New-York tribune., 1921-06-15
Senators ~ bo Fought Yer
81 sailles Pact Certain to
spose Revised Cove
nant IN Any Cuise
No Envoy of u. S.
To Sit at Geneva
President Takes Position
A american Viewpoint
on Mandates Already
Is Sufficiently Clear
From The Trsbure's Washington Bureau


WASHINGTON, June 14.-With
the certainty that the peace resolu-
tion--sent to conference to-day by
the Senate-will soon be agreed upon
and passed, interest shifted to-day
TO the next step in the Presidents
peace program-the actual treaty
with Germany.
President Harding has made no
public statement on this question
since his address to Congress, but it
is understood that he is still unde-
cided as to which of two plans he
will follow. One of these would be
the negotiation of new treaty with
Germany, which would protect
American interests and mark the
formal restoration of peace-time re-
lationship. The other would be
the resubmission of the Versailles
Treaty, with the understanding that
the Senate should, by amendments
and reservations, reject the portions
to which there is objection, including
particularly the League Of Nations
covenant. =
All indications are that If the Yer
sailles Treaty, even without the league
and with reservations, is sent back to
the Senate there will be intense op-
position to it and long controversy.
A number OF the Republican irrecon-
cilables are prepared to oppose the
treaty.
1t is equally certain that an effort
to scrap the treaty and the negotiation
of new pact with Germany would
plecipitate bitter contest.
Conferees Are Named
The peace resolution was sent to
conference by the Senate to-day and
Senators Lodge, Knox and Hitchcock
were named as the Senate conferees.
The House conferees are Representa-
tives Porter, Rogers and Flood.
The Porter resolution, as adopted
by the House yesterday, was sent to
the Senate to-day. Senator Lodge
called it up and asked for a confer
ence of the two houses. He did not
discuss the merits Of the resolution as
passed by the Senate or the resolu-
tion as passed by the House. Senator
Underwood, in brief remarks. declared
the resolution would be futile.
"If it is adopted we will be driven
-
many" he declared.
Senator Underwood said that If he
were going to support the resolution he
would insist on a vote in the Senate
before it went to conference, but would
not do so as he expected TO vote
against any resolution the conference
might report. He believed the House
resolution far preferable to the Sen
ate resolution, especially as to those
parts wherein the Senate resolution
repeals the declaration Of war. He
thought this might be considered "an
apology for going TO war"
No objection was raised to sending
the measure to conference, and with
out further discussion it was so dis
posed OF.
The United States will not designate
a special representative TO attend the
forthcoming sessions Of the League OF
Nations at Geneva. before which the
question of mandates will be consid-
e~e1
Position Held Already Plain
The Administration takes the posi-
ton that the viewpoint of the United
States has been made plain in direct
communications with the Allied gov
ernments on the matter OF mandates,
and the necessity of having repre-
sentative at the Geneva meetings does
not exist.
sented in the Supreme Council, with
Ambassador George Harvey under in
structions to attend the sessions OF the
powers forming this important body.
lnasmuch as the council undertakes the
disposition of mandates, the American
viewpoint will be advanced by Ambas-
gador Harvey st its sessions.
The Administration looks upon the
League Of Nations as body unrecog-
nized by the United States and with
out authority to take arbitrary action
involving the spoils Of war. IN official
notes dispatched to the Allied powers
and called to the attention of all the
governments signatory to the league,
the American demand for an equal
voice in all matters affecting the
further control of these possessions
was Uad6 KNOWN.
Viewpoint Twice Reiterated
The American position OF equality Of
rights in mandate territories was first
advanced during the closing days OF
the Wilson Administration in notes
dispatched to the principal Allied
powers, and Secretary Hughes reiter-
ated this view in notes sent TO the
Allied powers in the matter of the for
mer Turkish possessions in Mesopo-
tamia and in the correspondence With
japan over the island of Yap.
LONDON, June Reuters learns
that, while fully maintaining her
rights as mandatory over certain Pa
cifc islands. Japan is ready to agree
TO the United States exercising COM
plete control over the American cables
traversing the Island of Yap tc Men
dana and TO Guam, and hopes that this
plan will be acceptable to Washing
ton.
Japan, according to Reuters, consid-
ers that, as her mandate is one Of the