Arizona republican., 1919-07-11

covenant was laid before the senate by President Wilson today in an address accounting to the country for his part in the negotiations at Versailles.
 The league, said the president was born of the conviction of practical statesmen that an international con cert had become world necessity to end the old order and guarantee civili- Zation. He asserted that in such a concert the world looked confidently to America for leadership, and added that while the treaty might not be eX actly as the American delegation would have written it, no vital principle had been sacrificed by the necessary com promises.
 Hear Wilson in Grave Silence
 The senate, already divided in a bitter fight over the league proposal received the president with cheers and listened to his words in a grave silence. When he had concluded there was an- other burst of 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 specific features of the treaty or of the negotiations. In these conferences, the president dis cussed freely such subjects as the dis position of Shantung, the indemnities and Irish freedom. In his address, how ever, there was no direct reference to many of the questions around which senate debate has centered, the presi- dent declaring he could not construe details of the treaty in a short address He did not direct any mention to the Monroe doctrine, Shantung or the obli- | orot A,+i al the league covenant. nor did he allude to the proposal to write reservations into the ratification. He asserted a | hope that he would be given opportu- nity to discuss details later either with the whole senate or the foreign relations committee.
 Offers Services
 My services and all the information l l posses" said MT. Wilson, Will be at your disposal and at the diposal of your committee on foreign relations at any time, either informally or in session, as you prefer; and l hope that you will not hesitate to make use of them"
 Amerian isolation, the president as- | serted, was ended 20 years ago wher the Spanish-Amerian war put the na- tion in partial control of Cuba and the 1 Philippines.
 But we have not exploited them, he continued We have been theil friends and have sought to serve them There can be no question of our ceas. i ing to be a world power The only ! question is whether we can refuse the moral leadership that is offered us whether we shall accept or reject the confidence of the world.
 's'Tba cta ic closed It has come about by no plar of our conceiving, but by the hand oi God who has led us into this way. Wt cannot turn back. We can only go for. ward. with lifted eyes, and fresheneC spirit, to follow the vision"
 Alluding to the skepticism witt which the plan for league of nation. was received, the president said that as the peace negotiations proceeded. i became apparent to all the delegate: that such a concert was "a practica necessity demanded "by all the peo ples of the world" For the United States to reject it, he asserted, "woult break the heart of the world Point ing out that any minor compromise, were necessary to secure the supper Of all the interested nations, he con tinued
 The treaty, as a result. is not ex actly what We would have written It is probably not what any one O the national delegates would hay, written. But results were worked ou which on the whole bear test. I thinl that it will be found that the com promises which were accepted as in evitable nowhere cut to the heart O any principle"
 Orders Treaty Published
 In disregard of precedent. the senat received the address in open session and afterward ordered that the treat, be published in. the Congressiona Record and as public document.
 The galleries were overflowing ant crowds unable to obtain admission waited in the rain to cheer the presi dent when he arrived and departed Many members of the house crowde, into the rear of the senate chambe and most Of the members of the cabi net were seated near the vice. -presi dents desk.
 Speaking from the platform iron which, 30 months ago. he astounde, the world with his first declaration for league of nations, the presiden read his address slowly and in a clea voice. His manuscript. typewriter ol small pages, he held in his left hand and with his right he punctuated hi utterances with an occasional gesture Before him on the vice. president desk lay the treaty, brought by him i person from Versailles.
 No Attempt at Oratory
 There was no attempt at oratorv am no applause interrupted the addres. . | Npa rlxr T.: and all listened attentivey Afterwar his supporters were unstinted in thei praise for the presidents words whil those opposed either declined to com ment or declared he had dealt only i unsatisfactory generalities. In hi l talks afterward with league supporter } the president was said to have dis cussed at length the Shantung an Irish questions. He was quoted as say } ing he was not satisfied with the treat provision giving Shantung to Japan but as declaring there was an informs l understanding among the peace dele l gates that eventually Japan mus make an acceptable agreement wit , China in the matter. He expresse confidence that Japan would des t rightly in the final settlement Discussing the failure of the peac 3 conference to receive the represen
 tives of the Irish American represen 5 tatives of Irsh freedom, Mr. Wilso ] was said to have told senators that tn
 representatives had so identified them g selves with the revolutionary elemer r in Ireland that it became impossibl 9 to receive them. He was quoted a saying that both he and David Lloy $ George, the British premier, would 1