TREATY PARLEY

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10537, 13 March 1920, Page 7

TREATY PARLEY

— * ARTICLE TEN UU.U-Uh.-NT ON PRESIDENT WIT.' SON’S LETTER.

By Telegraph—Press Assn.— Copyright Aubtraliaa a»ul N.J6. Cr«*>l6 Association* NEW YORK, March 11. The correspondent of the “New York Tunes’’ says the work of drafting a compromise on Article Ten is not progressing favourably, and many discouraged Senators express no hope of reaching a compromise which will be acceptable to the whole Senate. It is felt that Republicans, as well as a small number of Democrats, who are dissatisfied with President Wilson s attitude, aru now attempting fo fasten tiro rejection of the Treaty upon President Wilson. The Republican leaders have assented to a modification in Article Ten, placing Congress not in power to provide tne military and naval forces, but reserving to Congress declaratory rights. U.S. NAVAL NEEDS. IF TREATY is" NOT RATIFIED. W'AStill.XUmN, fMaitah 9. Air J. Daniels, secretary of the Navy, informed the Parliamentary Naval Committee that if the Pcaoo Treaty was ratified huge reductions would bo effected in the naval expenditure; but if it was not ratified, America must immediately start building the largest navy in the world.