The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-01-10
PEACE TREATY
PROSPECTS FAR
FROM HOPEFUL
Senators Believe President Has
Raised Complete Barrier
HITCHCOCK is CONFIDENT
Mild Reservationst Republicans Be-
ieve There Is Still Chance
for Compromise
HITCHCOCK is CONFIDENT

washington, Jan. S.-Ine fortunes
of the treaty of Versailles became ever
more unsettled today when. following
President wilson's Jackson day pro
nouncement for taking the question
to the people in the political cam
paign, and William Jennings Bryan's
opposition to such a course, Demo
cratic and Republican friends of the
treaty in the Senate renewed de
terminedly their effort to secure a
mpromise ratification
Senator Hitchcock, acting leader
said he did not regard the Presidents
declaration as calculated to cut of
any reasonable compromise and pre-
tlicted ratification before the cam
paign was under way. The mild res
ervat,on group of Republicans, took
much the same view. and the group
of Democrats who have been urgent
in their demands for a compromise de.
clared their position was in no way
altered.
Discussion CT compromise reserva-
tions accordingly went forward as act.
lively as before, conference being ar
ranged on the Republican side to take
up in detail the set of reservations
submitted recently by Senator Ken
drick of Wyoming and other Demo
Gratis. II was said a counter proposal
might be drawn up within few days
and all of the parties to the negoti-
ations seemed hopeful that an agree
ment ultimately would be reached
Among the treaty's irreconcilable
foes, however, the Presidents stand
and the statement last night of SEN
ator Lodge of Massachusetts. Republi.
can Senate leader, that he would "mcst
cordially welcome" the treaty as a po-
litical issue, were hailed as having
definitely prt the question into the
This group consist emily has
predicted failure for the compromise
negotiations, and they were more pc 81.
tive today than ever that there would
be no agreement
In announcing the compromise plans
would go ahead, Senator Hitchcock
said that of course the Democrats
could not agree TO any compromise VI
tally impairing the treaty, and that
there would be an endeavor to work
out such reservations as the President
could accept. Some ether Democrats
were not so emphatic on that point
however, declaring privately that they
would take the best compromise they
could get and then put the responsi.
bility straight up TO the White House.
The speech CT Mr. Bryan which in
addition to opposing any effort to car.
ry the treaty into the camua'g advo-
Gated a speedy compromise. was nut
INTO the Senate record today by Sena.
tor Mccormick, Repub lean, Illinois,
after the Presidents letter announc-
ing his stand had been presented by
Senator Hitchcock. Senator McCor.
mick requested that the two be print.
ed in juxtaposition, in view of reports
that they are agreed on the treaty"
No debate developed, and only. on
one occasion during the day was there
a mention on the Senate floor of the
treaty or the Jackson day develop.
ments. That was when Senator wal.
sh CT Massachusetts. a reservation
Democrat, put in a letter from Presi-
dent Lowell of Harvard, asking that
the Democrats show Willingness to
compromise on article ten. Hitherto
an advocate of unreserved ratification,
DR.. Lowell wrote that he was con.
vinced article ten imposed objection.
able OBJ igations.
Mr.. Bryan did not tarry long in
Washington, leaving early in the day
for Lincoln, Neb, where he will speak
Monday. He did not confer with Demo
cratic leader here before his depar-
ture.
The cabinet met today but If the
members discussed the split between
the President and Mr.. Bryan or Mr..
Wilson'S stand they would not admit
1t.
Democratic leaders did not attempt,
however to minimize the effect that
the split between the President and
his former secretary of state might
have both at the convention and at
the polls in November They recall
ed the dominant role Mr.. Bryan play
ed at the Baltimore gathering when
Mr. Wilson first was nominated. and
while the convention time is yet in the
distance, some of them at least look
forward to stirring events in San
Francisco.