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SENATE ADOPTS TWO
CHANGES IN TREATY.;
G.0.P.L|AE BREAKS
Bipartisan Changes on Shantung
and Treaty Agents Voted at
Stormy Session.
SENATOR LODGE DECLARES
THE PACT HAS FALLEN

Washington, March 5.-1wo more
reservations to the Peace Treaty were
disposed OF yesterday by the Senate, to an
accompaniment of wrangling seldom
equaled in that body.
At the same time those Senators who
have been trying to work out COM
promise on the reservation on Article
Y, decided that the time had come to
put it before President Wilson. They
asked Senator Glass to go to the White
House and learn whether the President
would accept modification such as
i they had in mind.
Senator Glass was at the White House
yesterday, but did not see the President,
President did not get the proposed COM
promise
The proposed change in the Lodge rcser-
walton was reported to have been origi-
mated by Senator Kellogg, but nc de-
nicd it. 1t was shown to Senator Lodge,
who, according to custom, said that the
first thing TO he done was to learn how
many votes it could get. Il was then
taken up with Senator Simmons and by
him was shown to Senator Hitchcock.
He Is said 10 have suggested that it
be presented TO the President.
The proposal is understood TO involve
the insertion in the Lodge reservations
of specific mention of the means by
which the United States will not bind
itself TO preserve the territory and indie
pendence of other nations, these TO i'm
clude military and naval forces, the eco
nomic boycott, and perhaps one or two
Others.
MIR. Lodge evidently did not expect It
to get far, for in the debate in the Sen
ate yesterday he Informed Senator VIII
lians of Mississippi that the treaty had
fallen by the wayside." II was the first
time the Republican leader had publicly
expressed such a view.
Nothing is to he done about the pro-
posed compromise, II is understood, UNI
til the President has passed upon 1t.
The reservations adopted yesterday
were those covering Shantung and the
selection of American representatives
upon organizations created by the treaty.
such as the League of Nations and other
commissions.
Senator Hitchcock opened the debate
on Shantung by asserting that IN pro-
posing it the Republicans were supporting
an idle thing, and were relinquishing the
only hold upon Japan which the United
States had IN its efforts to help China.
"China would derive no benefit from
this reservation" said Mr.. Hitchcock
1T merely wrthholds the assent of the
United States from tie ,Shantung deal,
but that has been consunmated. Japan
is in Shantung. This reservation does
nothing to right wrong. If Senators
want to help China their proper course
would be to vote for declaration that
we propose TO hold Japan to her prom
ises, made in Paris and elsewhere, to
return Shantung to China.
Senator Lodge rpplIpI that the raGpr-
walton would at least prevent the world
from believing that the United States J.!
assented to"the infamy" heaped on China
There was much debate about the ne
cessity of striking from the Lodge res
ervation the names of China and Japan,
an amendment which Senator Lodge pro-
posed after it was suggested by Dem
ocratic Senators in the bipartisan con-
ferences. Senator Hitchcock's attack
upon the reservation aroused Senator
Norris.