The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-06-10
LODGE TOOPPOSE.
RATIFICATION
Complete Abandonment of
G. o. P. Chairman's Position
Won by ''IrreConCiIabIeS."
LEAGUE NOT MENTIONED
Plank Said to Have Been Writ.
ten by Root Is Unanimous
ly Adopted.

ten by Root Is Unanimous
ly Adopted.
Chicago, June -lO,-The ir-
rcconcilables" forced Senator
Lodge to a complete abandon
ment of position on the league of
Hations, and by so doing have
framed a plank acceptable to
Everybody" This was unani-
inously adopted by the resolu-
tions subcommittee, and the
threat of party split has arpar-
emily been postponed or avertcd.
Senator Lodge, according to
Senator Borah, the floor leader
of the irreconcilables in the con-
vention, has taken q stand OPP
posed to ratification of the
treaty, and will so state to the
convention.
The plank, which upholds the po.
sition OF the senate and does not
deciare In specific terms for ratlf-
cation of the treaty, also was aqree-
able to Ogden Mills, Of New York,
representative Of the mild reser.
walton group on the subcommittee.
End the members generally declared
the prospects Of a complete agree
rent were bright.
All the members of the subcommittee,
however seemed satisfied with the de-
veopment and smiingly asserted that
the peril of a party split was over.
1t was said there still was some pos
slblity of hitch and that danger of
breaking open the treaty question or
the floor of the convention had not
entirely passed.
Give Final Polish.
The members of the subcommittee de-
Cllned to give out the text of the plank,
saying they wanted to take an hour on
Two to finally polish it up before giving
i; to the public.
The development came as sensation.
soon after the subcommittee had begun
what seemed likely to be " long and
desperate struggle. IL removed sub
eanlmittee members said, the obstacle
which had been holding UP the work o.
nut final action by the convention or
tfe platform at today's session
The plank, together with the re-
mainder of the platform, still had tc
{ nrnlttee, but the leaders expressed
e"cry confidence that the work of the
subcommittee would be approved vir-
tually witho,I changes.
accepted FIRST by the conference of
leaders the Root plank later was given
unanimous approval by the thirteen
members of the subcommittee.
Senator Lodge had no statement to
make when he euerged from the confer
cree but he Immediately went into con-
#ultation with Senator Watson. of In
diana, head of the subcommittee who
WITH senator Smoot, of Utah, had been
IT work all night to bring the battling
clements into harmony.
Root Now In Europe.
While the plank accepted today was
drafted originally by Mr.. Elihu Root.
il was said that some notifications had
hccn made in the convention con-
tcrences of the leaders and in the meet
ing this morning, Mr.. Root is in Eu-
rope.
Omtting all Endorsements of the pend
ing league covenant the Root resolu-
tion provides for a new agreement with
other nations which shall include a
tribunal for the settlement of inter-
national disputes. 1t was prepared by
Senator Root before~hs departure for
Europe, but has been modified consid-
,arably by the committee.
Although the subcommittee also ap-
proved today the Mexican and Armenian
planks, they decided to spend the day in
putting the platform into final shape
and to submit it TO the full committee
1T 1 pm. 1t also was suggested that
the convention might hold a night ses-
sion to approve the plartorm and pos
sibN work on nominations.
After the agreement, Senator Borah
said the unanimous compromise would
be submitted to the full committee
within an hour with every prospect of
present the completed platform to the
convention at o'clock:
The compromise plank was described
hN Senator Borah as establishing these
three principles for which the irrecon-
ciables had contended
Omission of any pledge for ratifl-
cation.
Commendation of the senate for re-
\ statement that any future league
must be in accord with American ideals
and the principles OF Washington.
Had Birth In Wall Street.
Senator Borah said that as the treaty
plank had been approved by Mr.. Minis
he presumed ii was also acceptable 10
former Senator Crane, who was under
stood to have kept in touch with Mr.
I Mills by telephone.
senator johnson declared today that
in the contest over the platform Sec
tion on the league the "fiIst assault sss,,lt
bankers on the republican party had
hcen met and defeated" II had been
charged by the Johnson -Borah group
that the Crane plank had its birth in
Wall street" -
The plank upholds the senate In
refusing to ratify the treaty OF Ner-
saiIles, declares that any future IN.
ternational peace understanding
must square with American radl-
tions and onlts the affirmation de.
claration for league which had
been urged by the mild reservation
ists.
Originally drafted weeks ago by Elihu
Foot the plank was revised at an all
NIGHT series OF conferences ana was
adopted or the subcommittee after
senator Lodge OF Massachusetts,, the
rrpuhlican senate leader. had appeared
i'm the committee room and declared
II tho mild reservation proposed were
accepted he would go on the convention
noor and hght IT.
The plank was said hr the suhcom-
uittee members to he wholly acceptable
to former Senator Crane. OF Massachu-
Its. the leader for the mild reserNa-
ton group. and It's acceptance re-
rroved the only obstacle to speeding 70
1 conclusion tho work of the national
convention The completed platform
was 10 he taken TO the convention floor
late IN the afternoon and u waS said
night session might he called TO be
sin the hearing OF nominating speeches.
shortly before noon the work of the sub
committee was completed and members
said theN thought there would he no
barrier to prompt acceptance cf iis
pratforrn draft hy the full resoltion
committee
WhIe the Root plank commsnos
the senstes rejection Of the Yer