The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-11
PEACE TREATY AND LEAGUE COVENANT
 ARE GIVEN SENATE
President Lays Document
 Before Body and Delivers Address Accounting for
 His Part in Negotiations
By Associated Press

DJ NS'Ue'd"u FfesS Washington, July 10.-The
 peace treaty with it's league of
 nations covenant was laid be-
 fore the Senate by President
 Wilson today in an address ac-
 counting to the country for his part in the negotiations at Versailles.
 The league, declared the President. was born of the conviction of practical states men that an international concert had [ become a world necessity to end the old order and guarantee civilization. He as serted that in such a concert the world looked confidently to America for leader ship and added that while the treaty might not be exactly as the American delegation would have written it. no vital principle had been sacrificed by the ne- cessary compromises
 The senate, already divided in a bitter light over the league proposal received tne president with cheers and listened to hls words in a grave silence When he l rad concluded there was another hurst | or cheering until he had passed out of the chamber and had gone to his capitol office. where he talked for an hour with senators who wished to ask about sneei lie features of the treaty or of the nego- tiations. In these conferences the Pre- sldent discussed freely such subjects as the disposition of Shantung. the German ! indemnities and Irish freedom l In his address however, there was no direct reference to many of the questions anound which senate debate has centered, the President declaring he could not con strue details of the treaty in short address. He did not directly mention the Monroe doctrine, Shantung, or the obli- sations assumed under article ten of the league covenant, nor did he allude to the pmposal to write reservations into the ra atification.
 READY FOR DISCUSSION
 He asserted a hope that he would be given opportunity to discuss details later either with the whole senate or the for eign relations committee My services and all the information I possess said MT. Wilson, will be at
 your disposal and at the disposal of your committee on foreign relations at any time, either informally or in session, as you prefer; and hope that you will not hesitate to make use of them. | American isolation, the President as- serted. was ended twenty years ago when the war with Spain put the nation in partial control of Cuba and the Phillip I pines.
 But we have not exploited them." he continued
 We have been their friends and have l sought to serve them.
 There can be no question of our ceasing ] to be a world power The only question 1 is whether can refuse the moral lead | ership that is offered us, whether we shall accept of reject the confidence of 1 the world.
 | The stage is set the destiny disclosed.
 It has come about by no plan of our con- ceiving, but by the hand of God who has led us into this way. We cannot turn
 back We can only go forward, with lifted eyes and freshened spirit. to follow [ the vision.'
 DEMANDED BY ALL
 Alluding to the skepticism with which the plan for league of nations first was received. the President said that as the peace negotiations proceeded it became a parent to all the delegates that such a concert was "a practical necessity" de-
 ma nded by "al the peoples of the world" For the United States to reject 1t, he asserted, would break the heart of the word''
 Pointing out that many minor com premises were necessary to secure the support cf all the interested nations he continued:
 . "The treaty, as a result, is not exactly what we would have written. It is pro- bahly not what any one of the national delegations would have written. But re- suits were worked out which on the whole bear test, I think that 1t will be found that the compromises which were accepted as inevitable nowhere cut to the heart of any principle In disregard of precedent, the Senate received the address in open session anfi
 fterward ordered that the treaty be,,ptb-
 i5hed in tho Congressional RecYrd and
 S a public document. The galleTies were
 overflowing and Crowds unable to gain
 admissioa N<ed in the rain to cheer
 the Prestdent when he arrived and de-
 parted. Many members / of the house
 crowded Into the rear of the Senate
 chamber and most es the members of the
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