Republican farmer., 1919-08-22
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Washington, Aug. 19.
 President Wilson told the Commit tee at the outset of his conference to- day that he could see no reasonable objection" to interpretations of how the United States accepts the League of Nations provided such interpreta- tions did not form a part of the for nal ratification itself.
 If interpretations were part of the formal ratification, he contended, long; delays would follow as other govern ments would have to accept in effect the language of the Senate as the lan- guage of the treaty before ratification would be complete" Most of the in- terpretations,., he said, seemed to him to suggest the plain meaning of the instrument itself"
 The much discussed Article x, tho President told the Senators, was nos of doubtful interpretation when read in connection with the whole coven- ant The council, he said, could only advise" and as its action must be unanimous the affirmative vote of the United States would be necessary to any question affecting 1t.
 Article 16, the President said, pro- vided that where there Is a dispute found to be solely within the jurisdic- ton of one of the parties under in ternational law, the League Council shall so report and make no recom- mendation for it's settlement. Immi- grafton, tariffs and the like, the President said, clearly came under that provision.
 The President said in part:
 q venture again to urge my advice that the action of the Senate with re- gard to the treaty be taken the earli- !, problems with which we are face to face in the readjustment of our na- tional life of the most pressing and critical character will receive for the proper solution the most intimate and disinterested corporation of adl par ties and all interests and cannot be postponed without manifest .eril 10 our people.
 '-The copper mines of Montana, and Alaska for example, are being kept open and in operation only at g. great cost and loss in part upon borrowed money. the zinc mines of Missouri. Tennessee and Wisconsin are being operated at about one-half their ca pacity; the lead of Idaho, Illinois and Missouri reaches only a portion of iis former markets; there is an immedi- ate need for cotton betting, and also TOT OH "IllCiA CtLlAlOL bS met all because the channels of trade are barred by war, when there is no war The same is true of raw cotton, of which the Central Empires alone formerly purchased nearly 4,000,0OO bales
 "Our military plans of course wait upon it Vast surplus properties of the army include. not food and cloth ing merely. whose sale will affect normal production, but great manu- facturing establishments also which should be restored to their former uses, great stores of machine tools, and all sorts of merchandise. which must lie idle until peace and military policy are definitely determined. By the same token there can be no prop erly studied national budget until then.
 The nations that ratify the treaty, such as Great Britain. Belgium and France. will be in a position to lay their plans for controlling the market: of Central Europe without competi- ton from us if we do not presently act. We have no consular agents no trade representatives there to look after our interests
 without determinate markets oui production cannot proceed with intel ligence or confidence. There can bC no stabilization of wages. there car be no settled conditions of employ. ment. There can be no easy ol normal industrial credits. because there can be no confident or perman. ent revival of business.
 "I will only venture to repeat tha every elemont of normal life among us depends upon and awaits the rat incation of the treaty of peace; ana also that we cannot afford to lose single summers day by not doing al that we can to mitigate the winter! suffering. which unless we find meani to prevent II, may prove disastroul to a large portion of the world. ans may, at its worst. bring upon Europ, conditions oven more terrible thaI