The Owosso times., 1922-03-17
Today
HARDING AZ HOME AND WILL
sor ABROAD.

<.< Win presenting to the senate the
+ (r0afics agreed upon at the Arma-
ment conference President Hard
Ing occupied a position much
stronger than that occupied by
Pre9fdentf Wilson when he pre-
septed the treaty agreed upon at
Versailles. mr.. Harding was in
.1f position to argue that the honor
<0< the country required the ratiti-
cation Of the treaty. President Will
>Son and his supporters undertook
to make such a claim in behalf of
the treaty of peace with its league
sM nations. encumberance, but the
plea gained no credence anywhere.
1.-The difference between the two
| sitnations Is clear. President Will
/ son' went to Paris practically alone.
'{n took with him a few subordi-
ma s. 1}but he neither counSeled
V{1h them nor received from them
~ suggestions. They were mere
t(brks carrying Information to give
.h1I. III called for. Neither directly
NOR Indirectly did he take the ad-
'VicetOf the senate. nor keep the
senate Informed as to the steps he
tsaas taking. Moreover, it having
been seported that President Will
son Intended to incorporate in the
peace treaty the league of nations
covenant, thirty-nine members of
the senate notified him in writing
and by the adoption of a resolu-
ton that they could not support
the treaty with such a provision in
q With that knowledge before
-hi1n ard before the other nations
represented at Versailles, President
Wilson continued in his determin-
alton to interweaVe the league of
nations covenant in the peace
treaty in such a way that the whole
must be accepted or rejected. He
undertook to force the senate to
give its sanction to agreements
with which the senate disagreed.
'No such methods were pursued
by President Harding. Instead of
going personally as a delegate to
the. conference he appointed four
of the ablest men in the United
States, two of them members of the
senate and leaders of their respec-
tive political parties. These four
men in constant consultation among
themselves and with the president
and with members of the senate
the interests and de-
sires of the United States govern
nlent. Moreover, the senate had
already, by adoption of a reso-
lution, declared it's desire that
treaties be made providing for linn
itatioi1 of armament and settling
vexatious questions in the Pacific.
Thus 1T win be seen the president
made the treaties with the advice
of the senate.
"In one other respect President
position was much
than that of President
Wilson. At the same time that he
submitted the treaties to the SEN
ate he placed before that body a
complete copy of the minutes of
the proceedings by which the terms
Of the treaties were arrived at. In
other words, he placed before the
senate all the information in his
15ossession bearing upon the agree
ments by which it was proposed
the United State should be bound.
Not so did Preident Wilson. A
vast amount of the data pertaining
to- the peace conference at Ver-
sailles was hidden away in what
has since been called the steel
box and only in recent weeks have
the senate and the publlc Deen per-
mitted to know a portion of the
contents of that box and even at
This date only such portions as an
Editor acting under the direction OF
Mr.. Wilson saw fit to make known
Through the columns of a limited
number Of newspapers.
"President Wilson proceeded to
negotiate a treaty in violation of
both the spirit and the letter of
the United States constitution.
President Harding paid due respect
to both"