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CONFERENCE ON
THE PEAGE TREATY
No Objections to Interpretations
After Ratification
MAY END SENATE FIGHT
Executive Makes Clear That He Wiil
Oppose Textual Changes Which
Might Necessitate Resub-
mission Of Pact
Washington. President Wilson
the Senate on the treaty of peace with
lations that “there can be no
of
form a part of
accompanying the act
provided they
the ratification itself.”
This frank
the opening of
the
conference which will bee historic
if its ultimate regglt
ing between the Executive an the
Senate ne of the
ous ques 18 h the American Gov
ernment
Nor did
self
to
ment as to the Ameri
ing of the league of nations co
During the questionin
he
such
mal fa
But
ingness
amendmen
not
do
statement was made
the conference
President the
erstand
moat moment
ver faced.
President content him
with this invitation to the Senate
meet halfway upon an
agree
‘all un
whi
ike to take ny such = ‘
Up To Senate To Decide.
vert
Memb
Crats as
to
idea ti
upon the
the
had gis
tude
treaty
men were agreeably
that he was in sympathy with the gen
eral that this
fully understand and let the
derstand just what it binds
do as a league member
The early part of the conference was
devoted
the
treaty
impresaion
of
And all of the committee
his talks with leaders
Tad:
fight,
demand country {
itself to
the league of nations to
from that body and next the obliga-
tions which would rest upon it in
that connection. Banator
sought draw from the President
an admission that this
was an unconditional right
part of the member, but the
dent did not wholly assent. His re
ply was that the right “was condi-
tional on the faith of the econseci-
ence of the withdrawing nation.” He
did agree a little later, however, that
the member nation had an uncondi-
*tional legal right to withdraw at the
end of two years and the right to
determine for itsel! whether or not
it had discharged {ts international
obligations,
At this point Senator McCumber
asked if there would be any objec
tion to a reservation by the Sensute
declaring that to be the understand-
ing of the withdrawal section of the
league covenant. In answer the
Pregident said:
“As 1 indicated at the opening of
our conference, this is my judgment
about that: Only we can interpet
to
on the
Presi-
Tr
& moral obligation. The legal obli-
gation can be enforced by such ma-
chinery as there is to enforce it. We
are at liberty therefore to interpret
the sense in which we undertake &
moral obligation,
“What 1 feel very earnestly is that
it would be a mistake to embody
that interpretation in the resolution,
of ratification, because then it would
be necessary for other governments
to act upon it."
This same guestion arose as to this
country's obligations under Articles
10 and 11 The President made it
vory clear that, after al], it was for
the United States, and this country
alone, to determine, upon occasion,
whether it would go to the rescue of
whether it felt
bound it to
any point at
an assaulted nation;
that the circumstances
send armed forces to
any time, and whether its obliga-
tions under the articles were legal
or moral. In that connection, Sena-
tor McCumber asked, "Do you not
think that it would be well to have
a reservation inserted in our resolu
tion that shall that sec
tion as
80 construe
Amer
that Congress
mon to
{
its failure
the ‘an people but to the world,
use its own judg-
do and that
the
may
will
follow
ws what #t
10
of the council iil not
breach of the
To
made the
a rroomment 7
gEgreement
this question the
following answer:
as 10
it would
mistake to
of mtifica
our
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The President
wn's Shantung
to
form in ti mintes of the
He he
nfidence’’ the
reduced
written
Peace
Conference asserted
avery of that
be
he got"
Japan
14
bad
take no
but
ference
the German
a suggest
Amer
DRAKE CUP-SOLD AT AUCTION.
Queen Elizabeth Gift Brings $19,000
in London.
cup which Queen E
1 T f
p 3 * & ~
dmiral Drake for d
'
Ar
here
ah
ring iae Span
sold at auction
rm of a terrestial globe
engraved ith a map
it was known the sixteanth century
The surmounted by a vase
chased in grotesque masques
and fruit § made in Zurich
weighs 42 ounces.
of the world an
cover
cherubs
was
HENRY G. HAY, SR. DEAD.
U. 8, Steel Corporation.
Henry G.
assistant
Gary, Ind. Sr.
New York,
Hay,
Hay, Jr
was a resident of Cheyenne,
TELEGRAPH TICKS.
Edward Albright, of Gallatin, Tenn,
was elected president of the National
Editorial Association at Victoria, B. C.,
and the association decided to hold its
1920 meeting in Boston, Masa,
The Chairmen of the United Brother.
hood of Employes and Railway Shop
Laborers has approved a wage demand
of an increase of $1 a day per man,
affecting 600,000 workers,
Twenty persons were injured, sev.
eral seriously, in a riot between sirik.
ers and non-union men of the Standard
fiteel Company's plant at Butler, Pa.
Rev. Joseph H. Bradley, D. D., one
of the last surviving officers of the
famous Duryea Zouaves, died at his
home in Flatburgh, Brooklyn, N. Y,
FOUR MEXICAN
BANDITS KILLED
U. S. Troops Surrounded Band
of Six in Blockhouse
CARRANZA MAKES PROTEST
Two Outlaws Escape After Hard Fight
~-Punitive Expedition Continues
Scouring Canons Fer
Marauders.
Marfa, Texas.
were kil
Mexico
Four Mexican band
ied by American troops in
Matlack,
report
an
is
Leonard
by
surrounded in
that the
ted In a mountain
Captain
rived here airplane,
were
adobe hio kKhouse
had const
The
rie
38
PASE
fought
when
they were
When the
i the
Gov.
May Face Murder Charge.
