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VOL. XVIII
FINAL MOVE BEGINS T 0 COMPROMSE TREATY
STOCK DIVIDEND RULING TO COST HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS;
CONGRESS TO GIVE BONUS TO SERVICE MEN, FORDNEY SAYS
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Congress Leaders Disapprove
Supreme Court Stand—Will
\ Raise Corporation Stock Values
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WASHINGTON, March 9.—The
Supreme Court’s decision holding
stock dividends to be non-taxable
paves the way for “super-tax eva
sions to the annual extent of hun
dreds of millions, according to Rep
resentative Hull, Democrat, of Ten
nessee. Mr. Hull is a member of the
Wiays and Means Committee. which
reported out the war revenue hill. and
is considered an expert on fiscal mat
ters. He was the author of the in
come tax provision.
Representative Kitchin, Democrat,
of North Carolina, chairman of the
committee at the time the revenue
bill was passed, said:
“This decision means that the gov
ernment no, longer can collect any
taxes from corporations. Hereafter
all dividends will be paid in stock
dividends. The decision also means
an inerease in the value of stock of
corporation of at least $2,000,000,000.”
CALLED ALARMING.
“Very alarming,” was the comment
of Representative Henry T. Rainey,
Democrat, of Illinois, arother fiscal
expert on the Ways and Means Com
mittee.
Representative Longworth, Repub
lican, of Ohio, member of the com
mittee, said he was advised by the
actuary of the treasury department
December 18 that refunds which
would have to be made under an
adverse decision- would” amount to
$35,000,000 for 1917 and 1918.
It was the consensus of opinion of
the committee that no action will be
taken immegiately to provide new
sources of revenue to take the place
of the stock dividend. It was said
that the probable course that will
be pursued temporarily will be the
issuanpe of ‘short term treasury cer
tificates.
The eagerness among correspon
dents of rival Wall Street ticker
agencies to be the first on the street
with the news of the decision led
to . considerable confusion and sent
market stocks tumbling.
MISTAKE BREAKS MARKET.,
Two of the news services which
supply the ticker agencies sent out
bulletins announcing that the Su
preme Court had upheld the constitu
tionality of the law on tbis contested
point. The result was a sharp break
in the market. Ten minutes later
the correct news of ihe court’'s de
ciston flashed across the wires and
the mariet reacted sharply.
The ~rror-appears to have been due
purely to the effort of certain.of the
correspondents to ‘“score a beat” on
the news of the court’s decision. The
opening paragraphs of the decision
conveyed the impression that the
court’s opinion would he favorable to
the constitutionality of the law. The
correspondents rushed ocut upon their
wires the news that the law had been
declared constitutional. It was not
until the entire decision was read
that they learned of the error and
sought to correct it.
The International News Service, a
Hearst organization, was not one of
the offenders who carried the mis
information. Its correspondent wait
ed until the exact contents of the
court’s decision wer2 known.
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SCAFFOLD FALLS; 2 KILLED.
ST. LOUIS, March 9—Two men
were killed and thirteemn injured,
some of them seriously, when a scaf
folding on which they were working
at the plant of the General Motors
Company, Union and Natural Bridge
avenue, collapsed.
24-Hour{ TPt aivemar News F Service
aby Is Freed
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Of ‘Burden’ of
Wilson’s Name
(By Universal Service.)
N‘Ew BEDFORD, Mass., March
9—Woodrow Wilson Wil
loughby of Edgartown, 14 months
old, is now Hobart Lockett
Willoughby.
By court decree, Judge Everett
Allen Davis of, the Dukes
County Probate Court changed
the child’s name on petition of
his - parents, Mr, and Mrs. Leo
A. Willoughby.
The petition expresses the fear
that the future the appellation
“Woodrow Wilson” might be
come a burden to the child, but
did not disclose whether politics,
national or international, made
“Woodrow Wilson" undesirable.
Forecaster Says Cold Weather Is
Broken for the
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Spring. is here! ‘
In spite of 30-degree weather, a
heavy frost and frozen radiators, C.
F. von Herrmann, official forecaster,
said Tuesday marks the beginning
of spring.
The mercury stayed well above 30
degrees Monday night and through
the early morning, and commenced
climbing with- the sun. The ther
mometer will not drop below 45 de
grees Tuesday night,.and will climb
to 60 Wednesday. It was indicated
that the last of the bitter weather is
past, and that the coal problem auto
matically will solve itself.
