Omaha daily bee., 1920-01-29
Preponderance Of Senate
Opinion on Eve of Final BIZ
Partisan Conference Is That
Deadlock Has Been Reached.
CANNOT AGREE ON
TWO POINTS OF ISSUE
Article Ten and Monroe Doc
trine Prove Stumbling
Blocks to Compromise That
Otherwise Might Come.

Washington, Jan. Io.-Preponder-
ance of senate opinion on the eve
of another, and perhaps final BIZ
partisan conference of republican
and democratic leaders, was that a
deadlock had been reached, making
an agreement very unlikely at this
time on compromise peace treaty
reservations.
Reservations to Article X and for
preservation of the Monroe dostrine
promised to be the center OF variance
between the leaders of the two fac
tons at tomorrow's meeting and il
appeared that should a break come
it would result from inability to
agree on these two points. Should
the bipartisan conferences, which
have been i'll progress for more than
two weeks be abandoned influences
at work in both political parties, il
was asserted today in some quar-
ters, undoubtedly would have a
strong effect ultimately in the di-
rection of committee which would
keep the treaty out of the political
campaign.
Two Points Of Issue.
Article X and the Monroe doc
trine, it became known today, were
the only subjects on WHICH tentative
agreement has not been reached by
the bipartisan committee. Much OF
the language of the republican
reservations adopted last session has
been agreed to by the democrats, il
was revealed, while many changes
had been conceded by the republi-
cans and two Of the reservations
had been conceded by the republi.
cans and two of the reservations had
been rewritten entirely.
Among the changes approved by
the committee were the following:
Modification of the preamble Sc
that instead of requiring specific at
firmative acceptance of the reserva.
tions by three or four of the great
powers, such acceptance would be
taken for granted unless objection
were made before disposition of rati
fication by the United States.
r Reservation on. Voting.
Qualification of the reservation or
voting strength in the league so the
United States would not be bound
except in cases where it previously
had given its assent, by decision II
which any member had more thar
one vote. In the republican reser
vation this exception was omitted.
Change of the withdrawal reser
vation to make it provide that no
tice of withdrawal from member
ship in the league "shall be given by
Joint resolution" of congress in
stead of may be given by a con
current resolution" A joint resolu
ton requires the signature OF tn
president, while concurrent resolu
ton ordinarily does not
Deletion of direct reference u
Japan and China by name in tn
Shantung reservation SO the Unite'
States simply would withhold as
sent to .he Shantung articles ant
reserve liberty of actions in any dis
pute arising under them.
Complete redrafting of two OF tn
reservations so they would requir
that no representative to the leagu
be appointed without congressiona
authorization and that no recon-
mendation of the league regarding
ornaments would be valid until ap
proved by congress.
Numerous notifications of Ian
guage in others of the IA reserva
tions. That providing that tn
United States would accept no man
datory except by congressional &C
| ton was one of those, however, re
naming intact.