New-York tribune., 1920-01-03
Senate Plans
Treaty Action
N ext w eek
Continued from page i
home Wednesday night and conferred
with Senator Hitchcock again to-day.
Lodge Predicts Agreement


Lodge Predicts Agreement
Senator, Lodge declined to say any
thing about his conferences, excep,
that "it looks as though We will get
together"
No progress has been made At all
on the specific terms Of compromise
All OF the interested Senators agreed
The details probably will be worked
out ~ an informal committee to be
seiected quietly during the next two
or three days.
This compromise committee probably
Will consist Of Senators Lodge and
Hitchcock, with possibly Senator's Len.
root, McNary, sPomerene and Swanson
as the other members.
The unofficial committee will submit
whatever proposition it may agree unor
to the rank and file Of Republican and
Democratic Senator'S when they return
to Washington next Monday. When the
necessary sixty-four votes for ratifica.
tion have been secured the plan for q
compromise will be announced.
Lodge Reservations Basis
The mild reservationists," who will
have charge of the overtures for an
agreement, declared to-day that the
Lodge reservations must form the basis
OF any compromise, and that the prin.
ciple Of all the Lodge reservations
must be accepted by the Democrats il
the treaty is to be ratified.
The compromise the mild" Senator'S
are insisting upon includes acceptance
Of all the Lodge reservations without
change except the preamble, Article X
the Shatung reservation and the reser-
Uo$ nY4 IA A1>A uv,iA
ish Empire in the league Of nations.
The preamble will be modified so as
to provide for acquiescence IN the. res
ervations by the other powers. Unless
two Of them object, it has been pro-
posed. the reservations shall be con-
sidered accepted. The preamble now
requires the written assent Of three OF
the four other great powers.
The reservation on Article K is, prov.
ing TO be- q stumbling block. The Lodge
reservation specifically declares that
the United States assumes no obliga-
tion to preserve the territorial integ-
are insisting that the obligation be ad-
mitted, but the mild" Senator's have
proposed that the reservation. declare
that Congress in the future must rec
ognize the obligation before the United
States shall be bound by that provision
Of the league covenant.
ShantunE to BE Modified
It is generally agreed that the Shan.
tung reservation will be modified only
to the extent that all mention Of China
and Japan will be eliminated. The
compromise reservation would simply
withhold the assent Of the United
States to the Shantung provisions Of
the treaty.
The Lenroot reservation on the vot-
ing power Of Great Britain and hel
colonies has been described by the
Democrats during negotiations for, q
compromise as the basis of the strong.
est objection which the President has
to the Lodge reservations. They have
declared that Great Britain will hot
be able to accept it, the Democratic
Senators asserting that it virtually
disfranchises Canada and Australia,
and that it does not Sequslize the six
votes Of the British Empire and the
one vote Of the United States in the
league assembly or council.
Senator McNary declared to-day that
the issue has been raised over the
Lenroot reservation merely for trad
ing purposes. He said he expects the
Democrats to concede the Lenroot res.
ervation in order to secure some other
concession from the Republicans.