Arizona republican., 1919-04-07
OPPOSITION TO
 NATN)N LEAGUE
 SA|D CRU|NbL|NG
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 WASHINGTON, April 6.-In q stasement tonight declaring that a careful observer can not fail to note the opposition to the league of nations is rapidly crGmbling," Homer $. Cum mings, chairman of the democratic na- tional committee, reproduced extracts from speech delivered by Senator Lodge in 1906, to show the attitude of the republican leader at that time toward the negotiation of treaties by the president without advance con- sultation with the senate.
 Statements issued by opponents Of the league MT. Cummings said, are less sweeping in the character and carry the implication that when the time comes for ratification, the treaty will be resisted by a very small min ority.
 Criticism is rapidly narrowing down to mere trifles,' the statement con- tinued, and those who follow the lead of the senators who issued the round robins accompany their rapidly dimin- ishing objections with attacks upon President Wilson for the manner in which the matter has been handled. The provision in the constitution re- lating to the approval of treaties by and with the advice and consent of the senate is still being relied upon to challenge the conduct of the president, in ignoring as it is said, the proper functions of the senate.
 Senator Lodge has been particular ly inclined to be captious with refer ence to the attitude of the president and many others have followed that lead"
 Recalling that there was criticism in the senate of President Roosevelt fcS sending delegates to the Algeries | conference on the Moroccan question NIT. Cummings quoted the following from a speech on January 23, 1906, by Senator John c. Spooner of Wiscon- sin, a member of the foreign relations committee:-
 Cites Spooner Speech
 ''The senate has nothing to do witt the negotiation of treaties or the con | duct of our foreign intercourse and relations save the exercise of the ont constitutional function of advice anG consent which the constitution re- | quires as a precedent condition to the making of a treaty. X X The president negotiates the treaty to be- | Sln WILL He may eitlploS SuCI 1 agencies as he chooses to negotiate | the proposed treaty X The senate has no right to demand wha he shall unfold to the world or to it l even in executive session his instruc. | tions or the prospect or progress Ol l the negotiations x When he shall have negotiated and sent his l proposed treaty to the senate, tht jurisdiction of this body attaches ant | it's powers begin"
 Senator Lodge, speaking later, MT | Cummings said, gave his complete en- dorsement to the position assumed b. Senator Spooner by saying:
 T don't think that it is possible foi anybody to make any addition to thu masterly statement in regard to tn powers of the president in treaty mak ing X XIX which we hay heard from the senator from Wis consin.'
 '"The foregoing quotations said Nil | Cummings ought to make an end fo all time of the ill-advised and unjus tifiable criticism to which Presiden
 Wilson has been subjected for ig noring of the senate"
 MT. Cummins also quoted from tn speech of Senator Lodge Of the sam day in which he discussed mistakel
 ideas about Washingtons famou
 warning against entangling alliance and remarked that Washington wa altogether too sensible and too prac
 tical a man to suppose that becaus
 we were not to engage in alliance
 which might involve us in the wars c
 Europe