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Show PRESIDENT AND HITCHCOCK TO CONFER ON STATUS i.By The Associated Press!) Washington. Nov, 16. A conference confer-ence tomorrow between President Wilson and Senator Hitchcock, administration leader in the senate contest over the peace treaty, was expected tonight to determine de-termine largely the fate or the treaty and plans for adjournment of the special session ses-sion of congress. Senator Hitchcock will see the president presi-dent before the senate reconvenes to take up the final reservations to the treaty, and expects to obtain from him a final word on the form of reservations he will accept. Definite outcome of the treaty controversy contro-versy this week either by a deadlock or reserved ratification and adjournment of the special session of congress tonight seemed assured. With the cloture rule in effect, the senate tomorrow will take up the two remaining committee reservations reser-vations and after disposal of dozens of individual reservations, reach the last stage of ratification resolutions. With final action on the treaty, adjournment ad-journment sine die of the session which began Mav 1 is planned before the new and long session begins two weeks from tomorrow. What the house will do while the senate sen-ate is in the last stage of the treaty fight had not been determined today. The railroad bill will be taken up again tomorrow and probably passed by tomorrow tomor-row night or Tuesday. Not much will be done after that. Senator Hitchcock said tonight that lie would submit the majority reservations as adopted, and those still before the senate, together with the minority substitutes, sub-stitutes, to President Wilson "for his final judgment." Leaders of both parties predicted that the president would not accept the reservation reser-vation program adopted by the senate. The majority managers said they were proceeding with plans to override A lee-President lee-President Marshall's proposed ruling thin the treaty could not live or die by a vote on the resolution containing reservations adopted by the majority. The program of the majontv contemplates that final rejection of the Lodge resolution, upon reconsideration with a second vote, shall ba ruled as decisive ratification or defeat. de-feat. The first reservation to come up tomorrow to-morrow is designed to qualify the treaty provisions hv which Germany renounces in favor of the big five powers her title to tier overseas possessions, of which final disposition is tn be made afterward under the mandator- svstem. The reservation res-ervation declares the United States declines de-clines to accept as trustee or in its own right any responsibility for snch terri- Under this reservation the Republicans declare thev are assured of a majority, but they are not so certain about the other and final measure on the tumult- It is a reservation by which this count rv would decline to submit sub-mit to the'league s decision any question ' It considered to involve International rights and interests. In a statement issued tonight the executive ex-ecutive committee of the league to enforce en-force peace declared that, If such a reservation res-ervation were adopted. It would be "the clear dutv of every senator who sincerely believes "in a league of nations to vote against ratification." |