Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-02-11
PASSAGE OF TREATY
SEEMS ASSURED;
RAB|D FOES BEATEN
Friends Say President is Concilia.
tory Toward Article Ten of
Covenant.
BORAH REVIEWS ATTACK
Correspondence New York Times.

Correspondence New York Times
Washington, Feb 1O.--The treaty ol
peace will be called up in the Senate
Monday for discussion and Republican
| irreconcilables conccde that it will bt
ratified quickly.
Senator Lodge today formally reported
the treaty from the foreign relations com.
mittee, in accordance with the Instructions
of the Senate, and gave notice that he
would bring it up on Monday with the
Lodge reservations and the reservations
| of ratification attached
MIR. Lodge stated that the interval
between the report and consideration
seemed necessary by reason of the alb
sence of more than thirty Senators, and
the fact that Others desired to leave Wash
ington during the present week.
A close friend of President Wilson said
today that some newspapers had gone
wrong in asserting that the Presidents IS
recent letter to Senator Hitchcock showed
| that the President was opposed to any
reservations to article X, and other im-
portant parts of the covenant of the
League of Nations other than indicated
| by him In the letter. This was an err
roneous construction. the friend of the
President SAID The impression created
by this statement, which was made
orally a nd informally, was that the Presi-
dent did not intend to pigeonhole the
treaty ii the Lodge reservations were not
radically modified. Senators TO whom
this statement was reported construed
it. as indicating a conciliatory spirit on
the part of the President upon the ques-
tion of the reservation to article y.
There was no discussion in the Senate
at the hour when the treaty was presented,
but later. Senator Borah made speech,
in which he declared that Herbert Hoover
position on reservations placed him
alongside these who have heretofore
been called irreconciliables: that the
realization by English statesmen that the
economic clauses of the treaty needed
revision bore out the prophecies made TO
the Senate in that regard by Senator
Knox in "A speech on August 20.
While these developments were taking
place in the open Senate, some of the
irreconcibles stated privately that they
had come To the conclusion that there
was no hope of preventing ratification
this time They had gone over the situa-
ton carefully, they said, and as a result
were ready 20 predict that upon the final
vote on ratification there would he only
2l negative votes. They conceded, in
other words, the loss Of IS votes upon
which they had counted if any com
promise was made in the Lodge reserya-
ton on Article y.
The reason that ratification was as
sured, they said, was that Senator Lodge
and those who stood with him had decided
that there must be some final disposition
made of the treaty. Moreover, ratiti-
cation was the only disposition that would
satisfy the country; hence. Senator Lodge
and his friends were determined TO ratify
If thew could do it without actually back
ing down from the stand they had taken.
Thev declaUed MIR, Lodge was exceed
ingly unwilling-as unwilling IS MIR.
Bryan, in fsct-to go before the people
IN the coming campaign with the treaty
As an issue. They said Republican leaders
in and out Of the Senate were afraid OF
the effect Of Democratic campaigning
upon the dual issue of the Republican
legislative record and Republican failure
to ratify the treaty. Therefore, MIR.
Lodges whole program in the Senate was
founded upon the desire 10 ratify, and.
failing that TO make political capital out
of the failure To ratify by placing technical
responsibility upon the Democrats.
The irreconcilables may. within few
days. disclose some plans they have for
Mr.. Lodges plans. They are
no less determine TO make all the
trouble they can, even though they have
begun 10 realize that their tactics can
merely obs.ruct without stopping the
progress toward ratification. One mem
Der of the group said today that IN the
end, after having raised all the Cain
possible, he would not be surprised TO
see most of the irreconcilables voting for
the reservations and for ratification.
In his speech to the Senate today, Mr..
Bora.h stated that the only reason the
treaty was now before the Senate was
that there was desire TO keep it out
of the political campaign. Senator
Lodge, pacing in the rear of the SEN
ate chamber, stopped and bent his eyes
upon the speaker, then smiled and went
on.
Mr. Borah opened his speech by plae-
ing Herbert Hoover In the Hreconsil-
able class, upon the ground that he
had come out for reservations 10 the
treaty that it Was impossible to draft
as prerequisite to his support OF IT.
What is his plan for making the
treaty protect Ameriea? asked Sena-
tor Borah For myself, and | believe
! speak for some others who have OPP
posed any League of Nations, we have
based our opposition upon the PROPOSE
tion that the Constitution and American
traditions could not be safeguarded by
any reservations which could be offered.