The Red Cloud chief., 1919-07-17
PRESIDENT MAKES
PLEA FOR TREATY
BEFORE SENATE
Makes Assertion That League Of
Free Nations Has Become
"Practical Necessity"
MEANS RELIEF FROM WAR
Chief Executive Refers TO u as an
Indispensable InstrumentaIity for
the Maintenance Of the New
Order Set Up In World"

the Maintenance Of the New
Order Set Up In World"
Washington, July 10.-The senate
was called into session at Il o'clock
and prayer offered by the chaplain,
Rev. Forrest J. Prettyman, who asked
divine guidance for the senate and the
chief executive In the work II was
about to undertake.
President Wilson spoke from a small
rostrum erected by the desk Of the
reading clerk Of the senate.
His address was az follows:
| Gentlemen Of the Senate:
The treaty Of peace with Germany
was signed at Versailles on the 2Sth
% June. I avail myself of the earliest
opportunity to lay the treaty before
you for ratification and to inform you
with regard to the work Of the confer
ence by which that treaty was formu-
lated.
The treaty constitutes nothing less
than a world settlement. 1t would not
be possible for me ever to summarize
or to construe It's manifold provisions
In an address which must Of necessity
he something less than n treatise. My
services and all the information I pos
sess will be mt your disposal and at
the disposal Of your committee or
foreign relations at any time, either
Informally or In session, as you may
prefer; and ! hope that you will not
hesitate to make use Of them.
I shall at this time, prior to your
own study Of the document, attempt
only a general Characterization Of Its
scope and purpose.
Problems Of Conference.
In one sense. no doubt, there Is no
need that I should report to you what
was attempted and done ut Paris. You
have been daily cognizant Of what was
going on thereof the problems with
which the peace conference had to deal
and Of the difficulty Of laying down
straight lines of settlement anywhere
on a field on which the old lines Of in
ternational relationship. and the new
alike, followed so intricate a pattern
and were for the most part cut SO deep
by historical circumstances which
dominated action where II would have
been best to ignore or reverse them.
The cross currents Of politics and of
interest must have been evident to
you. 1t would be presuming In me to
attempt to explain the questions which
| ArnSa nr tho MANY Iiynrsn nIntpnnfc
that entered into them. l shall attempt
something less ambitious than that
and more clearly suggested by my duty
to report to the congress the part II
seemed necessary for my colleagues
and me to play as the representatives
of the government OF the United
States.
That part was dictated by the role
America has played In the war and by
the expectations that had been created
In the minds Of the peoples with whom
we had associated ourselves in tina,
great struggle.
Saw Supremacy Of Right Periied.
The United States entered the wal
upon a different footing from ever!
other nation except our associates OF
this side the sea. We entered II, no
because our material interests wer,
directly threatened or because any spe
cial treaty obligations to which W,
were parties had been violated, bu
only because we saw the supremacy
and even the validity, of right every
where put In jeopardy and free gov
eminent likely to be everywhere i'm
periled by the intolerable aggression
of a power which respected neithe
right nor obligation and whose yer
system of government flouted tn
rights Of the citizens rs against tn
autocratic authority Of his governor.
And In the settlements of the peac
we have sought no special reparatio
for ourselves. but only the restoratio
of right and the assurance of libert
Element were to be felt. We entere
the war as the disinterested champion
OF right and we interested ourselve
In the terms Of the peace In no othe
capacity.
United States Timely Aid.
The hopes Of the nations allie
against the central powers were at
!. very low ebb when our soldiers bega
!, to pour across the sea. There was e
y erywhere amongst them, except
} their stoutest spirits. a somber for
I boding Of disaster. The war ended
) November eight months ago, but yc
have only to recall what was fear,
:. In midsummer last, only four sho
! months before the armistice, to RET
I ize what 1t was that our timely a
! accomplished alike for their mora
! and their physical safety.
= The first. acknowledgement q
q ton at Chateau Thierry had alrea,
: taken place. Our redoubtable soldle
9 and marines had already closed Il
h gap the enemy had succeeded In ore
ing for their advance upon Paris-h'
!. already turned the tide of battle ba
. toward the frontiers Of France a