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FAIL TO ACT ON
WILSON REQUEST
ASKS Senators to IppTOVs
RepaTaiIOn kppoI1 &c.
WOULD ACT PROFESSIONALLY
The President Says Action is Neces-
sary For Business-LodGe ana
Knox Oppose.

\ bNIhSN OPFSSSa
Washington, July 22.---Prasident
Wii.,n asked The senate foreign re-
Ianop.s committee TO approve appoint-
nie1r uf an American member Oh INC
/ reparations commission provided Tor
ullaer the peace 1reatN to ACT pro-
y.sonaliy pending the senate action
OIL The Versailles document
The committee debated the request
for more than an hour without act
| ing.
The president wrote that he made
! the request because he considered II
"of 50 much importance to the buSl-
ness interests Of the country that
| the United States be represented on
| the commission.
Senator Williams, Democrat, Mis-
| s:asinpi. offered resolution declar-
ing the committee willing TO approve
! such an appointment, but the chair
man. Senator Lodge, Massachusetts,
and other Republican members, OPP
I posed it. Senator Knox, Republican,
PENNSYLVANIA, and Harding, Republi-
| can. Ohio, offered substitutes that
| would declare the committee without
| authority in the. matter. None OF the
! proposals came to vote.
| The presidents letter to Senator
Lodge follows:
My dear Senator:
"There are some things in connec-
tion with the execution of the treaty
| e ~ ioh hardly await the
action of the several governments
which must act with regard to the
ratification of the treaty, and the
chief of these is the functioning of
the reparations commission. 1t is of
such importance to the business inter-
ests of the United States as well as
TO the nations with which we are as
sociated that the United States
should be represented on that COM
mission and represented now While
the work of the commission is taking
shane. that I am taking the liberty
of writing to ask if you will not be
kind enough to consult the commit
tee on foreign relations with regard
to the particular appointment and say
to them that I would very much ap-
lpreciate their approval of my appoint
ing Professionally a representative OF
the United States to act upon the re-
parations commission.
Very sincerely yours,
"Woodrow Wilson"
II is understood in official circles
that President Wilson intends to ap-
point Bernard NJ Baruch, of New
York, ais the American representa-
tive.
Daring the war Mr.. Baruch was
ichairman of the war industries board, !
and he aided at Paris in working out,
the reparations and economic claus
les of the treaty.
The substitute resolution offered by1
Senator Knox would declare that it.
/ is the Judgment of the committee that
until the treaty is ratified no power
exists either in the president or in
congress to execute any of the pro-
visions proposed in the treaty either.
professionally or otherwise.
Senate debate ON the treaty and the
league of nations covenant were re-.
newed with a sharp controversy be-,
tween Senators Williams, Democrat,
Mississippi, and Lodge, and Borah,,
Idaho, Republicans, over the Shan
tung settlement.
Senator Williams charged that the
Republicans in recent addresses had
submitted erroneous statistics regard,
fnu Shantun0 Roth senator's denied
this, and Mr.. Lodge reiterated that
when Japan secured territorial con-
troll only over Shantung ports, the
German railroad and other conces-
sions transferred gave her practical
control over the entire province.