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Show ; UNITED STATES RUSHES AID TO KOLCHAK SIBERIAN FORCES In WrfhlMt OVER PEiGf PICT iELfii Stormy Committee Session Ses-sion Ends in Decision to Speed Work on Treaty Deliberations. Trend Toward Agreement Agree-ment on Reservations Noted Between Opposing Oppos-ing Forces in Senate. WASHINGTON, A up. lo.- 'y the Associated As-sociated J 'rciis.) Thu t rend tow ard agreement on reservations in I ho peaco treaty reached tho state today v bora the group of Kepublican tamatom advocating advo-cating reservations received ;i;-sura ma i which they accepted as guaranteeing Democratic assent to their program. Woid reached members of tho pn.uip, if was said, that as soon a;j (hey could pledge a score of liepublicau olt:i f.T reservations to the league of natioim covenant along tho lino recently unreeii un by iicven Kepublican sen:itoi;, the ad ministration furccs in tho senate -would bo wdling to lino up on that banh; f.f rtLtil'icaliou uf (ho treaty. There was an intimation also that the reservutionists had reason lo belice their ranks c en I ua My would iiielii-lo Senator Eodge, clniii'mau of the '..nij-n re la I ions commit t ee mid I Icpu hi ica ti leader of (he nenale. Twenty liepublicans, U waa dermxd. vould be enough with (lit: a -I i n i 1 1 1: i ra t i m i Democrats , Mi;iko up the I w o ( hirdn necessary for ral H'ietttion. The program l. which it is sought to unite the.- c c h 1 1 1 n i a con templates rcser at iou.s lo further pin (eet the Monruo docti'ine, to imaii'e du mestic control over dmnentic (pje; t ionf. to amplify the right of withdrawal and lo fortify tho power of congress to deohlo questions of peace or :r under article ar-ticle X. DEMOCRATS UEPOKTKP IN RECEI'TIV K MOOD. H v. as declared I lie iofmina t ion thai Democrats w ere in a reeepi u ; m-.o.J toward such a. propria 1 did iml l'Uinr liom Senator Jhtcln-ock of Ndra: b a . tho ad m in ist ra t ion h-mler, but I com n. m -h, eonsid'-r. d cut i r ly a u l i i r ! t a I r, c. TIm' N.-hrtjsba senator hino'lf di-nn d lh:t In had lalo'ii pari in ;rm. vu--!i m-'il a , ii.n-a ii.n-a nd said Ida a d '. 01 .o' v of unr ; ; . d un fh-aljim icmaueU u? la 1 1 i - ! . Mr, l.-nl- I also denied il, at he had i:m n a;,. cnL lo the pn.pon'-iJ a. rah-n: . I Mia-itiirc, le.w.'iT, al a rlnini" in-'ft-fng of 111- foreign r-daM-.m: c.MoniiM. e I SeiiHlor Jhlc,cocl- L'av i t thai l;r, the commil I. c cmpl- l. .) v. il 1 1 . H undo. j delay l cor !)) a i i.n of I I..- I t a I some J i if J ii'iid' el a.'i i. .n ioit.-ht b. , .. ' p''.-1 d on i h,- floor of j lH- ; f.n;, i ,.. 1 1 1 I tin- fiJi:;.'". t imi I or M.o -1 " ;, ,- i- m, i -i,;, ;i I man l.o-Jt;'. ci t red , ami id-' u,. .,, ,,f I i hat lh mn, ill--e uo il. 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Mir.ne-i Mir.ne-i so'a; Co.t P.'r.oie Is. and; Cummins, Iowa; Lerircot, Wisconsin, and Spencer, Mis- touri. i i h e basis for t u- hone that Senator Loc? v.'.ii join in 'lie movement was not : r-voaled bv the reservation leaders. It v. a s point e-j out, however, that, in his I rdress to the senate yestrdav. he did j no: plead for rejection of tne league en-tireiy, en-tireiy, hut outlined objections to trie covenant cove-nant j-rop'Ji-ais dealt with by the pro-i pro-i rosed reservations. In one instance, he I spoke of "changing" one of these provisions. provi-sions. r riends of the foreign relations chairman chair-man have declared that he would insist at least on reservations or amendments "with teeth in them." and Republican memoers of the committee who want to defeat the ieag :e covenant entirely de-cia-ed tonight they were confident Mr. Lo'lge would vote with them in that proposal. pro-posal. The situation in the committee may be brought to a head by the letter of Senators Sen-ators Johnson and Borah asking that further fur-ther witnesses be called. The question probably will come up tomorrow. Senators Sena-tors Fall, Republican, New Mexico, and Moses, Republican, New Hampshire, also are understood to have suggested the calling call-ing of more witnesses at today's meeting. meet-ing. Senator Fall also is said to have declared the committee cou'd not be e?:-pe-ted to pass intelligently on all the obligations obli-gations embodied in the treaty until the other treaties being negotiated at Versailles Ver-sailles were before it. Warned by Hitchcock. Senator "Hitchcock told the committee that virtually every Eenator had made up his mind how he would vote, and that the country wanted the treaty disposed of one way or another. Besides General Bliss and Colonel House, both of whom were members of the American peace delegation. Senators Johnson and Borah are understood to have suggested in their letter, that the committee hear E. T. Williams, former head of the state department's far-eastern far-eastern division; S. K. Hornbeck and William C. Bullitt, all advisers to the comm ssion, who resigned while the negotiations nego-tiations were in progress. It has . t een reported that Mr. Williams and Horn-beck Horn-beck left the commission because of the Shantung settlement, and Mr. Bullitt because he was dissatisfied with provisions provi-sions affecting Russia. Although discussions about reservations reserva-tions have centered on the league cove- : rant, the Shantung provision has not been lost sight of by opposition senators, and it was said today that an amendment covering it would be urged, both in the commit tee and in the senate. It :b expected ex-pected that Senator Fail also will urge an amendment striking out all reference to American representation on the various vari-ous commissions to be et up to supervise super-vise reconstruction in Europe. What amendments or reservations will be atT ached to the treaty in committee is said by members to depend largeiy on Chairman Lodge. The Republicans have a majority of three., but one of them.! Senator McCumber. is expected to vote I with the .Democrats against any radical : amendment. Snould the chairman aisi accept a reservation xerogram surnnar to j i the McCumber-McXary pfan. the anti-; anti-; amendment group would be in the ma-i ma-i jority. Estimates of members a.s to how long . the committee would require to consider amendments and reservations differed widely. Some thought a report might-be , x-ossibie within two wee:s. Tomorrow 1 sections other than the league covenant are to be taken up under present X'lans, the members having many proxosa s for change in the economic and poktica; I;rov,s:ons. What may have been the part played by the White house in the negotiations between LemocratjC senators and the reservation Republicans has not bf-en re-! re-! vta;ed. Members of the latter group who : have talked v.uth President Wilson have I , been confident that he would be wii.,ng j 1 in the end to accept such a program, i but publicly there has bee n n n : hang'; . in his stand for unreserved ratification. I I i |