Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-07-18
COLT, NJ 'CyMBER
AND NELSON co To
WHITE HOUSE ON
WILSON s REQUEST
Rhode Island Senator Admits
Some of His Objections to
League of Nations Are Not
Changed.
OTHER CONFERENCES
PLANNED BY EXECUTIVE
Kellogg of Minnesota and Ken
yon Of Iowa to Meet PreSi-
dent Today Lodge Explains
Committee View.

Washington, July 17.-How the
of the agreements embodied in the
treaty of peace was described by
President Wilson today to three re-
publican senators invited to the White
House at the head of a long list of
republican members whom he pur-
poses to take into his confidence.
Afterward one of his callers. Sena-
tor Colt of Rhode Island. said Mr..
Wilson had been able to place the
Shantung settlement in new light
and had clarified other disputed
points in the treaty. Senator McCum-
Der of North Dakota and Senator Mel
son of Minnesota, the others who saw
the president. were reticent as to the
subjects discussed but said the presi-
dent had given them much interesting
information.
Senator Colt. who announced his
general approval of the league of nas
tions in a senate speech delivered
shortly before he went to the White
House, indicated after the conference
that his doubt over certain portions
OF the league covenant had not been
removed. He sail ne was not ready
20 express an opinion regarding shan
tung and !rtimated that the president
might make public statement soon
on the subject.
Talks With McCumbcr.
Senator McCumber is the only re-
publican member of the foreign rela-
tions committee who has favored the
league of nations, and It is understood
Mr. Wilson talked over with him COM
mittee action on the treaty and the
general situation on the republican
side of the senate. Senator Nelson
never has made a public declaration
for or against the treaty. To all of his
callers the president is said to have
reiterated his opposition to reserva-
tions of any character in senate rati-
ficaton of the treaty.
The president tomorrow will con-
tinue his talks with senators inclined
to be friendly toward the treaty pro-
visions, though it is expected that
later he will seek a conference with
virtually every republican senator in
cluding those who have most bitterly
opposed ratification. Senators Kel-
logg of Minnesota and Kenyon of
Iowa, both of whom have kept open
minds on the treaty, have been invited
to call on the president tomorrow
morning, and Senator'S McNary of
oregon, a league supporter, and Cap
per of Kansas, who has taken no defi-
mite stand, in the afternoon.
Lodge Makes Stand.
The position of the foreign rela-
tions committee with regard to meet
ing the president as a body was ex-
planned in a statement tonight by
Chairman Lodge, who said no con-
gressional committee has any right
or should have any right to summon"
a president before it. and that Mr..
Wilson had not asked to appear
While the president was beginning
his White House conferences the SEN
ate debated Shantung and the league
and adopted without a record vote a
resolution by Senator Borah of Idaho
asking for information relative to the
Shantung negotiations. Specifically
the measure. which was not debated,
asks the president for any information
as to whether the Chinese delegates
were "intimidated" by the Japanese
and requests copy of letter said TO
have been written on behalf of Cen
eral Bliss, Secretary Lansing and
Henry White, protesting against the
Shantung settlement.
Senator Colt said it had been
pointed out to him that Japan had
made certain concessions in return for
what she received and that in consid-
ering the Shantung question, the in
fluence of the league of nations on
Japan should be remembered.
Senator Colt said he thought the
president was in a position to make
a complete exposition of the Shantung
situation, and he indicated that some
If not all the points in discussion of