Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-04-29
WILSON TELLS CONFERENCE or
 TEXT CHANGES
Explains Alterations At
 Plenary Session.
MOST CHANGES ARE
 IN PHRASEOLOGY
Provision Made In First Article For Insertion Of Covenant In
 Peace Treaty.
(By The Associated Press)


 Paris, April Following is the text of President Wilson's speech be- fore the plenary session of the peace conference today:
 "Mlr. President:
 When the text of the covenant of the league of nations was last laid before you, had the honor of read ing the covenant eXtensio. I will not detain you today to read the coven- ant as it has now been altered, but will merely take the liberty of ex- blaming to you some of the altera- tions that have been made.
 The report of the commission has been circulated. You yourself have in hand the text of the covenant, and will no doubt have noticed that most of the changes that have been made are mere changes of phraseology, not changes of substance, and that. be- sides that, most of the changes are intended to clarify the document, or rather, to make explicit what we all have assumed was implicit in the document, as it was originally pre- scented to you. But l shall take the liberty of calling your attention to the new features such as they are. Some of them are considerable, the rest trivial.
 Article One Changed.
 "The first paragraph of article one is new. In view of the insertion of the covenant in the peace treaty, specific provision as to the signatories of the treaty, who would become members of the league, and also as to neutral states to be invited to accede to the covenant, were obviously necessary. The paragraph also provides for the method by which neutral state may accede to the covenant.
 "The third paragraph of article one is new, providing for the withdrawal of any member of the league on notice given of two years.
 '"rhe second paragraph of article four is new, providing for a possible increase in the council, should other powers be added to the league of na- tiOns, whose present accession is not anticipated.
 "The two last paragraphs of article four are new, providing specifically for one vote for each member of the league in the council which was un- derstood before, and providing also for one representative of each member of the league. The first paragraph of article is new, expressly incor- porating the provision as to the un- animity of voting, which was at first taken for granted.
 Provide For Appointment.
 ",The second paragraph of article six has had added to it tbat ma jority of the assembly must approve the appointment of the secretary gen. eral.
 "The first paragraph of article 2 names Geneva as the seat of the league and is followed by a second paragraph which gives the council power to establish the seat of the league elsewhere, should it subse- quently deem it necessary. "The third paragraph of article z is new, establishing equality of employ ment of men and women, that is to say, by the league. "The second paragraph of article l 13 is new, inasmuch as it undertakes l to give instances of disputes which are generally suitable for submission 70 arbitration, instances of what have latterly been called 'justiciable' ques- tioas.
 "l'he eighth paragraph of article 15 lis new. This is the amendment re- gardiLg domestic jurisdiction, that l where the council finds question arising out of an international dis pute affects matters which are clear ly under domestic jurisdiction of one or other Of the parties it is to report to that effect and make no recom- mendation.
 '"The last paragraph of article 16, is new, providing for an expulsion l from the league in certain extraOrdi- nary circumstances. l Article 2l New. l Article 21 is new. l 'The second paragraph of article 22 inserts the words with regard to man. datories and who are willing to ac- cept it thus explicitly introducing the principle that mandate cannot be forced upon nation unwilling to accept it.
 | Article 23 is combination of sev- ..eral former articles and also contains the following: A clause providing for the just treatment of Aborigines: a clause looking toward preven- tion of the white slave traffic and the ltraffic in opium and clause looking toward progress in international pre- Ivention and control of disease. l Article 25 specifically mentions tho lRed Cross as one of the internatt0n- t<>s.tA ~Fr