The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-04
Republican Majority Of Senate
Foreign Relations Commit
tee Has Finished Con-
sideration.
AGREE ON RESERVATIONS
Senate More Interested In Wilson's
Speech at Columbus, Than
Upon Action Of Conn.,
mittee.
[By L. C. Martin, United Press Staff
Correspondent

| (By L. G. Martin, United Press stan
Correspondent
| WASHINGTON, Sept. f.-The re-
publican majority of the senate
foreign relations committee has prac-
tically completed work on the peace
| treaty.
Reservations which VIII be pre-
sented Z to the senate have been
agreed on, as have the amendments
! to be proposed to the text or the
| treaty. All that remains is to hold
formal session or two and record
the votes that will order Senator
Lodge to lay the treaty before the
senate.
The democratic minority, Joined by
Senator McCumber, republican, ex-
poets to present a minority report,
probably in the form Of resolution
for unqualified ratification.
The committee may hold an e1ecu-
tive session Today. at which AL pend
ing matters will be cleared away.
Democratic members said today, how
ever, they would not be surprised to
see the actual report go over into
| next week.
The senate was much more deeply
| interested today in what President
Wilson will say at Columbus in his
first speech than in the commuters
actions.
! Opposition senators are prepared,
! they said, to burst into oratory as
soon as they have gathered IN idea
Of the presidents line of attack.
Most Spectacular Debate.
[By Fred S. Ferguson, United Press
Staff Correspondent.l
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4-The most
spectacular series of debates and the
most far-reaching in possible conse-
quences since Lincoln and Douglas
spoke from the same platform,
opened today.
With President Wilson in Colum-
| bus, Ohio. to deliver the first of his
! speeches urging unreserved ratifica-
| ton Of the peace treaty, republican
| senator's were fairly sitting on the
! Washington end of telegraph wires,
| awaiting his first words, and pre-
| pared to deliver their counter at
| tacks from Capitol hill.
| Only a presidential campaign could
! demand the attention that the presi-
| dent as well as the senators expect
| to attract during the next three
| weeks. And the presidential cam
paign Of 1920 is not beyond the minds
| OF any of the democrats and repub.
| licans.
| Meantime the republicans are keep
| ing an interested eye on the admin
istration's efforts to lower the cost
| of living The justice department
and others combating the high prices
declare there will be no iet-up mere.
| ly because the treaty debate may be
attracting the major portion OF at
| tention.
1t is appreciated that by the time
| the president returns and calls the
round table" of capital and labor on
! October 5, more than thirty OF the
| ninety days truce the railway work
ers are expected to observe will have
expired.
When the Enthusiastically resolu-
ton providing for conference SINH
! lar to that proposed by the president
is brought up today, criticism of the
presidents announcement is expect
ed, owing to the fact that he still
leaves open the question OF represen-
tation at the conference. The Poin.
dexterIKelly resolution specifically
names the representative producers
capitalists and representatives Of la
Dor to be summoned.
In addition to studying strictly
domestic conditions, the department
of Justice is now compiling all sta
, tistics possible In connection with
exports as part Of its ammunition
against high prices.
The statement of Herbert Hoover,
in Paris, that warehouses in Holland
and Scandinavian countries were full
of American foodstuffs has attracted