Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-07-24
HOPES TO SECURE
| UNITY AMONG ALL
LEAGUES FRIENDS
Wants Both Parties to Join
in Defeating Radical
Amendments.
SUGGESTS SIX SPECIFIC
POINTS FOR RESERVATIONS
Declares President Wilson Has
Created Antagonism to Pact
by Partisanship.
THINKS ARTICLE Y. ESSENTIAL
Says Whole Heart Of Covenant Bound
Up in Provision Seeking to
Prevent War.
SUGGESTS SIX SPECIFIC
POINTS FOR RESERVATIONS
THINKS ARTICLE \. ESSENTIAL
tBy Associated Press. !

. i.>' o.N' july ga plan for
interpretations" in Senate acceptance
ot the league Of nations has been
suggested by former President Taft. in
the hope of uniting on middle ground
enough Democratic and Republican
Senators to defeat any radical amend
ment OF the covenant, and in the end
OBTAIN its ratification
The suggestion has been recsived
WITH earnest consideration bv the
group of Republicans who favor the
.rague idea. and who already are at
"oIk on definite program of inter-
ppi;etiVe reservations, which they declare
theS nave reason to believe will be
acc Cepted by the administrations The
administration leaders, however, un-
wing NM 81, TO concede that any reserva-
NCns VIII be necessary. still insist they
| VIII have the votes when the time
comes to .ratify the covenant as It is.
Think Wilson Will Accept. sik5G
,ds SO confident et are the league Repub-
that some of them believe President
| wilson will publicly accept it to
smooth the way to acceptance of the
VINO have seen the President in the
last few days. have come. away from
the White House with the Impression
| ing reservations IL they can be avoided,
might not be adverse to such inter-
pretatons as would leave the league
II,
that this impression is not based on
any direct statement by the President.
Mr.. Taft's suggestion. which created
sensation in the Senate because or
| his well known advocacy of unreserved
ratlhcation. was embodied in two let
ters to Will II. Hays. the Republican
| reached some Republican Senators to-
day. They touched upon many feat
emphasized the former Presidents be-
| lief that only by acceptance OF some
| reservations could the treaty be rati-
| fled.
Six Specific Interpretations.
| Sin specific Interpretation proposals
ara outlined which. Mr.. Taft says. he
rs convinced will meet the objections
OF large group of Republicans who
democratic Senators supporting the
| President in the treaty fight, and says
that should three Republicans be COM
mitted to vote against material amend
ments no such proposals could re-
celve a Senate majority.
! The former President also suggested
! to Mr. Hays that his name be with
held for the present from connection
with the interpretations plans since II
| might antaEoniZe some Senators OF his
party. Chairman Lodge. of the For
eiGn Relations Committee. is named in
that connection, but he declined today
letter
Nj Tat also has ,sri written ,n some "saer of
|
OF North Dakota. and AIcNary. OF
Oregon. have been interested in for
mulating a middle course for. solution
OF the Senate situation, 1t is under
stood that Senators kellogg, OF Min
| rosota Colt. of Rhode Island. and
Spencer. OF Missouri, also have been
| plan.
Thinks President Pnrtisnned.
In one OF his letters TO Mr.. Hays,
Mr. Tart severely criticised President
Wilson for his ',partisan' course our
tations and in the other gave the inn
preston that no serious opposition IS
treaty except the league covenant. The
n1SEisoH ne Seqss saa ex
While the letters. were being circu
lated among Republican senator's TO-
White House in the form OF state
ment declaring altogether false pub,
lished reports that the President had
formulated the provision. The state
ment continued that Mr.. Wilson hal
'eNerted all the influence he was 1T
| liberty to exercise in the circumstances
to secure modification OF the arrange
ment giving control of the peninsula
The Presidents statement was as
M Wson Meud any hetend Psa
ground ground Of expediency. ~ ' w
Tafts Proposed Stipuiations.
The two letters to Mr.. Hays, cop
les of which were received here to-
| day. do not outline definitely the six
| interpretations suggested by Mr.. TAFT
but they are referred to as having
been contained in, a previous unpuo-
lished communication. These six stipu-
| lations are understood to be sub
stantially as follows:
THAT upon two years notice ths
| United States could cease to be a
| member of the league without having
the league pass upon whether she had
fulflied all her obligations under ths
covenant.
THAT self-governed colonies and
dominions could not be represented
on tho league council at the sama
or be included in any OF those clauses
where the parties to the dispute are
| excluded from its settlement.
3--That the functioning OF the coun-
ell under Article 10. shall be advisory
only and that each member shalt ba
left free TO determine questions OF
war In its own way, the decision OF
the United States resting with Con-
gress. S''5.
4--That differences between the
nations regarding Immigration cha