The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-01-26
Unless Bipartisan Conference
Tuesday Secures ModifiCa-
ton of Reservations
FIGHT GOES BACK TOFLOOR

Senate Conferees Have One
More Opportunity to Reach
an Agreement.
Washington, Jan. 26.-The
treaty fight will be carried back
to the floor of the senate unles:
the bipartisan conference to.
morrow secures modification tc
the Lodge reservation from the
republicans, Senator Hitchcock,
democratic leader, announced
this afternoon.
Washington, Jan. 26.-No change in
the reservations affecting Article X
of the league of nations covenant or
the Monroe doctrine provision of the
peace treaty will be acceptable to the
republicans, Senator Lodge today in
formed Senator Hitchcock and other
members of the informal democratic
committee, which has been comforting
with Senator Lodges committee IN
an effort to reach a compromise on
the treaty.
Senator Lodges statement was for
mulated after his conference Satur-
day with Senators Borah, Idaho;
Johnson, California, and other repub-
lican senators opposing the treaty.
Immediately after the statement was
presented, the conference adjourned,
Senator Hitchcock and his associates
retiring for a private conference.
They will make their reply to Sem
ator Lodge tomorrow morning.
The reworded reservations pre-
,sented last week, which made con-
cessions on several points, were not
brought up at todays conference.
Senator Hitchcock issued a state
ment following a conference with
democratic members of the confer
ence, in which he said an agreement
h, been practically consummNed
when Lodge took his stand
Hitchcocks Stltement.
Senator Hitchcock later issued this
statement:
when the conference assembled
Senator Lodge advised the senators
present that he had been called into
meeting by Certain republican SEN
ators and for that reason had not
been able to attend the last confer
ence Friday. II regretted to say
that he found it impossible to resume
the conference for a compromise ex-
cept upon the understanding that no
change shall be made in the reserva-
tions on Article X or on the Monroe
doctrine. The democratic members
retired for a private conference and
will make theiI reply to Senator
Lodge Tuesdaysat a-meeting at 1850
o'clock.
''The conference up to the time
its meetings were Interrupted had
tentatively agreed upon the preamble
and all sections of the reservations
except that relating to Article X, the
Monroe doctrine and one or two
minor matters and an agreement was
apparently also consummated on
Article X when adjournment suddenly
came, followed by the intervention Of
! the irreconcilablc republicans"
Lodges Statement.
Senator Lodge made this statement
after the conference;
Il have only this to say about the
committee meeting this morning;
4 That | said to the committee there is
very strong feeling among many
senators against any change in the
Lodge reservations. either in words
or in substance, and that | thought it
only fair to say now what | have al
ready said in public, that there can
be no compromise of principle and
that it would be impossible to secure,
in my jud. .gment, o-thirds of the
senate if any change was attempted
in Articles II and V, those relating
to Article X ard the Monroe doc
trine. / said this was a mere state
ment of the situation"
Before the meeting there was no
indication as To what concessions the
republicans were willing to make, but
it was said the democrats would be
told no change involving the prin-
ciple of the two principal reserva-
tions at issue would be permitted
ANY change in these, Article \ of the
league of nations, and that dealing
with the voting power in the league,
it was said the democrats would be
told. must be confined to language
only. The position Senator Lodge
assumed was said to have the ap-
proval Of a majority of the republican
membership IN the senate, including
Senators johnson, of California, and
Borah, Of Idaho, as we'll as others of
the group who have opposed any
modification of the reservations
which the democrats at the last scs-
sion declined to accept.
After the republican leader sets
forth his stand the next move VIII
be up to the democrats There was
no indication as to how they would
receive the offer Senator Hitchcock,
Nebraska, leader of the administra-
tion forces, said he was hopeful but
not confident of the outcome of the
meeting today should the demo-
Gratis refuse to accept the republican
proposals as basis of an agreement
il was believed in some quarters that
further committee conferences would
he called off. although the final break