Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-27
United States View Accepted


brought all his figures with him
Tuesday and wished more time. Yes.
terday he was fully equipped. Pre-.
mier Lloyd George had called Edwin
Samuel Montagu, secretary for India
and former financial secretary of the
treasury, to Paris from London, and
Premier Clemenceau had consulted
Louis Loucheur, the French minister
xof reconstruction, in addition to the
regular experts.
All these financial chiefs agreed in
the main with the views formulated by
the American delegates concerning
Germanys resources and ability to
pay, but it still remained for the
Premiers to take n final decision on
the total of the indemnities. Presi.
dent Wilson incidentally expressed
himself as much gratified at the show
ing made by the American financial
experts alongside the leading financial
authorities of France and England.
Substantially, the American esti-
8 mate on reparation by Germany is
twelve billion dollars. to be collected
in forty years The plan provides
obtaining eight billions by confisca-
tion Of German property in foreign
lands and four billions from other
sources including trade credits. Esti-
mates by other Allies had been re-
The Rhine frontier question may
come up today Thursday. and
President Wilson has outlined plan
which he hopes may become the basis
of an agreement.
Spalato Riots Unconfrmed
The Adriatic issue is the most stub.
born question remaining, and with no
indication of compromise upon it.
The italian reports of disorder at
Spalato are not confirmed by Ameri-
can reports direct from that place.
These latter reports show the Serbs
working effectively and peacefully
while the Italian admiral is reported
TO be arresting large number of
Jugo-Slavs.
When the Americans intervened, the
Italian reply, the reports state. was
that the United States was not a
party to the secret treaty of London
and, therefore, had no status in the
controversy. Such conditions as these,
IT is pointed out, are seriously ham
pering the solution of the Adriatic
question.
President Wilson's study, where the
memorable meetings are occurring is
on the first floor of his Paris residence,
with the windows looking out upon
Z Premier Lloyd Georges garden. The
room Is rather ornately decorated and
number of paintings by old masters
hang on the walls. Amid these sur.
roundings the discussion is proceed.
ing IN most unconventional manner.
There is no green table, there are no
stenographers, no speeches. The
avoidance of speeches is proving the
greatest help to progress, as the long
discourses In the council of ten often
took up most of the time of that body.
The absence of stenographers leaves
the discussion untrammeled by records
and permits of the freest exchange of
views.
After the long session with the
:. Premiers, the President went to the
Hotel de CriUon at 1890 o'clock last
night for the league of nations com.
mission session, when the remaining
articles and amendments were con,
sidered.
Requisites for Membership
A proposal which seeks to settle
the conditions required for admission
to the league Of nations has been pre-
sented to the Peace Conference Il
says that countries which wish to be
come members of the league mus
prove that they Insure to all citizens
as well as all foreigners resident ir
their territories, full religious free
dom, protection to person and prop
erty, liberty of the press and the free
exercise of such rights of suffrage al
may be guaranteed by their constitu
tons, customs or legislative enact
ments."
The proposal would apply not onl,
to enemy countries, but to nations lik,
Russia, Mexico and Costa Rica, tn,
last two Of which were not invited t,
participate in the meeting Of neutral
with representatives of other belliger
ent nations TO discuss the league Of ma
tions.