Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-09
Important Conferences Are Being Held at White
House After His Absence of Four Months;
Hopes to Get Away Soon on Speechmaking
Tour of Country; May Sign Important
Appropriation Measures.

:. would be received at the White
House for q conference on the Peace
Treaty.
Busy Every Minute
The President found that every
thing had been arranged so that
practically every minute of his time
would be taken up and rapid pro-
gress in clearing up routine made
possible. The speech he plans to
deliver before the Senate Thursday
was completed before he landed at
New York yesterday from the George
Washington and the chief matter in
connection with the League of Ma
tons to be discussed to-day was the
proposed speech-making tour over
the country on which Mr.. Wilson
hopes to be able to leave Washing
ton about the middle of next week.
The return of the President and his
party to the capital last night was
marked by one of the greatest
demonstrations in point of the num-
Der of those participating hat ever
greeted a President on his return
from a trip District officials ia
miliar with big crowds estimated the
throng that greeted the Presiden-
tial party at the Union Station and
along Pennsylvania avenue at fully
100. 600.
Absent Four Months
The ceremonies of welcome were
brief. Responding to an address of
welcome from a committee of dis
trict citizens. Mr.. Wilson said he
came home confident that the peo-
pie of the United States were for
the League of Nations. The unex-
pected welcome, he said. was partic-
ularly pleasing, because he felt it
was Immediate assurance of his
feeling"
1t was after midnight when Mr..
and Mrs. Wilson reached the White
House from which they had been
absent more than -four months.
The triy from New York to Wash
ington was made without incident,
the Presidential train arriving here
n few minutes before midnight. No
stops were made until Washington
was reached. although there were
crowds at the stations in Philadel-
phia and Baltimore.
Calls 1t a Gust Peace
President Wilson returned to the
United States yesterday and, in his
first speech delivered on American
soil since the Peace Treaty was
signed, declared that the peace con-
cluded at Paris was "a just peace
which, if it can be preserved, will
safeguard the world from u%nneces-
sary bloodshed."
The only reference the President
made to his political opponents was
when in referring to the negotiations
at Paris, he said:
81 am afraid some people, some
persons, do not understand that
vision. They do not see it. They
have looked too much upon the
ground. They have thought too
much of the interests that were near
them, and they have not listened
to the voices of their neighbors. 1
have never had a moments doubt
as to where the heart and purpose
of this people lay"
The President arrived at the Ho-
boken Army pier, shortly before 3
O'Clock. The Army transport George
Washington, on which he sailed
from Brest, was escorted up the bay
by the battleship Pennsylvania and
more than a score of destroyers and
smaller Naval craft. On the New
Jersey shore were massed 10000
school children who welcomed the
Chief Executive of the Nation with
the strains of the national anthem.