Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-08-24
GERMAN TREATY
TERMS LAID BEFORE
LODGE COMMITTEE
Continued from page i.

&c make his appearance and Senators
Moses. New Hampshire: Mccormick
Illinois: Knox. Pennsylvania; New,
Indiana, and McCumber. North Dakota.
followed.
Borah Busys Johnson Ont Of Town.
Senator Borah of Idaho. one of the
Republican committee members, did
not attend the conference. He ex-
planned TO newspaper men that he had
not declined the Presidents invita-
ton but was unable 10 attend on ac-
count of other matters"
Senator Johnson of California, who.
IKE Senator Borah. was an irrecon-
cilable in the fight over the treaty Of
Versailles. also was absent from the
conference. The California senator
has not been in Washington for sew
eral days.
The conference between the presi-
dent. Secretary Hughes and the Re-
publican members of the Senate foreign
relations committee ended at 1890
O'Clock. about an hour having been
spent in discussion.
Terms Meet Approval
Senator Lodge, OF Massachusetts
chairman OF The foreign relations
committee. announced after the con-
ference that he would call n meeting
OF the committee for 2 o'clock this
afternoon at which time Secretary
Hughes would give more detailed i'm
formation as to the treaty.
Terms OF the treaty were said TO
have met with no opposition by any
OF the majority members of the foreign
relations committee and IL was de-
cclared that all gave TO it their cordial
approval
The President. Il was stated. hopes
for ratification Of the pact at an early
date. II was explained. however. that
he would not ask tho Senate to forego
its thirty day recess. set to begin to-
night, inasmuch as IL was desired that
the German Reichstag and the Senate
consider the treaty at the same time
and the German legislative body does
not convene until September 20.
Primarily A Peace Treaty.
The official statement with respect
to the conference as made at the White
House emphasized that the treaty was
primarily peace treaty and that its
ratification would be followed by a
treaty of commerce and amity.
An agreement, il was stated, has
been entered into with the German
government not to make the text of
the peace treaty until the signature of
Ellis Loring Dressed, the American
Commissioner in Berlin and DIR. Fried
fr5ch Rosen, the German foreign minis
ter have been affixed. This, according
&c press dispatches from Berlin will
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treaty, il was said. then will be made
public simultaneously in Berlin and
Washington.
Republican members of the Senate
committee attending the conference re-
fused to discuss the terms of the treaty
but it was learned that it is a compar-
atively short document.
Signing of this treaty with Germany
at Berlin will not by any means be
the last act in the restoration of dip
omatic relations with the German Gov
ernment. as the Senate must ratify the
pact before it becomes binding.
With respect to the restoration of
peace, or the status ante quo bellum,
the situation still is uncertain because
of technical considerations. Whether
the Knox-Porter Peace Resolution, as
passed by the Senate and the House,
actually terminated the war period, or
whether a further proclamation by
President Harding is required. has
not been determined. at least so far as
the general public knows.
The signing of the treaty with Ger
many does not end the treaty making,
as conventions must be negotiated with
Austria. Hungary, and other Nations
ircluded in the Central Powers.