FRENCH TREATY
SENT T0 SENATE
Wilson's Message Asking That
it Be Promptly Ratified
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RECEIVED IN OPEN SENATE
President Refers To It As A Supple:
ment To Peace Treaty — Two
Treaties To Be Considered
Together By The Senate,
ial treaty
immediate
in
ack by Ger-
ile by Press
Washington
with France, omising
American that republic
pelling any unprovoked att
many, was sent to the
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of it.
It was signe
‘he treaty of peac
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believed
many itself provides ade
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per recent enemy on the
years immed
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on from
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of us con
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incalcu yssibilities
of
for
of its
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League
provides
members
the
presun
ed upo
protection
advice council of
advice given, it to
anly upon deliberation and act
by each of governments
member states only if its
ment justifies such action.
The object of the spec
France which 1 now submit
to provide for immediate milit
sistance to France by the
States in case any
movement of aggression against her
by Germany without waiting for the
advice of the council of the League
of Nations that such action be takgn.
It is to be an arrangement not inde-
pendent of the League of Nations, but
under it.
It therefore, provided
that this treaty shall be made the Bub
ject of consideration at the same time
with the treaty of peace with Ger
many; that this special arrangement
shall receive the approval of the coun-
cil of the league; and that this special
provision for the safety of France
shall remain in force only until, upon
application of one of the parties to it,
the council of the league, acting, if
necessary, by a majority vote,
agree that the provisiong of the cov.
enant of the league afforded her suffi.
cient protection.
I was moved to sign this treaty by
rvonsiderations which will, 1 hope, seem
as persuasive and as
you as they seem to me.
bound to assistance by ties of friend.
ship which we have always regarded
und shall always regard as peculiarly
sacred,
freedom as a nation.
of the
ig be
the
al treaty with
to you is
ary as
United
of unprovoked
expressly
is,
It is seriously
ald. We have recently had the priv.
Hege of assisting in driving enemies,
who were also enemies of the world,
from her soil;
our debt to her.
a debt.
Nothing can pay such
She now desires that
she had most reason to fear.
great nation volunteers the
promise. It Is one of
awaiting the advice of the league to
act,
It is by taking such pledges as this
that we prove ourselves faithful to the
utmost to the high obligations of grat.
itude and tested friendship. Such an
act as this seems to me ome of the
proofs that we are a people that sees
the true heart of duty and prefers
hongr to its own separate course of
peace.
(Signed) WOODROW WILSON.
Text Of Fronch Treaty.
The official text oft the Franco
Brifish-American treaty submitted to
the Senate today follows:
“Whereas, the United States
America and the French Republic
equally animated by the
maintain the peace of the world,
happily restored by the treaty of peace
Versailles
June, 19189, putting
gun by the
Empire
ol
are
desire to
the 28th
CENTRE HALL,
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the mainte:
temporar
of
all permanent
are in the sams
“Article 44
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turb the peace of the world.
“May not at first
security and protection to Fra
United of America
bound to come immediately t¢
sistance th of any
voked mo n
3
ae } adenuate
provid denqunte
nee, the
States shall be
her as.
Hupros
against
in ne event
vement of aggression
her being made by Germany
*Article 11.—The
similar terms with
for the
batween Great Britain and
republic, a copy of which treaty iz an
will only come force
latter is ratified
“Art I1.-—The present tiroaty
must submitted to the council of
the League of Nations and must he
recognized by the council, acting if
need be, by a majority, as an engage:
ment which is consistent with the cov:
enant of the league; it will continue
in force until, on the application of one
of the parties to it, the council acting,
if need be, by a majority, agrees that
the league itself affords sufficient pro
tection.
“Article IV.—The present treaty
wil be submitted to the Senste of the
present in
ven
purpose, concluded
the freaty of o
date same
the French
into
nexed hereto,
when the
icle
be
i
i
treaty of Versailles is submitied to
the Senate for its advice and consent
It will be submitted
ratification to the French
of Deputies for approval
The ratification thereof will be ex
i changed on the deposit ot the treaty
of Versailles at Paris or as soon there
after as shall be possible.
