Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-08-20
WILSON SAYS LEAGUE
 DOES NOT BIND UNITED
 STATE TO EMPLOY ARMY
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 to the treaty with Germany He said he saw no reasonable objection to senate reservations, but thought t unwise to incorporate them in the ratification itself.
 In replying to a long series of questions by Senator Brandegee, re- publican, Connecticut, the president was led into an exhaustive discussion of the co-mingling of moral and legal obligations in treaties.
 "A moral obligation" said MT. 1 Wilson, "is, of course, superior to a legal obligation, and, if l may say so, has greater binding force.
 "1n every moral obligation there is an element of judgment; iii a legal obligation. there is no element of | judgment"
 Senator Harding, republican, Ohio, suggested there was no necessity of written compact for this republic to fulfill it's moral obligations to civ ilization,' to which the president re- 1 joined:
 l But it steadies the whole world by | its promise beforehand that it will stand with other nations of similar Judgment to maintain right in the world"
 When Senator Brandegee asked ~ presidents opinion on the concrete case of the present trouble between Rumania and Hungary, the president said he could not answer because that would involve passing judgment on a foreign political question in a way he considered inadvisable.
 Against Reservations.
 Senator Brandegee also called at tentlon that many authorities on in- ternational law had differed as to the 1 meaning of various provisions of the treaty, and that Charles E. Hughes,
 William Howard Taft and Elihu Root had suggested reservations, but the president insisted that he thought , it perfectly safe to leave the present language to the interpretation of future statesmen without fear that the United States would suffer by their construction.
 When Senator Fall, republican, New Mexico, suggested that any amendments to the league covenant ] would not require Germany's assent as she was not a member of the lea que, the president replied he never had thought of that feature He dis agreed with Senator Brandeges and Knox, republican, Pennsylvania, who asserted that the treaty would come into force among all the signatories as soon as three had ratified it.
 For more than three hours, the
 committee members questioned the president and afterward they stayed for lunch at the white house. When no discussion whether the meeting was to be resumed during the after noon, but later it was decided not to do so. There was no intimation to- night whether the committee would seek a further conference. Tomor- TOW it will resume it's open hearings at the capital.
 Senator Fall left with Mr. Will son, list of questions which the latter said he would reply to at length late. They concern the powers of the president or congress to declare a state of peace, details of the resump- tior of trade and diplomatic relations with Germany. what disposition is to be made Of the German colonies, and the need for American represen- 1 tation on various European recon i struction commission.
 Opponents Pleased The presidents dec1ara +ion of a comnelling moral obligation under l the Leauoun was erUhasiZed in a
 statement issued iointly torioht bv Snra+or Borah Tdcha. and Johnson ] California. republican members of