Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-29
ANOTHER DEADLOCK LIKELY AS TREATY MEETING IS RESUMED. Article Ten and Monroe Doc.
 Urine Will Call
 Split STILL HOPE TO KEEP
 IT OUT OF POLITICS. Democrats, However, May Thow the Matter Into Open Senate Today, if Bi-Partisan Conferees
 Can't Agree

NanL Agree
 Washington, Jan. 28.-Preponder- ance of senate opinion on the eve another and perhaps final, bi-partis- an conference of republican and democratic leaders, was that a dead lock had been reached making an agreement very unlikely on con- promise peace treaty reservations.
 Reservations to Article X and for preservation of the Monroe doctrine promised to be the center of variance bttween the leaders of the two fac tions at tomorrow's meeting and it appeared that should a break come I: would result from inability to agree Cn these two points. Should the bipartisan conferences, which have been l.. progress for more than two weeks be abandored influences at work in both political parties, it was asserted today in some quart CTS, undoubtedly would have strong effect ultimately in the direction of a compromise which would keep the treaty out of the political cam- paign.
 Article 10 and the Monroe doctrine, 1t became known today, were the only subjects on which tentative agreement has not been reached by the bi-pa,tis committee. Much of the language of the republican reser- vations adopted last session has been agreed to by the democrats, it was revealed. while many changes had been written entirely.
 Among the changes approved by the committee were the following:
 Mcdificat:or of the preamble so that instead of requiring specific af- firmative acceptances of the reser- vatlons by three or four of the great powers, such acceptances would be taken for granted unless objection were made before deposition of the ratification by the United States.
 Qualification of the reservation on voting strength in the league so that the United States would not be bound. except in cases where it pre- viously had given it's assent, by de- cisions in whic hany member had more than enc vote. In the re- publican reservation this exception was olai.ted
 May Enter Senate.
 Change of the withdrawal reser- Nation te, make it provide that mo- tice of withdrawal from membership in the league "shall be given by a joint resolution" of congress in- stead of 'n,ay be given by concur rent resolution" A joint resolution requires the signature of the presi- dent while concurrent resolution ordinarily does not.
 Delegation of direct reference to Japan or China by name in the Shantung reservation so the United States simply would withhold assent to the Shantung articles and reserve liberty of action in any dispute aris- ing under them.
 Complete le-drafting of two of the reservation so they would require that nb representative to the league be appointed without congressional authorlza:icr and that no recom- r.endaticn of the league regarding arnamcnts would be valid until ap-
 Numerous qualifications of lan- proved by congress.
 gua.e in others of the IA reserva- tions, that providing that the Unit ed States would accept no mandatory except by congressional action was one of those, however, remaining in- tact.
 The sticking point on the Monroe doctrine reservation came when the democrats proposed to strike out a provision that the doctrine should be interpreted by the United States alone, while the article 10 was reach- ed on democratic proposal to make the exemption from the articles ob- ligation apply only to use of the na- tion's armed forces. It was when the whole negotiations had been sift- ed down to these two propositions that the republicans served their mo- tice that they would not agree to any compromise on the two reser- vations affected.
 Should the bipartisan negotiations collapse at tomorrow's meeting, dem- ocratic leaders expect to try to bring the treaty into the open senate for debate. Senator Hitchcock of Me- braska, acting administration lead CT, said today, however, that he probably would make no such move for 10 days or two weeks.