The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1919-06-26
PRESIDENT DEfIES
FOES IN SENATE
Would Bar Them From Making Any
Reservations on Leage Covenant
Accept II or Reject It. Is the
Ultimatum.
From the Kansas city Star.

From the Kansas City Star.
Washington, June 24.-President
Wilson will demand that the Senate
either accept or reject outright the
Peace Treaty signed by the Germans
without crossing st" or dotting an
w.'
He will take the position that reser-
vations in the League of Nations COW
enant are tantamount to amendment,
and that any form of reservation
would force reopening of the peace ne
gotiations with other countries to as
certain whether exceptions made by
the Senate were acceptable to them
He will not, and, of course, cannot de-
ny the legal right and power of the
Senate to make such amendments or
take such action as it sees fit, after
considering the treaty.
Would Put Delay on Senate.
But, it it does not accept the treaty,
exactly as brought back and does not
ratify it without reservations in the
resolution of acceptance, he will at
tempt to place upon the Senate the re-
sponsibility for delaying world peace.
He has the power, of course, to with
draw the Peace Treaty from the Sem
ate should they attempt to change it,
but as that would in turn place the re-
sponsibility for any delay in peace
squarely back upon himself, it is not
thought for a moment such a power
would be exercised, even tho much
be said of it during the coming debate.
In few words, the administrator
position is believed to be beyond mis-
take as to the Senate and the League.
Take it or reject it it is. Any at
tempt at reservation will be placed in
the same category as rejection of the
treaty"
From now on the battle is over
reservations, especially over Section
10. There will be subsistence of
League Debate until the President gets
home. The big appropriation bills
have to be gotten out of the way,
While both houses have been rapidly
grinding away in spite of all the
League debate, it is known the pur-
pose of Chairman Hays recent visit
to Washington was to urge that the
domestic legislation get the focus of
attention rather than so mitch "taali ia X. =
One thing is certain, if any serious
reservation is made by the Senate on
Section 10, European nations will
protest the Senate's action. That is
the one big thing they see in the
league for them-the guarantee that
the United States with its armies and
navies will assist them to protect their
political and territorial integrity from
outside aggression. The European
viewpoint of this is that it is a sugar
coated alliance to their advantage,
and quite naturally any attempt for
a reservation will meet with protest.
A Slogan for Wilson Tour.
Senator Roots letter outlining need
ed reservations has been cabled to
Paris. While no comment has been
had, it is expected the President in his
tour of the country will devote much
of his attention to the slogan take the
league, or reject it, and accept the re-
sponsibility for failure to bring peace"
and to his contention that reservations
have the same effect as outright re-
lection For it is recognized now on
all sides that the league fight is not
one of acceptance or rejection, but of
acceptance without changing comma
or the making of reservations.
With the President coming home to
join the league advocates now in the
fight to oppose even crossing st" in
the treaty and league, he has put the
Senate in this position:
He refused member of the Senate
on the peace mission to represent the
Senate views, or consult or keep in
touch with its membership; he has
consistently refused to accept the
manifest desires of the Senate for any
changes in the league covenant before
it was completed, especially on Section
10; he has put the league in with the
peace terms, and is bringing them back
bound up together, and he now says,
''take or leave it-that is your right
and power to do either, but if you
leave or change you delay world peace,