Von Henrich, Former Military
ernor,
f Lil
Ma
lot by
mans, testified that after sentence
death
hands
a
been their hus
Von Heinrich zed
lawyers to appeal to the German Em
peror. While the was being
made, Von Heinrich, it was declared
ordered that
had passed on
author their
appeal
U.S. RESUMES CONTROL OF SUGAR
Price To Consumers.
Washington. -— Active control of
sugar prices was resumed by the Gov.
ernment, through an agreement
reached between the Department of
and
that licenses will be revoked
latter when it is shown
been profiteering
Sugar should reach the consumer at
dealers have
announced, based on the ownership of
the entire domestic and Cuban crop
by the United States Sugar Equaliza
tion Board.
PERSMING AT MILAN.
Warmly Welcomes American
Commander In-Chief,
City
Milan, Italy Gen, John J. Pershing,
the American Commanderin Chief, ar
rived here from Verona He was
warmly welcomed by the military and
etvil authorities of the city and the
American, British and French Colo
nies. The populace of Milan is en
thusiastic over the visit of the Amer
ican general.
EE we winston lib ae —— a
SEVEN TAMPICO BANDITS
EXECUTED.
Tex the
Mexican bandits who robbed sail
ors from the United States
er Cheyenne, off Tampico,” last
month, heen apprehended
and put to death by the Carranza
authorities, according to an offi-
cial report from Gen. Pusble Gon
zales to Mexican Meade
Fierro The report states
the had property of the
sailors In their possession.
- *
Galveston, Seven of
cruise
have
Cousul
here,
bandits
SIGNING OF TREATY
Act Until Pact is Ratified
IS AT STAKE
Pittman’s Proposal Goes By Board
Relations
To Hear
testing Nationals,
Foreign
Votes
Committee
Various Pro-
country
NEW THRILL FOR CAPITAL.
First Division Will Parade
Equipped For War.
Fully
Washington.—In the parade of the
an-
people
have the
witness
| ington, the War Department
nounced it is intended that the
the United States shall
war.” The First Division will parade
with complete equipment, including
not only artillery and machine-gun
units, but all the details of transpor
tation and medical organizations
BIG PAY FOR SHOE WORKERS.
Some Of Them Received As Much As
$120 A Week. :
Boston. —Inquiry into the high cost
of shoes by the county grand jury de.
veloped that some shoeworkers had
been earning $120 a week. These in-
stances were very few, but it was
testified that many made $60 a weck
while the average was about $40, Boys
have been getting $30 a week. It was
said that a pair of shoes sold by a
manufacturer for $5.50 was displayed
in a store 400 yards from the factory
marked $12,
SENATE CONFIRMS PALMER,
Washington. The nomination of A.
Mitchell Palmer to be AttorneyGen-
eral was confirmed by the Senate with.
out opposition,
PENNSYLVANIA
STATE ITEMS
Ne oir mop
Martinsburg. --After serving twents
BiX ¥i¢ § ul principal
E B Kagirise
come pri
Adams
of the
ii Eh
school here, Professor
: $ ' ¢
resi tH 4 if di i
the forty s« $ in townshiy
Cambri
Unlontows
i county
Stumbling upon
electri
sar-old
VIER Berio
har
of 850.000. The
Leonard,
3 Afton
¢
elime, Al
to his son,
ORI] Wil Re
institutions iid
} TAH
to compls
th the order the hey officer
! 0 ‘
York The Manchester G
gperative asso ing
ville, this county
fing aA general
Arthur Clayton, of here,
leg crushed in the
wreck Janvary,
Lansdale
had na
Fort
Inst has
Phil
company,
wdeiphia and Reading
from a cage
to the floor of
yrownsville Falling
in the Brier Hill mine
Hecker, thirty-six, was instantly
Hazleton ~The laehigh field obtain.
new industry, when a
one-story
will
than
contract
brick
cost
100
milk at Steppton. It
hire more
mill
Reading -~A general inerease
prices was predicted at
Pennsylvania knit goods
ers here,
Reading. ~The Berks peach
will be 50 per cent greater than 1018,
and lower prices are expected,
Hazleton Philip Rockmaker, a re
tired jeweler here, injured In an an
tomobile collision near Tamaqua, died
at the Riate hospital,
Lansford. Town council has order
ed lig secretary to purchase a 50,000.
gallon tank car of tarvia for the hor
ough road and street repairing departs
ment,
a meeting of
nanufaciar.
Adams
first reiurn £11
Harrishurg
the
county
Heen
Ki]
stilling
geoqid
Lebanon
Foguctiion
Sa ied
that pol
themselves to break
Connell become cermnen
the mnotony and as a
Tony
have
result of a mix
Rendine and
Harry Hetzel indefinitely
suspended
Bethlehem
chemist, has
been
wy Ww Fehnol, city
found a seore of Beth
lehem’s milk dealers selling milk be.
the standard.
Allentown. James Smith and Al
Wetzel, Allentown carpenters,
seriously injured buried
ten tong of debris from a col
when
Bethlehem. The labor unions have
city council to establish a
Hamburg Council has authorized
a 85000 hond issue to constrict a econ
crete bridge over Mill Creech
Dunbar On the groundaxhat Sam
against
Alden. George Fave! was elect
cuted while at work in a shaft of the
Ash Coal company at Wekes.
Bloomsburg Charles 1. Walliver
Judge In
Columbia county,
Pittston.—Rev, Joseph
Italian
Perenzin,
Preshyterian
Reading Thus far 2024 soldiers
have received gifts from a confec
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