William K. Stone
Will Be Buried Here
The body of William K. Stone, 48,
of Atlanta, who died Sunday in Ashe
ville, N. C. reached Atlanta Tuesday
morning, accompanied by a brotl!er,
Frank W. Stone, and was taken to
the chapel of Barclay and Brandon,
where funeral services will be held
Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
Dr. Ben R. Lacy will officiate, with
burial in Oakland,
Mr. Stone had been in ill health for
some time and went (o Asheville for
treatment. He had been at a san
itarium several months. He was gen
eral sales agent for the Midvale Steel
and Ordnance .Company of Philadel
phia, with headquarters in Atlanta
and was a member of the Atlanta
Athletic Club. He is survived by his
father, F. R. Stone; one daughter,
Mrs. Roy Dougherty, and four broth
ers, 0. B, F. W, M, 1. and Charles
Stone.
Atlanta Girl Is
Winner of No. 24
And, having got over -the
best last line to Limerick
24 in - The Georgian’s
series, she is going to cele
brate with the other girls
in the office. A six-cents
a glass celebration, you
know !
It’s a right good last line—
the one about the High
Cost and Pants Problem.
There’s another incom
pleted Limerick in The
. Georgian today for you
to complete in the hopes
of getting over ‘‘the
best’> and getting that
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Victim, Left Unconscious in
Woods, Finally Crawls to Trol
ley Line—Police After Robbers
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The most daring motor car rov
bery in months took place Monday
night when two men beat J. M.
Brown, taxi driver, of 51 Waddell
street, into unfonsciousness, left him
helpléss in a wood along East Lake
Drive and departed with hi car. 3
Police blame dangerous proses-!
sfonal motor car bandits or bootleg
gers who wanted Brown's car as a
transport. |
Brown went tp headquarters Tues
day morning to give a detailed report
of his experience. T appeared to
have been handled roughly.
First news of the robbery came
Monday night when Brown returned
on- the Druid Hills car after having
lain unconscious two hours in the
woods and then having made his way
from the scene of the robbery to the
end of the Druid Hills car line
nearly a mile distant
MET THEM DOWN TOWN.
According to his story, Brown was
waiting at Forsyth and Peachtree
streets about 7:30 o’clock for a party
of soldiers he had becn engaged to
take to Camp Gordon. He said two
men in civilian clothes approached
him and said they wanted to hire his
machine to take them to Decatur.
They got in.and Brown drove out
Pegchtree stree: and turned into
Ponce de Leon avenue. He said he
did not like the manner of the two
men and when he reached the Ford
plant he stopped and was preparing
to turn back with the excuse that
his engine was out of order. At this
juncture he heard one of the men
ask the other if he thought ‘‘those
girls would be ready when they ar
rived.”
Assuming his premonition was
wrong and that the men were prob
ably going to Decatur to get two
young women to bring them back to
the city, he gontinued on his way.
Brown told the police he had driven
a short distance along East TLaxe
Drive after having turned off Ponce
de Leon avenue, when one of the men
asked him to stop the car, saying he
desired to get out. Brown says no
sooner had he done thig than the
other thrust a pistol at his head and
demanded that he get out of the ma
chine. -He said he reached down to
put on his emergency brake, hopmg
to be able to get hold of a big wrench
with which to defend himself.
TOLD TO WAIT.
He said the man, evidently seeing
whai his intentions were, reached
down and put the brakes on, and re
peated his demand.
- Brown said the man asked him how
‘much gasoline he had and upon his
reply that there was two or three gal
lons in the tank, they told him they
had a little job to pull off and he had
nothing to do but wait quietly in the
woods until they returned. He de
clares one of the men struck him on
the head with a loaded billy.
He repeated a hazy recollection of
being dragged in among the trees,
when a second blow was dealt his
head and he lapsed into unconscious
ness.
. When, he recovered, he said, his car
was g¢ne. He called out several
‘times in an effort to signal a pass
ing automobile, but failed. He said
he next managed to walk and crawl
to the end of the Druid Hills car line.
He boarded a car and told his story
to the crew and passengers.