“In faith whereof the respective
On the part
the United States of America,
Wilson, President, and
the French republic, Georges Clemen:
whom France fought to set us free.
new day has dawned.
isms are forgotten, The common cause |
of freedom and enlightenment
created new comradeships and a tiew
perception of what it is wise and nec.
essary for great nations to do to free
the world of intolerable fear,
Affairs,
Pin the English and French languages,
| Beals,
“Done in duplicate at the cliy of
ear of our Lord, ote
of the League of Nations ask leave of
isn whose situation has been found
ew
{Seals and signatures follow.)
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a vid
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Pershing is expected
York, where wiil be greeted by an |
guard of troops. He will then
and a parade up’
Pennsylvania avenue is being planned,
in which Pershing will lead veterans
of the world war to be review by Pres.
ident Wilson. This promises to be!
the most inspiring military show inl
the capital since the return of the.
Union troops from the Civil War and |
their review on Pennsylvania avenue.
special
be
Pershing
presented to |
‘and at New
he
To Make Fareweil Tour,
Paris General Pershing will start
Friday on his “valedictory” tour of
the occupied territory of Germany. He
will first visit the American troops!
remaining in the occupied area, and
then the French and British zones.
General Pershing afterward will
take an automobiie trip over the en.
tire oid western battlefront, from Bel
fort, near the Swiss border, Lo Nien
port, on the Belgian Coast.
General Pershing told the corre
spondenta that he would advise against
the removal to the United States of
the American dead buried in France.
He said he was arranging a conference
with American artiste with a view to
making plans for the beautification of
a permanent cemetery and the erec
tion of monuments to America’s dead,
General Pershing algo said that in
hie opinion the 48.000 German prison.
ers held by the American Army may
be released as soon as the German
peace treaty is ratified by three of the
great powers. He sald he believed it
woilld not De necessary to await Amer
can ratification of the treaty.
RS BE AR Sr AS
$3,000,000 TO PRESBYTERIANS.
$2,000,000 For Colleges And $1,000,000
For Pastors.
Stony Brook, N. Y.-A special en
dowment fund of $2,000,000 for Pres
byterian colleges in the United States
and another $1,000,000 for aged and
disabled pastors will be included in
next year's budget of the Presbyterian
New Era conference.
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Copenhagen A "dispatch from
that Count Crernin, for
Austro-Hungarian foreign min-
has published a statement
effect that his report to Emperor
12, 1817,
Erzherger
certain ir
Vienna says
to
the
Charles under date of April
was handed Mathias
without his knowledge by
regponsible persons, :
Herr Erzberger, Count Crernin saves,
acted in good faith, and declares the
handing over of the report was a link
in the chain of minor intrigues which
caused him to resign.
Count Czernin asserts he will short
iy publish a book clearing up theses
matiers
to
,SEVEN KILLED IN RACE RIOT.
Clashes Between White And Blacks
Renewed In Chicago.
Chicago.~~Seven persons were killed
and more than two score wounded,
many of them seriously, In a renews
of race riots in the Chicago “black
belt.”
For more than five hours the five.
HIGH COST PUT UP
10 THE PRESIDENT
Railroad Engineers Ask Him to
Force Down Prices
PROFITEERING IS CHARGED
Breaking Of Endless Chain Of
And Wage Increases Asked-——Creat
Interests Declared Cone
less In Extortion.
Lenco
in seeki
Exec
manner,
Ranigat:
ith the Chiat
iry
Ons
w
nd, in a pugeestineg
vening of the
or that
Bybgy *
aim th
£ Cor members
his Cabinet
be quickly
sought
the means, and
this direction co
will be
whom the
an Wages (0 en
to live according the
standard
“We invite your attention to the fact
that approximately 77 per cent. of the
locomot engineers are American
citizens, and may be safely
stated that the remaining per cent. are
naturalized citizens, and they have, of
course, a great interest in not only
their own welfare but in the welfare
of all the people, and they are not un-
portion thai may
More
{0 us
hould our eff
smpletely fail,
request for the
assembled, over, the
Seems justify
then we
forced
to qe
we represent
incregse in able them
to American
ive
3
Ors it
of the people, and they believe that
for themselves but for the country in
general, as well as the administra-
tion. Yet we find ourselves today
parning less money then we did prior
the war. This can be demonstrated
hy simply taking, as an {llustration. &
daily wage of 35 prior to the war,
that time was worth 500
judging from competent an
tween whites and blacks and between
“So. while it may be stated that we
points of vantage.
iar only as a medium of exchange, our
been substantially de
National Quardsmer being mobilized. |
Chief of Police Garrity expressed the
belief that the worst of the disorder
had passed.
