The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-02-13

RESERVATIONS TO % REFERRED
TO PEOPLE IN SELECTION
or PRESIDENT
N0CoMPR0mlsE, sAYsLoDGe
Republican Leader Says Views % Sen.
ate Majority viii De Taken into
Campaion.- At.
tituda 10 Doubtful

Washington, D. c., Nov. 22.--Com-
promise efforts to ratify the peace
treaty were thrown into the back
ground yesterday by developments
strengthening the possibility that the
whole. controversy might be transfer
red to the political arenas for a de-
cision by the people in 1920.
Senator Lodge. chairman Of the for
eign relations committee and Repub-
lican leader of the senate, declared in
4 statement that there was mo room
for further compromise and urged
that the reservations Of the senate
majority be carried into the campaign.
There was no formal expression to
determine whether a like stand would
be taken ultimately by President Will
son and the administration senator's.
but 1t developed that the presidents
senate supporters had NO definite as
surances as yet that he would reopen
the subject for compromise by result
hitting the treaty when the new ses-
sion Of congress begins December l.
The treaty was thrice killed by the
senate previous to adjournment Wed
nesday. after all efforts to arrive ut
a compromise had failed.
The declaration Of Senator Lodge
reversed the position he and most
other Republican senators had taken
toward Injection Of the treaty into pol
itics, aud was accepted in COMPRESSION
al and official circles as clothed with
an added significance by Mr.. Lodges
conference with viii H. Hays, the Re
publican national chairman, just he
fore the unsuccessful fight Wednesday
for ratification with the majority res
ervations included. The statement fol-
lows:
Il have no especial comment to
make. The case is very simple. After
four months Of careful consideration
and discussion. the reservations were
presented to the senate. They were
purely American IN their character.
designed solely to Americanize the
treaty and make It safe for the United
States.
Under the presidents orders the
followers Of the administration in the
senate voted down those reservations.
It was also shown by vote that
there was decisive majority against
the treaty with the reservations.
''Those reservations as presented
to the senate will stand. There is
no room for further compromise be-
tween Americanism and the super
government presented by the league.
All ask now Is that We may have the
opportunity to lay those reservations
before the American people. To that
great and final tribunal alone would
| appeal.
II wish to carry those reservations
into the campaign. wish the Amer
lean people to read and study them.
They are not like the covenant Of
the league. They are simple. do not
see that there is one of them to which
any American can object. want the
people to see them. understand them.
and to think Of them In ever house
hold, on every farm, In every shop
and factory throughout the land.
Then let them decide"
senators to vote against ratification
with the reservations President Will
son characterized them as constitut-
ing a notification of the treaty. and
some Of his senate followers do not
consider it remote possibility that
he may decide to join the issue and
let the majority program stand Or fall
by popular decision in the cam
paign.
SHOULD he take such stand and,
declining to resubmit the treaty. let
matters stand for the present as they
are, it Is considered certain on all
sides that the result would be to put
the ratification fight squarely into the
presidential contest.
They were confronted with the fact
however, that the Republican group
of mild reservatiOnists. on whom hope
of compromise was placed. had serv-
ed notice that any further compromise
negotiations must be conducted with
the Republican leader himself.