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Show SENATORS TBI FOB ADVANTAGE I Neither Side Yet Ready for Showdown on Johnson Proposals. ! (Chicago Tribune Special Service.) WASHINGTON. Sept- 24. Long powwows n'.ystii y:nx cloak room . tr.nncuveriii on both sides of tho treaty f ijjht in tho senate produced no other result today than to disclose a reluctance on tho-part of everyone, except ex-cept Senator Johnson himBelf, to face an immediate "showdown' on the Johnson amendment qutilitdns American Ameri-can and British voting power in the leajfue ot nation?. Administration leaders do not want action on the amendment now because they prefer to watt until President Wilson can. return ro Washington. Republican Re-publican leaders, equally uncertain 01 their strength, were unwilling' to risk a vote until they had exhausted every means to pull ' ' wobbling ' ' members into line. Atild ioservationlsts were not ready to vote because they were hopeful if they had more Timo of working out some devico to dodo the direct issue. Senator Johnson stood in a class by himself. lie alone urged immediate action. A long conference of tho Republican Re-publican strategists was held in his office. of-fice. Senator Lod;e, Senator Borah, Senator Knox. Senator Bramkcee and Senator Watson attended. Senator Watson advocated a week's delay, expressing ex-pressing confidence that the Johnson amendment by that time would command com-mand sufficient stnength to assure its adoption without any question. Senator Sen-ator Johnson was anxious to get a vote without delay in order that he could: resume the stump against the treaty. ! No decision was reached. After the conference. Senator Johnson John-son made this statement t ' 'You can depend on it that there will be a v 0 1 e on t h e a m e a d :n e n t , but when, 1 cannot say. I hope it will be wi'hiu the next lew days."' Senator Edge of New Jersey, "Republican, "Repub-lican, undertook to accomplish what Senator Johnson, Senator Lodge and Senator Knox declared "'the impossible'' impossi-ble'' and framed a reservation. Pe adopted the language used by President Wilson in explaining to the California audiences how six British votes would eqiml one American vote. '.re is the I'dge reservation: "In ratifying this treaty and cove- nant, the I'nitcd States so acts, only on the specific and positive provision that in the assignment of six votes t n self-governing self-governing port ions of the i r:f ish empire em-pire 'in every ma t ter excepc admission of new members of tin league, no action ac-tion shall be taken without the concurrence concur-rence of a unanimous vote of !h representatives rep-resentatives of the slates which are members of the council and that in all matters of action the affirmative vote of the United States shall be necessary and equivalent to the united vote of t.- representatives of the sever::! parts of the British empire and that the j united votes of the severa 1 pa rN of 1 The British empire bhall rot cfrsct or overcome tlie vote of the I'nitcd Ma.-s. ' I Senator Kdge made it phin that while he preferred the reerva ion j route out of th tangle, he would never; nev-er; heies not lesitnte to vo'e for The Johnson a a: end me v. : if h i co1 leagues did not 3 : kti hi? plan. |