The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-02-10
REPUBLICANS ARE
STRENGTHENED IN
TREATY CONTEST
(copyrirht BY Tho Intsuissaesr)
BY DAVID LAWRENCE,

WASHINGTON. D. G.. Feb 9.-As the
Senate takes up once more the job or
trying TO reach an agreement -on the
form in which the Peace Treaty sna'l
be ratified. the most Significant piece OF
news il that President Wilson has sala
explicitly just what reservations ne
would accept. Though his advisers
have been urging HIM for months to do
so. Mr.. Wilson for reasons OF his own
,,s ytcadfastly refused to erase from
the public mind the impression that ne
wanted the treaty ratified by the SenaNe
without so much as the crossing OF
- or the dotting OF an =. tnouSt'
the Presidents concession IS oeIattu'
II is nevertheless vital and clears the
atmosphere to this extent: Both the
President and his opponents favor r"Ser-
vationS and the debate now centers ON
how many shall there be anu what theE
hall contain.
The Senate agaiu and again refused
bv It's votes to amend the treaty ana
Mr.. Wilson is determined that under the
Suise OF reservations. amendments
snail not be made tina; impair the val
id;ty Of the whole document. The ke'
publcans however. have been strength
med BY the uttcrance OF Viscount Grey
10 the effect that Europe would accept
reservations. Everything now depends
upon the form IN which they are pre-
sented Senator Lodge admits that
srme of his reservations were Srawh
rather hastily and put into the debate
" a moment when careful revision wa1
mt poSS bic.
once in the debate they could not be
redrar;cd though the bipartisan con
e>rcnCc recently mad" good progress to-
ward revising thc Lodge reservations.
I, was en- Article Ton that the break
.lnr The tnct that President Wilson
wrote Irrtcr at that time-JanuarS
"rtN--uUtl:uirS his views on rescrTa-
,'Cns wSs not mad" known until last
Saturday 20 the Democrats or Rcpubli-
con.. Hero was a tactical error OF re-
~~c':ahlc proport ons. The responsible
;ty IS plainly on the shoulders OF the
Tres dcrt FOR Senator Hitchcock himself
wa"tHd :, max" that letter public. IL
was W. ttcn before N;S""unt Grey wrote
h's letter To the London Times. II
would have revealed that IN" President
vas not stuhbornly trying TO get the
.rcaty through without any Gqualifca>
t'cn whatsoever and r.ght have pre-
vented the bipartisan parleys from
breaking up. Aud there is no telling
arw far advanced tho treaty situation
would have hecn months ago IL tho
Pres 'd"rt had permitted Senator Hitch
,nck T. sly la; November what he now
lu'hor;zed him - stare 70 the Senate.
ramcly thHt the President approves OF
rcSCrNatlrnS u tlc Tcd(S. tl"lN dE'
he reservations which President VIII
-~n rercrS TO in his letter to senator
!ItchcoCk as those on which ne stands:
That any member nation proposing
- withdraw from the League on two
years notice is IN" sole judge az 10
whether its obligations referred to in
Article On" ut IN" League Of Nations
have been performed as required in said
article.
That no member nation is required
= submit To IN" League. its Council. its
assembly. for decision. report. or rec
rmmendation. any matter which L con-
Sdcrs 20 hO III International law do
rrNS'ic Qu' ~stlon such as imm grafton.
laSor. tariff. or other matter relating to
49, '"tNrr1l Ur cO9$twlSe affairs.
THAT the national policy Of the tni-
tod StHtcs known nS the Monroe Doc
,r!nS as announced and interpreted by
he United states. * not in any way
impaired or affected BY the Covenant Of
he League OF Nations and is not sub
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