The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1920-01-16
NEWS REVIEW OF (,
CURRENT EVENT.
Treaty Compromises Still A
I. Hopeful but Wilson Shows
No Signs Of Yielding.
PROGRESS OF THE BOLsHEW
Sign Armistice With Esthonia al
Worry Japan by Siberian Advance
Congress Gets Lots Of Ad-
vice on Railway Legislation.
BY EDWARD w. PIcKARp.


Prospects of satisfactory comprD-
mise in the treaty situation in the
United States senate were not much
frightened by the developments Of last
week. The cOmprOmisers were unre-
mitting In their efforts, however. and
one of them. Senator Pomerene. after
conference with Senator Lodge,
said: II believe we will get together.
None of the reservations which the
majority of the senate adopted is as
bad as defeat Of the treaty. The cOun-
try wants the treaty ratified prompt
~"
The signs that a good many Demo-
Gratis We're ready to abandon the adj
ministration's policy of ratification
without reservation caused Secretary
Tumulty to visit the capitol and study
the situation for the president. He
had long talk with Senator Hitch
cock, and while neither would give
the details of the conference. Mr..
| Hitchcock said: We've got long
row TO hoe yet before we reach.a com.
promise" He added that nothing Mr..
| i
sign that the president would yield in
his refusal tn compromise I'm the fight.
Meanwhile the supreme council i'm
Paris. which had made up its mind TO
| go ahead without waiting longer for
the United States. ran up against n
snag. II had fixed January 6 as the
1 I,x, lob Oh kxa
signed and ratifications of the Ger
man treaty be exchanged. and then
| discovered that the German delegates
did. not have full power to act. Steps
to rectify this were taken. The SUI
preme council learned that there were
still some 10000 German troops in up
per Silesia. where a plebiscite Is to be
held. and IL was decided Germany
should be told II had better remove
them at once. II was also planned to
send a mission of allied officers to SUI
pervise the withdrawal of Hungarian
troops that are i'm that part of west
ern Hungary that was given to Aus
tria.
|
thOnians and soviet Russians I'm con-
ference at Dorpat signed seven days
armistice. the protocol including a
temporary adjustment Of boundaries.
military guarantees and recognition
of the independence Of Esthonia. Ii
was assumed that this agreement
would soon he followed by the con-
| ,.lueinp ~ m da6pifa naa.sa ha&v..aa,. ,hs
two countries.
In a New Years greeting to the
world. sent from Moscow by wireless.
the soviet government promises that
In 1870 IL viii victoriously end the
civil war in Russia that soviets win
be established In Berlin. Washington.
Paris and London. and that soviet au-
the world.
General Semenoff is now the DON'T
nant figure among the anti-bolshevists
Of Siberia. Following his disastrous
defeats and the swift advance east
ward Of the soviet armies, Admiral
Kolchak went into eclipse. His forces
melted away rapidly, and In the Irk.
utsk region mutiny and anarchy pre-
vailed. The entente allies and the
United States seem quite disinclined
tn intervene further In the affairs Of
Russia by force Of arms. in which they
probably are wise. and IL appears "a
% up to japan "a stop the onward
weep Of bolshevism in the far East
il can he done AZ all. The impress
don prevails that the japanese viii
Je given a free hand on their assur
'Dce that they have no intention 81
unexiug any additional territory