Evening star., 1928-11-25
PRESIDENT PLANS
FINAL ATTEMPT FOR
WORLD COURT. 0. K.
Chief Executive win Strive
for Ratification of Reserva-
tionS by Other Powers.
HEAVY LEGISLATIVE
SLATE FACES CONGRESS
Extended Debate Is Expected
to Develop With Start of
Session December 8.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.


fR its final session one week from to-
marrow. It remains TO be seen whether
iHJthe three months of the session the
legislative program can be rounded out
fH such a way as to avoid special
session of the new Congress, which
comes Tito being March 4.
The legislative program was the sub
iect of discussion at an informal break
fast at the White House yesterday, at
tended by more than dozen Repub-
lican Senators.
President Coolidge, it is understood
will make final attempt to bring about
ratification of the Senate reservations
to the entry of the United States into
the World Court. This was disclosed,
it is said, during the White House
breakfast.
Action UP to President.
The Senate. as matter of fact, has
nothing further to do with the treaty
steps that may be taken seeking to
bring the powers to agree to the reser-
vations adopted by the Senate when
it ratified the treaty of adherence must
necessarily be taken by the Chief
Executive. It is true that Senator
Gillett, Republican, of Massachusetts,
sought at the last session to have
resolution adopted by the Senate ex-
pressing it as the sense of the Senate
that steps be taken to obtain the con-
sent of the nations now members Of
the World Court to the adherence Of
the United States to that tribunal with
the Senate reservations That reso-
luton is still pending before the SEN
ate foreign relations committee. In
view of the suggestion now advanced
that the President plans to make over
lures to the other powers for such
agreement to the Senate reservations, 1t
is not likely that the Giliett reSoiu-
ton will be pressed for action when the
Senate meets, it was said last night.
The understanding of members Of
the Senate who attended the White
House breakfast is to the effect that
President Coolidge will send to the
Senate for ratification at the coming
session the Kellogg treaty renouncing
war. Senator Borah, chairman of the
foreign relations committee, is entirely
friendly to this treaty and will do all
ratification.
It is now approaching three years
since the Senate, by a vote of rs to II,
adopted a resolution looking to the
adherence of the United States to the
World Court, with reservations. Only
five nations, Albania, Cuba, Greece,
Liberia and Luxemberg, have agreed
to American entry into the court with
those reservations. Twenty-three have
found fault with reservation No. S,
which was:
THAT the court shall not render any
advisory opinion except publicly after
due notice to all states adhering to the
court and to all interested states and
after public hearings or opportunity
for hearing given to any state con-
cerned; nor shall it, without the con-
sent of the United States, entertain any
request for an advisory opinion touch
ing any dispute or question in which
the United States has or claims to have
an interest"
Borah Fought Adherence.
Some seven or eight other nations
have merely acknowledged the receipt
Of the message from this country say
ing that it would become member of
the court with the Senate reservations.
The adherence of the United States
was opposed strongly by Senator Borah
and by some of the other Senators who
had stood out against adherence to the
used that the World Court was merely
an adjunct of the League; that the ad-
terence of the United States to the
court was a kind of back-door entrance
into the League. This was emphatlcally
denied, however, by Senators support
ing the adherence of the United states
to the court. t.
tt row appears that the President is
TO ask Secretary Kellogg to undertake
further communication with the pow
ers in an effort to bring acceptance 70
the Senate reservations, and partlcu-
larly reservation No. 5. 1t also L; Is
understood that Senator Boran WI WI
seek to interpose no objection 10 tIlls
course. His attitude, it is understood
will be that the matter is now one en-
tirely for action by the executive ano
that it has passed from the hanos OF
Practically all of the Republican
Senators who have returned to WASH
ineton were guests at the White House
breakfast. including the Vice-Presldent-
elect. Senator Curtis of Kansas. The
discussion of the legislative situation
called attention to the fact that al the
close of the last session the unflnlsnec
business of the Senate was the Boulder
Dam bill, and that this measure con-
tinues in that strategic position.
Next on the list is a bill to restrlc
the transmission of convict-labor- -mad'
goods from one State to another. Th1rt
Is the Jones bill to increase penalties II
certain violations of the dry laws. AnC
fourth comes the $274,000,000 nava
construction bill, generally referred t.
ss the cruiser bill.
Extended Debate Expected.
All of these measures may lead Il
extended debate. Certainly that is T.
he expected in connection with tn
boulder Dam bill That measure, it
SAID. NAV be modified in accordanc
with a report of the engineer
requested to look into the project, VIII
have submitted a preliminary report
The convict-labor- made goods bill ha
its opponents, as we'll as the bill in
creasing penalties for violations OF tn
6rv laws. There also is a group Q
Senators who strongly oppose passag
of the naval construction bill. However
it was disclosed at the White Hous
breakfast that it may be possible to ge
ali these measures disposed of.
There was no discussion, it is said, o
the proposed agricultural aid bill, whicl
Senator McNary of oregon. chairman
of the committee on agriculture,
framing for introduction as soon a
Congress convenes, although he wa
among those present at the breakfast