On his report to the police search
was begpa. A complete description
has been given the police by Brown,
as wel' as the number and a de
scription of his automobile
Mexicans Sentenced for
I Burglary in Decatur
Two Mexicans of Atlanta, charged
with burglary in Decatur several
‘weeks ago, were brought to trial in
De Kalb County Superior Court Mon
day. Joe Rendez pleaded guilty and
was sentenced to the chaingang for
three years. Joe Rodriguez was found
guilty and sentenced to from one to
three years. a
Trial of St. Claire Hawkes, negro‘
of 21 Clifton street, Atlanta, who is
in the De Kalb jail under indictment
for the murder of Gus Ford, night
marshal of Decatur, on December 27,
1919, has been set for the present
term of court. b
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1920.
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Professions
Fan Insanity
Among Women
(By Universal Service.)
LONDON, March 9.—lnsanity
is increasing among women
because they are taking a much
greater share in the world's
work, according to a report by
Dr, Edward Osward, superin
tendent of the Glasgow Royal
Asylum,
The strain reacts mostly on
professional women, he says;
women of the working class are
not so likely to break down.
There has been a notable in
crease in the number of school
teachers and students admitted
to insane asylums in Great
Britain,
French Direct Land Operations.
-Paris Is Angry at British
for Crisis.
(By Universal Service.)
PARIS, March 9.—Gen. ¥Franchet
d' Espersy has left for Constantino
ple inga special train to take com
plete (ommand of the allied troops,
while a British admiral is to have
supreme direction of naval opera
tions.
The first military step by the 'al
lies will be the occupation of the
Marash ' district to prevent further
massacres of Armenians. -
Meanwhile a strong section of the
French press continues to rage
against what is characterized as
Britain's selfish and imperialistic pol
icy toward Turkey.
EDITORS TALK STRAIGHT. \
Le Temps, for instance, says:
“Sixteen months after the armistice
the allies must start the war all over
in order to impose peace.”
The Populaire eays: “Britain is
wbout to eccupy Constantinople after
obtaining the consent of France and
Italy. Thus ends the' comedy, for
everybody knows that when British
troops settle anywhere they settle
forever, and Constantinople is cer
tainly an alluring key. d
“The present-day capitalistic fa
naticism surpasses the Papal fanati
cism of the twelfth century. Britain,
who follows her policy with admira
ble continuity, has concluded that if
the Turks are to be driven out of
Europe there is nothing better to do
than for Britain to take their place.
BRITISH GRAB IS SEEN.
“T'hus Britain is about to grab a
position as mistress of the world.
Franco-Italian imperialism, which
gave way in 1915 Dbefore the Ro
manoffs’ imperialism, will undoubt
edly give way to British imperialism
if sufficient compensation—Qonest or
‘dishonest—is offered.
I “Thus, British indignation at the
%suggestion of leaving the Turks in
‘Constantinople is explained, and so
is the'noisy exploitation in England
~of the recent Armenian massacres.
iFor the occupation ot‘Consmntinople
'must be repesented to the peoples of
‘the world as a“deserved punishment
for Turkish barbarism.
“British diplomacy is greater than
the diplomacy of all other nations—
because it is the most cynical.”
Earthquake Shocks Are.
~ Felt in Tuscany, Italy
(By Internationzl News Service.)
. LONDON, March . 9.—Earthquake
shocks were felt thrcughout Tuscany,
Italy, today, said a Central News dis
patch from Rome. Many persons,
fled from their homes but the da.m.‘
age is believed to be slight.
Tuscany is a compartment ini
Northwestern Italy bordering thel
Mediterranean Sea. It-contains ai
number of industrial centers, chief
of them being Florence, Leghorn,
Pisa and Pistoja. i
Chairman of Ways and Means
" Committee Declares Country
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Can Well Afford to Pay Bonus.
I (By Universal Service.)
' WASHINGTON, March 9.—Con
‘gress will provide for some form of
bonus for ex-service men, Chairman
Fordney of the House Ways and
Means Committee predicted at the
hearing on soldier beneficial legis
lation. o
Mr. Fordney's statement waai
prjompteq_by the repeated assertionsl
of other members of the committee
that the financial condition of the
treasury might make it impossible
to do anything for the veferans of the
world war. I
He declared the United States is
the richest nation in the world and
could well afford o compensate the
former soldiers in a manner satis
factory to them,
Campaign Papers Are
Read in Newberry Cas
(By International News Service.)
