Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-01-13
TREATY IS HELD UP
BY ARTICLE TEN;
LODGE WONT YIELD
Senator Hitchcock Says Cornpro-
mise on Objectionable Amend
mcnt Will be Reached.
BRYAN URGES ACIloN
From, the Baltimore San. Today.

III.
flrols verhiare and confusing sublcties
of parliamentary dickering removed, the
iss,ie of ratification OF the treaty Is stripped
10 Article Y of the covenant of the League
of Nations.
Connromise Democrats and mild reser-
vationist Republicans, the Hitchcock
administration leadership and the Lodge
majority leadership, are just rs near and
lust as far from agreement on ratification
;is they are near agreement on reser-
walton op Article y.
HEART op CONTROVERSY.
The article which President Wilson
termed ''the heart Of the covenant" has
become the heart of the Senate contro-
verSy.
The situation with regard 10 Article 10
tonight following day in which large
majority OF the Senate enlisted in earnest
under the banner of compromise and
ratify" and in which there was endless
round Of conferences, is this:
The Lodge Rcn,lb lean leadership IL set
defantly and cmphatici.lly against any
modification Of the Lodge reservation ON
Article 10 The Lodge reservation eliIn-
mates the United States from assuming
any obligation to preserve the political
territorial integrity or political tndepcnd-
enoe Of any other country unless Congress
haIl so provide.
l5 DEMOCRATS WOULD yTxrD.
Fifteen compromise Democrats are
declared to he willing 10 20 20 any length
i accepting the Lodge reservation 10
4chicve ratification.
The Administration leadership, 50 repre-
,ented hy Senator Hitchcock, says that
il Is not expected that any present sug-
gested draft of a compromise reservation
nn Article Y will be the one finally accept-
sd bv both sides, but that il is believed
out OF the many proposed forms Of rescrva-
tions on Article Y viii be shaped final
compromise provision which viii bc &C
coptahle and will lead TO ratification.
That is the treaty situation in nut
she'll. While conferences, particula rly
among the 35 Democrats who were rep
resented at n compromise session asst
night at the home u Senator Robert L.
owen. Of Oklahoma, viii continue, il is
axrected there will hc no definite Dem O.
ratio proposals or Gnal decisions until
after the minority caucus Thursday at
hich & fioor leader will be selected,
vARLY ACTION PREDICTED.
There were renewed and strengthened
predictions Of ratification today, Senator
Hitchcock asserting he believed rati6-
alton would be voted before the end of
January.
But. IS stated above, everything de-
oends on article X On that one portion
81 the treaty the majority lcadship seem
;nciv is irnmovable If anyone were un~
use enough, il The midst Of the pulling
and milling now occurring among the
Senator's. TO attempt to point the precise
oath bv which compromise might be
elected, the CUE S probably would be
that the tneaty viii be ratified when
enough Democrats become persuaded
lhcv csn bring about ratification only
BY accepting the Lodge reservations on
article \ or something very close 10
IT IN strength and meaning,
The reason Article 10 presents the
particular difficulty to which compro-
mis-, must get around in that every other
reservation, by word juggling, can he
softened or strengthened, made less Oh
noxious to the administration and be
brought into rewritten terms which
President Wilson night accept ss mere
y Interpretatlvc.
NO NTDDL GROUND
Not SO with Article Y, the Republi-
cans say. Under that article either the
nited States can do one of the two
things. accept The obligations imposed by
that section Of the League covenant or
reject il. except as future Congresses
nav determine there is an obligation The
President wants the United States TO
assume tho obligations. The Senate does
aot
The common, middle ground of COM
promise was greatly broadened today
and the$great bulk Of the Senate now is
1pon that ground The conspicuous
exceptions are Senator Hitchcock and
Scnator Lodge. Senator Hotchcock is
purposely avoiding the compromise con
ierences so far as he can, and IS not 3
compromise spokesman He, like Sem
.tor Lodge, is waiting for the determine
son that the mlddic-ground Senators
a,sy re8ch.
III brief form It can be asserted that
i Senator Hitchcock and Senator Lodge,
Rlst those two individuals, could
.chicve an agreement on Article 10 the
treaty would be ratified within Il hours
BRYAN SENDS TELEGRAM
kilograms from W.lllam J. Bryan
drging ratification Of the treaty by next
riday when the inaugural meeting Of
he League Of Nations council Is 70 be
held, reached several Senate members
during the dav Some OF the Democrats
said they believed it might be possible
to dispose Of the treaty by that date.
9at Republican leaders sad such action
vas improbable.
Mr.. Bryan's telegram follows:
Il verv earnestly hope that It may be
possible to secure IN agreement on the
and resolution OF ratliCa-
3on before next Friday 50 that our na-
non can enter the League OF Nations at
It's first session on January i6. The
Joy Of the American people would, | am
sure, be Is universal IS u was when
the armistlce was signed.
Mr.. Bryan's position on the treaty
u as discussed briefly II the Senate. Sen
l1or King, Democrat, Utah, said the
proposal for compromise reservations
was not original with Mr.. Bryan, al
though large part Of the press was
disseminating the iCiea tnat the plan is
Nir. Bry-4A and that : number Of Dem
,cratlc Senators are now ready - aban-
lon their previous views and ratIfy the
reatv"
"My own opinion is that the treaty
sill be speedily ratified with certain
SAID Senator King. u also
ialieve the treaty will be ratified prompt
i remarked Senator Ashurst, demo
rat. Arison.L. ''but ! think it will be
atified sooner because Mr.. Bryan came
Q town
The basis Of the final resolution oI
atihcation If It comes. as Is more and
srr.vao~o ffSy y4reIfr* ~ by Senators