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Show Compromise Is i Offered In Fight j On Peace Treaty WASHINGTON, Aug:. 20 In an address, supporting his resolution, j Senator Pittman todav declared the i president by suggesting separate re-' re-' solution had offered a compromise 1 which it appeared might lead to early I raUflcation. of the treaty. The n-solu; n-solu; r.n, he said, night easily be sub-, sub-, mitted to the other governments fr ' their approval if there were any doubt whether it would be effective. "The resolution of ratification admittedly ad-mittedly becomes a part of the treat-. ' I said Senator Pittman. "Under th ' decisions of the supreme court of the j United States the language of the re solution ratification is construed witb I the body of the treaty. "Every party to the treaty has the i right to determine for itself whether ' or not language added to the treatv 1 changes the substance of the con-I con-I tract. "We do not know whether Germany would accept our construction or not. We do know that flermanv is longing ! for an opportunity to attach to the treaty hundreds of reservations which she urged upon the peace conference and which were denied. It is cou-I cou-I clusively evident that the inclusion of I reservations in the resolution or : ratification would long delay peace I ! and it might result in the abandon-I'ment abandon-I'ment of the league of nations." Swnntnr Pittman sairl th.-if in bis resolution he had conformed as nearl as peacticuable to the reservations drawn by the McNary reservation group "I believe there are forty-six Democratic Dem-ocratic senators," he said, "who will support a separate resolution such as I have suggested and I am conviced ; that if those on the other side, who have been supporting reservations to be contained in the resolution of rar-! rar-! ificaUon and who I know to be sin ! cerely In favor of the league of nations, na-tions, will Join with us. the ratification will soon be accomplished." The preamble of Senator wens' re. I solution, declaring "that the senate, j in ratifying the treaty of peace witb Germany has done so with the under-I under-I standing that the meaning and pur pose of this instrument is as follows. ' 'Eight reservations are then expre?n-I expre?n-I ed, covering domestic questions, the nehi of congress to decide questions of peace or war, an unconditional right of withdrawal, the Monroe doctrine, doc-trine, the understanding that Japan will withdraw speedily from Shantung, rapid redaction of armaments, jut treatment of subject nationalities and a stipulation that the league shall interfere in-terfere In internal revolution or boundaries only in exceptional clrcuiu stances." |