Bisbee daily review., 1919-07-11
Peace Treaty Explained By
 Pres. Wilson
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tempt at Oratory and no applause in terTupted the address. Nearly every senator was in his seat, and all list ened attentively Afterward his SUD- porters were unstinted in their praise for the presidents words, while those opposed either declined to comment or declared he had dealth only in unsat. isfactory generalities.
 Talks Over Irish Question
 In his talks afterward with league supporters, the president was said to have discussed at length the Shantung and Irish questions He was quoted as saying he was not satisfied with the treaty provision giving Shantung to Japan, but as declaring there was an informal understanding among the peace delegates that eventually Japan must make an acceptable agreement with China in the matter. He was represented as expressing confidence that Japan would deal rightly in the final settlement.
 Defends Stand on Irish Question
 Discussing the failure of the peace conference to receive the representa- lives of the Irish-American represent
 
 was said to have told senators that the representatives had so identified themselves with the revolutionary ele- ment in Ireland that it became impos- sible to receive them. He was quoted as saying that both he and David Lloyd George, the British premier, had bee anxious to arrange for a hearing
 Question of Plume Not Mentioned
 The decision not to bind Germany to definite indemnity, the president was reported to have said, was reach ed over his protest. He was quoted as saying he consented to the indeter- mlnate plan to help Premier Lloyd George over domestic obstacles.
 It was said the question of Plume was not mentioned.
 To Oppose Any Changes by Senate
 In talking to the senators the presi- dent was said to have taken a firm stand against any reservations in the senate's ratification of the treaty. It was asserted he would not be disposed kindly even toward interpellated res ervations to make the senate's deci- sion clear, there always might be doubt as to whether any particular reservation really were innocuous or would vitiate some league principle. The president also was quoted as say ing he believed a two-thirds majority would be necessary to write any reser- VatlonS into the ratification resolution. but It was said afterward that he prob ably meant that the reservations, once part of the resolution, would have to have the support of two-thirds of the senators to secure action when the ratification vote was taken.
 Among the senate leaders the i'm press1on has been that only a simple majority would be required to amend the ratification resolution, and the presidents reported statement met a sharp denial from opposing senators. who cited senate rule providing that in considering treaties two-thirds shall be required for ratification, but only a majority for all other motions and questions" involved.
 Concerning the League of Nations, he said:
 That there should be- League of Ma tions to steady the counsels and maintain the peaceful understandings of the world. to make, not treaties alone but the ex- pressed principles Of international laws as well, the actual rule of conduct among the governments of the world. had been one of the agreements accepted from the first as the basis of peace with the cen tral powers. The statesmen of all the belligerent countries were agreed that such league must be created to sustain the settlements that were to be effected. But at first I think there was a feeling among some of them that. while it must be attempted, the formation of such a league was perhaps counsel of perfec- ton which practical men,. long expe- rienced in the world of affairs must agree to very. cautiously and with many misgivings. It was only as the difficult work of arranging an all but universal adjustment of the worlds affairs ad- vanced from day to day from one stage of conference to another that it became evident to them that what they were seeking would be little more than some thing written upon paper, to be inter preted and applied by such methods as the chances of politics might make avail able if they did not provide means of common counsel which all were obliged to share. a common authority whose de- cisions would he recognized as decisions which all must respect.
 And so the most practical. the most skeptical among them. turned more and more to the league as the authority through which international action was to be secured. the authority without which. as they had come to see it, it would he difficult to give assured ef- feet either to this treaty or to any other international understanding upon which they were to depend for the maintenance of peace = the League Of Ma tions was not merely an instrument to adjust and remedy old wrongs. under a new treaty of peace; it was the only hope for mankind. Again and again had the demon of war been cast out of the house of the peoples and the house swept clean by a treaty of peace"
 WASHINGTON, July 10. - Senator Shoot. Republican, Utah, characterized President Wilson's address to the senate today as another Wilsonian essay, but not quite up to the standard"
 Senator Harding, Republican, Ohio a member of the foreign relations commit
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