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.,, March 9.{
Reading into the records of the|
Newberry trial all campaign corre
spondence which passed between
Senator Newberry and Paul H. King,
his campaign manager, may be com
pleted today, according to an early
outlook.
King resumed his reading and ex
planation of the mass of letters anfl!
telegrams at the opening of the day's
session, with correspondence written |
in May, 1918, in hand. l
In all of King's testimony, he isl
seeking to Back up the main basis ofl
the defense that the political activi
ties of Senator Newberry and his
forty-eight co-defendants constituted
a campaign and not a conspiracy,
Wage Arbitration
Board Deliberating
Efforts of the three arbiters 10|
reach an agreement in the wage. dis- |
pute of carmen and the Georgia Rail- |
way and Power Company commenced |
Tuesday, when the arbiters, Luther
Z. Rosser, representing the power
company; Madison Bell, for the car
men, and Judge John D. Humphries,
representing the public, met in thel
chambers of Judge Humphries in thel
cOurthouse.
The arbiters were prepared imme-I
diately to begin deliberations, as each
had been furnished with a typewrit
ten copy of the evidence Monday.
They will debiléerate on the proposi
tion in thewsame manner as a jury.
Former Policeman and
His Wife Face Charges
~ C. H. PFitchett, former policeman,
‘was under charges of disorderly con
duct Tuesday, which grew out of al
leged purchases in the name of his
father. He also was charged with
having sol@ colored water and other
mixtures for whisky. His wife, for
merly Virginia Stahl, was accused of
complicity in the alleged frauds. '
Mrs. Fitchett, in company with ner
sister, Miss Flo Stahl, 18, was caught
in a hotel raid by detectives Satur
day night, so that a charge of dis
orderly conduct also confronts her,
Three Coaches Burn on
Third Avenue ‘L’ Train
(By International News Service.)
NEW YORK, March 9.—Fire on a
Third avenue elevated express train
at 142nd street early today destroyed
one car, badly damaged two others
and routed scores of tenants troml
buildings.
There were no passengers. i
Text of President’s
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Letter to Hitchcock
On the Peace Treaty
Wilson Announces Unalterable Refusal to Ac
cept Lodge’s Reservation to Article X.
WASHINGTON, March 9.—Pres ident Wilson's letter to Senator
Hitchcock declaring his unalterabl e refusal to accept Senator Lodge's
reservation to Article X of the peace treaty follows:
M{ Dear Senator Hitcheock:
understand that one or two of your
colleagues do me the honor of desiring
to know what my views are with ref
~ erence to Article X of the League of
Nations and the qtfect upon the league
of the adoption 'of certain proposed
reservations to that article. I welcome
the opportunity to throw any light I
can upon a subject which has become
so singualarly beclouded by misappre
hensions and misinterpretations of
every kind.
There is no escaping the moral ob
ligations which are expected in positive
terms In this article of the covenant.
We won a moral victory over: Germany
far greater even than the military vie
tory won on the field of battle, be
cause the opinion of the whole world
swung to our support and the support
o&! the nations asgocinted with us in
t! great struggle. It did so because
our common profession wnd promise
that we¢ meant to establish “an or
ganization of peace which should make
it cert_.nl? that the combined power of
free nat! ot‘f would clieck every Inva
sion of right and serve to makeu‘pg:ze
and justice the more secure by afford
ing a definite tribunal of opinion to
which all must submit and by which!
every international readjustment that
cannot be amilably sgreed upon by the
peoples directly concerned shall ‘'be
sanctioned. This promige and assur
ance were written into the prelimina
ries and the armistice and into 'the
preliminaries of the peace itself and
constitute one of the most sacred ob
s ligations ever assumed by any nation
or body of nations. It is unthinkable
that America should set the example
of ignoring such a solemn moral en
gagement.
SUPPORTS ARTICLE X,
For myself, 1 feel that I could not
look the soldiers of our gallant armies
in the face again if I did not do
everythlnxu"n my power to remove
every obstacle that lies in the way of
the adoption of this particular article
of the covenant, because we made these
pledges to them as well as to the rest
of the world ‘and it was to this cause
they deemed themselves devoted in a
spirit of crusaders, I should be for
ever unfaithful to them if I did not
do my utmost to fulfill the high pur
pose for which they fought.
