Arizona republican., 1920-10-11
TAFT-WILSON CABLECRAMSI MADE PUBLIC BY GOVERNOR. COX-- X--OPPONENTS OF LEAGUE PACT SCORED BY NOMINEE.
Correspondence Given Out by Cox Details Suggestions For Changes in Tentative League Draft and Advice By Former President Regarding Its Presentation to United States Senate.

ter.- the presidents reply added. You | need give yourself no uneasiness about my yielding anything with regard to the embodiment of the proposed con- vention in the treaty"
 On March IS, the correspondence showed. Mir. Taft cabled a reservation for the Monroe doctrine, stating that 1t alone would probably carry the treaty but others would make 1t cer- tain" MT. Taft's detailed suggestions were:
 Monroe Doctrine Reservation
 "If you bring back the treaty with the league of nations in it, make more specific reservations of the Monroe doctrine fix a terms for duration of inc league and the limit of armament. require expressly unanimity of action i'm executive council and body of dele gates and add to article XIV proVl- sion that where the executive council of the body of delegates finds the dit- ference to grow out of an exclusively domestic policy, it shall recommend no settlement. the ground will be com pletely cut from the opponents CT the league in the senate"
 The latter, Mir. Taft said, would cover tariff, Japanese immigration and similar domestic questions.
 Submitting drafts of proposed Amendments and detailed arguments in their behalf one of MT. Tafts mes sages stated:
 "The Republican senators are trying to stir up anxiety among Republicans lest this be a limitation upon our tariff. It would help much to meet and re- move objections and cut the ground under senatorial obstruction" Monroe S protection, Mir. Taft was quoted as follows:
 My impression is that if the one article already sent, on the Monroe doctrine. be inserted in the treaty, sufficient Republicans who signed the round robin would probably retreat | from their position and vote for ratlli- cation so that 1t would carry. IT tne other sugegstions were adopted, reel | confident that all but a few who op- nose the league at all, would be driven | to accent them and to stand for the | league"
 Another message by MT. Taft on March 2S, 1919, upon the same sup | jest. said.
 cabIed Wilson March 2e
 venture to suggest to president
 that failure to reserve Monroe doc-
 Urine more specifically in face or op- l | | weight 10 objection that league at first reported endangers doctrine. It will
 seriously embarrass advocates of the
 league: 1t will certainly lead to senate Il amendments embodying domestic and | other provisions in form less likely
 to secure subsequent acquiescence or | other nations than proper reservations
 now Deem some kind of Monroe doc- | Urine amendment now to article ten
 vital to acceptance of league in this
 country. I say with full realizauons
 that complications in conference are
 many and not clearly understood here
 A strong and successful stand now
 will carry the league"
 Another on April 13, signed by MT , Taft and A. Lawrence Lowell, read: "Friends of the covenant are seri- , ously alarmed over report that no amendment will be made more spe- f officially safeguarding Monroe doc
 trine At full meeting of executive ( committee of league to enforce peace s with thirty members from eighteen f states present, unanimous opinion tha - | without such amendment Republican
 senators will certainly defeat ratifica-
 ton of treaty because public opinior | will stay them. With such amend f ment treaty will be promptly ratified t The White House memorandum f made public by Governor Cox safC ! tic questions was made "as suggested ~ from Mir Taft, it stated, were fol- :, lowed, as shown by quotations iron s the league covenant.
 In making public correspondence . Governor Cox statement said tha ~ time had arrived ito bring before tn 'i American jury the recorded evidenc
 that the league is the composit u thought of the leading statesmen O the world" and that 1t Incorporate e all the suggestions that were honest
 ly offered by leading United State -- citizens"
 Citing suggestions by Elihu Root i Charles E. Hughes and others. Gov
 ernor Cox reiterated that it's opposi
 ton was "a partisan conspiracy"
 Tt seems but yesterday" said Gov
 ernor Cox. that all the leaders
 American thought were for the league
 The past eighteen months of plot an conspiracy, holding up the civilizatio of the world and tearing at the heart
 strings of humanity Or political pur poses, are as a nightmare" Severely Critieizes Lodge Governor Cox refegred to the Whit
 House dinner in February, 1919, a , which President Wilson. he said. cor , ferred upon the league covenant wit F the senate foreign relations and hous | foreign affairs committees, and added
 
 r II Cabot Lodge, as the arch conspiratC
 of the ages. had uttered his defian, . and issued the mandate that peac T should not be if it came as the resu of effort in which the president had
 IT directing hand. A partisan victor
 born fin hatred and discOuteHt. was h B goal. let the cost to civilization
 what it might. In sequence a fe days after the conference. Senate Lodge produced his infamous TOUT
 robin, signed by thirty-seven Repu'
 Iican senators. who declared that q I league was not acceptable in the for | II presented. but. who. under partiss | leadership. made no suggestions ( l any kind for it's improvements as | means Of preserving the peace of q | II world.
 | II "In this connection. let it be er | Fl phasized that not one single suggest ! II amendments received from any respo | II sihlc source went uuheeded: instea | n the majority of suggestions were r, | Quested by tho president 10 be D | T. Into writing and were incorporated II thc revised draft. vcrtually verbatim "Theu after the president returne " in July. 1919 with the treaty and ( | final draft Of the covenant he aga | conferred with all the members of {