The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-11-28
says TREATY
WILL PASS At
NEXT SESSION

Special To The lntelllSenceF:
WASHINGTON. .. G.. Nov. EN-
statement given to the press today by
Senator Davis Elkins. Of West Virginia.
he expressed the belief that the peace
treaty would be passed at the next SEES
sion substantially as 1t was rejected
on herwis. II hasn't the fa!ntest chance
Of passing. ,.,,.
ms statement. that the peace treaty
will pass ut the forthcoming session St
the Senate. and that Il will pass SUB
stantially as II would have passed at tn"
recent session. with the Lodge r:s"r-
vations had not the President ordered
his obedient par;isans to VOTE aEaLnst
mise will be made by them. and wili
comprise acceptance OF the Lodge reser
vations practically in their entirety ana
! without any material change Is 10 text.
Otherwise. there will be no compromise;
There can be no compromise reached
between u stalwart Americansm ana
vicious internationalism.
Dossism Denounced
The time for Senator Hitchcock 10
have talked compromise was before not
twenty-f"ur hours after the pact was
laid aside. If he had been guided by his
own Judgment and independence nc
doubtless would have done so. Bu' nc
was merely the agent, as were ms
associates. Of one will and one man.
| held together by the adhesive power OF
party bossism. Rarely. in the senate
history. has il presented such spec
! tacle TO the country Of suplne suomisS-
iyeness and weakness to one individual
obstinate and arrogant domination. II
J. for no other good reason, what was done
WAS well done. because IT was PROOF that
this country has had enough OF ohe-lhah
government.
There is not a sentence IN the Lodge
reservations to which any 100 per cent
American can object. Opposition 70
them did not come from that class or
| nhjnpfiOD TO the
covenant as originally submitted that II
subordinated the sovereignty or our
own government to supergoFernmcnt
| or an International government and the
objections. 1t was never the purpose
as is plain from their writings. OF the
foremost American statesmen adFocat-
ling some sort OF = league 10 promote
, international peace. up TIL the time OIL
| woodrow Wilson. to set up supere@f-
eminent of the world. The ioea that
they all had in mind was an inter
national tribunal founded on inier-
national law, backed up by the AFFINITY
TO impose it's DEGREES. as are arr other
courts, |, was never contemplated that
any independent government associaleu
| in the agreement would be deprived OF
1 any Of its independent soFerelsnlty, nor
Isubordinance in the exercise OF any Ok
Its constitutional privileges, fts rorelsh
| policies and its domestic af1airs.
war MtSrSprsseuted-
The situation was risrepresenteo az
home and abroad; at home, that our
allies demanded this particular kind or
90 aSntim,S,t by a great prepondcrance
demanded it. Last March, 80 senator's
signed a statement warning the Presi.
Scnt what 10 expect if he stuooornily
persisted in trying to fasten TINS Mn'
u countered with the threat tnat the
covenant would be so nterwoyen with
ne treaty that they could not be separ,,
ated. The covenant was not sepaIa!So
in the sense that he had in mind. but the
| Sanote u-as able to separate the Coven-
ant from the United States Of America
| And IL will so remain.
There will be no ;surrenoddcr nor COM .Hnt
| ppnonrican Senators who have shown
most convincingly to the. country and to 10
The world that unless the document IS
Americanizcd it shall not pass.