Arizona republican., 1919-08-15
HE WILL HEAR WILSON 0N
 TREATY PO|NTS
Senator Lodge Opens Way for Discussion Will Probably Be Held at White House Next Tues day Morning-Additional Witnesses Also to Be Called
[RepublIcan A. P. Leased wireJ

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 WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.-President Wilson's offer to talk over the peace treaty with the senate foreign relations committee finally was accepted today. At the suggestion of republican mem bers and by a virtually unanimous vote the committe decided 10 inform the president it would be glad to meet him at his convenience to go over dis puted points in the treaty and league of nations covenant.
 At the same time, the committee voted to call additional witnesses and continue it's hearings.
 Discussion Will Be Open
 Tonight the president set 10 o'clock next Tuesday for the meeting, and wrote to Chairman Lodge that in line with suggestion by the committee, he would not consider the discussion confidential in nature. In notifying Mir Wilson of the committe decision, Senator Lodge had written that mem bers did not desire to ke boun1 by secrecy.s
 The president chose the White House as the place of meeting. although the chairman had left tie way open for him to come before the committee at the capitol if he preferred.
 The letters were not made public but Secretary Humility issued this statement
 Wilson Welcomes Opportunity
 "The president received Senator Lodges request to meet the foreign relations committee to discuss the treaty of peace Of course the oresi- dent welcomes this opportunity to meet the foreign relations committee and has fixed Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock as the time for a meeting at the White House. The unprecedented condition of the conference as set by Senator Lodge in his letter to the president fits in with the presidents own preference as to publicity, so that the people of the country may be put in possession of all the information he has about the treaty of peace"
 MT. Lodge told the president that it was assumed by the committee that nothing said at the meeting would be considered confidential He recalled that the plan of the senate was to con sider the treaty in open executive ses- sion, and in view of this plan, the com mittee felt that any information in re- gard the treaty which came into their possession should not be withheld from the public. It was to this paragraph of the letter that MT. Humility referred in stati.lg the presidents desire for pub licity.
 Lodge Opens Way
 It also left the way open for him to either receive the committee at the White House or come before it at the capitol, Chairman Lodges letter of notification saving the committee members would meet Mir. Wilson "at f1X 4fflaa p4% o0c,r l,a aferI,+
 The suggestion that the committee meet the president was made by Sena- tor Lodge
 In deciding to call additional witt nesses the committee reversed it's de- cision reached yesterday to speed ac- tion on the treaty. It was voted. to re- quest appearance of five persons, ad- visers at Versailles who resigned, it has been reported. because they dis agreed with decisions of the confluence regarding Shantung and Russia They are D. T, Williams; B. K. Hornbeck. and William c. Buliitt. The others summoned are John c. Ferguson and Thomas F. Willard, suggested as au- thorities on far eastern affairs.
 May Gall House Later
 Dividing nine to eight. the commit tee rejected a motion to question also General Tasker Bliss, Colonel E. M House and Henry White, who with President Wilson and Secretary Lan- sing, made up the American peace commission proper. It was said after ward that the action with regard to Col. House might be reconsidered should members fail to get from Presi- dent Wilson the information they de- sire about the league of nations ne gotiations.
 Senator Fall republican New Mexico. also is said to have opposed the idea of meeting the president pri- vately at the White House, telling the committee that since no record would be kept there would be an unavoidable disagreement among members as to what the president had said Later, Mr. Fall indicated that he had not yet decided he would attend.