Pueblo chieftain., 1921-04-18
SEC. HUGHES
STRENGTH IS
REASSURING
Congress Optimistic Over
Treaty, League and u. S.
Foreign Affairs
ny MARK SULLIVAN

Washington, d. c., April 17.-Wash- |
lngton as respects to treaty. the league |
and our foreign affairs altogether, has |
spent the last few days in a mood of |
well, where do we go from here. |
Nobody knows exactly where we are |
going, or by what route we are going |
to get there. but they have perfect |
confidence in the captain. The unmis- |
taxable mood of Washington is one |
tho atmosphere having been cleared, |
of cheerfulness and optimism, OF new
found confidence.
The base of this confidence is the
solid personality of Charles +. Hughes. |
There is no aspect of our present his
tory more important than the daily
increasing sense of reinsurance and
security in Mr.. Hughes. He radiates
strength. There is the air of strength
in the stride with which he goes about
his work, and in tho quickly smiling
openness OF his countenance- We get
comfort even from the physical ap-
pearance of strength that he has. the
viii whiskers and big teeth. and VIC
get confidence from the clear. straight
forward and gentle blue eyes which
viii seek justice for the other side of
controversy as surely as for his own.
Mr.. Hughes has an appalling chaos
to untanglc. He must first get the
assurance from tho allies that the
treaty can be opened up. That assur
auce presumably will come in the shape
OF tho replies TO the zap note. There
after, he must perform the most com
pick job OF surgery ever attempted by
the hand Of man-thc separating of
those parts Of the treaty OF Versailles
IN which VIC say We have an interest
from the parts in which VIC say VIC
have no interest.
The Senate IS for tho moment in a
mood ut waiting. II YOU say to sem
ator surely In the whole of the hun
drcd thousand words of tho Versailles
treaty there must bc al least live thou
sand words that We can ratify". the
Senator will reply. "lct us first see
what ave thousand words you mean"
In the present disposition to give the
administration fr.s hand in the
working out OF the treaty tanElc and
in this whole tension between tho ad-
rniuiStration and tho senate. u is pos
siblc to over look a good deal that can
4 said for the senate side of it. Pres
ident Harding was more percmptory
TO the senate than is generally real
lied. Tho urbanity OF the words OF
the speech softcned some OF the sub
stance. II is true. President Harding
completely buried the League OF Ma
tions, and to that extent pleased and
justified the irreconcilnbles But all
else that he did was extremely unpal-
atahlc.
lie said that later on he proposes
to have an Association of Nations. He
said that he proposes to engage un-
der the Versailles treaty and to many
OF the irreconcilablcs the Versailles
treaty is Just ns obnoxious as tho
League OF Nations. lie told tho SEN
atc that they could pass their Knox
resolution, but they must first reduce
~ TO a mere shadow OF what IT was.
II must be merely a technical
peace. Knox was told and has obeyed
the direction to shear off the most I'M
portant parts OF his resolution tho
section In which tho Senate directed
the President to make a new treaty
with Germany and the part In which
the Senate presumed TO declare the
future foreign policy OF the United
states.
There was stern robuko in President
Hardiugs saying to the very faces
of tho Senator's lin correcting tho fail
urc N the executive. in negotiating
the most Important treaty in the his
tory or the nation. to recognize the
constitutional powers OF tho Senate
We would 60 to the other extreme
equally Objectionable, II Congress or
tlc Senate should assume the func-
tion Of tho executive. our highest
duty is tho preservation OF the con-
stituted powers OF each, and the pro-
motion Of the spirit OF cooperation so
essential TO our common welfare.
Neither Congress nor tho people |
needs my assurance that a request
TO negotiate needed treaties OF peace
would be supcrnuous and unnecessary
as a Is technically Ineffective and /
know in my own heart there is none
who would wish to cmbarrass tho OK
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