POLITICAL PUZZLE IN AMERICA.

Colonist, Volume LXII, Issue 15239, 28 November 1919, Page 5

POLITICAL PUZZLE IN AMERICA.

PARTY DIFFICULTIES

POPULAR DEMAND FOR RATIFI-

CATION,

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Washington, Nov. 24

The Senate's rejection of.the Treaty places both parties in a peculiar position. Senator Hitchcock worked hard to defeat the Treaty with the Lodge reservations. The Treaty can now be introduced next session in the Senate, which opens on December Ist. it is considered certain that President Wilson will reintroduce the Treaty. Senator Lodge recently declared that he desired to mako the fate of the Treaty an issue in the national elections, but other prominent Republicans disapproved of this course. They state that they are . confident that the Treaty will be ratified before Christinas on tlio basis of a compromise satisfactory to both parties, which they believe President Wilson intends to submit. Both parties now realise that the country's desire for ratification of the Treaty in some form or other makes a compromise imperative.