New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-14
Mail address Ordered
To Read: Trieste, Italy

Mail address Ordered
To Read: Trieste, Italy
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1s.--An order
has been issued by the Italian censor
that mail addressed to Trieste, Aus
tria. or Trieste, ugo-Slavia, is to be
destroyed, according to cable mes
sage from Trieste at the Department
of Commerce to-day. The new regu-
lations require the address to read:
Trieste, Italy.
that he declines to recognize the deci-
sion of the Senate upon a parliament
airy question or whether he is unable to
make any concession even on q matter
of form.
II have never sought to make the
treaty party question; tried to keep
it away from partisanship all summer
long. ! never have used the word
party in any connection with it. The
chairman of the Democratic National
Committee has maze it from the begin
ming party question. 1t has been
made party question on the other
side; it has been forced on us simply
because we furnished most Of the votes,
although not all. If it is forced on us
we shall take what we believe to be the
American side and what is necessary
for the protection Of the United States.
at is for those who are the friends
of the treaty as it stood without any
modification to make proposals If they
have any to make. We are ready to
listen to and consider any such pro-
posals. If notifications of the reser-
vations which we believe are sound
are desired. let them be offered by
those who are disconnected with the
reservations as they stand and who
think they might vote for them if they
were in any degree modified. Give us
an opportunity to see what you pro-
pose.
Says Wilson Must Act
GAS to a committee of Cancellation,
nothing to do but come forward, if
they are duly authorized by the Presi
dent, and tell us what notifications
they would like us to consider The
Senate is not going to deal, with my
assent at least, with some unofficial
collection Of persons whom the Presi-
dent may select to discourse about the
treaty with a majority of the Senate:
"TNe Senate can, of course. deal with
1 j
for the reservations have no one to
consult but ourselves. If the President
desires to present any notifications
or concessions from his position to the
Senate it is open to him to do it,"
eve will not get back to peace con-
ditions or prices until the treaty is
ratified" Senator Underwood declared.
at is true that the President could
withdraw the treaty and resubmit it.
H,t% u oh RI H0
so. The treaty is here. and the re-
sponsibility for it's ratification is here.
The n ajoritv of the Senate can bring
it up at any time.
~ did not make any specific PROPOSE
ton to the Senator from Massachu-
sets. simply asked him to agree to
! the appointment of committee that
would concl ate the differences in the
Senate over the treaty. to see if some
how an agreement could not be made.
| have no doubt that if an agreement
could be reached here the President
would then withdraw the treaty and
resubmit it.
Not Wilson's Place to Act
"The time has come when techni-
calities in this situation ought to be
dispensed with. The President is on
\ sick bed and he is amply able to at
tend to the affairs Of the nation. but
the Senate ought not to say that he
should initiate action. If the Senate
wants peace, it is no reflection on its
fdignity to propose step which may
bring about peace, and which the SEN
tor from Massachusetts repudiates.
He will have, no peace unless the
President of the United States will
yield to his imperial will. That is the
situation that confronts the country.
ifr
Executive disabled by his illness and
he Senate of the United States OBJ
stinately refusing to take any action
ior fear that it may yield on some
technicality heretofore insisted upon.'
Senator Hitchcock's Version
Senator Hitchcock said that he want
ed to give his version of his talks with
Senator Lodge prior to the votes on
the treaty on November 10.
"The meeting with Senator Lodge
said Senator Hitchcock, was held for
the purpose of seeing il it might be
possible to settle the differences as to
reservations. | agreed with the Sem
ator from Massachusetts, that his reso-
luton of ratification would be beaten.
We agreed further in the expectation
that after his resolution was beaten a
resolution of unqualified ratification
also would be beaten. We agreed also
in the expectation that a resolution of
ratification containing reservations
which l had proposed also would be
beaten.
~ put it to Senator Lodge at that
time that after the defeat Of these
propositions the Senate take IA recess
in order to give the two sides an oppor~
tunity to reach an agreement.
Senator Lodge said that he was
anxious for the ratification of the
treaty. After that conference l heard
no further word from the Senator from
Massachusetts,, but told my associates
on this side of the chamber that we
would have recess Of n day or two
and that then a compromise might be
effected. But the Senator from Massa-
chusetts prevented this. He himself
moved to reconsider the vote by which
the unqualified ratification was defeat
ed, and he moved to lay that motion
on the table, and then he had the Sen
ate adjourn sine die"
81 told the Senator that a compro-