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Show Bryan Gets in Treaty Fight . i COMMOB URGES DEMOCRATS TO 61 WO IBBUCAI Suicidal for Party to Deny Right of Senate Majority to State Policy ISSUES STATEMENT i ON PACT PROBLEM Republican Leaders AgTee Up- on Substitute Declaration For Article Ten ' - WASHINGTON. March 17. W. J Bryan arrived here from Florida en i route to New York to deliver an ad-I ad-I dress Friday night and immediately became a participant in the eleventh hour negotiations of senators working for a compromise on the peace treaty. Although Mr. Bryan said he did not intend to visit the senate to intervene in the treaty situation. Democratic senators began to consult him before he had finished his breakfast. Mr. Bryan gave out another statement state-ment urging ratification of the treaty. "For Democratic senators to join with the 'irreconcilables' in defeating the treaty," he said, "is unthinkable in advance of its being actually, accomplished accom-plished and it Would be unspeakable afterwards." Suicidal Policy Mr. Eryan said it would be "suicid al tor ine Democratic party to ueny the right of a majority of the senate to declare the senate's policy. "We have the right to appeal to the people to reverse the action of the majority," ma-jority," he said, "but we have no right to resist the majority to prevent the people speaking through their representatives. repre-sentatives. "The Democratic party cannot hope to make much headway combatting the fundamental principle upon which it stands." Substitute Offered A general declaration of international internation-al policy, under which the United States would view with "grave con-corn" con-corn" any future upheaval threatening the peace and freedom of Europe, was agreed on by Republican senate leaders lead-ers and presented as a new reservation reserva-tion to the peace treaty. Intended to replace the more definite defin-ite pledges of Article X, the the reservation reser-vation is to be pressed In the senate as the farthest step the Republican, leaders are willing to go toward abandonment aban-donment of American isolation and participation in European conflicts. Its text follows: Text of Reservation "It shall be declared the policy of this government that the freedom and peace of Europe being again threatened threat-ened by any power or combination of powers, the United States will regard such a situation with grave concern and will consider what, if any, action it will take in the premises." Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin drafted draft-ed the reservation in cousullation with other Republican leaders and introduced introduc-ed it in the senate at the end of tho day of debate on the Irish question which delayed treaty action. It gener-allv gener-allv was precVcted, however, that the ratification roll call wouW come Friday Fri-day or Saturday. . nn |