Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-11-29
IOWA SENATOR SAYS PRESIDENT
SHOULD NOT ATTEND PEACE
CONFERENCE.
WILL DENY SENATE IT'S
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
Treaty Should as Ratified By Upper
House Under National Constitution
-cumnins Asks Newspapers Of
Country to Make Issue Of Presidents
Plans.
Thy u. g, Doughcrty,1


Washington, Nov. 2?--Whilc opin-
ion is divided in congressional circles
on the authority the president has in
going abroad to sit at the peace con-
ference, there has been no one quite as
outspoken against the presidents an
sence from the country as the senior
senator from Iowa, y. h. Cummins.
Classed as one of the real leaders of
the upper house, and one whose vote
quite often is not Influenced by party
lines so much as the individual view
he might have on the subject, Sen
ator Cummins' opposition and criti-
cism of the president for continuing
his plans for departure soon TO Europe.
has been given additional weight. AS
an evidence of the disinclina ton to APP
prove the presidents going, Senator
Cummins today called upon the pa
pers of the country to make an issue
OF the imminent departure of the chief
executive officer of the nation.
"All the great new spapers should
keep pounding away on this issue un-
til they stimulate public opinion to
ing before it is too late what this coun-
try is being bound to in the future.
Senator Cumnins said.
On the ground that the presidents
attendance at the peace conference
will deny the senate the right to eNer-
else it's constitutional functions on the
treaty 10 be promulgatod- Senator
CumminS today declared
1T never was dreamed by the
formers OF the constitution, | think
that we should make such an impor-
tant treaty which involved the whole
world. without the senate first having
full opportunity to debate the issues
involved. These treaties will create
new relations between all OF the ma
tons
These treaties will be brought back
to the senate after they have been
agreed to by the conference and the
conference has adjourned. We will be
confronted with the choice of disrupt
ing the whole proceedings or foregoing
the right to exercise our. own Judg-
ment. We will be face to T ce with
the choice of undoing all OF the work
Of the allied nations or of foregoing
our right to consider every. angle Of
the diplomatic bargain entered into.
There is no doubt we will be virtually
foreclosed the. right to reject or to
modify the treaty.
"One great objection to the presi-
dents course Is that It: gives no chance
for public opinion to work it's influence.
What takes place. at the informal
meetings will not be known. We
should be given the reasons for the
particular parts Of the treaty. The
president expects us to accept what he
does without inquiry"
Senator Cummins Sarcastically sug-
gcsted that sit is quite proper for the
senate to go to Versailles to ratify or
reject the treaty" as it is for the
president to go. IF he can perform
his duties there. we can" said Cum
minis. ut is quite plain we ought to
work there if he is going to do So
To Cut Phone Charge.
One of the war rest rictions soon
to be removed by the federal govern
ment is the additional charge now
levied on the installation of telephones
and the transferring Of telephones
from one room in a house or business
place to another, it was stated today
at the postorfice department When
the government took over the tele|
phone and telegraph lines. one of the
first moves made by the postmaster
general was to be prohibitive price
on new installations and changes in
telephones in order to retard new
business" necessitating the use of ma
terial and labor that the government