Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-01-28
WILSON AGAIN
ENTERS PEACE
TREATY FIGHT
FavOrs Naming of Cancellation
Committee to Adjust
Differences.
GET NO PLACE

WASHINGTON, Jan 2S.-President
Wilson now favors the appointment Of a
conciliation committee to adjust treaty
differences in the senate, it was an
nounced at the whitehouse today.
The president will give his support to
the proposition put forth by Senator I'm
derwoOd some weeks ago, for the senate
to appoint a committee Of ten and charge
that committee with reaching a compro-
mise on the peace treaty.
If the informal bipartisan conference
tomorrow does not reach compromise,
it Is expected that the president will
ask administration senators to move for
the appointment of a formal Cancellation
committee.
Another day of 'Jockeying for posi-
tion" was in prospect while senator's
who earnestly desire ratification urged
that n omore time be wasted in secret
parleys, but that the pace be called up
In the open senate.
Friends OF ratification are gradually
coming to be of one mind on this point.
They now generally believe that it of
fers the only way out OF the angle
Failure of the bipartisan conferences IN
Senator Lodges office proved, these sena
tors say, that politics play so large
part in unofficial secret discussions that
such methods.
Political maneuvering, they say, Will
have small chance of preventing rati-
hcation if the treaty can once be put in
the open.
SAY SITUATION
DIFFERENT NOW
The situation, they believed, differs
greatly from that prevailing last session
when the senate in open session failed to
ratify. Now, they asserted, the country
is demanding action, irrespective Of the
wording OF reservations, and this demand
will grow louder and more tnsistent when
the fight is out in the open where secret
foes of the treaty, posing as its friends,
can be exposed.
Senator Hitchcock said today his next
move must await the result Of Thurs
days session of the bipartisan confer
ence Neither Hitchcock nor any other
conferee expects the Thursday session to
bring the republicans and democrats any
closer together IN addition to their
original differences over article 10, the
two party groups are now disputing the
question whether they had virtually
agreed on a compromise on article 10
last week or not Hitchcock says they
hsdz,- The sDlls, EePtthl liean eqnssFsess said
proposed, not even Hitchcock
RETIRED OK LENR0oTs
SUGGESTION, THEY SAY.
The republican conferees said that on
Senator Lenroots suggestion they re
tired from the conference when the pro-
posal on Article 10, now in question, was
submitted last week.
Analyzing 1t they found, the repub-
licans said, that while It did provide
that the United states shall not assume
any obligation to use armed force or
economic boycott under Article 10 It did
not disavow financial obligation.
I'VE Will not accept any obligation"
said Senator New, speaking for his re-
publican colleagues. eve VIII! never as
sent to a reservation which recognizes
financial obligation, for under such a
reservation our treasury will be open.
Billions Of dollars might be taken from
our taxpayers on the order OF a foreign
council Of the league Of nations.
Nobody should be deceived into think
Ing that the so-called mild reservation
lists will support any modification in
principle of Article 10 reservation any
more than the rest Of us. They will
not. They are holding on to the hope
Of getting something they can't ever
get"