I think, my dear senator, we can
dismiss from our minds the idea that
it is necessary .to stipulate in con
nection with Article X the constitu
tiomal methods we should use in ful
filling our obligations under it. We
gain nothing by such stipulations and
secure nothing which is not already
secured., It was understood as a mat
ter of course at the conference in
Paris that whatever wobligations any
government assumed or whatever duties
it undertook under the treaty would of
course have to be fulfilled by its usual
_and established constitutional methods
q{ actlon. Once or twice in meetings
of the conference, when the treaty was
under consideration, “reservations’
(By International News Service.)
CHICAGO, March 9.—Ousting of
William H. Hays as chairman of the
Republican National Committee if
Gen. Leonard Wood gets®the presi
dential nomination, and the succes
sion of Frank H. Hitchcock, to run
the presidential campaign for the Re-’
publicans was freely predicted today
among party organization leaders.’
Denial that any such course was
contemplated was made Iloudly at
Wood headquarters,
Lowden backers today made the
claim that most of the uninstructed
Missouri delegates are strongly back
of the Illinois governor’'s campaign.
The Pershing candidacy was kept ‘?
the foreground by the presence of
Mark Woods of Lincoln, Neb., who
is directing the movement to make
the general the Republican nominee.
Centralia Case May
Reach Jury Saturday
(B’ International News Service,)
MONTESANO, Wash,, March 19.—
The prosecution in the Centralia mur
der case continued examination of
witnesses today. Alienists testified
as to the mental condition of Loren
Roberts, a defendant. The defense
maintains Roberts is insane. |
The prosecution expects to conclude
rebuttal Wednesday, when the de
fense will enter its rebuttal, |
The case is expected to be in the
hands of the jury by Saturday night.
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EDITION )
Issued Dadly, and Entered as Second Class Matter at
the Postoffice at Atlanta Under Act of March 3, 1879
rwere made to that effect by the rep
resentatives of individual powers and
those '‘reservations’” were Jnvariably
I received in the way in which men have
met for business and mnot for talk al
ways receives acts of scrupulous super
erogation—llistened to with indif
ent silence as such men llsten to what
{8 a matter of course and was not
necessary to say.
There can be no objection to explain
ing again whg:rour constitutional method
is and that Congress alone can de
clare war or determine the causes or
occasions ‘for war, and. that it alone
can authorize the use of the armed
forces of the United States on land or
on the sea. But to make such a
declaration - wonld certaiply be a work
of mperethnt!:r e
INTERPRETATIONS NULLIFY.
I am sorry to say that the reserva
tions that have come under my notice
are, almost without exception, not in
terpretations of the articles to which it
| lll,fro?ond to attach them, but in effect
- virtual nullifications of those articles.
Any rumg':ttom which seek to de
prive the ague’ of -Nations of the
foree of Article { cuts at the very
~heart and Iffe of the eoveénant itself.
Any League of Nations which does pot
guarantee as a matter of incontestable
rfght the political independenceé and in
tegrity of each of its members might be
hardly more t‘n a futile serap of paper,
as ineffective operation as the agree
ment betweei Belgium and Germany
which the Germans violated in 1914, Ar
ticle X as written ‘into the treaty of
Veremllgd r:‘preunu the renunciation by
Great flim? and ch.n which before
the war begun e..d 80 manyi
interests in common in ¢ Pacific: by
Franuce; biz Im{:&yw the great fight
ing powers of the world, of the old pre
tentions of politieal conquest and ter
ritorial aggrandizement. It is a new
doctrine in the world’s affairs and must
be recognized as there is no secure
basis for ‘the peace which the whole
world so longingly desires and so desper
ately needs. If Article X is not adopted
and acted upon, the governments which
reject it will, I think, be gullty of bad
faith to their people whom they in
duced to make the infinite sacrifices of
. the war by the pledge that ther would
be f'ghting te redeem the world from
the old order of force and aggression.
. They will be acting also in bad faith
to the opinion of the world at large
to which they appealed for support in
a concerted stand against the aggres
sions and pretentions of Germany. If
we were to reject Article X or so to
weaken it as to take its full force out
of it, it would mark us as desiring to
return to the old world of jealous rivalry
and misunderstandings from which our
gallant soldiers have relieved us, and
would leave us without any vision or
new conception of justice and peace.
