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FRENCH TREATY
BEFORE SENATE
The President Asks Quick
Approval Of Pact.
PART OF LEAGUE OF NATIONS
MIR. Wilson Sends by Messenger
Treaty and Message Explaining 1t
and Urging Ratification.

and Urging Ratification.
Washington, July 30-President
Wilson transmitted to the senate the
special treaty with France by which
the United States pledges itself to
come Immediately to the aid of the
republic in the event of an unprovok-
ed attack by Germany.
He asked for its early ratification
"along with the treaty with Ger
many"
The president did not follow his
usual custom of presenting the treaty
in person. He sent it to the capitol
by special messenger along with
message explaining its object. The
message was read by the clerk.
The president made no dirct refer
ence to the charges recently made on
the senate floor by Republicans that
he had violated a section of the pact
by not submitting it at the same time
that the treaty of Versailles was pre-
sented.
''Now that you have had an oppor-
tunity to examine the great document
(treaty with Germany, presented to
you two weeks ago." he said in his
message, sit seems opportune to lay
before you this treaty which is meant
to be in effect a part of it"
The Franco-American treaty Is al
most identical with the one signed be-
tween Great Britain and France. One
difference between the texts as made
public by the French foreign office,
to which attention has been called is
that the United States pledges itself
to go Immediately to the assistance
of France, while Great Britain "con-
sents" to assist that country.
The president told the senate the
purpose of the treaty was to provide
assistance for France in case Of un-
provoked aggression by Germany
without waiting for the advice OF the
council of the league of nations that
such action should be taken, and ex-
planned that it was to be an arrange
ment, mot Independent of the league
of nations, but under it.
"The covenant of the league of ma
tions," the president said, provides
for military action for the protection
of it's members only upon the advice
of the council of the league-advtce
given, it is to be presumed, only upon
deliberation and acted upon by each
of the governments of the member
states only if it's own judgment justi-
fies such action"
Pointing out that the treaty shall
receive the approval of the council
of the league" the president said it
would remain in force only until,
upon the application Of one of the
parties to it, the council Of the league,
acting, if necessary, by a majority
vote, shall agree that the provision
of the covenant of the league afford
her lFrance) sufficient protection"
Mr.. Wilson said he was moved to |
sign the treaty by the ties of friend
ship binding the two countries and the
assistance France gave America in
the struggle for independence. With
out this assistance, the president said,
it was seriously to be doubted wheth-
er America could have won it's inde-
pendenee, and added: Nothing can
pay such a debt"
By unanimous consent the treaty /
was laid before the senate in open
session at the request Of Senator
Lodge, chairman of the foreign rela-
tions committee.
At the suggestion of Senator Lodge |
A. IN
relations committee without objection
or discussion.
The text of the treaty follows:
Considering that the United States
of America and the governments of
the French republic are equally ami |
mated by a desire to maintain the
peace of the world, so happily re-
stored by the treaty signed at Yer,
sailles on June 2S, which put an end
to the war begun by the aggression of
the German empire and terminated by
the defeat of that power, and
Considering that the United States
of America and the government. of the
French republic, fully convinced that |
an unproyoked aggression directed by
Germany against France would not |
only violate at the same time the let |
ter and spirit of the Versailles treaty |
to which the United States and France |
are parties, thus exposing France |
anew to the intolerable burden of un- |
provoked war, but that such aggreS- |
sion on the part of Germany would |
constitute an act reputed by the |
treaty of Versailles as being against |
all the powers signat0ry to the treaty |
and calculated to trouble the peace |
of the world, involving inevitably and !
directly the states of Europe and in |
directly the entire world, as expert |
ence has amply and unhappily demon
strated, and
Considering that the United States |
of America and the government of |
the French republic apprehend that |
the stipulations concerning the left |
bank of the Rhine cannot assure i'm
mediately to France on one hand and |
to the United States on the other, as |
signatory powers to the treaty of !
Versailles, appropriate security and |
protection.
Consequently the United States of
America and the government of the |
French republic having decided to !
conclude a treaty to realize these |
necessary ends Woodrow Wilson, |
president of the United States OF
America, and Robert Lansing, secre-
tary of state, specially authorized to
that end by the president of the Unit
ed States of America, and George
There is more Catarrn In this Sec
ton of the country than all other dis