Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-13
REVISED ARTICLE X
HELD IN DIST AV0R
Administration Senators Assist
mild" Republicans in De-
nouncing 1t
SAID TO RE PROPAGANDA"

Wash 'ngton. Feb 13.--With ad
ministration scnntnrs dcnounciug the
comrromisc Article Y rcSrrvatior nro
nose;l by mild reservation Repub
lscans and trying valiantly to influence
Democratic senators not to accept it.
kepnblican leaders have found they
4 could not expect more than twenty -
nine Republican votes for it. Pros
poets For an agreement on it do not
appear bright.
The ,noll among Republican senator's
was said to have revealed that in addi
ZION TO fourteen irrcconcilables there
would be at least six Strong rpserva
tionists" who would oppose the sug
gested compromise The senator's named
were Joseph s. Frc,inghuyscn. of New
Lerseys J.. HeiSlcr Fall. of Delaware :
James w. WadSworth. IT,, .: New
York Howard Sutherland. of West
Virginia: William NJ. Calder. of New
York. and William p Dillingham;. of
Vermont
With, only twenty nine Republicans
supporting the reservation. the votes of
thirty five Democrats would be necps
sary to ratify the treaty and the rro
n0unced opposition of Scnator Gilbert
NJ Hitchcock. Senator Thomas r..
walsh. of Montana. and other admin
lstratlon leaders left no doubt Ms TO
their desire to deny it Democratic sup
port y.,
The mild reservationists" were said
10 De contemplating change in their
reservation SO that it would provide
that the United States would assume
no obligation to permit the use of its
army or navy. the economic boycott "or
Its national resources the latter
PHRASES being substituted for the words
'or any other means
The TACT Is that the outcome now
depends on the Republicans. said Sen
ator Hitchcock. Il feel good deol of
disposition to leave it to them. They in
1tlnted this effort for ratification and
as they have the majority it is largely
In their hands anyhow.
THE proposed reservation to Arti,Ia
x is nothing but propaganda, In NV
opinion it would be better for the Dem
ocrats to take the original Lodge res =
ervation. | would rather vote FOR that
than for the substitute now nropOsed. I
never will vote for the original Lodge
reservation. but would prefer it to this
one.
Il am hopeful. but not sanguipp. as
TO the outcome. The conclusion depends
on the Republicans. The initiative is mn
to them. They must do SOMETHING Or
the treaty will go back into the same
hole it came out of.
W Il don't Fnow who is the auihor Of
this proposed substitute reservation of
Article y. but it seems to have no mr.
pose except to help the case for the
Lodge draft. There has been some an
parent attempt to make it look like
something that was forced on Senator
Lodge. but as a matter of fact it is
worse than his original reserva ton"
II believe said Senator Wash.
''that the new proposal dealing with
Article Y was framed on the assump-
fion that any change in the form of the
original Lodge reservation would bc ar
ceptabIe to the Democrats aud enable
them to save their faces do not be-
lieve many of these senators have un-
dertaken to diferentiatc between the
original Lodge reservation and the pro
posed substitute I do not think the
. new proposition is acceptable. | agree
entirely with what Senator Hitchcock
has said -