Arizona republican., 1920-02-21
PARTIES HASTEN ID SHIFT BLAME IN LAST ACTION
Democrats and Republicans Both Deny Responsibility For Senate Deadlock in Fiery .Squabble on the Year-Old Issue
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.-The ques- tion Of party responsibility for the peace treaty deadlock was threshed over in militant fashion on the sen ate floor today, with both republic ans and the democrats seeking to wash their hands of the senate's failure to ,sct and of any consequences in the Political campaign.
 Although both sides professed an earnest desire to compromise and squaopied for the credit for past con- promise efforts, there was such a note or hopelessness in the discussion from the treaty's irreconcilable opponents that party leaders told the opposing party leaders they might as well put 1ne question of ratification out of their minds and turn the senate's attention 10 the business of legislation
 Among other things. the dehata oIought out a direct disagreensnf of ,9ct as 10 which side originated 4I1e
 g p@T tlsan conference, in which five .nSrats ..eiiioSrats and four republicans fougbf ment and as to what transpired heb;nd the closed doors of the conference,s sessions. ei eiie e .
 Hitchcock Starts the Row
 senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, the uefnocrauc leader, started the flare-un ny a speech denying that the democra IS wanted the treaty in the campaien ne asserted that his party had gone
 nihe-tenths of the way to a compro- mise, ana that the republicans had own reservations, without the dotting Di an or the crossing of q t.
 It was the minority. he declared, who had lnstigated the bipartisan move ment and who now had submitted two compromise article 10 reservations which many republican senators be iieNed were identical in substance with the Lodge resolution on the subject
 Claiming credit for the republicans in the initiation of the bipartisan conference, Senator Lenroot of Wis consin. one of the mild reservation re- publicans, charged that the demo- cratic leader had stood out against compromise so determindedly that tfe republicans were driven to agree upon the best compromise they could among themselves.
 ''In the 1920 Campaign Now"
 Senator Borah, republican, Idaho, speaking for the irreconcilableS, de- clared the two sides were no nearer agreement than they were when the Iague Of Nations debate began a year ago tomorrow, and that further dis cussion was only a waste of time. The treaty. he said, already was so far into the campaign that "you can no more keep it out than you can step half way over Niagara"
 The disagreement over what oc- cured in the bipartisan conference arose when Senator McKellar of Ten nessee. one of the democratic confer ees asserted that all of the nine sena- tors except Senator Hitchcock and Sen afor Lodge, the republican leader, had virtually agreed to one of the article 10 substitutes formally indorsed since lsy 40 democrats. The statement was denied categorically by Senators New af Indiana and Denroot who were re- publican members of the conference
 Leaders said tonight that the de- hate probably would be continued to- morrow, and that a vote might De reached during the day on the first proposed modification of the reserva- lions adopted at the last session or congress-
 m the midst of the debate Senator France. republican of Maryland. one af rhe treaty's irreconcilable foes. In- troduced a resolution to declare lmme- siatelv a state of peace, to provide Tor withdrawal of American troops rom fareirn soil and to appropriate Mo- no GOO to pay expenses of a world con ra-ence which would be held in Nash- -,~-for to discuss formation or peace | 'ea=ue-