The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-07-26

washington, July 26.-President
Wilson has written letter to Sen
ator Lodge, chairman of the. foreign
relations committee, dealing with
resolution( recently adopted by the
senate. In making the announce
,ment today, white House officials
Bald the letter was mot refusal
of anything" The resolution re-
ferred to in the letter was supposed
TO be that of the committee asking
Tor all documents used by the Amer
lean delegates at the peace confer
ence. E
It was indicated that the letter
would be made public after II mao
Reached Senator Lodge. 1t was saio
ht the White House that no docn-
8ments were sent to Senator Lodge
with the communication
Didn't Write for Publication. :,
M President Wilson's advisers SAID
TODAY that after studying the letters
written by former President TAFT 10
Chairman Hays, of the republican
national committee, and several SEN
ators regarding reservations to the
peace treaty the president had con-
cluded that Mr.. Taft did not write
for publication. They said the pres
Adent believed Mr.. Taft was making
AN honest effort to bring about
setlement of the league controversy,
and that he had no idea that what
he wrote would be published at this
time.
Som, of the presidents advisers
let il be known today that they in
tcrpreted the action of some sena-
tors who have visited the White
House in placing their own interpre-
tations in statements for publication
upon what the president had said to
them on the peace treaty and the
league covenant. With view to dis
cussing the general treaty situation,
the president planned to go to the
capitol today to confer with Senator
Hitchcock, ranking democrat on the
foreign relations committee, and
other democratic senators.
May Make Statement.
1t was indicated today that the
president was considering the advis-
ability of making some sort of
Statement regarding his views about
proposed reservations to the treaty.
1t was said such a statement might
be made before Mr.. Wilson left on
his trip west.
& The president apparently has ad-
vanced the date OF his departure
from Washington. as it was said at
the White House today that he would
deliver numerous speeches before he
reached San Francisco on Aug. IS, to
review the Pacific fleet It was ex-
pected that the first speech would
be delivered in some city in the mid
die west.
Indemnity Not Divided.
No agreement has been reached as
70 how Germany's 10000, 00O, 900
marks indemnity shall be divided
among the allied and associated
powers, President Wilson this after
noon informed Senator Lodge, chair
man of the foreign relations commit
tee, in response to a resolution re-
Gently introduced by the Massachu-
setts senator and adopted by the sem
ate. Attempts have been made to ar
rive at the agreement, as provided for
in Article 237 of the treaty, the presi-
dent wrote, but he has not been in
Formed if one has been arrived at.
The text of the presidents letter
Follows:
In response to your letter of July
22 requesting me on behalf of the
committee on foreign relations to
send TO the committee the agreement
referred in Article 237 of the treaty
with Germany in the event that such
an agreement has been determined
upon by the allied and associated
governments. would say that so far
as l know an agreement has not
yet been reached. AS | recollect the
business, an attempt ives being made
to reach such an agreement, but
have not yet learned of an agreement
having been reached.
MAY I not add, with regard to
other requests which have received
from the committee for papers and
information of various sorts. that l
was not able TO bring from Paris a
complete file of papers. 1 brought
with me only those which happened
to be in my hands when | left France.
Those alone constitute a consider
able mass of papers, and having
been going over them as rapidly as
time and my engagements permitted,
and must beg the committees indul-
gcnce for the delay in informing
them what can supply them with" 2