The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-01-17
Democrats Must Accept
Lodge Reservations or
Get Nothing AT All
COLLEGE VOTE is
FOR THE TREATY
Hitchcock Shows That
Only Is Per Cent Stand
for Measure ~ Propos-
ed By Republican, Ma
jority
-asy JA4xESRNUORsE

So ~
Washington. Jan. lb.--A!l proposals
thus far advanced By Democratic sen
ators for modification OF the Lodge
reservations on the peace treaty were
rc3sAsed today by Senator Lodge and
other Republicans.
This action again blocked the pro-
xress toward ratification and made it
another bad day for the compromises
who believe that hy altering the
Lodge reservations they will be able
10 get enough Democratic votes to
r&ttfy the peace treaty.
The suggestions put forward by the
Democratic senators were made at
he bipartisan conference yesterday
N Senator Lodges Gffice. They were
rejected today at a meeting Of the
four Republicans who participated
In the bipartisan gathering, namely,
Senators Lodge. New, Lenroot and
Kellogg.
MEET AGAIN
The BIZ partisan affair is TO be called
together again tomorrow at which
sime Senator Hitchcock and his as
sociates will be informed that their
proposed notifications will not do.
rhey will be asked 10 submit some
ttHSI pF61k0&Ri 0E u{AAt vi AGW EES-
sryaticns upon which they think 81
senators win be willing to unite.
senator Lodge said after today's
complete accord" on the proposition
II turning down thu DamoerAfir au9-
ssstgSasssa sMsifssdsssSE1s ~.
ii pdYf hthABa hI< III a uA sknfNardtwith
N Pa4nAr6 Fh&nefn4 this H0dE6T r4nisaift.
MSt0nas hi d manner which win DO
cep.nbie 40 the Republican sena-
yssrss
The Alternative. a. stated repeatedly
w senator ledge. III fnlI acceptance
nv the nenocrAtA OF the reservations
lust ~ they stand despite the dictum
" tile pirsident that these particular
reservations 4res distinctly offensive
to hin ana nno be accepted.
A speech made by Senator Hitch
cssck In. the ena earlier In the day
undoubtedly had something to dc with
the action OK the Republicans ia de-
ctding against the Democratic sugges-
tions. In his speech Senator Hitch
cock violently sssailei the Lodge res
errAtiOns and declared that not more
than 1S per cent Of the people OF the
United states would stand by them.
THE COLLEGE POLL.
The occasion for the speech was The
presentation by Senator Hitchcock Of
the reports Of the college poll now
being taken throughout the country.
The senator declared the results Of the
poll showed IS per cen Of the college
students favor ratification without RES
ervAtions. while not more than 20 per
cent stood for the Lodge reservations
A poll taken by a Rochester IN. Y,
Newspaper to the same effect was also
deferred to by Senator Hitchcock.
In commenting upon these reports,
senator Hitchcock said:
II defy amy senator who supports the
Lodge reservations to bring into this
chamber Any sort Of poll from sources
scch A these which will show more
than rs per cent for the Lodge reser-
~vationo."
senator Lodge was in the senate
Chamber IL the time this statement
was made, hut msds no comment upon
II. Senator Hoke Smith, Of Georgia,
however. vent y 3 to Senator Hitch
cocks dNa1x and told him he thought
he hAd been very tactlees" In what he
safd,etn@~few of the a that discns-
sion Of thc Lodge reservations had
bern the hasis OF the conference held
sppcsinE factions.
EenatorA who ARE opposed to the
league 81 nations In n form found
much fond for rejection today in the
cabIed news from abroad that Leon
H0ur @eots had been chosen president OF
thA leaeuA At It's initial meeting. II
WAs recalled that Bourgeois was a
most vowed enemy Of the Monroe doc
trina ana had sexeFted all his influence
iETthe DsAce conference to inject into
thu treaty N ahrogation OF that policy.
u ~ Understood that one. IL not
ssorcs NJ IA ~cppoHents Of the treaty
Will. make the selection Of Bourgeois
he sah3ecf Of speechcs in the senate
sithtn = few days.