Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-03-11
SENATE III: IN TANGLE
Will Defer VOTE
Democrats Refuse to Support
Reservation Objectionable
to President Wilson.
SPEND DAY IN CONFERENCE
Senators Of All Hues OF Opin-
ion Discuss Situation to
No Avail.

WASHINGTON. March n T,
peace treaty compromise nerotia, ,jnns
entered period of fevered uncertain
y, ~ To-Day as the time approached for
Working desperately for an a.ree
Ibhamosr ,bair ,, ;, confonnded founded the plans OF
i,ehate INTO such tangle that II tacit-
was agreed to delay vote several
nays ,mi..i IN the hope that all elements
me hopes of the compromises advo
-, in'ss @ collapsed and were revived hour
IN nriva,s nS the Gays ay negotiations proceeded
tne loor dragged on without apparent
interest or effect Tonight the confer
hopefui Ion,1"seu, and eeme With S some Senator's
come. but with no one contidant or
what might happen.
ne treaty Will fail OF ratification
nE ny from twelve to fifteen votes. In
.mr s.rva opinion PM 10 OF one of the most con.
believed that less than twenty Denn
cratic ,,,c Senator's will renounce the
,,ef,denns ratifx MS leadership a by voting to
EARLY in todays ene oass ssss.n reseryations 1s
a.r anr, enorts were begun to frame some
r@Fe r.s. r%a %a is0mprSmse on the Article 4
"crats to vote for 1t without yieiding
to complete surrender. Senatnss
Senators Msn ra',eI ,el.i number of Democrats
dertook TO induce them to agree IN
SUPPORT the Lodge reservation. IL ali
enoT,S e, ,his TO Gompromlse failed. Present
ator owen. were Senator's smith nr
Georgia; simmons, Beckhum. Walsh ~
Massachusetts: WoIcott and Hender-
m Each Will Vote own wf.b..
s1on me anS H9hierenee hreE came to, no conclu-
standnY hna tSa, ba1ks up with the UNDER
wishes eits - MS own
Ano,her conference was caned by
senator n.e henroot and included mum.
ner OF the mild reservationists. This
gnthering likewise came to an end
without any decision.
roHoWlnS these conferences n d.ts
Satioh OF the mild reservationists and
l,emocrats who want to have the treaty
and n,1neu er ,a, sailed LED upon Senator Watson
,nn w Watson-Simmons reservation on
rise t. y, az substitute for the
,ime ""se re- rhss1;rvation. ;rva ~ about the same
senator Lodge that they would ha va
nor nor htns whatever to do with tho Wnt
Soh-Sinmons draft.
Refuses Proposed SubstItute
nne uhshot Of the matter was that
plan for substituting the Watsnns, SON.
vi"',nons Wn,smn .s,, res,s,ryiallon; i; and Senator
SUPPORT or IL anu SO notified Senator
simmons. 'oo''
The remainder of the afternoon was
Sis.,y Srsnt py the mild rescrvationis,s in
uis'uSS'hg the question whether or
NOT one Of their number wonld propost.
~ ,nf reservation In the Senate. For po-
,,rara, mrara reasHns. senator simmons would
prefer TO have the substitute offered
nE some one on the Republican side.
nht u none OF the mild reservationists
himself. '' -
IL was said that the substitute ir
1h.iirred, thir,, might receive as many as
len votes on the Republican side. But
with Senator Lodge and his followers
i, ana the irreconcilahies opposing it,
be adopted.
~, Would strnddle Question.
wern ,ne o,rnnt em3rts Of the compromiscrs
reservation which the Republican
can claim destroys the obligation IN
snr Ar.'fle ,a, \. and and which Democrats can
put restricts the methods by which
this obligation Is to be carried out.
o,nr rne ,ti,rhaa rresident in his letter to Sen
treaty must not be ra titied without ne
Lnii assumption by the United States
nt the obligation. Senator Lodge and
@hlisation itself must me cut out be-
fore the treaty can be ratified.
IN ;,i nrr element which entered into
the the S,s1,%n afsmns and tended 70 discourage
lodge reservation was the notice that
saime from some OF the ''niddle-
the adoption of any change in the
Lodge reservation would drive them
~" ., Inc camp or the irreconciables.
twelve in number. are Capper. Frsl,
inshuyscn. Wadsworth, Bali. Suther-
land and Kenyon.
Palmer Appears on Scene.
c During the afternoon Attorney
"eherai zen Palmer appeared on the scene
ana was in conference with Senators
;nm,,nSt I'm,mEns n ana nat Pomerene: 1t WAS
nren sent as an emissary of the White
iionse to urge the admin istration men
IT,, IT, stand nrm. Senator simmons ex-
piaiheu. however. that his talk with
the Attorney General had to do with
some some speechcs which he is TO make in
North Carolina, while Senator Pomer-
OF u federal district attorney in Ohio.
Ihe suggestion that the Democrats
should all turn In and help ratify
favor with such senator's as Hitch
cock and simmons, who have had long
political experience. -
merely mean that the Preside ent would
pocket the treaty and then turn up
at the San Francisco convention and
pledge the party to ratification with
out reservations. This would leave
the Democrats who refused TO follow
HIN HIN, in the Senate out on the limb
the gold graccs OF their own constit-
uentS. t11Fftst.
Pnris Press CriticIx~s wiIson,
PARIS. March io.--President VIII
sons letter TO Senator Hitchcock rer 4
Earding reservations TO the Versailles
treaty was given little space and q
minor position In most of this morn-
ing'S newspapers. e g
The Gaulois prints It's comment on
the first page under tho caption.
Warnings OF Wilson" = y 80
"Mr. Wilson," IL says. takes revenge
for tho silence imposed upon him by
Illness, In less than twenty -four