THE PEACE TREATY

Marlborough Express, Volume LIII, Issue 273, 20 November 1919, Page 5

THE PEACE TREATY

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The New Yrork Times's Washington correspon«lftn.t states: ' "President Wilson's determination to reject the .Treaty if the Senate adopts it with Senator Lodge's ineservations se.e*ins -to leave a compromise us the.\only ©ther alternative. Smater Hitchcock, anlaounces that he is .organising the wuibrity forces tra •reject'''the ratjjicartjen 'resolution. Ther^ are 4-5 Democratic votes, of wliieh some will pitpbahly be cast with the Republicans, bxvt there are suffieiejat renraiiaißg, jjoHjever, to defeat ratification. 'The basis of a possible coimpa?o--mise has not yet been formulated. There is an unconfirmed rumor that President Wilson may possibly accept the Treaty if the reservation requiring the assent of three other Powers is omitted. The Democrats, before they cam succeed in passing any compromise programme, will be compelled t.e obtain the support of more than a third of the Republican Senators.?' Senator Hitchcock intimated that President Wilson was unalterably oppased to-.the reservation requiring tlie • assent of tlse other Powei>s to the res*sß vations, becatise Britain and Fraaiee;wo»iU object. 'Senator Hitchcock vsaid that the Democrats, after defeating tlve Treaty with the Lodge rcaeiTations, would attempt to gain ratification with Senator Hitchcock's nild reservati©ns, but in the- event of the latter being defeated they would thfii • peek a compromise. He added that President. Wil^ph- would prefer to have the Treatj^' defeated in the Senate rather than assume tlie regponsibility of rejecting it himself.

PROPOSAL FOR STRAIGHT-OUT VOTE.

(Reuters Telegrams.) (Received Nov. 20, 8.45 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 19. Senator Hitchcock requested Senator Lodge to a.gree to permit a vote, probably on Thursday, on a ■ resolution to ratify the Treaty without reservations.