Evening star., 1920-03-12
LODGE INTRODUCES
NEW SUBSTITUTE
FOR ARTICLE TEN
Proposal Follows Form of
Recent Bipartisan
Effort.

A substitute for the republican
article x reservation to the peace
treaty was introduced in the Senate
today by the republican leader. Senator
Lodge of Massachusetts,. In general it
follows the form Of the draft agreed
on several days ago in bipartisan COM
promise negotiations
When the reservation was offered 1t
was declared among the republicans
that the negotiations had lined up sl.
moat aasueA sstss to r.tify he tfsaty
on the4 basis. but that final agreement
had not yet been reached. The repub-
lioan leadAEs planned to obtatasAAsts
ikte tolxy. z
Whether the new eompromise VIII
receive the support Of 4 suff1cient
number OF democratic senator's. to-
gether with the republicans. to ratify
the treaty remains to be seen. Eena-
tor Simmons OF North Carolina ad-
mitted today that the situation was
very much tangled.
Text OF Proposed Csnprsnise.
'Our daily compromise" as one of
the republican senator's characterized
it. after saying that he intended to
vote Tor II, IL IS follows:
The United States assumes no obli-
cations to preserve the territorial in
tegrity or political Independence Of
any other country by the use Of its
military or naval force. its resources
or any form OF economic discrimina-
tion. or to interfere in controversies
between nations. whether members Of
the league or not, under the pro-
visions of article ten, or to employ
NJ he
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 declare war or authorize the
employment of the military or naval
forces Of the United states in the ex-
ercise Of full liberty Of action. shall
by act or joint resolution 80 provide.
Democratic senators who arc work
ing for the original Watson-Simmon
compromise said today that they saw
no reason why they could not support
it was admitted that the refusal Of
the republicans to go ahead with the
original compromise had aroused
some stubbornness among the demo-
Gratis.
HeDe for settlenaent ExpresseA.
Some of the senators on both sides
Of the chamber today declared that
tne Cnance8 1of r0dQCAtton OF the
treaty had Frightened. On the other
hand the irreconcilables. angered at
the new turn of Affairs. were plan
ming to do their utmost to XIII the
treaty.
In speech on tho floor Of the Sem
ate. Senator Thomas Of Colorado to-
day practically aligned himself with
the irreconcflables. announcing that
he intended to vote against the treaty..
He predicted also that il the treaty
became campaign issue it would
cleave both of the great parties Eat
right angles"
Senator Frelinghuysen Of New Jer-
sey. insisting that the reservation
should make 1t clear that the United
States would not assume any obliRa-
tion whatever to preserve the terri
total integrity Of members Of the
league. offered an amendment to the
Lodge substitute. His amendment
states specifically that the United
States assumes no obligation to pre-
serve the territorial integrity Of any
nation. Senator Frelinghuysen is one
of the republican senator's who would
not agree to the original watson
Simmons compromise.