Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-04
Leaves Washington Wednes-
day Night to Explain to
American People His Part in
Peace Negotiations.
FINAL SENATE SURVEY
GIVEN BY HITCHCOCK
Nebraskan Says Every Amend
ment to Treaty Involving
Any "KiI|ing' Reservations
Would Be Defeated.
By The Associated Press.

Washington, Sept. 5.-President
Wilson left Washington tonight for
q countrywide speaking trip to tell
the American people hrst-hand of
his part in the peace negotiations
and to make personal appeal that
the peace treaty be ratified without
amendment
The presidents special train on
which he will live nearly all of the
time for the next Is days. departed
at 7 o'clock. The first leg of the
trip of nearly 10000 miles will be
completed tomorrow morning in Co.
lumbus, O., where he will make the
first of his 80 scheduled addresses
The president and his party
reached the station at 6:45 o'clock
and were given an ovation by the
crowd. After escorting Mrs. Wilson
to the private car the president re-
turned to the platform. where he
chatted with friends until the time
for his train to leave.
Accompanying the president, in
addition to Mrs. Wilson, were JOS
eph P. Tumulty, his secretary, and
Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, his
physician. Nearly 80 newspaper
correspondents were aboard the
train in addition to the force of Off
cial stenographers and secret serv-
ice men.
Arduous Trip.
The trip, perhaps the most ardu-
Gus ever undertaken by a president,
will carry Mr.. Wilson and his party
as far west as the Pacific coast. al
most to the Canadian border on the
north and almost to Mexico on the
south. He will speak in every state
west of the Mississippi except four
and will make up for the omission
of these speeches in Ohio, Indiana,
Kentucky and Tennessee.
Although the detailed schedule
was held in confidence in the inter
est of safety to the presidential
train, it is understood that most of
the stops will be only for three or
four hours. In Des Moines, Seattle,
Los Angeles and Louisville, how
ever. where Sunday stops are made,
the president will have opportunity
for brief respites. In Seattle he will
review the Pacific fleet.
TIE speech making schedule is a
vigorous one from the start After
his address at Columbus tomorrow
Mr.. Wilson will go to Indianapolis
in time for an evening mass meet
ing. Then he will continue west
ward, reaching Des Moines Sunday
for the weekend.
The following week will take him
far into the west by the northern
route, with speeches at Omaha,
Sioux Falls. St. Paul. Minneapolis,
Bismarck. Billings, Helena, Cour
d'Alene, Spokane, Tacoma and Seat
tie. After that will come Portland,
San Francisco, San Diego, Los An
geles. Reno, Salt Lake City, Chey-
enne. Denver, Pueblo, Wichita. Ok
lahoma City, Little Rock, Memphis
and Louisville. The return to Wash
ington will be on September 80.
Shorter Speeches Expected.
In addition to these scheduled ad-
dresses, Mr.. Wilson is expected to
make some shorter speeches from
his train at intermediate stops.
Although it is expected that the
president will devote most of his
attention to the peace treaty he
probably will touch on the high cost
of living and other domestic prob
lens. It has been pointed out that
much of his itinerary lies through
the northwest, where labor and So
cial unrest has been pronounced.
A final survey of the senate situ
alton was given the president late
TODAY by Senator Hitchcock of Ne
braska, ranking democrat of the for
eiqn relations committee, who called
at the White House at Mr.. Wilson's
request. The president was in
formed that republican leaders plan
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