New-York tribune., 1919-02-26
Says World Looks TO Us
and Is Confident Public
Will Rally to the Plan
Defends Proposal
At Dinner Tonight
May Address Joint Con-
gress Session Friday;
to Speak in New York
By Carter Field
New York Tribune
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Mem York Tribune
" dShtngton Bureun
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.-President
Wilson tonight expressed abso]ute con-
hdence that the people of the United
States would with practical unanimi+v,
support the league of nations plan. He
told the Cabinet, at the first meeting in
the countrys history to be attended bv
ooth president and Vice President.
that everywhere he went in Europe he
1ound public approval for the plan. and
that the people of Europe are pinninr
their hopes on the constitution for tho
league as submitted.
Am myself confident" the P,esi-
dent wired ex-senator Theodore F
burton, of Ohio, who is president of
the League of Nations Union, at New
York, that the people of the country
VIII rally with practical unanimitv ia
the support of a plan in which the
whole world is looking to them to be
the leaders"
The President is expected, following
the dinner tomorrow night at which
he viii go over the constitution for the
league section by section" with mem
bers Of the Senate Foreign Relations
and House Foreign Affairs committees
TO address joint session of Congress
probably on Friday. He is expected n
make an argument for the cold Ioq;c
as ne sees it, in favor of the creation
q
proposed, in addition to the sentimental
appeal which he stressed so strongly at
Boston yesterday.
No Immediate Test Vote
The President will not obtain an i'm
mediate test vote on the leaque u
told Democratic Leader Martin late TO-
day that there would be no call for an
extra session of Congress until his re-
turn from Europe. He also told Sem
ator Martin that he expected to be
abroad this time about six weeks.
Senator Martin himself desires TIN
extra session to be called on June l.
SO that the vital appropriation bills
can be put through before June 30. the
END OF the fiscal year, or least reso-
luuons continuing last years appro-
priations if the new measures do NOT
pass by that time
1t was said at the White House the
President will speak in New York on
the League of Nations before he re-
turns to France. So far as known, it
Will be the only speech he will make
on the subject before he sails. The
President intends to sail for France
on March ).
There was no sign at the Cabinet
meeting of the "weary, wornout man"
so frequently described in the dis
patches from Paris in the last few
days Of the Presidents stay there. Mr..
Wilson was enthusiastic and vigorous
talking, one member Of the Cabinet
said slyly afterward, more than he had
ever done before at meeting of his
advisers.
Sure Farley Will Adopt 1t
In discussing the league of nations
constitution with the Cabinet the
President attached great Importance.
members said afterward, to the point
that the representatives of fourteen
nations had agreed to the constitution
for the league as submitted by the
committee.
The President expressed no doubt
that the constitution would be adopted
by the peace conference, though ad-
mitting that amendments would be
freely discussed and that the text of
the constitution was as likely to be
changed, just as a bill on its way
through Congress was to be amended.
In this connection Democratic SEN
ator who is very close to the Presi-
dent declared to-day thatshe was con-
fdent the constitution of the league of
nations would be so amended before
1t was finally approved by the peace
conference and submitted to the SEN
ate for ratification that all of the dis
cussion on the league now taking place
would be seen then to be pure time
wasting.
Monroe Doctrine an Issue
He did not voice this view as criti-
cising those who have spoken, or will
speak in the next few days, because
his own views viii be spread at length
in THE Congressional Record" but
merely TO illustrate the extent of the
change not only in the text but in the
ideas of the document before it is
finally approved
Il have no doubt that the objec-
tions made by many Senators, and
which undoubtedly will be taken up by
the Latin-American countries quietly
II not openly-will have the effect of