The Washington times., 1920-01-17
Il TREATY
'PARLEY TODAY
Nine Republican and Demo-
cratic Senators to Meet in
Lodges Office.

Hopes for a compromise in the
Senate on the treaty of Versailles
are again struggling for life today.
A general conference between Re
publicans and Democrats is sched-
uled 10 be held with Senator Lodge,
Republican leader and chairman OF
the Foreign Relations Committee.
Numerous Senators have proposi-
tions for a compromise which they
desire to lay before the conference.
Nine Senators to Attend.
The same nine Senators are to at
Tend who made up the first confer
euce Thursday. These are Lodge
Lenroot, New. and Kellogg. Rep1o-
licans. and Hitchcock. owen, Nickel
lar, Simmons, and Walsh or Montana
Democrats.
Republicans are prepared to give
the Democrats a definite answer ON
the NICK reservations
which form the basis OF DemocraAc
suggestions for changes In the Louse
reservations. The Republicans pre-
nared a statement of their position
at a long session late yesterday IN
Lodges office. They all mainta'ned
silence regarding the trend or d,s-
cussion at this meeting. Lenroot
and Kellogg observed. as they lett
the conference, that there Is hope OF
something growing out OF the bipar-
tisan discussions.
'If there were no hope" said hel-
l9gg. 1--WE would not be wasting our
time talking"
Lodge said, everything is still IN
the talk stage" Lenroot and Kellogg
both carried away from this confer
ence voluminous bundles OF manu-
script.
Back Lodge Reservations
In spite of Lodges statement that
al the initial conference on Thursday
no defienite proposals were submitted
by either side, IT developed that the
Republicans put forward the Lodge
reservations as their program ana
the Democrats at once submitted the
McKellar-K endrick reservations as
theirs. The effort now is to reconcile
the two. The Democratic reserva-
tions are not greatly different from
Lodges. except on Article y, where
the Democratic proposals admit an
obligation on behalf of the United
States to protect other league mem
bers from invasion, while the Lodge
reservation repudiates that obliga-
tion.
Both parties today appear TO be in
little chance of any straight party
action. The Republicans are divided
into three groups, the "irreconcil-
ables," the mild reservationists." and
the "milder reservationists."
Two Democratic Facts.
Among the Democrats there are ap-
parently two factions, that which is
following the leao of President Will
son and Senator Hitchcock, anxious
for ratification without changes, and
that faction which is leaning toward
the policy of Senator Underwood and
William Jennings Bryan, who favor
compromise upon any terms obtain
able.
Thus far no compromise proposal
has been made which meets the ap-
proval of Senator Lodge, but there
were hopes that some suggestions,
which would offer a way out Of the
difficulty would be born today.
NEW YORK, Jan. 17.-Results of
the intercollegiate treaty referen-
dunn" were forwarded today to Sena-
tors Lodge and Hitchcock, rival lead
ers in the Senate treaty fight.
The votes of both faculty and stu
dents of American colleges so far tab
ulated showed the following results:
Ratification of the league of ma
tonS and treaty without amendments
Or reservations-24,261
Any compromise under reservations
which will make possible immediate
ratification of the league and treaty
-, ,935.
Ratification OF the league and treaty
with the specific reservations voted
" a majority Of the Senate-16,466.
Compromise of the reservations
making clear that America can be in
,.olved in war only by declaration of
rongress-10,419.
Opposition to ratification in any
rorm-6,691.
In favor of peace with Germany at
once, leaving the question OF the
'rague to be settled afterward-5,3o ,3o7.