Arizona republican., 1918-10-09
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WASHINGTON, Oct. S.-While most congressional leaders tonight ap- proved President Wilson's note of in- qulry to Germany and especially his refusal to accept any proposal for an armistice until the enemy evacuated occupied territory. Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, republican, leader and senior minority member of the sen ate foreign relations committee, and Representative Fess of Ohio, chair man of the republican congressional campaign committee, expressed keen disappointment in the course taken by the president.
 q am keenly disappointed" said Senator Lodge, that the president should at this stage enter into a dis cussion with the imperial German government as he has done in the note signed by Mir. Lansing. In his first and second paragraphs he asks for | further information and invites fur ther discussion. It is true that in the last paragraph he inquires whether | Prince Maximilian of Baden, repre- sents merely the constituted authori- | ties of the German empire. Prince | MaXimilian is the chancellor of the l German empire, appointed by the | kaiser. l do not understand what h., ] can possibly represent except the con stituted authorities, which represent the German empire and the German | people, unless a revolution has oc- cured, of which the world has as yet no knowledge.
 Mann Questions Diplomacy | Personally I adhere to the state ment of the president made in his speech of September 27 in which he said:
 "'We are all agreed that there can be no peace obtained by any kind of bar gain or compromise with the govern ment of the central empires, because we have dealt with them already and have seen them deal with other governments that were parties to this struggle at Brest-Litovsk and Blu charest.'
 The president answering the sugges- tion by the imperial German govern
 ment of an armistice says the good
 faith of tnis proposal rests on the con sent of the central powers to withdraw their armies from invaded territory
 Are they to withdraw, unattached from Belgium, and northern France
 burning and robbing and destroying a:
 they go to positions behind the Rhine
 where they will have time and oppor. 7 tunity to refresh their armies and re-
 plenish their munitions? Alsace anC
 Lorraine are not invaded territory. , Wilson Opening Discussion n "T cannot but feel a painful anxiet! as to what effect this note will hav' f upon the allies, upon our armies, upol
 our soldiers who are fighting ant O dying and conquering in order t l. crush the thing with which the presi f dent is opening discussion" e In expressing his disappointment
 Representative Fess said the presi q dent had taken the step against whicl n the country has been warned
 "The way has been opened" sai
 MT Tess. flor Germany to save her
 self by withdrawing her armies within
 her own border by agreement, rathe
 than by retreat under fire, as she ha
 been forced to do the past few weeks
 Peace discussions with Germany. be
 fore our armies are on her soil will no , insure the future. had hoped tha
 no step would be taken to transfer tn n discussion from the field to the table J do not believe the soldier or tn
 country will ever be satisfied wit
 anything short of conclusive peace
 which can only be assured by sue
 chastisement of Germany as will mall if like sacrifice in the future i'm r possible"
 B. Senator Hitchcock of Nebrask; y chairman of the foreign relations com l. mittee declared the presidents cours e will compel a peace on his terms l. 'Tt is evident said Senator Hitch
 cock. the president intends to say ths e Germany must accept the terms he ha o laid down.
 e Senator Borah of Idaho, republican F said the note "is we'll designed ie clarify a very involved situation"