The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-09-04
WILSON REFUSES
FOUR TREATIES
Keeps Tentative Hungary, Aus
tria, Bulgaria Drafts From
the Senate.
HIS EXECUTIVE FUNCTION
In Letter to Chairman Lodge the
President Said He Considered
Such Action Out of the Cues
/ ton at This Time.

Washington. Sept president Will
son declined to give the senate foreign
relations committee the tentative
drafts of treaties with Austria, Hun
gary, Turkey and Bulgaria, as re-
qHested by the committee, on the
ground that st would tend to take the
function OF negotiating treaties out OF
the hands of the executive
In a letter to Chairman Lodge, Pres
ident Wilson said that as the treaties
still were in process OF negotiation. he
considered 1t 'sout OF the question" to
give the tentative drafts. Senator
Lodge wrote in reply that the commit
tee had asked only for such informa-
ton as it would be compatible with
the public interest to give, and added
that the decision as to whether it was
expedient to give any information
about them at all undoubtedly rested
with the president.
Refuses Rhine Declaration.
AT the same time the president re-
fused the committees request for the
declaration of June 16 signed by the
United States and other powers to COW.
er military occupation of the Rhine.
"A certain degree of embarrassment"
would be caused President Wilson
| wrote, if the declaration were made
public now.
Senator N.~e replied that the dec
laration alr ~: had been printed in
the Congress. raj Record, having
reached meniItf Of the committee
through British res. and also had
heen submitted 20 he house of COM
, mons, July 4.
The treaty with Poland and another
Rhine agreement, that Of June %,
which also were asked for, were sent
to the senate by the president last
Friday
Explains to Senator Lodge.
The president wrote TO Senator
Lodge:
"Allow me to acknowledge the re-
ceipt of your letter Of August %. and
to say that l shall take pleasure inr
laying Before the senate the treaty
with Poland, signed at Versailles on
the 2Sth of June, and the agreement
between the United States. Belgium,
the British empire and France OF the
one part and Germany Of the other
part. with regard to the military occu-
patton of the territories Of the Rhine,
also signed at Versailles on the 2Sth
of June.
"Tne declaration of the 10th of
June to which you refer was q mere
declaration Of policy and does nat be-
come in any way pertinent until the
treaty is ratified NV impression Is
that certain degree of emharrass-
ment would be caused, not to the Unit
ed States, but TO the countries with
which we must necessarily cooperate
in many particulars in the execution
Of the treaty, if it were communicated
now. 1t will, Of course, be made pub
lie in due time.
with regard to the treaties with
Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria and Tur-
key, it would be out OF fine question
for me to submit them in their pres
elt form, even to the committee on for
eign relations. They are in process Of
negotiation, are subject to change and
reconsideration until completed and
signed | am sure that the committee
on foreign relations will appreciate the
undesirability of creating the prece
dent which would be created by sub
mitting treaties in their draft form
1t would tend to take the function OF
negotiating treaties out Of the hands
of the executive, where it is expressly
We ted by the Constitution