The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-15
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VEXES WILSON
"Another Letter" From White
House CurtIy Rejects Lodge
Substitute.
REBUKES PARTY LEADERS
President Lets It Be Known He
Seeks Referendum on
Treaty.
REBUKES PARTY LEADERS
BY J. BART CAMPBELL,
international News Serviee.)

international News servieeJ
A curt, flat rejection by the Presi-
dent of Senator Lodges proposed
substitute for the original reserva-
ton to Article X rendered ratifica-
ton Of the peace treaty more hope
less today.
1t was learned that what was de-
scribed at the White House as IAN
other letter" from the President to
Hitchcock was a short communica-
ton written by the President on the
back of one received from Hitch
cock.
President is Peeved.
This is not acceptable.--W. w"
This was written by President Will
son across the top of letter he re-
ceiyed from Senator Hitchcock on
Friday or Saturday. In which the
Lodge substitute for the original res.
crvstion TO Article X was described,
it was learned this afternoon from
official sources.
In every response he has made to
Hitchcock's latest communications, the
President has shown himself to be
opposed unalterably to the sugges-
tions recently made by Republican
and Democratic Senators seeking rati-
fioation as a basis for a compromise
on Article X.
Hitchcock made no effort to conceal
his own displeasure at the unusual
y II
though he declined to discuss 1t.
Privately. Hitchcock permitted 1t to
ba known that he regarded tho Presi-
dents action as rendering ratification
more hopeless than ever.
Hitchcock suggested that the only
way to rs-establish peace between
this country and Germany would be to
negotiate a new treaty, although he
stated that the initiative for such ac-
tion would naturally have to come
from the President.
Tho present chaotic political situa-
tion in Germany would probably pre-
vent such action at present. II was
pointed out, and the technical state
OF war between this country and Ger
many was likely to continue linden.
nitely unless a resolution declaring II
at an end, such as Senator Knox, Re-
puUiiCdH, ot fcHuSyiNAntn, mas WV
posed, passed by Congress and ac-
cepted by the President as . solution
of the existing muddlc.
Reject FreIinEhuysen Plan.
The Senate rejected this afternoon
a substitute proposed by Senator
Frelinghuysen, Republican OF New
Jersey, to the Lodge reservation to
Article X.
The vote by which the Frelipg-
huysen substitute was defeated was
IT to SO.
A proposal by Senator Kirby, Demo-
crat, Arkansas. for change In tho
Lodge substitute for the original res
ervation to Article y was defeated by
a vote OF 81 to 45.
The proposal was opposed soiidly
by the Republican side, the Admins
tration forces voting for Il.
The Senate then took up the reser-
walton to Article X proposed by for
mer President william Howard Taft
and rejected by Senator Lodge, the
Republican leader at the recent BIZ
partisan conference to which II was
submitted by Senator Hitchcock, the
Administration treaty manager.
BY vote OF 30 TO 46 the Taft res
ervstion was defeated, with the Re-
publican side opposing II, the Admin
istration Senators supporting IL.
BY viva voce vote another substi-
tute proposed by Senator King, DEM
ocrat, Utah, was defeated.
Senator Simmons, Democrat North
Carolina, then proposed a substitute.