The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-11-28

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final action in the senate, folio
January 22-President Wilson in adj
dress to senate offered his first sugges-
ton for league of nations and advo-
Gated peace without victory"
1918
January S-President Wilson, adj
dressing joint session of Congress, out
lined his famous fourteen points as
basis for "just and lasting peace.
August Ex-senator Lodge outlined
his ideas as to a proper world peace
settlement.
November 11-Hostilities ceased I'M
der armistice granted Germans by
Marshal Foch.
December 4-President Wilson sails
from New York and arrives in Paris
December IA.
January 1S-Opening the peace con-
ference at Paris. Delegates represent
ing 81 nations in attendance. Presl-
dent Wilson addressed the meeting.
February President Wilson.
chairman of the commission appointed
by the peace congress to draft a cove
nant, reads the proposed covenant to
the conference.
February 15-President Wilson sails
from France for the United States and
in a cable message requests that de-
bates in Congress on the league of ma
lions be postponed until after his ar
rival.
February 24--president Wilson ar
riyes in Boston and in speech in Me
chanics' Hall challenges his opponents
to test the sentiment of the nation on
the subject of league of nations.
February 26-President Wilson ar
rives in Washington.
February 27-Dinner at the White
House to members of the Foreign Re
lations Committee of the senate ana
Foreign Affairs of the house of repre-
sentatives for discussion of the cove
nant.
March 3-In the senate Senator
Lodge of Massachusetts presented
resolution signed by so Republican
senators and senatorSelec protesting
against the form of the constitution of
the league of nations and expressing
the sense of the senate that the nego-
tiations on the part of the United
States should Immediately be directed
to the utmost expedition of the urgent
business of negotiating peace terms
with Germany satisfactory to the
United States"
March 5-President Wilson sails
from New York and arrives in France
March Is.
May THE treaty is handed to the
German representatives.
May 9-Congress convened in extra
session.
June 9-Senater Borah presented to
the senate a copy of the German trea-
ty. Ordered printed in the Congress
sional Record.
June 16-President Wilson, through
the department of state. declines to
accede to the request of the senate for
text of the treaty.
June 2S-Treaty signed at 'Ver-
sailles. President Wilson sails for
America. Senator Hitchcock has read
in the senate cablegram from the
President telling of the signing of the
treaty.
July 1O-President Wilson addressed
the senate and laid the treaty before
that body.
July 31-Hearings on the treaty be-
fore the Foreign Relations Committee
started. Bernard NJ. Baruch and
Bradley Palmer first witnesses.
Hearings concluded September 19)
August 6-Secletary of State Ian
sing before the Foreign Relations
Committee.
August S-President Wilson, in a
letter to the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, refuses the request of the
committee that it be furnished with
documents, debates and stenographic
reports of the meetings in Paris.
August 10-Members of the Foreign
Relations Committee meet at the
White House with the President to
discuss the treaty.
August 23-Foreign Relations Com
mittee, by vote of 9 to s, amends the
Shantung articles by substituting
China" for Japan"
August 26-Foreign Relations Com
mittee, by a vote of 8 to Z, agreed to
strike out the words land associated"
which appear in the treaty SO times.
Takes the United States out of partici-
patton on the various commissions.
August 29-In response to the re-
quest of the Foreign Relations Com
mittee, President Wilson sends to the
senate "Treaty with Poland and
military Occupation of the Rhine"
Foreign Relations Committee agrees
| to amendment by Senator Johnson of
| California to Article 3 (voting power
of the British empire) and an amend
ment by Senator Moses to Article 10
| (voting power of the United States
and British empire).
September 3-President Wilson be-
| gins tour of the United States in be-
| half of the treaty.
September 4EForeign Relations
| Committee concludes consideration of
| the treaty and orders it reported as
amended and with four reservations.
September 10-In the senate, Sena-
| tor Lodge presented the report of the
majority on the treaty.
September lin the senate, Sena-
| tor Hitchcock presented the views of
| the minority on the treaty.