Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-25
E:PUbL.IcANS MAKE
 EFFORTS T0 ADJUST TREATY DIFFERENCES
Bi-partisan Meetings Held Up Because of C.. o. P.
 t'0Rclave
OUTLOOK FOR EARLY
 SETH EMENT IS BAD
Warfare May Break Out On Senate Floor Despite Wish to keep Pact From Being
 Foot ball

Washington. Jan. 2d Compromise negotiations il the senate on the peace treaty We're halted temporarily today while republican senators took toek of the situation caused by the protests against further compro- mise made yesterday to aenat Lodge by Senators Johnson of Cal1- , fornia. Borah of Idaho and other re publicans.
 To give opportunity for the repub- lican senator's conferences, Sena- tor Lodge cancelled the meeting of the bipartisan conference of repub- lican and democratic leaders con sidcring compromise reservations.
 Another meeting of the concllla- ton committees was called for Mon day, however, and meantime inform al conferences on both sides were planned.
 Numerous consultations between members of all senate factions were | held today and leaders generally agreed that the outlook for an early settlement was unpromlslng. II was conceded in all quarters that the protests by Senator's Johnson l and Borah had made future nego- tiations more difficult.
 Senator Lodge conferred today with the other three members of the republican committee and prepared an answer to democratic proposals
 for composing differences over the
 reservations to article X Of the i league. This answer will be trans mittod to Senator Hitchcock of Ne l braska and his associates on tht
 democratic committee Monday.
 Altho no authorative statement re
 garding the nature of the republican
 leaders plans were given, 1t was in
 timated that the republicans woult
 agree only to changes in language O ' the two ma ior reservations and Woult
 not yield any of the principles in
 wolves
 T Assurance to this effect were re
 ported to have been given Senators
 Johnson and Borah at yesterday ! conference.
 Reed Is Critical. Y Besides conferences of the repub
 lican leaders today the mild reser
 vation" republicans and also nun
 Der of democrats consulted separate
 " anu WI GH SstSll OCilSI' 'S 'iAA
 reservationsts were sounded out b. Senator Hitchcock and other demo T cratic leaders and, it was stated
 gave assurances that if the opposi ton from Senator's Johnson, Boral
 and their adherents blocked the con ciliation movement, some of tn "mild reservations" were prepared t. treat with the democrats indepen Jo off ort tn hripU a hnll ratification. : Both republican and democrati
 leaders agreed today that the situa
 ton was developing where the war , fare soon might break out on tn senate floor, despite hopes that tn treaty would not be made foot ball' in the senate until set o compromise reservations could b agreed upon. Today the treaty con trovcrsy cropped out briefly in tn senate. Senator Reed, democrat o
 Missouri, criticized the bi-partisa negotiations, declaring they were be :, ing conducted in secret by "self-ap pointed" committees having no au < thority to act.
 :. They are not discussing princi plcs," said MT. Reed, Out ho' ,I CUGNGeS III lHc ICoCI NdCioho SeNh O 7 made which will catch some votes. : The mild reservation republican Senator Reed added, "insist on yield Y ing only part of our sovereignty, while advocates of unqualified rat a fication of the treaty" wish to yiel ,. it all."
 There is another class of "olc o fashioned wicked people," continue
 MT Reed, "who would not surrende a single star of the American fla a to live under banner of interni v, tionalism."
 .' Senator Reed also commended Wi
 liam J Bryan for his position agains q notifications the treaty witho, 7. charge in article X of the leagu !, covenant and for opposing resuml . tion of manddatories by America. e e Commenting MT. Bryans oppos U r tion to mandates, Senator Reed sai .a the word mandatory" was poli # name for conquest.
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