The daily banner., 1919-07-23
u. S. CAN'T ACT
UNDER TREATY
Ratification Must PreCede Com
missiOner's Appointment
WILSON GETS A SUGGESTION
A Plan to Limit Territorial Guaran-
tee to TWO Years is Not Well Re-

tee to Two Years is Not wen ne
ceived.
Washington, July 23.-A new sug-
gestion for senate reservation in ratl-
flying the league of nations covenant
developed at White House confer
ences.
Senator Calder, Republican,, of New
York, asked President Wilson What
his attitude would be on proposal
that the covenant be ratified with
| reservation that Article X, guaran-
teeing nations against external az
gression' remain in effect only unul
1921.
| President Wilson urged that the
| treaty be ratified without reservations
and said that such a reservation ais
| suggested would necessarily be inter-
preted abroad as showing that the
United States was willing to assist
| the other nations for only two years.
In discussing the Shantung settle
ment with Senator Calder, President
| Wilson explained that while 1t was
! possible for him to give senators de-
| tails. he did not think it was advis-
able to make them public at this time.
The president was sufficiently re-
| covered to resume conferences with
| Republican senators at the White
House without objection from Rear
Admiral Cary T.. Grayson, his person
! al physician.
Admiral Grayson said the president
was in no pain, but was still extreme
ly weak.
"The president is sitting up and
now receiving a caller" said Admiral
Grayson, "and he probably will be up
at least until lunch time. He was an
| xious to get to work 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
in the afternoon"
The president went into conference
with Senator Edge, New Jersey. He
| hoped to fill other engagements which
! he was forced to defer because of an
acute attack of intestinal trouble
which developed upon his return from
| a weekend trip down the Potomac
Senator Norris, Nebraska, one of
| the senators invited to the White
| House, declined the invitation.
In response to President Wilson's
request that it approve provisional
| appointment of an American represen-
tative on the reparation commission
| to be created under the peace treaty,
| the senate foreign relations commit
| tee adopted a declaration declaring
| that until the treaty is ratified mo
| power exists" to carry out its nrok1sz
| ions. - 80
Fes01uflon by Senator Knox, Repub-
lican, PENNSYLVANIA. was adopted
| without a record vote, though the
committee previously had divided, s
to Z, in favor of substituting the
Knox proposal for one which would
have left open the question of the
presidents authority. In this vote.
Senator McCumber, Republican,
North Dakota, joined the Democrats
in the negative. Il
A motion by Senator Hitchcock,
Democrat, Nebraska, to add later a
! declaration of the presidents power to
act, was lost, 8 to 6. Senator Nc
Cumber voting with the Republicans.
Senator Knox's resolution follows:
"That it is the judgment of the
committee that until the proposed
| treaty is ratified, in accordance with
its terms no power exists to execute
any Of its publications, either pro-
visionally or otherwise" Il
Under the treaty the reparations
commission would have wide power:
in fixing the reparatfon to be demand |
ed of Germany and the president had
written the committee that he consid
cred It important to American bust
ness interests that the United STATED |
be represented.
After it had adopted Senatoi
Knox's resolution the committee re
| sumed its preliminary reading of th |
| treaty text.
Debate on the treaty in the senat |
was resumed with an address by Set
ator McNary, Republican, Oregon, |
| who urged that the league of natio1s |
covenant be accepted without aE |
e1Ioh tc o, |