Evening star., 1919-03-13
DRAFT AMENDING
OPPOSED IN PARIS
Insistence Noted to Retain
Clause in Covenant Repug-
nant to Many in U. S.
EUROPEAN CHAOS GROWS

Three outstanding features of the
situation today concerning the treaty
of peace and the league of nations, as
shown by the dispatches from abroad
and conditions at home, are described
to be:
OVerw helming evidences of rapidly
increasing conditions ST chaos in
several parts of Europe, threatening
to spread to sections as yet unaffect-
ed, demanding the speediest conclu-
sion of a treaty of peace.
Indications, according to latest ad
vices. that difficulty will he encoun
tered in amending the covenant of the
league to conform to demands in this
country, especially with regard to the
Monroe doctrine. and probably in
other respects deemed here essential
without prolonged delay.
Certainty of growing insistence in
the United States for material amend
ment OF the covenant with. further
more, the question becoming involved
in American politics, the republicans
and democratic national manage
ments taking sides, all of which
induces to delaying final peace
unless the league OF nations
plan remains disassociated from
the treaty itself.
Chairman Cummings Statement.
Chairman Cummings, of the demo-
cratic national committee, in his for
NAL statement published in The Star
yesterday, presumably rejecting the
views and purposes of President VIII
N he
the talk about a treaty of peace first
and league of nations aSterward
He insisted that such policy would
postpone an effective league for gen.
erations and leave Europe during the
period of reconstruction. a prey to
conflicting national interests.
If the democratic national chair
mans announcement correctly inter-
prets President wilson's rnind--and it
is assumed he would not make such
{: statement without knowledge OF the
attitude of his chief--there will be
clash of wills when the President
reaches Paris and learns that the peace
commissioners decided in his absence
to ser arate the league of nations from
the peace treaty.
Becomes a Party Issue.
There can be no question that the
democratic and republican national
mana RefneHtS nave uet6TfnlHSQ TO make
party issue out of support and re-
sistance to the present form of the
league of nations, although prominent
dcmocrats and republicans In the coun-
try wide are found, some supporting
lssa ss,t IA Ee 9o q II ssss'eat with
Chairman Hays Of the republican
national committee, in q speech in St
Paul the other night, pronounced in
favor of amending the league. and at
least thirty-nine republican senator's
stand with him. and also for effecting
peace before taking up the league
project. Chairman Cummings Of the
democratic committee the President,
all the cabinet and administration
supporters generally are for an un-
amended covenant and for Incorporating
the covenant in the treaty of peace it
self
Today dispatches from Europe. as
well as for the last forty EIGHT hours,
TEEN with accounts of the rapidly
spreading disorder in the stricken
sections of the old world, with warn.
ings from most trustworthy sources
of the vital necessity for Immediate
action on the treaty of peace as All
alternative to possible world cata-
cIvSn