The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1919-07-26
SEE PEACE TREATY
IN NEW LIGHT
SENATE RECEIVE DETAILS

How the Versailles conference .
reached many Of the agreements EN-, .
bodied in the treaty Of peace was .
described by President Wilson to three .
republican senators invited to the
White House at the head Of long
list of republican members whom he
purposes to take into his confidence.
Afterward one Of his callers, Sena-
tor Colt of Rhode Island, said Mr..
Wilson had been able 10 place the
Shantung settlement in new light
and had clarified other disputed points
in the treaty. Senator McCumber or
North Dakota and Senator Nelson OF
Minnesota, the others who saw the
president; we're reticent as to the SUD
iects discussed, but said the president
had given them much interesting IN
formation.
Senator Colt, who announced his
general approval Of the league OF ma
| tons in senate speech delivered
! shortly before he went to the White
! House, indicated after the conference
! that his doubt over certain portions or
the league covenant had not been re-
moved. He said he was not ready TO
express all opinion regarding Shan
tuDg. and intimated that the president
might make a public statement soon
on the subject.
Senator McNumber is the only re
publican member Of the foreign rela-
lions committee who has favored the
League, and it is understood Mr.. Will
son talked over with him committee
action on the treaty and the general
situation on the republican side OF the
senate. Senator Nelson never has
made a public declaration for OF
against the treaty. TIC all Of his call
ers the president is said to have
reiterated his opposition to reserVa
tons of any character in senate rati
fication Of the treaty.
. The president will continue hi
r talks with senators inclined to b'
- friendly toward the treaty provision
- though it is said that later he vii
h seek conference with virtually ever,
IS republican SENATOR including thos
u who have most bitterly opposed raj
IA ification.
n Senators Kellogg of Minnesota an
n Kenyon of Iowa, both of whom hay
y. kent open minds on the treaty, an
ID Senators M>Nary Of Oregon, leagu
It supporter, and Capper Of Kansas, VIII
re has taken no definite stand, have bee
invited to call on the president.
The position of the foreign relation
committee with regard to meeting tn
president as body was explained
m a statement by Chairman Lodge, WI
an said no congressional committee "hs
m m any right, or should have any RICH
I'd to summon" a president before it, al
mr. that Mr.. Wilson had not asked
,n' appear.
mi He made no prediction whether t
ire committee would accept later the pre-
he ident's offer to receive at the VIII
TX, House, but pointed out that 80 +
committee consideration of the trea
,a- is in it's preliminary stage.
ny While the president was besinni
sth his White House conferences the ST
md ate debated Shantung and the leag'
., and adopted without record vote
ced resolution by Senator Borah, republ
Ill an, of Idaho, asking for informant
for relative to the Shantung negotiatle
0u' In his address announcing acce
'ir- ance of the league principles, Sena
'ts Colt declared the covenant would
conflict with the American constr
u.- ton nor create a supergoVernme
ard and asserted that IF it is unthinka
i i,Is for us to desert England, France
Italy when the world is in chaos, II
the we must become a member OF
league as providing the only maci
we, cry for the restoration OF peace
order"
. He withheld judgment, however,
ho to the Monroe doctrine and other