Evening star., 1920-02-29
HOPE FOR TREATY
LIES IN CHANGING
RESERVATION 10
Democrats Firm in 0pposi-
tion to Disputed Item in
Lodge Program.
PRESIDENT ATTACKED
FOR ADRIATIC COURSE
None of Our Business" Declares
Senator Kellogg; Sarcasm in
Addresses by Others.

Addresses by Others.
Hope of obtaining sufficient demo-
cratic votes to ratify the treaty OF
reservation on article X Of the league
Of nations covenant unchanged has
practically been abandoned.
Senators working in the interests of
ratification of the treaty are turning
to the adoption Of the reservation on
article X with slight notifications. II
was said last night there was some
prospect of such a program going
through. Prediction was made that
thirty-two democratic senators would
be found supporting such a reserva-
tion, and that the republican leaders
would accept it.
Resolution Ii Other Course.
| If the treaty fails to get the neces-
sary two-thirds vote. then. undoubt-
edly, efforts will be made to declare
peace through resolution OF Con-
gress. 1t is likely that the Senate will
vote to send the treaty back to the
President first.
Senate yesterday, Senator Kellogg Of
Minnesota, mild reservation republi-
can, severely criticised the Presidents
.Adriatic course.
MY position is that 1t is none of
our business" he said. Il do not be-
ieve the President is justified in at
tempting to dictate an adjustment.
If we're going to dictate in that way
before we have any treaty at all,
what are we going to get into. until
we have an adequate reservation to
article Y. after the treaty il rati-
fied?'
Attacks .Self-Determinatio
Quoting from the Presidents refer
ences to self-determination in his re-
cent notes to the allied premiers.
Senator Kellogg asserted that In
many cases territory was "parceled
OUT at Versailles without regard to
the desires of the people interested.
How much Of part did seIf-deter-
mination play in the settlement OF the
Saar basin?" he asked. 1T played no
tlement Of 1871 when Germany de-
manded and took Alsace-Lorraine
from France. How much Of a part
did it play In the cases OF Serbia and
Montenegro? Self-determination had
nothing to do with the erection Of
these new nations. And arc We to
pledge ourselves for all time to main
tain the nations that have been thus
erected"
necticut, joining in the debate on the
Adriatic question. said 'the league Of
nations is Illuminating over there. and
our allies and their associates have
come to a little difference Of opinion"
Sees No Rule Of Altruism.
"And all the papers," he continued.
"are filed with the remarks of Lloyd
George and Millerand and our Presi-
dent-as is-about agreements broken.
bad faith displayed and everything
else, just when the President has
been assuring us that new day has
dawned and nations of the world are
no longer justified in viewing each
other with suspicion. because they
have come to be moved exclusively by
philanthropy. charity. pure altruism
and the like. not to mention Egypt
Persia and Syria.
= His note says they have raised the !
question whether the American govern
ment'-that's he-'can at any time CO.
with European nations for the
peace of the world
e We'll, they wheezed few, times
when they got that"
Senator Shields. democrat, Tennessee.
asked how far. Senator Brandegee
thought the United States should enter
over on. the Adriatic.'
Eyes, he can't have his way about a
spot of red ink on the map of Europe"
resumed Senator Brandegee. 'and at the
first difference Of opinion he says the
league can go hang for all Of him. He
told us that the heart OF the world
would be broken if we didn't jump right
in"
Questions European Sincerity.
.Interrupting the Connecticut SEM
ator. Senator Borah, republican, Idaho,-
to the -adlied note Of Febru-
ary al in which the premiers had
viewed with surprise tho threat Of
the United States to withdraw from
tho comfy Of nations" said he did not
accept tho statements of those gen.
tlemen with any great degree OF sin
certify
1t has been a matter Of history. he
said, that none OF the premiers have
had any confidence In the league. ~
Senator Brandegee termed the notes
as .uplift talk couched in dIpIo-
''vernacular'' understood by
hands across the sea-" and said the
only. illustrated how little
self determination really would have
TO do with decisions under tho league.
'If Jugoslavia doesn't accept the
Of these gentlemen who
ire writing these state papers to one
another." he said. then Jugoslavia
aad better look out. That's all there
IS to 1t. and that's all there is to this
.reaty."
Senator Thomas, democrat. Colo
ado. another Of the irreconcilables.
,aid that II tho Adriatic tangle were
% be taken as an illustration OF the
operation OF the league. Harmony
vim b obtained only. ae the. sxpsaes
Il American popularity." 4