Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-07-29
.GE RMAN TREATY
IS NEXT STEP
CERTAIN PARTS OF THE TREATY
OF VERSAILLES MAY ENTER
INTO THE NEW PACT.
SENATE MAY STAGE A FIGHT
Ambassadors Then Will Be Appointed
by Both countries-Berlin Almost
Certain to Select Man With an
American Wife.
BY EDWARD 3. CLARK.

BY EDWARD B. CLARK.
Washington. Congress having de-
clared that a state Of peace exists with
Germany, the next step must be the
formulation by the State department
of treaty with the late enemy coun-
try. 1t is a matter of controversy at
present as to whether or not the treaty
shall contain parts of the Versailles
treaty.
The chances seem to be that part
Of the Versailles treaty will enter into
the American treaty with Germany.
It is held by the proponents of such
a course that the State department
can take from the French treaty GER
tain sections which will be satisfac-
tory to the so-called irreconcilables in
the senate and which will prevent the
United States from getting at cross
the case If the two treaties should
have cross current provisions in them
All this is a matter for the admins
tration plus the State department to
determine, by and with the aid and
consent Of the senate. 1t is safe
prophecy that before the treaty is
framed and finally ratified there will
be plenty of vocal fireworks in the
upper house. The general belief here
is, however, that a two-thirds major
ity of the senate will ratify the treaty
with Germany even if it shall contain
some of the Versailles documents pro-
visions.
Ambassadors Will Be Named.
AS soon as the treaty is ratified,
the United States will appoint an
ambassador and Germany will retort
in kind. It is futile as yet to guess
whom Uncle Sam will send to Berlin
as his representative. It must neces-
sarily be man who knows something
of the German psychology, and who
has been a close student of develop
ments in Germany since the war
closed. It is possible, probable indeed,
that the President will choose some
American for the job who already has
seen service in the land to which he
is to be accredited.
Already there is advance interest In
Washington as to the probable choice
of the German government Of a sue
cessor to Count Johann Won Bern
storff. A man probably will be picked
who will have a keener appreciation
Of the American temperament than
Won Bernstorff was endowed with. He
had an idea he was fooling people,
when in truth everything that he was
doing was pretty well known and in
many cases was being checkmated.
Germany Will Follow Custom.
One thing goes almost without say
ing, because the rule Of the past al
most goes to prove the case. The
chances are that the Germans will pick
some man who has an American wife.
Every foreign government tries to get
an ambassador who through some fam
lily connection is associated with life
in the United States. It is easier for
an ambassador with an American-born
wife to understand the psychology Of
the people of this country. Bluntly
speaking, a study Of his wife in part
probably gives it to him.
Won Bernstorff had an American
wife, New York woman who was of
immediate German ancestry and there
fore probably not as well fitted to be
a guide to her husband in American
affairs as would have been the case
with a woman whose forbears were
American
Won Bernstorff was preceded as Ger
man ambassador to the United States
by Baron Speck Won Sternberg, whose
wife was one of a family of Kentucky
girls, every one of whom was noted
for her beauty. Her maiden name was
Lilly Langham. Her husbands insight
into American affairs and into Ameri-
can character was looked upon as lit
tie short of marvellous, but he owed
much of his knowledge unquestionably
to his wife.
Mellon Against Bonus Bill.
Secretary Of the Treasury Mellon
has written a letter to United
States senator declaring that the
passage of the bill granting a boz
nus to veterans will increase the bur-
den of taxation of the American peo-
pie and will menace the success of the
program of economy. Is this letter to
have the effect of preventing the pass
age of bonus legislation?
For some reason or other there
seems to be an impression in Wash
ington that while most of the veterans
of the great war are willing that con-
gress shall vote the bonus money,
many of them are not over keen about
it. Unquestionably, there are some
thousands, perhaps some hundreds of
thousands Of the veterans outside Of
those who are disabled, who otherwise
are provided for, who actually need
the money. II there were some way
by which the men who need it could
be separated from those who do not
need it, and the money could be paid
to the needy ones only, there is no sol
dier in the United States, probably,
who would not urge that the necessity
in every case should be met.
It unquestionably took some courage
for the secretary of the treasury to
make plain statement of what the