The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-23
Lodge Discusses Fiue Bad
 Principles Out Of Fourteen
By The Associated Press

Washington. December 22.-Five of President wilson's 14 principles of peace were held up in the Senate to- day by Senator Lodge, the republican leader. as questions which might lead to a division among the nations which have conquered Germany and which certainly should be postponed until after tho peace conference. They are the first four and the last of the points enunciated by the President in his speech of January 8. 1918, and relate to secret diplomacy, freedom of the seas. economic barriers, reduction of arma-
 nents and the league of nations. The senator delivered a prepared ad- dress on the problems of the peace con- ! ference He spoke of the heavy respon- sibility of the Senate in the work of making peace. iecalled that no treaty can become binding upon the United States without the Senate's consent, and declared untoward results could be avoided only if the Senate expressed it. self frankly in advance.
 THINKS WILSON DID WRONG While I think 1t a grave mistake he said. lon the part of the President 1 to ignore the Senate. because our ulti- mate responsibility in making the peace is quite equal to his own, have no fault to find with his not appoint l ing senators as delegates to the peace conference. There is no obligation lwhatever upon him to make such ap- pointments.''
 'In the present situation, which is grave beyond comparison" he said, T think it is of vast importance that these | who are concerned in the actual nego- | tiations of the treay should least I know the views of the Senate, so fai as the Postmaster General. i'll contro, of the cables, and Mir Creel in contro of the news, will permit the opinion o1 1 the Senate to be transmitteG to Paris 1 We cannot compel information, but we are abundantly able 10 make our opin' ions known. not only 10 the President l but to the allies, who have very cleal and even acute idea of the power of rht Senate in regard to treaties" l To bring forward propositions no
 inseparably connected with the imme diate and difficult task of making z
 binding peace with Germany, Senator I Lodge said:
 May ruin all by trying to do tot much at once."
 Such propositions, he said, were th' five points enuame,ated.
 In his discussion of the freedom 0 the seas, the senator called attention ITO the strange development in con
 nection with the pending naval appro priation bill, the advocacy by Rear Ad miral Badger of programme caliint
 for a navy as large as that of Englan
 by 1925. He said he thought he ha'
 favored building more ships than any
 body else, but that he ncye- had con
 templated such a programme and dl
 not think it necessary.
 ONLY NAVAL DANGER
 "The only naval danger that we wer
 obliged to consider in the past on tn
 Atlantic coast has ceased to be- w
 need a powerful fleet in the Pacific and I feel sure we will have a nav. sufficient to furnish that fleet to tn western coast. And yet at this moment we are suddenly called upon to build
 fleet which shall be the equal of tha of England"
 Of suggestions that great navy i needed for police duty in connection with the league of nations, the senate said, We would not stop to ask wh,