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Show THE MINORITY REPORT. The minority report of tho foreign relations committee on the peace treaty having been presented to tho senate, the issue is now fully joined and the de-bato de-bato should not continuo any great length of time. The report urges speedy ratification of the treaty without reservations res-ervations or amendments. The main fight will be over the reservations, it being generally conceded that the proposed pro-posed amendments will fail. One of the Democratic members of the foreign relations re-lations committee, Shields of Tennessee, has declared for the reservations proposed pro-posed by Senator Lodge, while ono of tho Republican members, McCumber of Xorth Dakota, is among the "mild res-orvationists. res-orvationists. " Tlie president professes to believo that the treaty will be ratified rati-fied as it stands. It is highly probable, prob-able, however, that the senate will vote for reservations of some kind, either drastic or mild. Senators Johnson and Borah spoke against the treaty in Chicago Wednesday Wednes-day night before a large audience. Their attacks seemed to meet with tho approval of the crowd which filled the auditorium. Johnson was acclaimed as "the next president," which must have been displeasing to Mayor Thompson, who also has aspirations. President Wilson spoke at Billings, Montana, Thursday morning and at Helena in the evening to good-sized crowds and is due in Spokane tonight. Public sentiment in the northwestern states is undoubtedly undoubt-edly favorable to tho treaty, but it is more than doubtful if any influence) can be brought to bear that will influence in-fluence the votes of Gronna of North Dakota and Poindexter of Washington, the first named favoring the Lodge reservations res-ervations and the latter insisting that the treaty should be killed without benefit ben-efit of clergy. |