The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1919-07-26
SEE PEACE TREATY
IN NEW LIGHT
SENATE RECEIVE DETAILS

How the Versailles conference /
reached many Of the agreements EN-
bodied in the treaty Of peace was .
described by President Wilson to three .
republican senators invited to the .
White House at the head Of a long .
list of republican members whom he !,
PURPOSES to take into his confidence.
Afterward one Of his callers, Sena- |
tor Colt of Rhode Island, said Mr..
Wilson had been able to place the
Shantung settlement in new llght
and had clarified other disputed points
in the treaty. Senator McCumber OF
| North Dakota and Senator Nelson or
! Minnesota, the others who saw the
president, were reticent as to the sub
| iects discussed, but said the president
had given them much interesting IN
formation.
Senator Colt, who announced his
general approval Of the league of ma
tons in a senate speech delivered
shortly before he went to the White
House, indicated after the conference
that his doubt over certain portions OF
the league covenant had not been re-
moved. He said he was not ready TO
express all opinion regarding Shan
tupg. and intimaJed that the president
might make a public statement soon
On the subject,
Senator MCCumber is the only re-
publican member of the foreign rela-
lions committee who has favored the
League. and it is understood Mr.. Will
son talked over with him committee
action Oh the treaty and the general
situation on the republican side Of the
senate. Senator Nelson never has
made a public declaration for or
against the treaty. To all Of his call
ers the president is said to have
reiterated his opposition to reserva-
y tons of any character in senate rati-
fication Of the treaty.
Z The president will continue his
r talks with senators inclined to be
- friendly toward the treaty provision,
= though it is said that later he will
h seek a conference with virtually every
s republican senator, including those
Il who have most bitterly opposed rat
" ificatiOn.
n Senators Kellogg of Minnesota anc
n Kenyon of Iowa. both of whom have
=. kept open minds on the treaty ant
d Senators McNary Of Oregon, a league
1t supporter and Capper Of Kansas, wh(
re has taken no definite stand, have beer
invited to call on the president
The position of the foreign relation
committee with regard to meeting TIT
president as body was explained il
N a statement by Chairman Lodge, VIII
IN said no congressional committee "ha
IN any right, or should have any right
I'd to summon president before it, an
mr. that Mr.. Wilson had not asked t
N; appear.
n, He made no prediction whether tn
re committee would accept later the pre-
re ident's offer to receive at the Whit
H. House, but pointed out that so ia
committee consideration of the treat
a. a. is in it's preliminary stage.
ny While the president was beginnin
TN his White House conferences the sci
nd ate debated Shantung and the leagu
-. and adopted without record vote
ed resolution by Senator Borah, republi
III, ~. an, of Idaho, asking for informatiG
for relative to the Shantung negotiation
'"' In his address announcing accsI
ir- ance of the league principles, Senat'
t tIv Colt declared the covenant would II
conflict with the American constft
no. ton nor create a supergovernmef
ard and asserted that "if it is unthinkab
he for us to desert England, France al
Italy when the world is in chaos, thu
the we must become member OF t
league as providing the only mach1
We, cry for the restoration of peace al
order"
He withheld judgment, however,
he to the Monroe doctrine and other II
mr. lures.