The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-19
SENATE LEADERS 'CAST|NG ABOUT IN TREATY FIGHT
 FOR 4 SETTLEMENT
BOrah Puts a Number of Questions Up to Major General Wood, w hich He Desires to Have
 Answered
By Assoelatsa Pres,

By Associated Press
 Washington, January 18.-
 While Senate leaders in the
 peace treaty controversy today
 prepared for resumption to-
 morrow in the bipartisan con-
 ference on compromise. reser.
 vations to effect ratification,
 Senator Borah, republican
 Idaho, made public letter to
 Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, can-
 didate for the republican presi-
 dential nomination, requesting g
 his views on treaty questoins,
 and Senator Owen, democrat, t,
 Oklahoma, issued a statement
 regarding the compromise ne.
 gotiations of which he Is the N sponsor.
 Senator Bofah asked General Wood if
 
 on the issues involved and inquired as
 to the generals position on league of na- tions and other treaty problems. The Idaho senator recently sent similar letter te Governer Lowaen, of IIliness
 another presidential candidate, and is ex-
 pected to write in like vein to all repubii- \ can asPirants.
 H Senator Owen in his statement declared I that 40 democratic senators would SUD- N port reasonable reservations" and pre- dicted that President Wilson woule ac- \ eept reservations adopted by two-thifds H of the Senate. Mir Owen deplored re- \ ports of disagreement between President \ Wilson and former Secretary of Stne I Bryan.
 II Definite outcome of the bipartisan I Icompromise conferences is expected this l week. Leaders continued today tc be \ far from optimistic.
 ' Senator Borah in his letter to General I Wood asks two principal questions, as | follows:
 First, are you in favor of giving the people an opportunity of passing upon this question in the only way now pro- vided by which they can pass upon it by bringing it before them as an issue in the approaching campafgn7 DO you think it would be fair to the people of this country under the pretense ef mak- l ing a treaty to adopt scheme which would result in the abandonment of our traditional foreign policy without taking their judgment upon the matter? Secondly, may we ask your views up on this entire matter aside from your views as to the propriety Of submitting ] it to the people? Would you as a candi- date and as & President, if you were elected, seek to maintain the foreign ,.pli iai If NpftIt 1faf frfo I prevailing, or would you be willing to abandon them? Would you lend your in fluence and your power as President to maintain and preserve the policy of no entangling alliances with foreign powers and no interference cf foreign powers with American affairs, or would you be willing to have the United States enter into an alliance or partnership or league with European and Asatic nations?' Senator Owen, reviewing events leading to the present conferences, declared some newspapers were circulating reports cal culated to make adjustment of differ ences impossible.
 "They describe the oemocratic sena- tors as rubber stamps of President Will son and also MT. Bryan,' he said, and at the same time represent MT Wilson and MT. Bryan at deadly conflict over reservations or no reservations. President Wilson cannot consistently with his obligations entered into at Paris, intimate to the Senate any will Iingness to amend CT change the treaty. The value of the treaty he must as suredly desire to preserve.
 MT Bryan, under no obligations to the statesmen of Europe, urges ratifica- tion without delay and in doing so he is cooperating with democratic sena- tors. and it is an injustice to him to charge him with trying to defeat Presi- H.s cir1cr n f@ l f- tempt to. control demacratic senators in 2 revolt against President Wilson. Democratic senators are trying to get the treaty through with the least possible i,npairnent. and they overwhelmingly approve reservations that Will prevent the treaty or the covenant from eeing uisinterpretsd and they are using thelr own iudgrosnt without being uu6uly in fuenced either by Mir. Bryan or MT. wilson by sympathis..g with the Presi-