Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-01-28
SENATORS CONTINUE
PARLEYS ON TREATY,
UNDER PRESSURE
Insistencc Of TAFT and Hays and
Bryan is Bringing Ratifica-
ton Closer.
TO TRY AGAIN TOMORROW
New York World.

Today's New York World.
Washington, Jan. 27.-Clinging to q
faint hope that tho peaoe treaty can be
ratified within few days If tho efforts Of
tho bipartisan committed are not stopped,
Democrats and Republicans consented
TODAY to hold another session of tho Lodge
Hitchcock confcreos.
The pressure being brought on Re-
publicans by Chairman VIII. II. Hays and
former President Taft and on tho Demo-
Gratis by William j. Bryan caused an ad-
journmont instead of disbanding of tho
committee this morning. Senators on
either side Of the controversy believe it
will be fatal to discontinue negotiations.
Mr.. Bryan keeps busy. He has gone
so far ~ to urge his friends to permit tho
treaty TO bo ratified if it has to 30 done by
having tho Democrats walk out of tho
Senate Chamber, leaving the forty-nino
Republicans 10 adopt the Lodge rcsolu-
ton. reservations and all That sort of
proposition is considered cowardly by tho
leaders of tho minority side of the Senate
and nothing of tho kind will be attempted.
Members Of the informal conference
disagree as to the exact understanding
that was reached just before tho daily
meetings ceased last Friday. when Mr..
Lodge quit attending to look aftor the
small revolution started by the bittsf-
onders.
At the conclusion Of the conference
TODAY Senator Hitchcock gave out this
statement:
'"The Democratic members of this
conference have considered the announce
mont made by Senate Lodge that no and
his associates are not willing to consider
any compromise on tho Lodge reservation
concerning Article Y, nor on that relation
TO tho Monroe Doctrine.
In reply we desire To say that we
entered upon this conference without any
reservations or restrictions, In the hope
that we could compromise differences not
only on Article Y, but on all other reser-
vations We assumed that the other side
of this conference had tho same purpose.
The unexpected interruption of the
conference and the decision to refuse
any compromise on Article y. Us all the
more surprising because it seemed from
expressions of both sides of the table that
We were close to 4 possible compromise
on this very important reservation by
means of the following draft, prepared
by several Senators and already asscnted
TO by most of the members of the conference
on both sides of the table before the
interruption.
ANOTHER ARTTCfEX.
The United States assumes no obliCst ton
to employ its military or naval forces or
the economic boycott to preserve the terri
torial integrity or political independence
of any other country under the provisions
of Article Y. or to employ the military or
naval forces of the United States under
any article of the treaty for any purpose,
unless in any particular case the Congress,
which. under the Constitution, has the
sole power TO declsre war or authorize
the employment Of the military or naval
forces Of the United States, shall by act or
Joint resolution so provide. Nothing
herein shall be deemed to impair the OBJ
LEGATION of Article XVI, concerning the
economic boycott.
Senstors Kellogg (Niinn.) and Lcnroot
Wis.,, two Of the Republican members
of the bipartisan committee, took issue
with Senator Hitchcock. They gave out
this statement after seeing what Mr..
Hitchcock had said:
The majority OF the conferees did not
agree to the reservation affecting Article
\ which be published. In fact, Mr..
Hitchcock himself would not agree 10 it.
No one agreed to il. II was simply up
for general discussion
ONLY A RECOMMENDATION.
The conference adjourned until Thurs
day in the hope something could be work
ed out. 1t ought TO be understood that
I'll We can or assume TO do Is to recon-
mend TO our associates.
Senator Lodge said: "The United
states absolutely viii accept no obligation
under Article Y of the covenant of the !
League of Nations
Senator New of Indiana. the other I
Republican member OF the bi-partisans /
committee is milder in his attitude toward /
a compromise on Article Y. He is anxious |
TO have the treaty out OF the Senate, and /
would yield something TO secure ratifica-
tiOn.
The Democrats of the committee will /
make great effort on Thursday to come
to an understanding.
Eve must not quit this effort until we
succeed or the last ray OF hope has disap-
peared, said Senator Simmons Dem,
y. c., one OF the more determined con-
ciliators. at is our duty TO exhaust every
resource before we give up. | think that
we are very near an agreement. Of
course the irreconcilable with to kill the
treaty. We have the opposite intention
to save 1t from its enemies.
''The Republican leaders should not
listen to little coterie of Senators who
hope and pray that the treaty will receive
a death blow"
Senator Lodge in the mean time con-
tinues TO undergo the third degree al the
hands OF the bitter enders. The two most
violent of the rebels are Borah of Idaho
and Sherman of Illinois. They are said
70 be on q political strike now.