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TREATY PROTOCOL
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German nationals to indemnity them
in respect to the interests which they
may be found to possess in the rail-
ways and mines referred to in the
second paragraph of Article 156 shall
be credited to Germany against the
sums due by way of reparation.
The list of persons TO be handed
over to the allied and associated gov
ernments BY Germany under the sec
ond paragraph of article 22S shall be
communicated to the German gov
eminent within a month from the
coming into force of the treaty.
The reparation commission refer
red to in article 240 and paragraphs
=, 3. and 4 of annex 4, cannot require
trade secrets or other conditional In
formation to be divulged.
From the signature of the treaty
and within the ensuing four months
Germany will be entitled to submit
for examination by the allied and as
ISOLATED powers documents and pro-
posals in order to expedite the work
connected with reparation, and thus
to shorten the investigation and to
accelerate the decisions.
Proceedings will be taken against
persons who have committed punish
German property, and the allied and
associated powers will welcome any
information which the German gov
eminent can furnish on this subject.
Done at Versailles the twenty eighth
day of June, one thousand nine hum
dred and nineteen.
An appeal for prompt action by
Congress to permit the United States
to be represented at the international
labor conference provided for under
the treaty of Versailles was voiced by
Secretary Wilson before the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee when 1t
resumed its open hearings today.
1t was pointed out by Senator
Lodge, chairman OF the cammittee,
that under a rider to the general de-
ficiency bill of March 4, 1913, the
President was prohibited from au-
thorizing the participation of the
United States in any international
gathering without the consent of
Congress. Secretary Wilson said he
realized that unanimous consent by
Congress was necessary to permit the
United States to be represented at
the proposed conference which was
scheduled to be held at Washington
in October. but he hoped that such
action would be forthcoming before
the House adjourned tomorrow until
September 9.
Says Bill Is Not Necessary.
Senator Lodge said he could not see
the necessity of the bill sponsored by
Senator Kenyon, progressive Repub-
Iican OF Iowa, in the Senate yesterday,
which authorized the President to APP
point American delegates to the con-
ference. Lane urged that the Presi-
dent be so authorized when the COM
mittee, to which the Senate referred
1.-THE Kenyon measure took it UP.
Reservations to the peace treaty. so
tame that they will not put il in any
danger of being sent back to the other
powers, are being drawn by interna-
tionaI law experts close to the Ad-
for submission to Presi-
dent Wilson, il was learned today.
There was no intimation that the
experts are doing so at the Presidents
request, OF with his knowledge. But
it was stated on reliable authority
that should President Wilson decide
finally that acceptance of reservations
must precede ratification OF the treaty,
a thoroughly harmless set will be
ready for presentation to the Senate.
This presentation. it was limited,
might be accomplished through Sem
ators who, while urging reservations,
are so friendly to the League of Ma
tions that they are averse to seeing
reservations endanger IL.
The President is paving the way
for acceptance of reservations by his
resumption of daily conferences with
Republican Senators at the White
House, in the belief Of opponents of
the league.
The Foreign Relations Committee
today resumes its quizzing OF Bernard
NJ. Baruch and Bradley Palmer, eco