The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-19
PRESIDENT ANSWERS QUESTIONS OF LODGE
 AND OTHER SENATOR'S ON TREATY AND LEAGUE

the President could show the com- mittee the tentative League of Ma tions drafts submitted by Great Brit ain, France and Italy.
 The President: I would have sent them to the committee with pleasure Senator, if I had found that I had them. took 1t for granted that l had them; but the papers that remain in my hands remain there in hap hazard way. I can tell the character of the other drafts. The British draft was tho only one as remember, was in the form of a definite constitution of a League. The French and ItaI- ian drafts were in the form of a ser ies of propositions laying down gen eral rules and assuming that the com mittee or whatever body made the final formulations would build upon those principles if they were adopted. They were principles much consistent with the final action.
 I remember saying to the commit tee when was here in March some thing to the effect that the British draft had constituted the basis. I thought afterward that that was mis- leading and I am very glad to tell the committee just what I meant.
 0OIle IlOnLHS DeIOTe lil0 COnleTeHCe assembled, a plan for the League of Nations would be drawn up by a Bri- tish committee at the head of which was MT. Phillimore-I believe the MT. Phillimore who was known as the authority on international law. A copy of that document was sent to me and I built upon that a redraft.
 will not now say whether I thought 1t was better or not an improvement but I built on that a draft which was quite different, inasmuch as it put deflniteness where it had been what seemed indefiniteness in the Philli- more suggestions. Then, between that time and the time of the forma- ton of the commission on the League of Nations, I had the advantage of seeing a paper by General Shuts of South Africa, who seemed to me to have done, some very clear thinking, particularly with regard to what to be done with the pieces of the dis membered empire.
 After I got to Paris therefor. I re- wrote the document to which I have alluded, and you may have noticed that it consisted of a series of articles and then supplementary agreements. It was in the supplementary agree
  ideas that had come to me not only from General Shuts paper, but from other discussions. That is the full story of how the plan which I sent to the committee was built up.
 Senator Lodge: Then Of course it is obvious that the General Shuts plan had been used. That appears on the face of the document.
 The President: Yes.
 Senator Lodge:-Then there was a previous draft in addition to the one you have sent to us. You spoke of a redraft. That was not submitted to the committee.
 The President:-No; that was pri- vately my own.
 Senator Lodge: Was it before our commission?
 The President:-No.
 The President said a draft of Arti- cle x which Senator Johnson had of the draft which preceded the draft which was sent to you"
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 Senator Johnson: It was the ori- ginal plan?
 The President: It was the original form of Article Ten.
 Asked by Senator Lodge whether he had seen the resolutions for a League submitted by Secretary Lan- sing, the President replied: "Yes"
 Senator Lodge: No specific action was taken upon them? The President: Not in a formal way. Senator Lodge then asked whether the United States would receive any part of the German reparation funds. The President: I left that ques- ton open, Senator, because I did not ! feel that had any final right to de- i eide it.
 The President added that pre-war | claims were not covered by the repa- ration clause, and said the reparation | commission would decide.