Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-28
TREATY COMPROMISE GIVEN NEW LEASE: ON
 lIFE: BY (,(lNFIE|:R||EI:EE:S
Efforts Deferred tntil Thurs. day But Hope is
 Scant
STORM SESSION OF
 BY-P ARTISAN COMMITTEE
Article Ten and the Monroe Doctrine Reservations Still Are Stumbling Block in the Way of
 Action

Washington, Jan. 27. Peace treaty compromise negotiations, lowering on the verge of dissolution, were giv- en today new AS hour lease on life. But there was nothing ;n the development which changed the pessimistic view of the senate leao- CTS as to the final outcome.
 The democrats, replying to the republican refusal to compromise on article ten and the Monroe doctrine, charged in q stormy session of the bipartisan compromise conference that republican leaders had sudden . ly changed front after most of the conferees had consented to an article ten compromise in definite form To this the republicans opposed d categorical denial, declaring no one at all had agreed to the proposed compromise.
 After two hours of wrangling, during which the democrats threat ened to transfer the whole subject to the open senate, the conference agreed to meet again Thursday in another effort to bring the negotia- tions to successful conclusion. A few senators professed to see some rays of hope in the situation but to most of the leaders the outlook ap- peared far from promising.
 Numerous private conferences on both sides followed, with the lead CTS feeling out sentiment carefully as they approached the final show down that may come at Thursdays g meeting. In some quarters it was believed that in the interval Presi- dent Wilson would take a hand to stiffen the resistance of the demo- crats, but while house officials were silent and Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, the acting democratic leader of the senate declared he was proceeding without knowledge of the Presidents views of the specific compromise reservations discussed in the conference.
 Citizens Seek Action
 During the day plea for imme- diate ratification either with or without reservations, was presented to Senators Wadsworth and Calder of New York, by delegation from New York City, headed by William Church Osborne, and representing the League of Enforce Peace, the League of Nations association, the New York Federation of Churches, farm organizations, the state cham Der of commerce of New York and Daughters of the American Revolu- tion. Spokesmen for the delega- tion expressed the belief that the time was ripe for composition of differences over the treaty.
 The whole treaty negotiations, it was said by senate leaders, hung on article ten and the Monroe doctrine, tentative agreement having been reached on all other points.
 Some of the republican reserva- tions, it was declared had been ac- cepted without change by the democrats, while numerous changes of wording had been made in oth- CTS and two of them had been re- written entirely. It was emphasized however, that the confeeres on both sides were acting only in an advisory way and that their decisions bound no one.
 Differences over the Monroe doc Urine reservation also were said to be of minor magnitude, compared to the big stumbling block presented by the obligation of article ten to help preserve the territorial integrity in political channels of other members of the league of nations. The repub- licans insist that no such obligation should be assumed; the democrats are standing out for an obligation conditional on the action of congress in each specific case.
 After today's meeting Senator Hitchcock made public his reply to the republican ultimatum of yester- day, refusing to compromise an ar ticle ten or the Monroe doctrine. The reply declared the majority of the conference previously had asented to a compromise draft of reserva- tion under which the United States would decline to assume any obli- gation "to employ its military or naval forces or the economic boy cott," under article ten, unless con gress acted.