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EXECUTIVE OFFERS
SENATORS TREATY
FOR RAT|F!C F!CAT|0N
Informs Body With Regard
to Work of Conference
on Covenant.
SAYS SERVICES WILL BE
AT COMMAND OF SENATE
Attempts Only General Charac-
terization of Scope and Purpose
of Document in Address.
PAYS TRIBUTE TO DOUGHBOYS
World Now Looking to America, He
Declares, and Light Is on Path
Ahead
SAYS SERVICES WILL BE
AT COMMAND OF SENATE
PAYS TRIBUTE TO DoUGHBoYs
World Now Looking to America, He
Declares, and Light Is on Path
Ahead.
fRv A.aoc,ated prc,,1

rBy Associated Prcss.1
WASHINGTON. July 10.-President
Wilson in representing the peace
treaty and the league OF nations to the
Senate today spoke as follows:
Gentlemen of the Senate:
The treaty OF peace with Germany
was signed at Versailles on the TWEEN
ty-eighth 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 conference by which that treaty
was formulated.
The treaty constitutes nothing less
than world settlement. 1t would not
be possible for me either to summar-
ize or to construe It's manifold proyi-
sions In an address which must TO
necessity be something less than a
treatise. My services and all CT the in
formation 1 possess will be at your
disposal and at the disposal of your
Committee on Foreign Relations at
sion. as you may prefer; and 1 hope
that you will not hesitate to make use
Oh them shall at this time.h aup
to your own study of the document,
attempt only general characteriza-
ton oiLits scope and purpose.
need that should report to You What
was attempted and done at Paris
You have been fully cognizant OF what
W %as w6ioh 6gioing ,,o on there-of the problems
deal and OF the difficulty OF laying
down straight lines OF settlement any
where on a field on which the old lines
OF international relationship and the
new alike followed SO intricate a pat
tern and for the most part cut so deep
9s historical circumstances which
nn 1een BEST 10 ignore or reverse them.
IN. Inc cross currents of politics and Of
interest n n,es, mpsthave been evident to you
tempt to explain the questions which
arose or the many diverse elements
taatentered mate, into them, ! shall at
that and more clearly suggested by NV
duty to report to the Congress- .he
part II seemed necessary for my col
leagues and me to play as the repre
ssentatives of the government of the
United States. '"e
Sought No Special r epnration.
That wns dictated by the role Amer-
lea had played in the war and by the
the minds of the peoples with whon, ~,
we had associated ourselves in thar
great struggle.
The United States entered the war
Upon nphon dlnerent footing from every
1bhef ,his nation except our associates on
snis side OF the sea. We entered n
not because our material interests we're
cis oiiseer.ay etry threatened or because any spe-
SialtFeaty obligations to which Gre
were parties had veen violated, bur
only because We saw the supremacv
ahu a.h even the validity of right every
MmeIe put In jeopardy and free gov
eminent likely to be everywher ere I'M
psriled by the intolerable ageressinn
rieh, or power which respected neither
system of government fiouted the r,sbtss ,fbs
-. or tne citizen as against the auto.
fpatlS ir nc authority OF his. governors. And
have sought no special reparatiee p pe1oe we we
ourselves, but only the restoration ~
eignt evsr and the assurance of liberty
tlmente settlement were the' to the E. ELECTS o the
Tered the war as the disinteraa,nd
champions OF right. and we interested
'seines no othsr IN the terms Of the peace In
Hopes Were mt Low Ebb.
me hopes of the nations allied
against again, the central powers were al a
to pour 1w eerosy eeD when en- our soldiers began
sthherywhere amongst them, eXcept in
,neir ,,, stontest spirits. somber fore.
Noxs9ber ening OF dsaster. aisst The war ended in
have only to recall what was feared yGu ~
midsummer last. four short montha
6efore the armistice. to realize what
p!ished alike for their morale and tbeir
physical safety. That first. never.to.
pc forgotten action at Chateau-Thierrv
naa ALREADY taken place. Our redoubt.
apie soid1ers and marines had already
cIoseu the gap the enemy had succeeded
IN opening for their advance upon Paris
had already turned the tide of battle
nacK towards the frontiers Of France
ana begun the rout that was TO save
Europe and the world. Thereafter the
t,ln Hermans were to be always forced
oack, al;, PACK were never to thrust sue
esssiuiiy forward again. And yet
there was no confident hone. Anxions
men and women, leading spirits of
France. attended thescelebration Of the
Fourth of July last year In Paris out
or generous courtesy. with no heart
for festivity. little zest for hope But
they came away with something new
at their hearts. They have themselves
told us so. The mere sight OF our men
of their vigor, Of the confidence thai
showed itself in every movement Of
their stalwart figures and every turn
OF their swinging march, in their
Steady. comprehending eyes and easy
discipline. In the indonlitable air that
added spirit to everything they did.
made every one who saw them that
memorable day realize that somethinr r
had happened that WAS much more
than a mere incident In tho fighting.
somsthing very different from the mere
force had flung itself into the struggle.
tied men spoke Of something more than
bodily vigor. They carried the great
ideals Of a free people at their hearts
and with that Vision were unconquer-
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