Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1920-01-08
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Treaty Compromises Still Are
Hopeful but Wilson Shows
No Signs of Yielding.
PROGRESS OF THE B0LSHEVlKI
Siqn Armistice With Esthonia and
Worry Japan by Siberian Advance
Congress Gets Lots of Ad-
vice on Railway Legislation.
BY EDWARD w. plckARp.

BY EDWARD w. PlCkARD
Prospects of satisfactory compro-
mise in the treaty situation in the
United States senate were not much
frightened by the developments of last
week. The compromisers were unre-
hitting in their efforts, however and
one of them Senator Pomerene, after
conference with Senator Lodge,
said II believe we viii get together.
None of the reservations which the
majority of the senate adopted is as
bad as defeat Of the treaty. The coun-
try wants the treaty ratified prompt
ly."
The signs that q good many Demo
Gratis were ready TO abandon the adj
ministration's policy of ratification
without reservation caused Secretary
Tumulty TO visit the capitol and study
the situation for the president He
had IA long talk with Senator Hitch
cock, and while neither would give
the details Of the conference, Mr..
Hitchcock said We've got long
row to hoe yet before we reach com
promise" He added that nothing Mr..
Tumulty said indicated the slightest
sign that the president would yield in
his refusal to compromise In the fight,
Meanwhile the supreme council in
Paris which had made up its mind TO
go ahead without waiting longer for
the United States, ran up against a
snag. II had fixed January 6 as the
day on which the protocol should be
signed and Publications Of the Ger
man treaty be exchanged. and then
discovered that the German delegates
did not have full power 10 act Steps
to rectify this were taken. The SUI
preme council learned that there We're
still some 10000 German troops In up
per Silesia, where a plebiscite Is 10 be
held and II was decided Germany
should be told il had better remove
them ut once. II was also planned 70
send a mission Of allied officers to SUI
pervise the withdrawal Of Hungarian
troops that are IN that part OF west
ern Hungary that was given to Aus
tria.
On the last day Of the year the rs
thonians and soviet Russians In con
ference at Dorpat signed a seven days
armstice, the protocol including a
temporary adjustment OF boundaries,
military guarantees and recognition
Of the independence of Esthonia. II
was assumed that this agreement
would soon be followed by the con
clusion of a definite peace between the
two countries.
In New Years greeting 10 the
world sent from Moscow by wireless,
the soviet government promises that
in 1920 il will VIGOROUSLY end the
civil war IN Russia, that soviets viii
be established in Berlin, Washington.
Paris and London, and that soviet au-
thority viii be supreme throughout
the world.
General Semeuoff Is now the domI-
nant figure among the anti-bolshevists
Of Siberia Following his disastrous
defeats and the swift advance east
ward Of the soviet armies, Admiral
Kolchak went into eclipse. His forces
melted away rapidly, and IN the Irk-
utsk region mutiny and anarchy pre-
vailed. The entente allies and the
United States seem quite disinclined
10 intervene further in the affairs Of
Russia by force OF arms, In which they
probably are wise and Il appears TO
be up to Japan to stop the onward
sweep Of boIsheylsm In the far East
II 1t can be done at all. The impress
sion prevails that the japanese viii
be given free hand on their ASSN
ance that they have no intention Of
annexfug any additional territory.