Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-01-28
FINAL EFFORT
FOR SAVING
TREATY To
Be MADE
18TH
Agreements Could Be Made
on Everything, Is Belief,
If Article x Could Be Suc-
ceSSfully Negotiated.
REPUBLICANS DENY
HITCHC0CK'S STATEMENT
Reservations on Monroe
Doctrine and British Rep.
reSentation Believed In
Sight, Say Those Inside.


Esr Mosslsa JOURNAL SPECIAL IxAsEo w,sal
Washington, Jan. 81. - Peace
treaty compromise negotiations.
lowering on the verge of dissolu-
tion, were given today a new forty
eight hour lease on life. But there
was nothing in the development
which changed the pessimistic view
of the senate leaders as to the final
outcome.
Ine democrats, replying to the
republican refusal to compromise
on Article y and the Monroe doc
trine, charged at a stormy session
of the bipartisan compromise con-
ference that republican leaders had
suddenly changed front after most
of the conferees had consented to
an Article X compromise in definite
form. To this the republicans OPP
posed categorical denial, declar-
ing no one at all had agreed to the
opposed compromise draft.
win Meet Thursday.
After two hours of wrangling.
ened to transfer the whole subject
to the open senate. the conference
agreed TO meet again Thursday IN
another effort to bring the negotia-
tions 70 a successful conclusion,
Numerous private conferences on
botn sides followed. with the lead
ers feeling out sentiment carefully
as they approached the final show
down that may come at Thursday
meeting. In some quarters, II was
believed that in the interval Presi-
dent Wilson would take hand to
suften the resistance of the demo-
Gratis, but White House officials
wore silent and Senator Hitchcock
of Nebraska, the acting democratic
leader of the senate, declared he
was proceeding without knowledge
of the presidents views on the spe-
citic compromise reservations dis
cussed in the conference.
Delegation Asks Ratification.
During the plea for immediate
ratification, either with or without
reservations, was presented to SEN
ators Wadsworth and calder of New
York by a delegation from New
York City, headed by William
Church Osborne, and representing
the League to Enforce peace, the
League of Nations association, the
New York Federation of Churches.
farm organizations, the State
Chamber of Commerce of New
York and Daughters Of the Ameri-
can Revolution. Spokesman for the
delegation expressed the belief that
the time was ripe for composition
The whole treaty negotiations, 1t
was said by senate leaders, were
hung up on Article x and the Mon
roe doctrine, tentative agreement
having been reached on all other
points of difference, some of the
republican reservations, it was de-
had been accepted without
change by the democrats, while
numerous changes Of wording had
been made in others and two of
them had been rewritten entirely.
Real stumbling Block.
Differences over the Monroe doc
trine reservation also were said to
be of minor magnitude compared
to the big stumbling block present
ed by the obligation Of Article x
tegrity and political Independence
of other members of the league of
nations. The republicans insist that
no such obliga ton should be as
sumeG: the democrats are standing
out for an obligation conditional on
the action of congress in each spe-
cific case.
After today's meeting, Senator
Hitchcock made public the reply
he had given to the republican ul-
tmatum of yesterday, refusing TO
on Article X or the
Monroe doctrine. The reply de-
clared the majority of the confer
ence previously had assented to
draft of reservation,
under which the United States
would decline to assume any OBJ
legation ito employ its military or,
naval forces or the economic boy
,ott" under Article X, unless ceair
yress acted. Under the republican
the United States sim
ply would assume no obligation
N regard to other countries with
out congressional action.
1t was after this reply had been
,ubmitted that Senator Hitchcock
ave notice that II the negotiations
we're not continued he would move
o take the treaty up Immediately
n the open senate. The republican
,onferees replied that nothing
,ould be gained by such a move,
md that only endless debate would
'esult.
Hitchcoek's Statement. ah
Senator Hitchcock's reply to the
'epublicans as made public by him
oliows:
''In reply we desire to say that
We entered upon this conference
without any reservations or restric-
ions in the hope that we could
differences not only
IN Article x but on all other res
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