New-York tribune., 1920-01-10
Public Approval of Bryan
Program Depended On
to Justify Policy of
Reservation Senators
One Faction Ready
To Take Lodge Plan
Administration Element
Clings to ssInterpreta-
tive' Treaty Changes
NcW York Tribune
WASHINGTON BureoM

Ncw York Tribune
Washington Bureaw
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-Demo.
cratic Senators who have been work.
ing for compromise with tho
Republicans on reservations that
would secure ratification of the
treaty by the Senate said to-day
that they will continue their efforts
to bring about an agreement, even
on the basis of the Lodge reserva-
tions, notwithstanding President
Wilson's declaration to the Demo-
cratic leaders last night.
The Republican mild reservation
ists"' declared the Democrats dis
cussed a compromise with them to-
day much more seriously than ever
before, and these Republican Sena-
tors said they are still hopeful that
compromise will be reached.
The task of working out a COM
promise has been made much more
difficult, Republicans and Democrats
alike agreed. The Presidents state
ment in his letter that the treatv
must be carried to the people for
final decision, and Bryan's declara-
tlon that the Democrats must accent
whatever compromise can be worked
out to secure immediate ratification.
split the Senate into many camps.
Factions Widely Apart
Statements made by Senator's rep-
resenting all shades of compromise
thought show that the two extremes
OF the eighty Senators who favor
ratification in some form are further
apart to-day than they were before
the jackson Day dinner.
Senator Lodge declined to add to his
statement of last night, in which he
said the Presidents utterances vir-
tually killed all hope of compromise.
Other Republican Senators, however.
declared the Presidents letter has
stlffened the Republicans in their
stand and that they are less inclined
to make concessions on the Lodge res
ervations than they were before.
Some Administration Senators who
have been talking compromise on the
basis of the Lodge reservations to-
oay declared they cannot accept any,
thing stronger than the "interpretativen
reservations the President said IA
would accept. Senator Hitchcock, Ad-
mlnlstration leader, said he believed
the president meant the general In
terpretations of the treaty clauses pro
posed by the Democratic Senators be-
fore the Lodge reservations were
adopted. The declaration of Brvan,
on the other hand, was heartily com
mended by the Democratic Senators.
who actually have been negotiating
with the Republicans for an agree.
ment.
Compromise To Be Pushed
Senators Mcclellan Kendrick. Tram.
nell, Myers and others who proposed
the compromise reservations to the
mild reservationists" on the Repub-
llcan side early in the week. said TO.
day they will continue to work for
compromise. regardless of the Presi-
dents tatement.
Negotiations have been halted tenn
porarlly, however, by common consent.
A meeting of the mild reservation
:sts" with Senator Lodge, which had
been called for to-day, was POSTPONED
tor a few days. Senator Lenroot, of
Wisconsin,, who arranged the confer
ence, said it was called off in order to
"let the Democratic pot simmer
while"
Depend on Bryans Argument
After the Senate and the country
have had chance to digest the Jack
son Day speeches thoroughly, the ad-
vocates of treaty compromise expect
to be able to judge the extent of the
split on the Democratic side of the
Senate against the President. They be-
lieve that Bryan's arguments against
delay in ratification will appeal to the
country and that popular sentiments
viii support their efforts to work out
an agreement.
Both the Republican and Democratic
leaders, however, are not very hopeful
of a compromise, although they pub
licly declared the door has not been
closed
twenty-five Democratic votes must
be secured before any compromise on
reservations can be adopted. it was
suggested, and the task is extremely
olnlcuit. Only thirty-five Republicans
at the most can be counted upon to
vote for ratification with reservations.
The other fourteen are opposed to
the treaty altogether.
OF the forty-seven Democrats who
will be in the Senate after Carter Glass,
of Virginia, takes his seat, two, Sen
ators Reed, of Missouri. and Thomas,
Of Colorado, are opposed. to the entire
treaty. Seven of the remaining forty
FIVE supported the Lodge reservations
when ratification was defeated in the
Senate on November 10. The seven
Democrats with the thirty-five Repub-
licans make total Of only forty-two
votes for compromise. Sixty -four
are needed, and the other twenty-five.
therefore. must come from the Demo-
cratic side
Rift Still Clearly Defined
The Republicans. with the exception
of possibly Senators McCumber, Nell
son. McNary, Kellogg and Colt, will not
support any compromise that is not
based on the Lodge reservations. Should
tho iority of %hn