Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-15
PRESIDENT AND
SENATE FOREIGN
COMMITTEE To
CONFER TUESDAY
Decision to Accept White
House Invitation Comes as
Result of Letter of BOrah'
and johnson.
FULLEST PUBLICITY
HAS BEEN AUTHORIZED
Demand That Many Witnesses
Be Called to Clear Up QueS-
tionS Lansing Couldn't An
SWer Causes Dispute,

nav MORNING JOURNAL EPGciAt LTAsEp WiHg'
Washington. Aug. 14.-President|
Wilson replying tonight to Senator
Lodges request for an appointment
with the senate foreign relations COM
mittee to discuss the peace treaty, set
Tuesday morning, at 10 o'clock, The
president stated that it was his pref
erence that the fullest publicity be Civ
en- the conference, so that the peo-
pie of the country might be put in
possession of all the information he
has about the treaty of peace,
President Wilson'S offet ~ talk
over the peace treaty with the senate
foreign relations committee finally
was accepted today. AT the suggestion
of republican members and by a vir-
tually unanimous vote, the committee
decided to inform the president it
would be glad to meet him at his
conv nience to go over disputed points
in the treaty and the league of ma
tions covenant. At the same time the
committee voted to call additional
witnesses and continue its hearings.
Tonight the president set 10 clock
next Tuesday for the meeting and
wrote to Chairman Lodge that IN line
with suggestion by the committee
he would not consider the discussion
confidential in nature. In notifying
Mr.. Wilson of the committee decision,
Senator Lodge had written that mem
bers did not desire to be bound by
| secrecy.
The president chose the White
! House as the place of meeting. al
though the chairman had left the way
open for him to come before the COM
mittee at the capitol if he preferred.
Statement by Tumulty.
! The letters were not made public
| but Secretary Tumulty issued this
| statement:
"The president received Senator
| Lodges request for an appointment
to meet the foreign relations commit
tee to discuss the treaty of peace. OF
course the president welcomed this
| opportunity to meet the foreign rela-
| tions committee and has fixed Tues
| day morning at 10 o'clock as the
time for a meeting at the White
| House. The unprecedented condition
| of the conference as set by Senator
Lodge to the president. fits in with
the presidents own preference as to
publicity, so that the people of the
| country may be put in possession OF
all the information he has about the
| treaty or peace.
Mr.. Lodge told the president that it
was assumed by the committee that
nothing said at the meeting would be
considered confidential. He recalled
that the plan of the senate was to
consider the treaty in open executive
session, and in view of this plan the
committee felt that any information
in regard to the treaty which came
into their possession should not be
| withheld from the public. 1t was to
this paragraph of the letter that Mr..
Tumulty referred in stating the presi-
dents desire for publicity.
Way Open for Either Place.
1t also left the way open for HIM
to either receive the committee at the
White House or come before 1t at the
capitol, Chairman Lodges letter of
notification saying the committee
members would meet Mr.. Wilson "at
any time or place" he might select.
The suggestion that the committee
meet the president was made by Sem
ator Lodge.
! In deciding to call additional wit
nesses, the committee reversed lts de-
cision reached yesterday to speed ac-
tion on the treaty. 1t was voted t6
request appearance of five persons
advisers at Versailles who resigned, ii
has been reported, because they dis
agreed with decisions of the confer
ence regarding Shantung and Russia
They are +. T. Williams, 5. X. Horn
beck and william c. Bullitt. The 9th
ers summoned are John {. Ferguson
and Thomas F. Millard. suggested a!
authorities on Far eastern AFFAIRS.
Dividing nine to eight, the commit
tee rejected a motion to question a.st
Gen. Tasker H. Bliss, Col. y. M. House
and Henry White, who with Presiden
Wilson and Secretary Lansing made
| up the American peace COMMISSION
proper. 1t was afterWard said tina
/ the action with regard TO Colone
| House might be- reconsidered shoult
l members Fail to get troEi tresiden
Wilson the information they desire
about the league of nations ne6ona
tions.
In agreeing to call the on the pres
ident. the committee accepted an in
formal invitation transmitted by sen
ator Hitchcock, the administration
leader, a few days after Mr.. Wilsol
' laid the treaty before the senate.
The suggestion that the committe,
go to the White House was understood
TO have been made by Senator John
son. republican, of California.
n Several members, including Senate
Borah. were understood to have OBJ
jected, If the talk with the presiden
was to be confidential. Senator Fal
J was said to have indicated that H.
would not go because no record o
the discussions would be kept and dis
putes would arise afterward as t
I, what the president said.
Democratic members opposed tn
calling OF all witnesses on the grount
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