Evening star., 1919-04-12
Mr.. Wilson at Closing Con-
sideration of Covenant
Lasting to Midnight.
AGREEMENT NOW GOES
TO PLENARY SESSION
800 French Deputies Sign Mani
festo Calling for Full
Restitution.
By the Aasocia ted Press.


PARIS. April 12.-With the single
exception Of the amendment spe-
cifically exempting the Monroe doc
trine from being affected by the cove
nant, no vital change was made by
the league of nations commission in
that document in its meetings on
Thursday and Friday nights. Last
nights meeting marked the conclu.
sion of the consideration of the cove
nant
Debate Until Midnight.
Last nights discussion lasted four
hours. President Wilson attending the
session and remaining until it closed.
after midnight No date was set for
plenary session of the peace confer
ence to consider the covenant.
The covenant as the commission left
it did not include any section grant,
ing Japan's request for the recogni-
tion Of racial equality, and neither
was a section introduced covering the
request of France for an international
military general staff.
Both Japan and France announced
that they reserved the right to bring
up the amendments they desired be-
fore a plenary session of the conference.
AS it now stands the covenant con-
French Delegates Act.
fHavas.)-The French delegation on
the league of nations commission
voted for the adoption of the text Of
the covenant when the commission
indorsed it last night. but made res
ervationS as to two points; nrSt, the
organization and effective control OF
the manufacture of war material, and
second, the institution Of permanent
military control.
The commission decided to submit
the agreement to a plenary session
of the peace conference shortly, but
set no definite date. -.
4 The council of four of the peace
conference expects to hnish ifss ex-
i animation of the boundary questions
| in dispute on Monday next and to
summon the 0sFman delegates to Yer
sailles In the course OF next week,
according to Le Journal today.
Deputies Sign Manifesto.
Three hundred members of the
French chamber Of deputies have
signed a manifesto associating them-
selves with the resolution signed
Thursday by the members of the SEN
ate, in which hope was expressed that
full restitution would be exacted from
the enemy and that the full cost OF the
war would be imposed ION those re-
sponsible for the greatest crime OF his
tory" :,
The resolution said that the sena-.
tors insisted that the peace treaty ana
the league of nations provide legal
and territorial guarantees OF sufhcient
strength to prevent future wars.
This is taken by many observers, In
cluding French newspapers, as anoen-
er sign of the growing discomfort with
the peace conference and its work
The French press also ie apparently
discontented over the results OF the
last two meetings of the league OF
nations commission.
win Not Act "Blindfolded."
"Pertinax," writing in the Echo de
Paris, warns the council Of four that
the parliaments in London, Paris ana
Washington, not to speak OF others
will not accept "a peace treaty bind
folded"
The writer adds:
''The preliminaries are being elab-
grated in secrecy. The council OF ten.
decided to make the league OF nations
the keystone OF their work. but at the
latest meeting of the league commis-
sion, as before, all amendments likely
to give it bones, muscle and nerves.
notably those offered by the French
found no mercy for those great doc.
trinaires. President Wilson ana Lofu
Robert Cecil"
Canadians Who Win Sign :.
OTTAWA, April IN. w. Rowens
president OF the privy council. in tht
house Of commons today announced that
Sir Robert Borden, Sir George Foster, c.
J. Doherty and Arthur Sifton have been
appointed plenipotentiarfes to sign the
peace treaty at the conclusion Of the
peace conferences on behalf Of Canada.
This marks a new step in the develop
ment of the status Of Canada and the
other overseas dominions. -
The chief party to the signing Of the
peace agreement. it is explained, Is King
George, representing the United King
dom and Ireland, the overseas dominions
and India The order in council cabled'
by the minister is a request to King
George. to issue a commission to each
of the four Canadians as representatives
of Canada to sign the peace treaty.