The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-22
conferences
y ARE RESUMED
BY PRESIDENT
AT CAPITAL
Able to Discuss League With
Senators Again Request
for Delegate on Commission
is Denied.
SPEECHES ON TREATY
(By Associated Press)

" I6OIlkO OV luAil
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, July 22-President
Wilson was sufficiently recovered to-
day from his fndisposition to resume
conferences with Republican senators
at the white house without objection
Of Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson. his
personal physician.
Admiral Grayson sadd the president
was In no pain, but that he still was
extremely weak.
"The president is sitting up and now
receiving caller" said Admiral Gray
son, "and he probably win be up at
least until lunch time. He was very
anxious to get to work this morning
and l thought it would do him no harm
to see one or two people 1t depends
upon how he feels In the middle OF the
day whether he goes back to bed again
this afternoon"
WAIT RATIFICATION
WASHINGTON, July 22.-In re-
sponse to President Wilson's request
that It approve provisional appoint
ment Of an American representative
on the reparations commission to be
created under the peace treaty, the
senate foreign relations committee to-
day adopted declaration that until
the treaty is ratified mo power exists"
to carry out its provisions"
A long day Of speech-making on the
peace treaty was before the senate to-
that they would make prepared ad
dresses on the subject. Senator Nc
Nary, Republican, Oregon, who was to
speak first in support of the league OF
nations, was to be followed by Sen
ators Moses, Republican, New Hamp-
shire, and Johnson, South Dakota, and
Beckham, Kentucky, Democrats.
McNary Supports League.
Supporting the league Of nations in
q set speech today, Senator McNary,
(Republican), Oregon, urged that it
be accepted without any such amend-
ments or reservations as would "alter
the splendid purposes Of the covenant
or weaken It so far as It affects our
duties"
The Senate, said the speaker. could
without harm adopt certain "reeerva-
tions in the form of interpretations"
but should not endanger the covenant
by making reservations that would
Nlp0LJ c4ICSI 4l4pOl tcL4I 4O<1IuI 90. al
ticle ten, he said, must be unimpaired
because It was "the pillar section of
the league.
'1 am stoutly In favor" said Mr.. Nc
Nary, "of the principle embodied in
any effort 10 insure the permanent
peace OF the world and I am willing
to accept the covenant Of the league
Of nations contained in the peace
treaty. The time is back of us for
discussion Of this subject in general
statements Of the sublimity of peace,
or indulging with owlish wisdom the
ominous predictions Of a disgraced
and destroyed republic. The people
Of America desire to know what the
covenant contains Of substance, and
will go there to obtain their under
standing.
"Of the objections I take It that ar
ticle ten Is the most obnoxious and
productive of the most controversy.
A statement most generally made Is
that this article colhdes with our con-
sttution and runs across the path of
| our sacred traditions. Repeatedly
the argument has been advanced that
article 10 places upon this government
| an absolute obligation to go to war un-
der any conditions however bereft Of
| Justice. This indictment in my opin-
| ion is untenable.
"By the force Of another article In
! the covenant the council, In arriving
at a decision, will be governed by
unanimous vote the power of vote
standing between this country and an
unwise remedy.
| Indisputably this provision casts
upon this country an undertaking to
go to war to protect an associate OF
the league from invasion through ex-
ternal force, but this obligation is In
no proper sense a legal one, but pure
ly moral obligation, entirely depend
ent upon the condition that the cause
of the war and the war itself Ia vio-
lative of the moral conscience Of the
American people.
No Legal Obligation.
TN no sense can the executive
branch of the government aided by
the senate cast any legal obligation
upon this or any future congress to
pass a declaration of war upon any
nation, however, unjustly offending.
"The moral force In the obligation
imposed upon the nations Of the world
in my opinion will do much TO chill
the ambitious designs Of nations that
heretofore have been the cause OF
cruel wars and for that reason ! shall
oppose by my vote any eradication OF
article ten from the covenant
1T is the pillar section Of the
association of nations contemplated
under the league and is the assurance
: of mutual support against any ex
ternal aggression. 1t speaks the voice
of freedom among the nations and
guarantees to each its full share oil
) sovereignty. 1t makes possible and
: encourages the reduction of arma
/ ments, as no nation Will disarm IN
, less assured that it will not be at
, | tackled hy anofher nation