AFB Sh AMS SA i
WASHINGTON
Without a record vote, the Senate
pasted and sent to the House the ad.
ministration bill authorizing: an in:
crease from 8.500 to 18,000 in the num.
ber of commissioned officers to be
retained in the Army (this year.
A bill proposing creation of a de
partment of aeronautics, which would
© nate the Army, Navy, Marine
Corps and Postoffice air services, was
introduced by Representative Curry,
Republican, California.
| prices.”
THE WATCH ON THE ANINE.
American Troosa May Cortinue In
Coblenz District.
Paris ~The permanent locations to
be nasigned Allled troops on the
Rhine ars being discussed by General
Pershing with France and Great
Britain, announced here, He said the
American force probably would con
tinue to occupy the Cobleng district.
General Pershing sald, in his opine
ion, the American forces in Earope
would be entirely demobilized by the
end of September. except the Rhine
contingent, which would number less
than 7.000 men,
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Weekly Review of Trade and
Market Reports,
BALTIMORE. .—Wheat
Southern brought $1.90, $2. § . $2.20,
$2.22, $2.26 and $2.27 per bshel. as lo
quality. A cargo of 2.220 bushels
No. 4 red winter, garlicky, at 2.24 per
bushel; 2.932 bushels No. § red winter,
garlicky, at $2.21 per bushel, at $2.
$2.15 and $2.19 for sample grade red
winter, garlicky; one car No. 8 red
garlicky, 1 $2.30%;
8 No. 2 or, $2.321% A:
winter, garlicky
nter, Can.
Bag lots of
bushel rod winte
& red
car No.
; three cers No
Lax Point
3 1 g
2 lee ort
ie, TOIL
2 red w
2 red
Het
cen spring, 1 to
to 1%
and 2
roos
0, old hens, over
1% to 1%
pounds,
pringers,
New, York River, No. 1,
y@6.75; do, No. 2, barrel,
annock 1. 85@
primes $6.50
barre
barrel,
YORK Wheat
and freight
export to arrive.
Easy: No
white, $2.18%%,
-No. 2 red,
New York
NEW
cost
track, e
Corn How, $2.14%
both cost and
® vo
Oats
Lard
35.10.
Easy;
Firmer;
No. 1 white, 80%e
Middle West, 3350
Tallow loose, 2lec.
nominal
Butter-—Croamery, higher than ex.
trae, S506@55%c; creamery. extras (82
score), b4%;: firsts, 520054; packing
stock, current make, No. 2 6%
Eggs—Btate, Pennsylvania and near.
by western hennery whites, fine to
fancy, 66@68c; State, Pennsylvania
and nearby hennery whites, ordinary
to prime, 65066; State Pennsylvania
and nearby hennery browns 56G60;
do, gathered browns and mixed colors,
82@56.
Cheese—State whole milk flats, cur
rent make, specials, 32% @233¢c; do
average run, 31% @32; State whole
milk twins, current make, specials,
32% @33; do, average run, 31G32.
Live Poultry — Broilers, 37@ 42¢;
fowls, 39.
Strong; special
Philadelphia—Corn, yellow, as to
grade and location, $2.13@2.16.
Butter—Western creamery,
56; nearby prints, fancy, 62064.
Cheese-—~Higher, New York and Wis.
consin, full milk, 31% @334%e.
Live Poultry-—Fowlis, 40641c: white
leghorn chickens, 32@37.
Potatoes—North Caroline, No. 1,
$5500 6.50; Eastern Shore, No. 1, $6.56
7: do, No. 2, $33@ 4150; Norfolk, Ne.
1, $807; do. No. 2, $3@G 4.50; Jersey,
No. 1. $1.10@1.20; No. 2, $55@75. Oth.
er articles unchanged,
extra,
KANSAS CITY ~—Hoges-Buaik, $22.20
28; heavies, $2285@23; medium
weights, $22.75¢023.15; lights, $22600
2310; light lights, $22.100022.50; pack.
ing sows, $2L.76@ 22.50; pigs, $I8@ 22.
Cattlo-~Heavy beel steers, choice
and prime, $16.60@18.25; medium and
good, $13.76@16.50; common, $120
12.50; light weight, good and choles,
JAAE411 40; common and medium,