The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-07
PRESIDENT TO BE PERSONALLY
 REPRESENTED

1 Washington May 7-The decision | of President Harding to have a per sona1 representative present at meet | ings of the allied supreme council as l we'll as unofficial representatives of
 the United States on the conference of
 anbassa dors and the reparations com | mission was being studied carefully | in all quarters today.
 | The acceptance of the invitation Of | the supreme council was mot wholly l unexpected but it was emphasized in | the highest administration circles | that the step did not mean the par 1 ticipation of the United Staes in any project "of world government or
 world league"
 Both Republican and Democratic l senators who commented last night upon the action of the president, were l agreed that it would require no ex-
 pression or action by the senate and ! several republican members of the foreign relations committee said 1t ap- | peared to be wise in that it could ob- tain information which otherwise probably would be lost to this govern ment. Democratic senators said they
 were disappointed because the presi-
 dent had not decided to have the government officially participate in | the deliberations of the three bodies. It was pointed out that the presi- dent had precedent to support him i in appointing a personal representa- | tive to d diplomatic mission such as | Ambassador Harvey had been deSlg- mated to perform in attending as his representative the meetings of the Su- preme council. The authority of the president to appoint such representa- = lives, it was recalled, was established | by Grover Cleveland when James | H. Blount was sent to the Hawaiian n 1 Islands in 1893 to investigate the over 1 throw of the monarchy and the estab- | lishment of an American protectofate | Subsequently, the precedent was rein forced by the action of other presi- dents, particularly Wilson, in sending | personal representatives to Mexico Ambassador Harvey, as the repre- 1 sentative of the president at the ! meetings of the Supreme Council, al- | though without authority to act or to i bind the United States to any action | taken, would be in position to for ward information upon all subjects i discussed.
 l The supreme council is an out | growth of the council of four which | functioned at Paris during drafting | been referred for settlement many | important questions, including the American protest to the League of Nations against the award to Japan of a mandate for the island of Tap. It is, in fact, expected to take up the ! whole subpject of mandates, which was reopened by recent notes of the American government to Great Bri- tain. France, Italy and Japan.
 Another important question which it has been indicoted will be taken up with the council by MT. Harvey is the possibility of initiating a world conference for disarmament. The president, although he has asked that
 no action on this subject be taken
 in congress at this time, is under stood to favor strongly such a con ference so soon as condition in Flu rope will permit
 The American ambassador to | France is to the unofficial observer at the conference of ambassadors and until relieved by Myron T. Herrick Ambassador Wallace will perform that duty He had acted in that ca pacity for the Wilson administration until decision was reached early in the year to withdraw him, as we'll as Roland w. Boyden, the unofficial rep resentative on the reparations corn
 miteee. MT. Boyden, too will resume his sittings with the commission at present He is in Paris at the head Of a corps of experts on reparations.