The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-13
c. D. P. SENATORS
SEE SURRENDER
IN SUBSTITUTE
Balk at Lodge Move for Har-
mony and Compromise
ROLL CALL is DELAYED
IrreconcilibIes Surprised and Appar
emily Determined to Prevent
Notifications of Original

Washington, March IA substi
tute for the Lodge reservation to ar
ticle ten, which has stood una'tered
for many weeks as the storm center
of the peace treaty controversy, was
proposed in the Senate today by its
author, Senator Lodge of Massachus
etts, the Republican leader.
The move, described by the Repub-
lican managers as step toward har-
mony and compromise, at first led
the Senate in the opposite direction
by starting discussion whether the
new draft was weaker in its term than
the old. The mild reservationists,
backed by most of the Republican
membership, said it was not. The
Republican irreconcilables said it was,
and served notice they would not help
adopt it as they did the original. The
Democrats keeping silent, studied the
proposal with apparent suspicion and
withheld any decision as to what they
would do.
AS a result the possibilities of y
final agreement remained as becloud'
ed as ever and party leaders revised
their predictions of an early vote on
article ten. It had been hoped to
reach a rollcall today, but tonight no
one was predicting action before
Monday or Teusday.
Characterizing the proposed chang.
es as 'the terms of a Republican cap
itulation' TO the White House, Sena-
tor Mccormick of Illinois. led in the
attack of the Republican irreconcil-
ables. "a set of weasel words, was
the way Senator Brandegee Repub
can, Connecticut, described the com
promise proposal while Senator Knox
Republican, Pennsylvania asserted
that it would leave upon the United
States the moral obligation for which
President Wilson has contended.
The text of the new reservation fol
lows
The United. States is under no obli-
cation to, preserve the territorial in
tegrity or political independence oil
any other country by the employment
of its military or naval forces, its re
sources or any form OF economic dis
elimination or to interfere in the
commerce of nations whether mem
bers of the eague under the proy.s-
ions of article, ten or to employ the
military or naval forces of the United
States under any article of the treaty
for any purpose unless in any parti-
cular case the Congress, which under
the constitution has the sole power to
declare war or authorize the employ
ment of military or naval forces of
the United States, shall, in the eXer-
else of iull liberty of action by joint
resolution, so provide.
In presenting the substitute Sena-
tor Lodge dec ared that it did not
alter in any respect the substance
of the reservation or weaken the
denial of the nations obligations
under article ten. He made the
move he said because he did not feel
justified in insisting on a mere aat-
ter of phraseology.
Senator Lodges presentation of
the substitute apparently took the
irreconcilables by surprise, and aside
from their declarations on the floor
there were many private expressions
of their dissatisfaction. They had
constantly and successfully exerted
pressure during the bipartisan ne
gotiations and during the Watson
Simmons negotiations to prevent any
modification of the original Lodge
reservation. and until today they ap-
parently believed they had convinced
him that he should not put in the new
substitute.