Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-01-04

Washington, Jan. 3.-Discussion of President Wilson's peace terms was continued i1l ths senate today .o the exclusion of virtually all ol l. CT matters.
 Senator Lewis, of Illinois. the Democratic Whip, and Senator Thomas of Colorado, Democratic member of the Foreign Relations committee, defended the president and his proposals, while Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, the Repub- lican leader, urged haste in conclud- ing peace, delaring that "the sit,l- ation is perilous to thu highest de gree" The Mass senators denied charges that he and other Republican lead- CTS were attempting to embarrass the president abroad by recommend ing that a consideration of a leayae of nations and other proposals pe deferred until after the. peace con. ference. He said that since the peace of the world was involved, "the American or fate of presidents or
 political parties are infinitely of small comparison to what is before the senate"
 'I feel that our first duty is to act in the living present to bring peace to the world in the year 1919, before we were to undertake to make a
 peaceful world in the year 2000"
 declared Senator Lodge
 That is the duty that seems to
 me imminent now and the only one that we ought to attend to first' President Wilson's position in not
 appointing any members of the sen-
 ate peace delegates was defended by
 Senator Thomas, who said he had
 every confidence in tha loftiness of
 the presidents purposes. "the inte- gritty of his aims and the measure
 of his ability at this crisis in our
 diplomatic history"
 T confidently predict" he added
 that President Wilson will acquit himself we'll before the nations and
 to the ultimate satisfaction of his |ccuntrymen."
 Senator Lewis in concluding an address he began yesterday. express ed similar view. and said Senator Lodge was following Colonel Roose- welt in his opinions on a league of nations.
 The Illinois Senator declared that
 when the president returns from
 Europe and 'goes to the people with this as he does with every import ant question" senators who have been opposing him will be found yielding to his views.
 The senate adjourned until Mon- |day when Senator McCumher, Re- |puhlican of North Dakota. expects to |speak in support of :eagre of na- tions. He will be the first Repub- lican senator to openly declare his approval of such a league. Senator Sherman of Illinois, Re- |publicam, criticized in an address to- day what he described as the use of transatlantic cables for the transmission of detailed reports of
 President Wilson's visit abroad while parents were anxiously en-
 deavoring with little success to ob-
 tain information relative to the well fare of their sons now m the Amer
 ican army overseas. -.
 q have no objection to this news"
 he said. "but I want mothers who lie awake nights to obtain informa- tion as to whether their sons are
 dead or in hospitals, and then the news"
 Senators Sherman referred to press dispatches of which he said, described in detail tue interior of the Murat palace in Paris. where the president and Mrs. Wilson are staying, and to accounts of recep- tions in news matters accredited to the Associated Press and other |agences.
 Senator Thomas. of Colorado, said
 he was informed that much of this stuff' had been prepared in ad- fvance by correspondents. Senator Sherman asked the Colo.