New-York tribune., 1920-10-12
State Department Admits.
However, Wallace Has
Been Asked to Cable
the Official Version
Pledge to Europe
Definitely Shown
Republicans Contend New
Wording Substantiates
Charge Made in Senate
From The Tr.bune,, woshlnator surenu

W WASHlNGION, Oct. IL The
stenographic report which Fred A.
Carlson, of Chicago, kept of President
Wilson's speech at secret session of
the peace conference on Nav 81,
1919, was made public at the White
House to-day. The document. which
was described at "the official ver-
sion" of what the President prom
ised the Rumanian and Serbian
Premiers, was disclosed to support
the Presidents denial that he had
promised to send the American army
across the seas if those Balkan states
were invaded, as alleged by Senator
Selden P. Spencer, of Missouri.
Apparently uncertain, however.
that the version of the Presidents
remarks given out at the White
House refutes the charge made By
Senator Spencer and justifes Mr..
Wilson's statement that the Sena
tors allegation was false" the
State Department has cabled Anbas
sador Wallace in Paris to forward
Immediately certified copy of the
official minutes of the session at
which the remarks in dispute were
made.
Text Expected Any Day
This was officially disclosed TO-DAY
by Norman H. Davis. Under Secretary
OF State. who said the Official text
might be expected any day. He de
clined to admit that the cabled in
structions to Ambassador Wallace had
been forwarded at President Wilson's
direction. He said, however. the re-
quest was made Several days ago"
Mr.. Davis conferred with the President
at the White House last Friday. and il
Is understood that the Spencer charges
were then taken up.
The White House claim to-day that
Carlson's report of the Pres dents ad
dress was the Official version" wasre
iterated by Mr.. Davis, who asserted
that at the plenary sessions Of tho
peace conference each nation had an
Official stenographer He said that
Charles Sven, the Presidents per
sonal stenographer, took some of the
American addresses and that Carlson
took others. He assumed that Carl
sons report of the eighth plenary ses-
SION was accepted as the official yer
sion
Mr.. Davis further explained that a,
the conclusion of each session the
various stenographers would meet with
the official secretarat of the session
and that each would contribute his re
port to make up the official minute
of the session. 1t is the official mir
utes that Ambassador Wallace has
been requested to furnish
Publication Not Promised
Asked if the official minutes would
be made public upon their receipt. Sec
retary Davis said that :he President
would have to determine TINT question
When told that DR.. lanes Scott
Brown, the chief international law ad-
wiser of President Wilson a. the peace
conference, had admitted that the Of
fetal minutes of the session were now
in possession of the Carnegie Peace
Foundation here, and could be pro-
cured by the State Department, Mr..
Davis replied that the State Depart
ment would not request such a tex
because the controversy was not be
tween the State Department and Sena-
tor Spencer.
Although not accepting to-day's an
nCuncement by the White House AS
the official text Of what President viii
son said at the eighth plenary session
of the peace conference, Republican
leaders declared the Carlson report
was complete substantiatIon Of the
charges made by Senator Spencer
What the White House characterized
as the Official version" made by Carl
son, friends Of Senator Spencer said,
was really not Official" but instead
was merely a transcript Of steno-
graphic notes made more than a year
ago. Republican leaders here join
with Senator Spencer in demanding
that the President produce the Official
record made at the time Of the Paris
session.
Republican leaders. analyzing the
Carlson version. pointed out that, taken
in relation to the whole context Of the
Presidents speech, the disputed pas
sage could not be interpreted other
wise than as statement that Rumania
and Serbia had reason to expect in
"all of these transactions" that the
United States would send her army
and navy if the covenants should not
be observed
Carlson's Version of Speech
The text OF the Presidents address.
do gwen ny MI OdFiSOn, iullONA.
Mr.. President, | should be very
sorry TO see this meeting adjourn
with permanent impre essions such as
it is possible have been created By
some OF the remarks that our friends
have made. | should be very sorry
to have the impression lodged in
your minds that the great powers
desire to assume or play any arbi-
trary role in these great matters, or
assume, because of any pride of au-
thority, to exercise an unique infu-
ence in these matters, and therefore
l want TO call your attention TO one
aspect OF these questions wh;ch has
not been dwelt upon.
We are trying to make a peace
ful settlement-that is TO say. 70
eliminate those elements of disturb
ance. so far as possible. which NAV
interfere with the peace of the
world, and We are trying to make an
equitable distribution of territories
according to the raera +hs th-