Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-07-11
PRESIDENT IS WILLING TO GO
BEFORE COMMITTEES OR IN ANY
WAY GIVE SENATE INFORMATION
WHICH He HAS AT HIS DISPOSAL
Shantung, German Indemni-
ties and Irish Freedom Dis
CuSSed in informal Confer
enCes After Speech.
AMERICAN ISOLATION
BROUGHT TO END 1898
Treaty May Not Be What Any
Nation Wanted But is Re-
suit of United Labor of All
the Delegations.
10y MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED w,Rs1


Washington, July 10.-The peace
treaty with its league Of nations COW
enant was laid before the senate by
President Wilson today in an address
accounting to the country for his part
in the negotiations at Versailles.
The league, declared the president,
was born of the conviction OF practi-
cal statemen that an International
concert had become a world neces-
sity to end the old order ana guar
antee civilization. He asserted that in
such a concert the world looi5cd con-
fidently to America for leadership and
added that while the treaty might not
be exactly as the American dclosa-
tion would have written it, no vital
principle had been sacrificed 10y the
necessary compromises
The senate, already divided in a BIT
ter fight over the league proposal re-
ceivod the president with cheers and
| listened to his words in grave silence.
| When he had concluded there WAS
another burst of cheering until he had
passed out of the chamber and had
| gone to his capitol office Tnere he
I talked for an hour with senators who
wished to ask about specific features
of the treaty or of the negotiations.
| In these conferences the president dis
cussed freely such subjects rs the dis
| position of Shantung. the German in
! IDENTITIES and Irish freedom.
Details Passed Over.
| In his address, however, there was
no direct reference to many Of tho
questions around which senate debate
| has conferred the president declaring
| he could not Construe details of the
| treaty in a short address. He did not
directly mention the Monroe doctrine,
Shantung or the obligations assumed
under Article 10 of the league cove
nant, nor did he allude to the pro-
! posal to write reservations into the
ratification. He asserted a hope that
he would be given opportun;;y to dis
| Cuss details later either with the
whole senate or the foreign relations
| committee.
"My services and all the informa-
ton / possess" said Mr.. Wilson. will
be at your disposal and at the dis
posa of your committee on foreign
relations at any time, either inform
ally or in session, as you prefer; and
| hope that you will not hesitate to
make use of them"
American isolation, the president
asserted was ended twenty years ago
when the war with Spain put the ma
ton in partial control of CuDa and the
Philippines.
"But we have not exploited them"
he continued. I'VE have been their
friends and have sought to serve
them. There can be no question Of
our Ceasng to be a world power The
only question is whether we can re-
fuse the moral leadership that is Of
fcrcd us, whether we shall accept or
reject the confidence of the world.
Hand of God Leads L. =.
THE stage Is set, the ucstny dis
closed. 1t has come about by no plan
of our conceiving, but by the hand OF
God who has led us into this way.
We cannot turn back. We can only
go forward with lifted eyes and
freshened spirit, to follow the vision
Abiding to the skepticIsm with
which the plan for league o; nations
was received, the president said that
|, as the peace negotiations proceeded it
became apparent to all the delegates
that such a concert was "a practical
necessity" demanded by "ai: the peO-
pies of the world" For the United
States to reject ii. he asserted. would
y break the heart of the world Point
ing out that many minor compro-
misses We're necessary to secure the
l support of all the interesteG nations.
= he continued:
S The treaty, as result. IS not eN-
( actly what we would have ~'rltten. 1t
lis probably not what any one of the
a national delegates would have writ
ten But results were worked out
which on the whole bear test. l think
: that it will be found that the COM
! promises which were accepted as in
evitable nowhere cut to the heart of
any principle"
t Breaks Another Precedent.
/ In disregard of precedent, the sem
4 ate received the address in open ses-
t sion and afterward ordered that the
treaty be published in the Congress
1 sional Record and as public doeu-
[ ment.
$ The galleries were overfowing and
crowds unable to gain admission wait
ed in the rain TO cheer th1 president
- when he arrived and departed. Many
> members of the house crowded into
the rear of the senate chamber and
I most of the members of the cabinet
|, We're seated near the vice president 5
desk.
4 Speaking from the same platform
: where, thirty nfonths z ago, he
eI astounded the world WITT his first
r declaration for a league of nations,
: the president read his address slowly
l,Vnunueu on Paae TWo.l