
"The democratic members OF the
conference have considered the an
nouncement made by Senator Lodge
that he and his associates are not
willing to consider any compromise on
the Lodge reservation.
I'm reply we desire to say that we
entered upon this conference without
any reservation or restrictions IN the
hope that we could compromise diff
ferences not only on article ten but on
all other reservations. We assumed
that the other side of this conference
had the same purpose.
THE unexpected interruption Of the
conference and the decision to refuse
any compromise on article ten Is all
the more surprising because it seemed
from expressions on both sides of the
table that we were close to a possible
on this very important
by means of the following
draft prepared by several senators and
always asserted to by most of the
members of the conference on both
sides of the tables before the Interrupt
ton.
1.-THE United States assumes no
obligation to employ its military or
naval forces or the economic boycott
to preserve the territorial integrity
or political independence Of any other
country under the provisions of
article ten, or to employ the military
or naval forces Of the United States
under any article of the treaty for
any purpose unless in any particular
case the congress under the con-
stitutlon has the sole power to de-
clare war or authorize the employ
lnent of the military or naval forces
of the United States shall by act or
Joint resolution so provided, Moth
ing herein shal! be deemed TO impair
the obligation in article sixteen con.
corning the economic boycott
It developed that democratic sena-
tors refused to permit Senator Hitch.
cock to break of the conference as
he wished to do and insisted that a
further effort be made to compro-
mise H 4..
Senator Mcclellan, one of the demo-
cratic conferees, said in reply to
questions that Lodge did not recede
from his ultimatum regarding no
change in article ten nor did the
democrats yield to his ultimatum and
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