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Show m w y eya y vgi vyi j . 0 IGOTIffllSSEEl TO Ml COME TO COMPLETE DEADLOCK Reservation to Article 10 and Preservation of Monroe Doctrine Doc-trine Centers of Variance ANOTHER CONFERENCE SET FOR TOMORROW 'Several Changes Have Been Approved But Settling Others ; Appears Doubtful WASHINGTON, Jan. 29. Negotia-' tions between Democratic and Repub-i lican leaders of tho senate who appar-j ently have approached a deadlock on the peace treaty compromise will not be resumed until tomorrow, the meeting meet-ing of the bi-partisan committee planned for today being postponed because be-cause of the absence of Senator Len-rott Len-rott of "Wisconsin, one of the Repub-i Repub-i lican leaders. I Preponderance of senate opinion. I was that a deadlock had been reached,, making an agreement very unlikely at, this time on compromise peace treaty' I reservations. i Reservations to article' ten and for, preservation of the Monroe doctrine promise to. be the center of variance' betwoou the-leaders' of-4.hetwo fac-. tions at the next, meeting and it ap-' peared that should a break come It would result from Inability to agree on these two points. Should the bi-; partisan conferences which have been1 1 in progress for more than two weeks fbo abandoned, influences at work inj both political parties, it was asserted ' ' In some quarters, undoubtedly would 'have a strong effect ultimately in the direction of a compromise which j would keep the treaty out of the political polit-ical campaign. Changes Conceded Article ten and the Monroe doctrine, it became known were the only sub-Ijecls sub-Ijecls on which tentative agreement ' has not been reached by the bl-parti-1 san committee. Much of the language 'of the Republican reservations adopted adopt-ed last session has been agreed to by 'the Democrats, it was revealed, while , many changes had been conceded by j (Republicans and two of the rescrva-l Hons had been rewritten entirely. Among the changes approved by the committee were the following: Modification of the preamble so that instead of requiring specific affirmative affirma-tive acceptances of the reservations j by three or four of the great powers. eucn acceptances wouiu ue tanen tor granted unless objection were made before disposition of ratification by the United Slates. About Voting Strength I Qualification of the reservation on I voting strength in the league so tho United States would not bo bound, except ex-cept in cases whero it previously had given its assent, by decisions In which any member had more than one vote. In tho Republican reservation this exception ex-ception was omitted. Change of I he withdrawal reservation reserva-tion to make it provide that notice of withdrawal from membership in the league "shall be given by a joint resolution" reso-lution" of congress instead of "may be given by a concurrent resolution." A joint resolution requires the signature of the president while a concurrent resolution ordiuarily does not. Deletion of direct reference to Japan and China by name in the Shantung reservation so the United State3 simply sim-ply would withhold asseut to tho Shantung Shan-tung articles and reserve liberty ol actions in any dispute arising under them. Complete re-drafting of two of the reservations so they would require that no representative to the league be appointed without congressional i authorization and that no recommend-i ation of the league regarding armaments arma-ments would be valid until approved by congress. Numerous modifications of language In others of the 14 reservations. That providing that the United States would accept no mandatory except by congressional action was one of those, however, remaining intacL nn 1 |
