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WILSON HAS TWO.
TREATY FIGHTS.
Resumes Talks With RepubIl
cans on Peace Treaty.
OPPOSITION TO FRENCH PACT
Senators Dillingham; and Harding
Consult With President But Arc
Not Converted.

Senators Dillingham; and Harding
Consult With President, But Arc
Not Converted.
washington, July Ex-senator Dill
bingham, Vermont, first of the RepuD'
Iican senators to see Presiden5 VIII
son when he resumed his discussion
of the peace treaty with members Oh
the senate majority, announced on
leaving the White House he expected
TO vote for the treaty with reserva'
tions.
Senator Dillingham; said he had q
very satisfactory and delightful talk
with the president, who answered
frankly many questions concerning
the negotiations at Paris, including
the Shantung settlement.
President Wilson did not indicate
to the senator that he would make
public statement concerning Shan
tung. Mr.. Dillingham; said he did not
get the impression that such state.
ment would be forthcoming.
Senator Harding, Ohio, Republi-
can member of the foreign relations
committee, also conferred with the
president. Upon leaving the White
House he dictated this statement:
"The president especially empha-
sized the embarrassments and delays
which would result from reservations
on the part of the United States, be-
cause such course will justify like
action on the part of other signatories
of the treaty"
Senator Harding denied that he had
become a convert to the presidents
program of ratification of the treaty
with out reservations.
With both the senate and the for
eign relations committee in recess, in
terest in the treaty shifted again to
the White House.
Republicans on the presidents APP
pointment list, besides Senator Dill
bingham and Senator Harding, were
Fernald, Maine, and Lenroot, Wiscon-
sin. For today, the president had in
vited Senator New, Indiana, another
foreign relations member, and Sen
ators Watson, Indiana, and Reyes,
New Hampshire.
(Harding and New are the first of
the Republicans on the committee
who are standing for reservations to
be invited by the president to con-
fer with him.
The president also had engagements
to see Homer S. Cummings, chairman
of the Democratic national commit
tee; Major General Robert Alexander
and julius Barnes, of the grain cor
poration.
Informal discussion among senator's
developed that opposition to the spe
cial defensive treaty with France,
which was sent to the senate by Pres
fdent Wilson, is likely to be conferred
along two general lines-that it is di-
.reetlyl antagonistic to the tradition
OF no changing alliances and that
it subverts the constitutional right of
congress to determine questions of
war or peace.
Although the president has taken
the position that the treaty is not
properly an alliance, Senator Borah,
Republican, Idaho, and others main
tain that it has all the force of the
alliances which have been common
among European nations. In the view
of this group the treaty will be even
more in contradiction of American
traditions than Article x of the league
of nations covenant under which the
members of the league would under
take to respect and preserve as
against external aggression the ter
ritoria1 integrity" of all members of
the league.
In the view Of the administration
neither Article x, nor the French
treaty would go further than the Mon
roe Doctrine in curtailing the power
of congress to declare war. They ar
que that while moral obligation is
imposed by such agreements, it is left
to congress in any specific case to de-
eide by declaring war or refusing to
do so whether the time has come to
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