Omaha daily bee., 1920-01-10
Friends of Versailles pact
Renew DetermlnedIy Their
Effort to Obtain Compro-
mise Ratification.
COVENANTS OPPONENTS
WELCOME WILSON PLAN
Republican Conference to
Take Up Kendrick Reserva-
tions - Hitchcock Predicts
Agreement Will Be Reached.
Hourly Temperature.

Washington, Jan. 9.--The fortunes
of the treaty of Versailles became
even more unsettled today when, on
top of President Wilson's Jackson
day pronouncement for taking the
question to the people in the political
campaign and William ]. Bryan's
opposition to such a course, demo-
cratic and republican friends of the
treaty in the senate renewed deter-
minedly their effort to secure COM
promise ratification.
Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska.
the acting democratic leader. said
he did not regard the presidents
declaration as calculated to cut off
dicted ratification before the cam
paign was under way. The mild
reservation group of republicans
took much the same view, and the
group of democrats who have been
urgent in their demand for a COM
promise declared their position was
in no way altered.
Discussion Is Active.
Discussion of compromise rescr-
vations, accordingly, went forward
as actively as before, a conference
being arranged on the republican
side to take up in detail the set of
reservations submitted recently BY
Senator Kendrick of Wyoming and
other democrats. 1t was said
counter proposal might be drawn up
within few days and all of the par
ties to the negotiations seemed
/ hopeful that an agreement ultimate7
ly would be reached.
! Among the treaty's irreconciiable
foes, hcwever, the presidents stand
and the statement last night of Sem
ator Lodge of Massachusetts,, the re-
publican senate leader, that he would
most cordially welcome the treaty
as political issue. Nere hailed as
having definitely put the question
into the campaign. This group con-
sstently has predicted failure for the
compromise negotiations and they
were more positive today than ever
that there would be no agreement
Speeches in Record.
In announcing that the compro-
mise plans would go ahead, Senator
Hitchcock said that of course the
democrats could not agree to any
compromise virtually impairing the
treaty. and that there would be All
endeavor to work out such reserya-
! tons as the president could accept.
Some other democrats were not so
emphatic on that point, however, de-
claring privately that they would
! take the best compromise that they
could get and then put the respon-
sibility straight up to the White
House.
! The speech of Mr.. Bryan at tho
Jackson day banquet here, which in
addition to opposing any effort to
carry the treaty into the campaign
advocated speedy compromise, was
put into The senate record today by
Senator Mccormick. republican of
Illinois. after the presidents letter
announcing his stand had been pre-
Scnted by Senator Hitchcock. SEN
ator Mccormack requested that the
two "he printed insJuxtaposition in
view or reports that they are agreed
cn the treaty"
Only an one ~ether occasion dur
ing the day was a mention on the
floor of the senate of the treaty or
the Jackson day developments. That
was when Senator Walsh of Massa-
chusetts, reservation democrat, put
in letter from President Lowell
of Harvard asking that the demo-.
Gratis show a willingness to compro-
mise on article ten. Hitherto all
advocate Of unreserved ratification,
DR.. Lowell wrote that he was con-
WINGED article ten imposed objec-
tionable obligations