Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-05
COMMITTEE PLANS
FINAL ACTION ON
rTREATY THURSDAY
Presidents UnCompromising
Position on Treaty An
nounced by Senator Hitch
cock After Conference

luton Of ratification, including ser
; ervations, be adopted, and the treaty
ordered reported to the senate.
Jugo-Slavia must have Fiume
or be cut off from the Adriatic. with
a consequent sitting Of commerce
representatives of the Jugo-Slav al
lance declared today before the COM
Jmittee, in urging that they recon-
~ mend awarding OF. Fiume to their ma
~ ton instead of Italy.
Trieste, they declared, should be
internationalized in conformity with
the desires of it's population.
A. H. Skubic, Chicago, told the
committee how the Jugo-Slav nation
will be an inland one, forty eight
hours from a port, unless either
Trieste or F. me is given it.
Etbin Kristan, president of the
Jugo-Slav alliance, declared granting
of italian demands in Istria, Gorilla
and Dalmatia will create menace
.aSso peace in the Balkans. g."
Before he left last night on his
~ speech-malzing tour, President Will
son conferred at length at the White
House with Senator Hitchcock, lead
er of the Democratic ratification ad-
vocates, and heard an optimistic re-
port on the treaty situation. Sena-
tor Hitchcock. assured the president
that every amendment or. "destruct-
i've" reservation would be defeated
on the senate floor.
White House Conference
The president was represented by
hniT
mined to devote his addresses 10
the people almost entirely to the
Asubiect of the treaty Of peace and
the League of Nations and mention
ing the high cost of living and the
industrial situation in so far as they
are affected by delay in the ratlfl-
cation of the treaty or by the pros
pect of the treaty. The president
main purpose will be to explain
workings of the League Of Nations
TO the people, the part the u
S. would have in the settlement OIL
world affairs for maintenance OF
neace and the results which might
he expected from the failure OF
This nation to join the other great
powers in a common effort to
make another world war impossible.
Tn view of the possibility of a
s<new situation confronting the
democratic senators through the
ability of Senators Lodge and
Knox to win over some of the mid
die ground or reservation republ1-
cans to the program of reserva-
tons on which majority members
ip1 uiTfI1 a
agreement, Senator Hitchcock
discussed with the president the
.atnosition to be assumed by the
treaty supporters.
Senator Hitchcock declared that it
was the desire of the president and
the friends of the treaty to defeat
any and all efforts to amend the
treaty in any respect, and that the
president feels that the amendments
proposed by the foreign relations
committee have brought the ques-
lion squarely before the American
people of whether the treaty shall
be defeated in so far as the United
States is concerned.
- "The treaty is a living thing.
Senator Hitchcock said, in eXplana-
ton of the presidents stand. "and
1t is to be a going thing, regardless
of the action of the United States
The president hopes to make it clear
to the people that we must first get
rid of the war before we can settle
Z our domestic problems, and defeat
of the treaty certainly does not
mean that
The irish Problem
Senator Hitchcock was asked if
the Irish question had been men
AHtoned by the president. and he
Stated that it had come up only as
one Of the factors tending to the
delay Of the treaty.
"Only the Irish agitators are ir
favor of the rejection of the treaty,
h said Senator Hitchcock. 1.-THE intel
81 1igent Americans of Irish blood
realize that they have to depend
upon American sympathy and sup.
xort if they ever are to get home
ule for Ireland. Such Irish will
hesitate long time before they will
say that the United States shall not
inter into this treaty, because by
Icing that they would lose the home
rule sentiment of the United
States
Senator Hitchcock said he did moi
believe the foreign relations com.
nittee proposes doing anything fol
the Irish, the negroes, the Egyp-
ftians other than to conduct hear.
lngs. IT was simply a part, he said
of the program of "squandering
time" by the opponents of the trea.
ty.
In explanation of the PRESIDENT
satisfaction with the treaty situa.
ion as he left Washington, Senator
s. hitchcock declared that the pres1
tent agreed that the course adopted
by the foreign relations committee
had been such as to bring the treaty
before the senate in such form as
10 make it certain that friends OF
he treaty would poll their maxi.
mum strength against amendments
md for ratification without amend
1ent.
Opposes Amendments
"The president naturally is op.
osed absolutely to any amendment
o the treaty" said the senator
The American people are to BIZ
wen to understand tnat II amend
lents are adopted it means rejec'
on Of the treaty.
IF you dot an i or, cross a t. il
e treaty you will take the United
[ates out and isolate us from the
st of the. world, Then. you woulc
I've to go to Germany and negoti
te a new treaty. No evils in the
resent treaty could justify such {
ourse.,