The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1920-01-13
Whispered That Most I'm
portant Conference VIII
Be Held Today.
DREAD ELECTION ISSUl
Both Sides Admit nha
Campaign Too Important
To Let Pact Enter.

hopeful than at any stage Of the ne
gotiations which have transpire
since the failure Of the Senate
ratify at the last session. lis the lstes
word to come from both Republics
and Democratic camps.
A prominent Administration Dems
crat and one OF the most iniuentis
Of the mild reservstionists' who ha
been active in recent compromise ne
gotiations stated last night TO Tn
Washington Herald that conpro1
Use may be reached between the ca
treme groups OF Senators favorln
merely ''interpretative" reservation
and those who heretofore have s.-r
ported the Lodge reservations befJr
the present week comes to q close
Both Democrats and mild rescr
vationists' will endeayor this mort
ing TO bring about = conference be
tween Democratic and Republica
Senators for this afternoon or tonigh
IL possible. One senator stated "a
finitely that the most important cor
ference that has yet been held wou!
meet sometime today. at which bot
Senators Lodge and Hitchcock wi
be present.
HltchrSck In Doubt.
Senator Hitchcock. asked IL he uu
derstood that such a conference wouI
be held today or whether he wouI
confer with the Massachusetts leader
stated that he doubted whether TN
conference would be held today bu
expressed the idea that negotiation
TO be gotten under way this morn
ing will bear fruit in an importan
/ conference to be held later in IN
week. probably after the Democrat
caucus which meets thursday.
The Washington Hefald is in
position 20 state that at feast NJ
teen. and perhaps seventeen. Repub
lican Senators have determined tha
the traty Of pace shall not be car
ried into the impending Presidents
campaign IL their efforts TO secur
a compromise within their own part;
prove Of no avail A prominent Re
publican Senator. whose name 70
obvious reasons cannot be divulge6
stated that in spite of Senate
Lodges oft-repeated assertion tha
he will not yield an inch on Artici,
y the Massachusetts leader will b,
compelled TO make some concession
to the other side on this point ThE
Republican leader went so far as &
say that il the BAY State Senate
does not sec the light" there ar,
enough Senators ON the Republican
side who are determined that a.,
treaty shall not be carried into tn,
next campaign 20 force his hand.
See Danger In Campaign Issue.
Democrats as well a. Republi
cans appear to sense the dang
lurking in the treaty as a cam
paign issue. The opinion prevail
generally that too many issues o
national importance claim the at
tention of the country at prcsca.
to have the campaign BocIoudu,
with an issue that will dsErs
attention from matters that neoc
tending to at home.
Senator Hitchcock last nigh
pointed out that while he is will.
ing to compromise. the Democrats
can go much farther toward reach.
ing a compromise and stin adher,
to reservations that will be OF
merely interpretatiVp nature. thar
is generally anticipated. The Ne.
braska leader expressed himself
as feeling extremely hopeful feel.
ing that the issue may come to a
head at very early date.
Reports that two Democratic Sen.
Rtors had conferred with Senator
Lodge yesterday and told him thai
they could furnish the names of
thirty Democrats who were willing
to agree to his reservations with
slight notifications could not be
confirm ed last night
Has New Reservation.
Senator Simmons. Democrat. Of
North Carolina. has drafted a reser.
walton on Article y. which Senator
Hitchcock SAYS rs preferable to the
Lodge reservation. He believes Il
might even satisfy the President
tn weakness of the reservation.
from the standpoint os the RepublI-
cans, is thst while IL reserves the
right Of Congress to dictate the use
OF the military and naval forces, a
does not prohibit the league from,
giving orders to the United States
in respect to any other measures or
acts OF war which this country might
be directed to take against another
nation.
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The eighteen Democratic Sena-
tors who gathered Sunday night az
Senator Owens house endorsed the
Simmons reservation. but the mild"
Republicans will have nothing to do
with IL.
In the Senate yesterday a con-
troversy arose among the Derto-
crats as to how much william Jen-
ninEs Bryan has had TO do with
stirring up the members Of the
party in the direction Of co,npro-
mise. Senator King. Democrat. OF
Utah, emphstically deried that Mr..
Bryan had anything to do with IL:
he said that he and other Senators
had been working on compromise
reservations long before Mr.. Bryan
said anything on the subject.
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