Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-01-21
MILD SENATE GROUPS
WOULD HASTEN TREATY
Threaten to Bring it Before Body
Unless Bipartisan Con-
ferecs Move.

Washington, Jan. 21. Republican
mild reservationlsts have become inn
patient over the slight progress being
made toward q compromise on the Peace
Treaty by the bipartisan conferences
and announced that unless definite
progress was reported within day
or two they would regard the confer
enGes hopeless, and call up the Peace
Treaty in the open Senate, with the and
of Democrats, and turn the entire Sen
ate INTO Ii committee on compromises.
Anybody with reservations to propose
could come forward with his sugges-
tlons, and through renewal of debate
If should soon he made apparent, ac-
cording to the mild reservationists
whether compromise was possible or not,
The announcement of mild reservation
lists plan created furry among Senators.
Many OF them do not want debate re-
opened on the treaty. They think that
Is the last way TO reach a compromise,
for it would reopen the old controver-
sizes and might develop new ones. In
addition, 1T Is felt it would mean the
sidetracking of muCh-needed legislation,
including fourteen appropriation bills.
With the national conventions coming
in June. the Senate must complete its
work before that time. it was argued,
and that would be impossible, it was
said II the treaty were called up for
general debate again
Furthermore, the mild rrservationists
were told. such a course would bring
down on the Senate y storm OF disap-
proval from the country, and might
react unfavorably IN the coming cam
paign If compromise was possible, it
was added il would come out Of in
formal conferences and no. IN debate
Some Senators profcsscd 70 regard
the reservationIsts announcement as =
bluff, intended to force Lodge and
his fellow conferecs to make showing.
But one of the leaders of the mild group
stated the case thus.
We are going to give those 'lrpcs-
slbles who are meeting in Senator Lodge
office a dav longer They won he able
10 agree IN thousand wears.
MIR Lodge holds that the mIld reser-
vatlonlsts cannot call IN the treaty He
has >aid repeatedly that i cannot be
called ny, although Nicc President Mar
shall's ruling means. according to the
that a majority cpn call
Il up a any timc They think they can
get enough Democratic votes to sustain
Mr. Marshall
Some Democrats have plan which
depends success on forRepuhlican support
~cnator kinC o. Utah ono of the leaders.
purposes 10 circulate 4 round robin,
plcdglng Senators 10 attend Z non partisan
caucus or conference on treaty oompro
mise. il the Lodge conferences fail
Senator king thinks that enough Re-
publicanS will desert Senator Lodgr "a
make such caucus a. he proposes meet
ing Of consequence. but tins Is not gcner-
ally shared
Tho Lodge group - los yielding and
some members Of il have told Mr. Lodge
hat If he shows weakness on vital points
ihey will 20 over Ia the Borah johnson
group One % Mr. Lodges supporters
lnalvzcS the leaders position in this way
Senator Lodge could not afford TO
refuse 10 take part in the bipartisan con-
ference That would have thrown him
open to the charge Of having joined those
nha want The treaty killed Mr. Lodge
iocs not wish for the present al least .
oc identified as 4 member OF the Battalion
# Death. He viii not terminate the
even when they become
iopcle>S Some body else vii cause the
break when il comes. probably the Demo
,rat, They will break when they finally
become convinced that Mir Lodge IS
standing where ne has stood right along,
lrmly for the Lodge reservations and for .
nothing else
When that happens Mr. Lodge Will
3g il q position 10 say To those who urge
Ipon hin other compromise proposals
hat he has done has full duty 10 behalf Of
that he Is convinred II is I'M
possible. and that ne must decline 10 do
lnythu z more Nobody can assail him +
IN thai
Senator Underwood today set at rest
eports that he intended 70 abandon his
,lan Tor an official reconciliation COM
nlttee He sad that if the bipartisan
onierence came to naught he would a
nee ask consideration Of bis plan Even
{ AL official conciiat4on committee Jared
o better than the unofficial one. senator
Underwood sad could al least find out
-hat every Senator thought about com
rouilSe beng possible OF impossible and
the latter was the case. the Senate could
hen 60 10 work in earnest - devise some
leans # bringing about peace
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