The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1920-03-12
SENATE MIX DELAYS
Vote ON PEACE PACT
Compromise Hopes Fading,
Plans Of Both Sides
Disrupted.

London, March 10.-With the of
fetal notification announced today o
the accession to the League of Ma
toms of Switzerland, Denmark
Sweden, Norway and Holland, all Blu;
two, namely, Salvador and Venezue
la, of the thirteen nations nonsigna
tories of the Versailles treaty, in
vited to become original members Of
the league, have definitely accepted
Salvador has signified its intention
of Joining the league, but Venezue.
la has not yet declared its intention.
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Washington, March TO- The
peace treaty compromise negotia.
tions entered period of fevered un.
certainty today as the time approach.
ed for final Senate action on Article
X.
Working desperately for an agree
chamber confounded the plans OF
their party leaders and threw the
Senate into such a tangle that ii
tacitly was agreed to delay a vote
for several days in the hope that all
elements might be more certain OF
their ground
The hopes of the compromise adj
vocates collapsed and were revived
hourly as the days negotiations pro-
ceeded in private conferences while
debate on the floor dragged on with
out apparent interest or effect. To-
night the conference continued, with
some senators hopeful and some
hopeless of the outcome, but with no
one confident of what might hap
pen.
1t was the treaty's irreconcilable
Republican opponents who started
the trouble by demonstrating in a
militant way against the decision of
some of their party leaders to assent
to a modified draft of the Repub-
lican reservation to Article X. So
effective were their representations
that the leaders virtually decided not
to offer the new reservation.
Z Caught i'm Cross-Fire.
This determination sent some Of
the mild reservation Republicans on
the warpath and produced confusion
also on the Democratic side, where
senators had labored several days to
line up votes for the Republican sub
stitute. Caught in a cross-fire from
Republicans and reservation Demo-
Gratis, the Republican leaders with
held their final decision, but indi-
Gated that they probably would pre-
sent the, substitute if assured of
enough Democratic defections to
adopt it.
Meantime. disa greement among the
Democrats became more pronounced,
partly as result of a meeting in the
office of Senator owen, Democrat,
Oklahoma, at which number of
Democratic senators are understood
to have expressed disapproval of the
course of their party leaders and to
have promised active support to the
movement to break away from Presi-
dent Wilson and accept the best COM
promise they could get.
Among some Republican advocates
of compromise 1t was declared tonight
that thirty-two Democratic votes
could be mustered for the Article X
substitute, and there were indications
that unless the Republican leaders
did present it one Of the Republican
mild rservationists might do so. 1t
also was suggested that If the Re-
publicans abandoned it entirely II
might be presented by reservation
Democrat.
Taking No Chances.
While virtually the entire Senate
membership was occupied with these
negotiations, the Article X reserva-
ton technically was taken up for
debate in an almost deserted Senate
chamber. But the irreconcilables
were taking no chances that the un-
settled situation would result in a
stampede, and they got the floor and
kept it, Senators Mccormick, Repub-
lican, Illinois, and Poindexter, Re-
publican, Washington, occupying the
entire day with attacks on the trea-
ty and on the recent utterances Of
President Wilson.
Countering the efforts of the DEM
ocratic reservationists, Senator Hitch'
cock, Of Nebraska. the administration
leader spent a busy day in confer
ence with his colleagues, seeking to
hold enough in line to balk the ac-