The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-10
Treaty Friends h Senate Determined
 Upon Ratification
Hitchcock Predicts Ratifica- ton Before Presidential Campaign Gets Under Way, Despite Presidents Advice to Make Treaty an Issue In Campaign
Rx Assonlaied Pres

The fortunes or the treaty LII Versailles became even more unsettled today when, on top ot President Wilson's Jackson Day pronouncement for taking the question to the people in the political campaign, and Will liam Jennings Bryan's opposi- ton to such a course, demo- cratic and republican friends of the treaty in the Senate re- newed determinedly their eff forts to secure a compromise ratification.
 i Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, the acting democratic leader, said he did l not regard the Presidents declaration i as calculated to cut off any reason- 1 able compromise, and predicted ratitl- 1 cation before the campaign was under | way The mild reservation group Of republicans took much the same view and the group of democrats who have been urgent in their demand for com ] no way altered.
 1 DISCUSSION CONTINUES Discussion of compromise reserva- tions accordingly went forward as ac- lively as before, a conference being ar ranged on the republican side so take up in detail the set of reservations sub mitted recently by Senator KendricR of Wyoming and other democrats. It was said counter proposal might be
 drawn up within a few days, and all or
 the nsrties to the negotiations seemed iAsraf1ti that an agreement ultimately
 w1ui De reached.
 sNonE the tremty's irrcconciifnbie efek however, the Presidents stand arr the statement last night or s&aeser Lodge of Massachusetts,
 tn@ republican Senate leader, that A~ ss,uId "most cordially welcome" ahr treaty as political fssne, meFr hailed ns having definitely
 Saf he question into the campaign.
 sNgM group consistcptly has pre-
 n failure For the compronsise
 AAse tiafi0ns, and they were more
 4l i've today than ever that there
 sesf he no agreement. fwHlTI n SHIFT RESPONSIBILITY
 m lnouncing that the compromise : mans would go ahead, Senator Hitch , eSsly 9eid that of course. the democrats 1 o4si anot agree to any compromise
 4ft4f', impairing the treaty, and that
 .hnre would be an endeavor to work
 sut st h reservations as the President t sesnia accent. Some other democrats < ,tsre rot so emphatic on that point
 t7s yer declaring privately that they
 would take the best compromise they 1 could get and then put the responsl- d bility straight up to the White House l rvt. Of Nfr 1 t son Day banquet here. which, in addi- :. ton 10 opposing any effort to carry " the treaty into the campaign, advocated 7 speedy compromise, was put into the 1t Senate record today by Senator McCor' d mick republican, Illinois, after the
 Presidents letter announcing his stano
 had been presented by Senator Hitch S cock. Senator McCormlck requesee' d that the two "be printed in juxtaposi' > ton. in view of reports that they ar' e agreed on the treaty.
 q No debate developed and only or '- one other occasion during the day wa le there a mention on the Senate floor O 'e the treaty or the Jacksoni Day de
 velopments That was when Senate s Walsh of Massachusetts, reservation ,o democrat, put in letter from Presi = dent Lowell of Harvard asking that tn " democrats show a willingness. to com m 1 promise on Article 10. Hitherto an ad h vocate of unreserved ratification. pr .d Lowell wrote that he was convinced Ar
 ticle 10 imposed objectionable obliga DC tions
 O. BRYAN GOES TO LINCOLN ss Mr Bryan did not tarry long Il ;k washington. leaving early in the da n- for Iincoln. Neb where he will spea' a- Monday. He will deliver an addres 'h in New York January IS. So far a
 was learned he did not confer wit ne de7aocratic leaders here before his de
 parture.
 The cabinet met In it's regular sessio
 today, but if the members discussed tn
 split between the President and MI
 Evan on the treaty issue or Mir. Will
 son's stand they would not admit It.
 Democratic leaders did not attemp
 however. to minimize the effect tha
 the split between the President and hi
 former Secretary of War might hav' > both at the convention and at the poll in November, if it should be carrie that far.
 V They recalled the dominant roll NJ
 Bryan played at the Baltimore gath
 erine when MT Wilson first was nom
 mated, and while the convention tim be is yet in the distance, some of then
 at least, look forward to stirrn u events in San Francisco.
 E. Many of the democratic leaders wh gn gathered here for the Jackson Da he deliberations left today for their hom =, Chairman Homer S cumings or ti ai national committee conferred wit re some of those remaining concernin re arrangements for the party conventio l- on June 2s, but no definite decision wa ad reached.
 re meeting of the executive comm ,n- tee will be called soon to formally di
 cuss plans.