Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1920-09-21


makes 1t the right of any member
OF the league at any time to call at
tention to anything. anywhere. that is
likely TO disturb the peace of the
world or the good understanding be-
tween nations upon which the peace
OF the world depends"
There was no longer any doubt that
the president was a sick man. The
next morning when the train reached
Wichita, Kans.. his physician an
nounced that the presidents condition
made ii necessary to abandon his
tour and to hurry him back to Wash
ington
From that time. the presidents con-
flict with the senate was conducted
from his sickroom, and only rarely
did even his closest followers in the
senate catch a glimpse of him.
In his public and private comment
in Washington and on his speaking
tour the president by this time had
embittered his relations with the SEN
ate. beyond all precedent. Even now.
with barely year gone by, it is diff
ficult to realize how hysterical was
his vituperation. His license of
senator of his own party:
IF a citizen refused to repudiate
the policies under which our country
had became great, the president char
acterized him as ''pygmy minded" If
he declined to turn his back upon
Washington and Jefferson, he was de-
scribed as afflicted with spurious
alterations of thinking. If he re-
fused to surrender with the pen what
Washington gained with the sword
he was described as a Contemplate
gutter If he could not see his way
clear to embroil America in the wars
of every country and to plunge her
into controversies of every land, he
saw with 'jaundiced eyes If he ven
tured to point out that Article 10
bound us to send our soldiers to de-
fend the frontiers of any land in
quarter of the globe, he was afflicted
with amazing ignorance If he
looked with pride upon the glorious
achievements of Americas past and
refused to abandon the policies which
brought Us u the heights of pr spar
ity. he was "a dreamer living In the
forgotten age
eff, after studying the league cove
nant. lawyers and statesmen reached
the conclusion that it was inimical
to the public veal, they were CLASH
fide as men "who heads are only fit
to serve as knots to prevent their
bodies from unraveling.'
IF senators of the United States,
sworn to defend the constitution and
to protect the Republic in strict ac-
cordance with the terms of their oath,
studied the proposed covenant and
reached the conclusion that it was
their duty not to advise or consent
to its ratification, they were de-
nounced as dishonest opponents of
the treaty who will be gibbeted and
who will regret that the gibbet is so
high Or, again. they were informed
as was declared early in the conflict
that the president would like to see
them hung on a gibbet as high as
heaven, but pointed in the opposite
direction.
While the president was still in the
west, the senate committee of foreign
relations had made its formal report
on the treaty. The majority report
of the committee, presented by Sena-
tor Lodge as chairman, recommended
series of amendments and reserva-
lions both as to the league covenant
and as to the remainder of the treaty
This report was signed by Senators
Lodge, Borah, Brandegee, Fall, Knox,
Harding, Johnson, New, and Moses,
all republicans The minority report
was presented by Senator Hitchcock
the ranking democrat and President
Wilson's spokesman for the treaty. 1t
was also signed by Senators Williams
Swanson, Pomerene, Smith of Ari-
IONA, and Pittman. 1t denounced the
amendments and reservations offered
by the majority report and recon-
n ended the ratification of the treaty
as "the best hope in the world, even
if like all human instrumentalities it
be not divinely perfect in every de-
tail" Senator McCumber, republic
can, filed a separate report"
The senate debate was long and
warm New amendments and reser-
vations were offered from the floor.
Most of these, as we'll as the commit
tee amendments, were voted down.
Then the senate committee drafted
new set of fifteen reservations which
WtIG pItS6HltQ OClOUcl AOs anu WnlCu
were known as the Lodge reserva-
lions. With minor changes these were
accepted by the senate and November
10, the formal resolution of ratifica-
ton, with these reservations, was
ready for action. When Senator Lodge
moved its adoption. Senator Hitch
cock read a letter "of COUNSEL from
President Wilson to the democratic
senators. 1t said:
81 assume that the senators only de-
sire my judgment upon the all-im-
portant question of the final vote on
the resolution containing the many
reservations offered by Senator Lodge.
On that I cannot hesitate, for, in my
opinion the resolution in that form
does not provide for ratification but
really for the notification of the
treaty. I sincerely hope that the
friends and supporters of the treaty
will vote against the Lodge resolution
of ratification"
The result was that the democrats
who followed President Wilson joined
the "irreconcilable" republicans who
opposed the treaty. either with or