Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-13
b PARTISAN PLAN
ON TREATY BECOMES
OFFICIAL PROGRAM

WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.-senator
Lodge offered in the senate nine
amendments to the Lodge reserva-
tions to the peace treaty today.
The amendments are those worked
out in the bipartisan treaty confer
ences recently held in Senator
Lodges office. They affect the pre-
amble, withdrawal, domestic ques-
tons, Shantung, naming of Arneri-
can representatives to the league,
payment of the United States share
of league expenses, disarmament.
status of foreign nationals under
article 16 and voting power.
Senator Lodge did not submit an
amendment on Article x or the Mon
roe doctrine.
The amendment to the reservation
on voting power is the only one OF
those submitted by Senator Lodge on
which virtual agreement had not been
reached in the bipartisan conference.
Senator Lodges action today made
the bipartisan agreement the "offi-
cial program of the Lodge forces in
the senate. Senator Lodge hopes to
get the support of Democrats to the
changes because the Democrats in
the bipartisan conference had agreed
to most of the amendments present.
ed today.
Presentation of the amendments
paved the way for actual work on
the treaty as soon as it is called up
next Monday. Senator Lodge asked
that they be printed but to make sure,
he had them printed before making
the request and copies were distrib-
uted today to all senators.
Senator Lodge said that the
amendments offered today do not
in every case follow the exact word
ing of the bipartisan agreement but
the changes are for the most part
mere elimination of superfluous
words.
In the reservation withdrawal,
Senator Lodge proposed to meet the
Point raised by President Wilson in
his letter to Senator Hitchcock
namely, that the president should be
given the right to veto a withdrawal
resolution passed by congress, by
stating that the notice may be given
by the president or by congress
alone. Whenever a majority of both
houses may deem it necessary"
"Irreconcilable" Republican sena-
tors are about ready to concede that
the senate will ratify the treaty as a
result Of the discussions which will!
begin next Monday.
A canvass of the senate has
shown some of the "bitter enders"
they said, that ANY loop hole which
can be squeezed through" will be
used by some senator's in changing
front on the reservations and ratifi-
cation. .t
The 'irreconcilab1es" are con-
WINGED that Senator Lodge and his
supporters do not want the treaty
in the presidential campaign. Ona
Of the "irreconcilables" said today
that the supporters Of the Lodge
reservations are willing to agree to
any reservation on Article x which
will save their faces. They have
changed places with the Democrats
in this respect, he declared, and are
visibly weakening since President
wilson's letter to Senator Hitch
cock became public.
The plan of the Lodge programs
supporters, this senator said, Is to
offer proposals for compromise on
Article x so mild that If the Dem
ocrats reject them the responsibility
for failure of the treaty will clear
ly be upon the Democrats. In that
case, If the treaty does become a
campaign issue, Senator Lodge can
show by the record that he did all
ne could without actually surrender
ing, to agree with the Wilson forces,
this senator said. a..