The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-12-04

with the question of the League OF
Ma lions.
So long as we are out OF the League
We can have no power ana put nttie
influence on this point, The necessity
of doing something definite about inc
League Of Nations will be put FORWARD
as the first step toward stability Ill
domestic business. ~
declaring state Of peace with Ger
many will not help us toward staoiilz-
ing the debt Of Germany to the Allies
but will carry us farther from IL.
Probably the bulk Of the advice thns
Harding receives will be In favor OF
resolution: but there will be advice
against this course which will be as
energetic as IT is thoughtful
No Dispute With the Senate
In these discussions between Sena :
tor Harding and his advisers about
the League Of Nations but what IS
in fact the larger question OF foreign
relations as whole, certain lunon,
out and can be taken for granted from
the start.
Tho first Is this: There Is not going
to be any dispute between the new new
President and the new senate aDou w
foreign affairs. The fact that thSre
was continuously q dispute was the
most conspicuous feature or the
League Of Nations debate for the whoie
period. exactly two years ago. sine; me-;
President Wilson went to Paris: The
now President and the new Senate Will
be OF the same party.
Further than this, it Is in the
groundwork Of HardIngs policy 10
recognize that the senate nus CO.
lations Senator Harding Will not oni!
recognize this fact but recognize II
generously. He is likely 10 act not
only as II the Senate had equal power
And further than merely living up 10
con Institutional requirements, 1t Is one
of the most marked traits OF Harding
temperament to drive for harmony.
He Is not likely TO devise foreiEn
Motley and submit 1t TO the senate I"
And out what the senate will do about
IL. He Is much moro likely TO confer
in advance with the members or the
Senate Foreign Afrairs Committee. anu
with other senator's interested ana
agree in advance upon policy "hich
is sure to be adopted by the senate.
The tension between the White House
and tho Capitol. the acrimonious de
bates, the vetoing by the PRESIDENT
Of what tho senate had done the pass
ing of measures by the senate over the
Presidents veto-all Of that which mas
provided the most spectacular aspecIS
be wholly absent in the future.
rhe Majority win Decide.
Under these circumstances whatever
We are 10 do about the League OF Ma
tionS and other foreign matters Will be
determined more by tho wishes OF the
majority Of the senate than by the
ideas held by Harding personally.
What the majority OF the new senate
will do can only be known definitely,
later on. But II can safely DO assumed
that the element known as the "trrocon-
cilables" will not be as aggressive or
truculent as is frequently assumed.
4 good many irreconcilables. who re-
cardcd 1t as the best policy to be un-
compromising until the present form or
the League Of Nations was rejected by
the people, are not now uncompromisinG
at all They are entirely willing to take
an affirmative and constructive attitude
toward a new or sufficiently altered as
ISOLATION Of nations. Senator Borah, for
example, has already announced associa-
ton looking TO disarmament and the
preservation OF peace. which does not
diner materially from Mr.. Roots pro-
posed international court Of justice.
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