Arizona republican., 1920-01-28
PACT GETS NEW LEASE IF LIFE BEFORE DEMISE
Ri : Partisan Negotiations Not Yet Abandoned in Effort to Effect Compro- mise-See Little Hope For Related Effort, Not withstanding
Republican A. p. Leased wfrel

WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 27- Peace treaty compromise negotiations lowering on the verge of dissolution were given today a new forty eigh hour lease on life. But there was noth. BE in the development which changed the pessiTnistic view of the senate lead CTS as to the final outcome.
 The democrats, replying to the re- publican refusal to compromise or article 10 and the Monroe doctrine charged at a stormy session of the bi- partisan compromise conference that republican leaders had suddenly changed front after most of the con ferees had consented to an article I( compromise in definite form. To this the republicans opposed a categorical denial, declaring no one at all had agreed to the proposed compromise draft.
 Agree to Final Meetinq
 After two hours of wrangling durins which the democrats threatened to transfer the whole subject to the open senate, the conference agreed to meet again Thursday in another effort to brlng the negotiations to a successful conclusion
 Numerous private conferences on hoth sides followed, with the leaders feeling out sentiment carefully as they approached the final showdown that may come at Thursdays meeting. In some quarters, 1t was believed that in the interval President Wilson would take hand to stiffen the resistance of the democrats, but White House offi- cIals were silent and Senator Hitch- cock of Nebraska, the acting demo- cratic leader of the senate declared he was proceeding without knowledge of the presidents views on the specific compromiSe reservations discussed in the conference.
 DnriYo tho Joha+a ~1zo rz- diate ratification, either with or with out reservations, was presented by Senators Wadsworth and Calder of New York by delegation from New YorE City, headed by William Church Osborne, and representing the League to Enforce Peace, the League of Ma tons association, the New York Fed eration of Churches, farm organiza- tons, the state chamber of commerce Of New York and Daughters of the American Revolution. Spokesman for the delegation expressed the belief that me tlme was ripe for composition of differences over the treaty
 Were Near Settlement Belief
 The whole treaty negotiations, it was sald bS senate leaders, were hung LID On article 10 and the Monroe doctrine. tentative agreement having been reach co on all other points of difference. some of the republican reservations if
 
 out change by the democrats while numerous changes of wording had been made in others and two of them had been rewritten entirely
 Differences over the Monroe doc Urine reservation also were said to be of minor magnitude compared to the stumbling block presented by the obligation O. article 10 to help pre- serve the territorial integrity and political independence of other mem- berS of the league of nations The republicans insist that no such obliga- tion should be assumed;i the demo- crats are standing out for an obliga- ton conditional on the action of con- gress in each specific case.
 After today's meeting, Senator Hitchcock made public the reply he had given to the republican ultimatuna of yesterday, refusing to compromise on article 10 or the Monroe doctrine The reply declared the majority of the con- ference previously had assented to a compromise draft of a reserva ton ua- der which the United States would decline to assume any obligation to employ its military or naval forces or the economic boycott under article 10. l unless congress acted. Under the re- pub1icap reservation the United States i simply would assume no obligationv in regard to other countries without l congressional action.
 Hitchcock's Reply It was after this reply had been sub- 1 mitted that Senator Hitchcock gave notice that if the negotiations were | not continued. he would move to take |