Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-20
Albuquerque Morning Journal Wednesday, August TO- 1919

ten, which senator johnson had pre-
scented to the committee was part OF
the draft which preceded the draft
which was sent to you"
Senator johnson said he had taken
It from the Independent
The President: l had forgotten it
but / recognized it as soon as read H.,
Senator Johnson: 1t was the original
plan?
The President: 1t was the original
form of Article ten, yes
Senator Lodge said he had been
about to ask whether Article ten IN
its present form had been in the Brit
fish plan. but If there were no definite
drafts of these plans, of course, the
committee could not get them.
Asked by Senator Lodge whether
he had seen the resolutions for a
league submitted by Secretary Lans-
ing, the president replied; Yes,
Senator Lodge: No specific action
was taken upon them?
The president: Not in formal way.
Question Left Open.
Senator Lodge then asked whether
the United States would receive any
part of the German reparation fund.
The president: ] left that question
open. Senator, because / did not reel
that had any right to decide 1t. upon
the basis that was set up in the rep
aration clauses the portion That the
United States would receive would DE
very small at best, and my own Juug-
ment was frequently expressed not as
decision, but as judgment that we
should claim nothing under those gem
eral clauses. | did that because /
coveted the moral advantage that tnat
would give US in the counsels of the
world.
Senator McCumber: Did that mean
we could claim nothing for the sink
ing of the Lusitania?
The president: oh, no; that did not
cover questions of that sort at ALL
The president added that pre-WaI
claims were not covered by the rep
| aration clause and said the reparation
commission would decide. He repeat
ed that American participation in the
! PREPARATION remained to be decided.
Senator Lodge: BY the commits
sion?
The president: BY the commission.
Senator Lodge asked if there were
| any recommendation by American
naval authorities as to whether the
| United States should have one of the
| Ladrone, Caroline or Marshall Islands
| for naval purposes.
The president: There was a paper
on that subject, senator, which has
| been published. I only partially re-
| member it. 1t was a paper laying out
| the general necessities of our nava
/ policy in the Pacific and the necessity
| of having some base for communica'
ton upon those islands was men
! toned. just in what form do not re-
! member. But let me say this There
| is a little island which l must ADM
| | had not heard of before.
May Get Island OF zap.
Senator Williams: The island O.
| zap?
The president: zap. 1t is one o
| the bases and centers of cable and ra
dio communication on the Pacific an(
I made the point that the control o
that island should be reserved for tn,
general conference which is to be hell
+! in regard to the ownership and oper
! alton of the cables. That subject !
| mentioned and disposed Of IN thi
| treaty and that general cable confer
| ence is to be held.
Senator Lodge: I had understood
that our general board of the navy de
partment, our chief of operations, ha,
| recommended that we should have