Bisbee daily review., 1919-07-18
WILSON'S DAILY REVIVAL MEETS
 IN FULL SWING
Three Rep. Senators HOnOred by Pres. Condolences on Treaty Measures.
Others Will Be Called Daily in Effort to Convince Them His Stand is the Correct One.

| WASHINGTON, July 17.-How the Versailles conference reached many Of the agreements embodied in the | treaty of peace was described by President Wilson today to three Re
 publican senators invited to the
 White House at the head of a long | list of Republican members whom he purposes to take into his confi- dence. .r. -xS
 Afterward one of his callers, Sena- tor Colt of Rhode Island, said Mir. Wilson had been able to place the
 Shantung settlement in a new light
 and had clarified other disputed points in the treaty Senator Me
 Cumber of North Dakota and Sena- tor Nelson of Minnesota, the others who saw the president, were retic- ent as to the subjects discussed but said the president had given them much interesting information.
 Senator Colt, who announced his general approval of the League of Ma ton in a senate speech delivered shortly before he went to the White House, indicated after the confer ence his doubt over certain portions of the League covenant had not been removed. He said he was not ready to express an opinion regarding Shan tung and intimateG that the presi: dent might make public statement soon on the subject.
 Senator McCumber is the only Re publican member of the foreign rela> tions committee who has favored the League of Nation and it is understood MT. Wilson talked over with him committee action on the treaty and the general situation on the Republi- can side of the senate. Senator Mel, son never has made a public declara tion for or against the treaty. Tol all of his callers the president is said to have reiterated his opposition to reservations of any character in sen ate ratification of the treaty.
 The president tomorrow will con, tinue his talks with senators inclin- | ed to be friendly toward the treaty | provisions, though it is expected that | later he will seek a conference with | virtually every Republican senator in- cluding those who have most bitterly | opposed ratification. Senators Kel logg, Minnesota, and Kenyon, Iowa. | both of whom have kept open minds | on the treaty, have been invited to | call on the president tomorrow and | Senators McNary, Oregon, a League | supporter, and Capper, Kansas, who | has taken no definite stand, in the | afternoon.
 The position of the foreign rela- | tion committee with regard to meet | ing the president as a body was ex-1 plained in a statement tonight by | Chairman Lodge who said no con gressional. committee ''has any right | or should have any, right to summon a president before it and that Mr. | Wilson had not asked to appear"
 While the president was beginning | his White House conferences the sen ate debated Shantung and the League and adopted without record, vote resolution by Senator Borah, Re- publican, Idaho, asking for informa- tion relative to the Shantung negoti- ations. Specifically the measure, which was not debated, asks the president for any information as to whether the Chinese delegates were ''intimidated" by the Japanese and re- quests a copy of letter said to have been written on behalf of General Bliss, Secretary Lansing and Henry White. protesting against the Shan tung settlement
 In his address announcing accept. ance of the League principles, Sena- tor Colt declared the covenant would not conflict with the American con- stitution nor create super-govern- ment and asserted that eff 1t is un- thinkable for us to desert England France and Italy when the world Is in chaos, then we must became member of the League as providing the only machinery for the restora- tion of peace and order" He with held judgment, however as to the Monroe doctrine and other features.
 Senator Sherman, Republican, of Illinois, attacking the Shantung pro- vision as step toward the disem- berment of China, and the enthrone- ment of an Asiatic kaiser" at Tokio. declared Japan never intended to give up the peninsula passing under her control by the peace treaty. He characterized the League of Nations
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