The Pensacola journal., 1919-09-06
SENATORS PLAN
MAKE REPLY TO.
The PRESIDENT
Number Speeches Be Made by
Johnson, BOrah, Mccormick,
WadswOrth, POindexter, Re-
publicans and Reed, Democrat
SHERMAN ATTACKS
COLUMBUS ADDRESS
Presidents Declaration With
Reference to International
Labor Conference Character
lied as in Contempt of Law.


Washington, Sept. 5.-senators john
son. of California; Borah. of Idaho;
Mccormick, of Illinois; Wadsworth, Of
New York; Poindexter. of Washington;
republican; Reed, of Missouri. demo-
crat, will make a number of speeches
in reply to the presidents address, S
on the treaty Announcement today
said it is not the purpose to ''traif' tie
president but to reply to him.
Washington. Sept 5.-President Will
sons declaration in his address yes
terday at Columbus, Ohio, that tn >
international labor conference pc
ed for in the peace treaty would be
held here next month regardless of
whether the senate had ratified the
peace treaty in the meantime was at
lacked in the senate today by Senator
Sherman of Illinois.
Declarins the presidents declaration
indicated, .'contcmptuous disregard for
the law, the Illinois senator said:
Public officials have been impeached
for less fragrant violation of the laws
Of our country than this
Next month" said Senator Sherman,
1--WE are notified, the president proposes
to assemble in this country the repre- :
sentatives of various countries under
the labor articles of a treaty unrati-
fled by our country. 1t is his declar-
ed purpose to convene on American
soiI a meeting of alien governments
with our own regardless of whether the
treaty has become the law of this
republic or not.
Limiting the laborers of this country
to the narrow definition of the pres'-
lent even, there is no land in which
n
cared for as ours. This paragraph Of
the presidents address is 100 per cent.
demagogical. 1t is an appeal to the
lawless, a covert invitation to the
over present dissatisfied restless ele-
ment to demand what they will.
"The president has already played
with fire brands sufficiently to have in
formed him of the danger. He has
yoked himself up with revolutionaries 9
so frequently as to know he cannot
check their mad race to the goal of
fawlessness. His open declaration that
he proposed to convene on American
soil radicals as well as others from
foreign governments is a proclamation
OF lawlessness and contemptuous dis
regard of the United States govern
ment Again we have one who de-
clared II am the state" Have the
American people quit electing presi-
cents and begun to elect kings? Pubic
officials have been impeached for less
fla grant violation of the laws of their
country than this"
British interests at the Paris peace
conference deliberately created diff
fcrences as to their respective ideals of
peace" between Italy and the United
States for economic reasons, State Sen
ator S. A. Costello. of New York de-
ciared today before the senate foreign
relations committee. He appeared IN
Lehalf of Italy's claim to Fiume- Ital-
Iien national development in the Med
iterranean had been prevented by the
British he said. "and a cordial under
standing between the United States anc
Italy would mean a reduction of Eng
lish power in Europe"
| Answering question by Senator
Moses, republican of New Hampshire e
Senator Cotello declared that while tn.
people of Fiume would trust the Unit
ed States, they would not trust to q
League of Nations to procure theii
rights.
CoteIlo said the suggestion that ITALY
could obtain American food and coal
"only by betrayal of the people o.
Fiume." was cruel.
Italy is depending politically anC
economically upon Germany and !:
willing to depend on England ol
France" he said.
/ French domination forbids Italy u
reach her development in the Medi'
terranean and the World" he continue
4 and since a good understanding be
tween Italy and the United States
meant reducing of British power. OBJ
J stacles had been placed at Paris i;
| the way of that understanding.
i William H. Field, of New Jersey
who said he had been in Paris durin:
i the peace conference, he would fl.
iw tn committee documents to show tn:
Col. House had favored the awardin:
of Fiume to Italy and that only presi
dent Wilson had opposed that action
He said also that he would submit pa
rers showing that opposition to italian
| ACQUISITION had come from German
banking bcuse of 'Warburg" because o
certain railway interests it controlle'
| in that region
Senator McCumber. republican, Mort
Dakota today made public and late
discussed in the senate the reserva
ton to Article Ten to the League G
fNations advocated by the republical
senators favoring less drastic reser
| yations than those adopted yesterda
by the foreign relations committee
would merely define the limitations c
congress to undertake territorial Epar
antees