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9 TREATY CHANGES
To RESERVATIONS
ACCEPTED BY LODGE
Massachusetts Senator Yields to
Bipartisan Report; Hitch
cock Spurns Surrender.
PACT PROGRAM RECAST
Correspondence Now York Times.

CORES pondencc Now York Times.
Washington Feb. l2.-Senator Lodge
TODAY accepted the conclusions OF the
bipartisan conference on Peace Treaty
reservations as far as they reached con-
clusions. as part Of his program, by pre-
senting in the Senate amendments on
nine points covered by the preamble and
the reservations.
Nr. Lodge intends to move these amend
ncnts TO the Lodge reservations, thus
making the work OF the bipartisan con-
ference the basis of discussion OF the
treaty.
The nine amendments relate to the
preamble or resolving clause; the question
Of withdrawal from the League; domestic
questions; Shantung: the selection OF
American representatives IN the League
Council, Assembly and commissions;
appropriations for the United States
share of the League expense; limitation
Of arnaments: treatment by the United
states of the nationals of a covenant
breaking State who reside IN this country
and voting power.
Republican mild reservatlonlsts also
announced the acceptance by senator
Lodge of a modification of the reservation
on Article Y, worked out by the mud
group, aided BY suggestions from Demo
cratic senators. Tho modified feser-
vation is 10 be presented In the Senate
by Mr.. Lodge. Senators stated, II present
plans are adhered to- 1t will have the
support OF practically all the Republican
Senators who are not irreconcllables, the
mild reservationists said confidently. and
they expect it to command considerable
Democratic support.
HITCHCOCK REJECTS PROPOSAL.
Senator Lodge and others we're can
vsssing Senators OF both parties today to
learn how the proposed modification
suited them. 4 leading Democratic
Senator accepted it, Republicans stated,
and said that he thought other Democrats
would DO 50: but Senator Hitchcock, the
acting leader of the Democratic minority,
rejected IL with tho statement that ut
is not compromise, 1t Is surrender
Mr.. Lodges acceptance Of the proposal
is understood 20 be conditioned upon the
attitude of the mddle-ground Republicans
who form the main body OF support OF
the Lodge reservations.
The proposed reservation reads:
The United States assumes no oblga-
tions to preserve, by the use of its military
or naval forces. or by the economic boycott
or by anv other means. the territorial
integrity or political independence of any
other country, or 20 interfere IN cOntro-
versies between nations. whether members
of the League or not, under the provisions
Of Article Y. or 20 employ the military
or naval forces OF the United States under
any article of the treaty for any purpose,
unless in any particular case the Con gress.
which. under the Constitution. has the
sole power to declare war shall, by act or
Joint resolution, so provide.
The Lodge reservation on Article y
provides that the United States shall as
sumo no obligation Ia preserve territorial
integrity and political independence, but
docs not specify in that connection the Use
Of military. naval or economic forces. The
proposed substitute Is different only in
that it does specify that none Of these
forces nor any other means shall be en-
ployed
Many Senators expressed great surprise
that mild reservations should consider.
such Il proposal Senator Hitchcock said
that he thought il went much further than
the original Lodge reservation IN re-
pudiating the obligation. Besides de
claring that il was not compromise. but
a surrender, he said:
The use of the words 'or by any other
means eliminates every weapon We have
Inder Article n
FOR CHANGE ADHERED To BY WILSON.
Mr. Hitchcock added that his personal
idea OF an acceptable compromise was the
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