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WILSON GIVES
PEACE TREATY
TO SENATORS
Makes Strong Plea for the AdOp-
ton of the Document With.
out Changes.
MUST MAINTAIN new ORDER
All conferees, the President says,
Were Agreed That League Of Free
Nations Was an Absolute Ne
cessity for Worlds Peace.


Washington, July 10.-President
Wilson In presenting the peace treaty
and the League of Nations to the SEN
ate today In an epochal session ex-
planned to the senators and to the
American people his reasons for ask
ing ratification without change or res
.ervation. He spoke as follows:
Gentlemen of the Senate:
The treaty of peace with Germany
was signed at Versailles on the 2Sth
OF June. l avail myself Of the earliest
opportunity to lay the treaty before
you for ratification and to inform you
with regard to the work of the confer
.ence by which that treaty was formu-
lated
The treaty constitutes nothing less
than a world settlement. II would not
DE possible for me even to summarize
of to construe Its manifold provisions
in an address which must Of necessity
he something less than treatise. My
services and all the information l pos
.sess will be at your disposal and al
the disposal of your committee on
foreign relations at any time, either
informally or in session, as you may
prefer; and l hope that you will moi
hesitate to make use Of them.
shall at this time. prior to your
own study of the document, attemp
only a general Characterization Of 1T
scope and purpose.
cognizant Of Paris Moves.
In one sense, no doubt, there Is III
need that / should report to you wha
was attempted and done at Paris. Yol
have been daily cognizant of what wa
going on thereof the problems witt
which the peace conference had to dea
and Of the difficulty Of laying dow
straight lines of settlement anywher
on a field on which the old lines of IN
ternational relationship, and the new
alike, followed so intricate a patterl
and were for the most part cut so zee
by historical circumstances whic
dominated action where 1t would hav
beenabest to ignore or reverse them.
The cross currents of politics and 0
interest must have been evident {
you. 1t would be presuming in me t
attempt to explain the questions whic
arose or the many diverse element
that entered into them. | shall attemI
something less ambitious than tina
and more clearly suggested by my dut
TO report to the congress the part
seemed necessary for my colleague
and me to play as the representative
of the government Of the Unite
States.
That part was dictated by the ro
America has played in the war and b
the expectations that had been create
in the minds of the peoples with who
we had associated ourselves in thu
great struggle.
Reason for Entering War.
Tie United States entered the WI
upon a different footing from evel
other nation except our associates
this side the sea. We entered II, n
because our material h 'erests we
directly threatened or because any sp
.ciai treaty obligations to which '
were parties had been violated, b
only because we saw the supremac
and even the validity, Of right ever
where put In jeopardy and free 90
eminent likely TO be everywhere II
periled by the intolerable aggressi'
of q power which respected Meth
right nor obligation and whose We
system Of government fiouted {
rights Of the citizens as against {
sautocratic authority Of his governor
And in the settlements Of the pea
we have sought no special reparati
for ourselves, but only the restorati
of right and the assurance Of liber
everywhere that the effects Of the $
Element were to be felt. We enter
the war as the disinterested champio
of right and we interested ourselS
In the terms Of the peace In no 9th
capacity.
Allies Hopes at Low Ebb.
The hopes Of the nations all
against the central powers were al
very low ebb when our soldiers beg
TO pour across the sea. There was
-erywhere amongst them. except
their stoutest spirits. a somber 70
Sboding OF disaster. The war ended
November eight months ago, but
have only to recall what was feai
in midsummer last, only four sh
months before the armistice, to r.