We would have learned no lesson from
the war, but gained only the regret
that it had invelved us in {ts maei-
Continued on Page 3, Column 5.
By NEWTON C. PARKE,
Staff Correspondent of the I. N. S,
PARIS, March 9.—Former Premlier
Joseph Vaillaux, on trial on a charge
of having treasonable dealings with
the enemy in war time, evidently has
decided to be his own lawyer and is
directing the defense. At actue points
M. Caillaux beckons to. his counsel
to be seated, and himself arises and
reads important documents to the
court. |
The accused statesman was as
spick and span and smiling at the be
ginning of the trial when he faced
the judges this afternoon at the
twelfth session. Public interest, in
stead of decreasing, has increased,
and the judges were overwhelmed
with requests for seats. Most of the
requests came from women.
Before the opening of the session
the judges discussed the question of
a secret session to take further testi
mony on the allegation by M. Martin,
former subsecretary of the fqreign
office, that Caillaux sent a death
warning to King Alphonso of Spain
during the heignt of the Franco-
Spanish dispute over Morocco.
A hitch in the proceedings is
threateped by the absence of judges.
Some of the judges, evidently fearing
the effect of an adverse verdict upon
their chanmces in the 1920 election,
have purposely absented themselves.
NO. 199,
’GI fll PI GIVES
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Republicans Will Seek to Blame
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Wilson if Treaty Is Killed,
Ready for Campaign Issues
By J. BART CAMPBELL, :
Staff Correspondent of the I. N. S,
WASHINGTON, March 9.—Repub=
lican leaders declared today they
don’t propose to permit the peace
treaty to “be killed” in the Senate
Iwithnut first seeking to place full
Irosponsihillty for its defeat on Pres
ident Wilson.
| They are pfepared to meet the
President squarely in the campaign
on the issue of reservations or neo
reservations, on the Americanization
of the treaty, as described Th the
President’s latest lelter to Senator
Hitcheocß, s
The Republican leaders decided to
make thesadministration side one last
offer of a compromise on Article X,
Senator Watson of Indiana, one es -
their number, was selected to join
with Senators Kellogg of Minnesota
and Hale of Maine, two of the Re=
publican “mild reservationists,” in
preparing such a compromise,
ROOT AT CONFERENCE.
The decision of the Republican
leaders was discussed at a confers
ence in Senator lL.odge's office at
which Elihu Root was present. Mr.
Root agreed with them there was
‘scant prospect for ratification and
“if a break had eome” he was “glad
it had come on Article X.”
Rejection of the proposed compros
‘mise by administration senators sole
lowing President Wilson’s declaras
ition,'ror an unreserved acceptance
of Article X will demonstrate forcie
bly to the American people, the Re«
publican leaders said, that it is the
Democratic and not the Republican
side that refuses to compromise in
order to secure ratification.
Administration senators declared®
there was ‘“nothing new” in the
President’s letter beyond its giving
further emphasis to the position ha -
has maintained all along with refer=
ence to Article X. Senator Hitch
cock, as their leader, expressed the
opinion that while some senators
would probably continue “to fiddle
around” a compromise, none seemed;
likely to develop that would lead to
ratification. I
Slap at France in .
President’s Letter ‘
By JAMES R. NOURSE,
Staff Correspondent Universal Servicd
WASHINGTON March 9.—Presi=
dent Wilson performed Monday the
last act needed to insure the defeat
of the peace treaty by advising his
followers in the -Senate that he can
not accept the Lodge reservations.
Making known his position through
the medium of a letter to Senator
Hitchock, the administration leader,
the President stated his unalterable
opposition to the reservations already
adopted, and more particularly to the
Lodge reservation on Article X, to
which a majority of the Senate ig
committed. i
Ratification of* the treaty ‘with
these reservations, the President as+
serted, would ba a nullification of all
the pledges upon which the United
States entered the war, and of the
moral obligation to establish an ora
ganization for world peace.
Speaking particularly of the Article
X reservation, the President declared
it “cut at the very life and heart of
t hecovenant” and would mark the
United Staes “as desiring to return te
the old world of jealous rivalry and
misunderstandings from which our
gallant soldiers have rescued us, and
would leave us without any vis ‘}l? n
