Evening star., 1919-03-05
Many Republicans Deem
Statement Here and New
York Speech Insult.
MEN IN BOTH PARTIES
COMMENT ON BREACH
Feel He Should Have Consulted
Leaders as to Advisability of
Extra Session.

Democratic and republican senators
and representatives who will be in the
next Congress commented today upon
the violent estrangement which will
exist between the executive and the
Congress when the latter body meets.
It was generally admitted that the
parting shot which the President
gave Congress IN his statement is
sued from the White House and his
speech in New York served further
TO aggravate the differences between
the Legislative and the executive
branches.
Many republicans feel that the
President defied Congress while here
and insulted it upon departing. DEM
ocrats. while charging the repub-
lcans with playing politics and en-
deavoring to embarrass the Presi-
dent deprecate the breach, which
has been widened in the past twenty
four hours.
Will Have to Face Issue.
1t is realized that the President
" III ave " ldtt t~obSi SochSf
or later. 1t may be in June or it
may be earlier. but at any rate he
will have to confront the Legislative
body. opposed to him politically in
the first place and now with that
party opposition heightened by an
infusion of personal hostility. -
Men in both parties regret that the
President could not have found 1t
convenient to confer with the leaders
of each party about the Legislative
situation and the desirability or nom
desirability of an extra session. They
deplore the fact that he would not
listen to suggestions from any one.
but took the positive stand at the
outset, before he had talked even with
his own party leaders. that there
returns from Europe and that he
wanted no discussion Of the leagu4
of nations plan.
1t is generally thought on Capitol
Hill that manifestation of the least
spirit of compromise on his part
would have won recognition from the
republicans and that the failure OF
the great supply bills and other meas
ures of far-reaching public impor-
tance would not have followed il the
President had agreed TO an extra ses-s
sion in the spring. The date was not
material; the main point was irrita-
ton over the Presidents unbendinG
insistence upon his own wish.
Hold Position Unjustifable.
In his statement issued from the
White House yesterday before departure
the President said lit is not in the in
terest of the right conduct of public
affairs that | should call the Congress
in special session while it is impossfbAe
for me to be in Washington because OF
a more pressing duty elsewhere to CO.
operate with the houses At the Capi-
tol today it was pointed out that the
President remained away from WASH
ington during nearly the entire session
of Congress just closed and before going
abroad the first time contended that he
would be in touch with the Capitol all
the time.
Republicans were very bitter today
over the Presidents speech in New
York last night, in which he referred
to the opposing group in the Senate as
men having such comprehensive ig-~
rorance of the state of the world. These
gentlemen do not know what the mind
of men is just now. Everybody else
does"
1t was declared by republicans that
the resolution drawn up by Senator
Lodge. which has been signed by thirty
nine republicans, will be supported by
others and represents the views of some
democrats, did not cast into DISCARD the
general idea of a league of nations
On the contrary, the resolution declared
sit is their sincere desire that the ma
tions of the world should unite to pro-
mote peace and general disarmament"
but the resolution stated, 'the constitu-
ton of the league of nations in the form
now proposed" was unacceptable
Calls President Only a Cog.
Senator Penrose accentuated this
differentiation. The President has
utterly ignored the Senate in the most
important peace negotiations in the
history of the country" Senator PEN
rose said. in statement issued by
him. He takes the view that the
Senate is morally bound TO accept any
treaty he chooses to send TO it, He
will discover that he is only cog
in the government machinery and
that the Senate possesses functions
that are equally important as his
own"
1t was said today that while the
President is in Europe republican
senators will make speeches in this
country, keeping clearly before the
people their claim that they are not
opposing the great humanitarian IDEA
of general disarmament and union of
nations TO prevent war, but do insist
upon the right to protect what they
claim to be the rights of their own
country.
Men of both parties in Congress
look forward 10 very ugly situation
when the President is finally COM
PEELED by force of circumstances to
call an extra session, as he must, it is
claimed. He has left bitterness and
hostility to fasten in his absence, it
is said.