The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-10
Harding Will Make Only One
Speech Upon Foreign Pol
icies While Upon His West
ern Trip, Officials Say
EXECUTIVE WILL ALLOW
LODGE TO CHANGE PLAN
Senator Watson Said To Have
Talked Quite Frankly To
President And Warned Him
Not To Split His Party
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Original repNrt by this bureau that
the President was running away from
his court proposal. that on his forth
coming western junket he would
make but one explanatory address
regarding his court proposal, and
that he would permit Senator Lodge
to amend his court proposal in any
respect Senator Lodge might deem
wise, Is now official.
Announcement, in practically ver-
batim form to the above effect, is
made by Senator James E. Watson
of, Indiana. Emerging from the
smiling gleefully.
There will be no split in the
ranks of the republican party" he
said. "All will be harmonious. The
President will discuss the court in
the west just once. Furthermore. he
will accept any reservations the Sem
ate might see proper to devise
Watson Talked FranIly.
1t is the understanding that SEN
ator Watson talked very frankly
with the chief executive. He de-
clared the Senate bitterly divided
with the certainty that the Presi-
forced to join hands with irrecon-
cilables unless the President should
give them authority to emasculate
his proposal without let or
hindrance. 1t Is understood that the
Indiana senator informed the Presi-
dent that while John I; Adams.
chairman of the republican ma
tional committee. displayed very bad
taste In insulting the allies, Mr..
Adams was in position to judge the
sentiment. of the people better than
the President.
Finally, according to this version
of the affair, Watson declared 1t
the party were the chief executive to
make his proposal the subject Of his
addresses on the western junket.
Judging from Watson's statement.
the President was deeply impressed
by the information given. There
said Watson. "who do not believe the
United States could enter the court
without entering the league. We
have authority to make what reser-
vations we think wise. and it may
be depended upon that when We en-
ter the court 1t will be on terms so
frankly expressed that there can
be no misunderstanding as to our re-
gard for the league itself"
Hughes No Runner.
There is in this ointment, as In
practically all others, at least one
fly. The Secretary of State. Mr..
Hughes. is perhaps no o-getter."
but he is no runner The same is
true as to Herbert Hoover, Secretary
of Commerce.
These gentlemen, in preparing the
Presidents proposal for submission
to the Senate, prepared reservations
which, in their opinion. completely
covered the situation. at any rate.
according to their conclusions were
sufficiently lucid to make it clear
that in espouslng the court. it was
not the intention of the United
States to espouse the league. 1t is
regarded as highly probable that
when Lodge and Watson begin
emasculating the proposal so that
the sole remaining commitment on
the part of the United States would
be the payment of about $4,000 per
year, its pro rata share of the courts
expenses. Hughes and Hoover VIII
display their impotence in some one
of many available forms.
Republican politicians disagree as
to whether it would be more expedi-
ent for the President, having es-
poused a cause, to stand by and for
it as matter of principle. or hav-
ing espoused a cause with which
some of his advisers do not agree,
to run from and abandon it.