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CONFERENCE AT WHITE HOUSE 1 President Asserts That United Statea i Surrandara No Powers and May Withdraw at Will. — Washington - l*res>deut \\ 11 sou ami the member. <>i (In liimen ielation* | committee of ilie senate, me( al the i White House Tuesday 10 discus* the ueure treaty The president up lied u.e di*cu**iou j> impressing ml ;he senators the ur | geney of prompt mrifiruiton of the treaty without uni. i (Intent* and with 'out reservHilons that would require resubuiixslun of (lie treaty to tin* other ' signatories, especially tienminy The president said ttinl the interest 'of every da-s of pi iplc, the farmers, i industrial workers uuil employer* de intituled prompt ratification In the ■ lid that *tuble condition* • *t industry, uu i ricultnre and employment lo; rcesiali | listied 1 lie presidi nt * address which wu* in el fee i an add res* (o ilie country follows: T hope tiiut thl* conference will I serve to expedite your coii*ideralii»ii of the treaty 'if |n*«ci , ! in*^ Unit 1 you will paitlou uinfe indulge u.c if i again urge tlu-.t practically the whole tusk of bringing tin- country hack to uormal conditions of life and industry waits uis*ii Me dec sioti of tin senate i with regard to the terms of the peace 1 venture thus again to urge my advice , lbut the action of the senate writ re gard to the treaty be taken at the earliest practicable moment be. ause llo proideiit' with wnlcii we are face 1 to fair In the raatlj tilOMflt of out iiu vhuml llle are oi thi most pressing ar.d critical churactei Will icMuirc loi then |ir.ipei solution the most in 'ioiatc mid disinterest.d . operation of alt imrtic.s and n't Interests, and ■ mi not b*- poatpoued without manifest peril to out people am! to all to na t i.nal advantages u hold most deal The cuppet iitn • <>f Montana Ari /.oua. and Alaska, for ox* in pie. are be mg kept open and in ofieration only h< u great coat ami loss to pnr upon borrowed money, the z.in mines of Mis •nan Tennessee .tud Wisconsin are being operated at a la in* one-half of their capacity, tin lend o' Matte 111 ill*/.s and Missoni reache- only ■ |m>i non ol its fonner market There is i.n immediate neeu for cotton belling, und also for iubrieatiug oil which 'an not tie me. All because the channels of trade are barred liy war when there is no war. The same 1* true of raw cottou. of which the central empire* alone formerly purchased nearly four million bales, and Mew are only e\ a tuples There is liardly a single raw material, a single imytorlant foodstuff, or a single das* of manufactured goods which is not in the same case Oar full, normal, profitable prodm lion waits on peace "Our military plena of course wail upon it. VVc cannot intelligently or wisely decide how large a naval or military force we shall maintain or what our policy with regard to nuliiary truining is to be until we have peace not only, tut also until we know how l»-ace is to be sustained whether by the arms of single nations or by the concert of all the great iieople and there is more than that difficulty in volved The vast surplus pro|>erties of the army include, not food and cloth in* merely, whose sale will affect nor tnal production, but great manufactur ing establishments also which should be restorer! to their former use#; great stores of machine tool', and all sorts of merchandise which must lie idle until peace and military policy are def initely determined The nations that ratify the treaty, such a< (Jr<*at Britain. Belgium and 1 ’ranee, will he In a position to lav their plans for controlling the markets of 'entral Europe. without uunpeti ; f’oo from us. if w<* do nni presently 1 t. We have «o consular agents no . fade representative- iheie to took I tfter our interest*. There are targe areas of K’ltope rnose futuic wil! lie uncertain und VJeatiom-ble until their people know the final settlements of peace and the f 'roes w hich are to administer am' istiilu li Without determinate mar ki-t* our production cannot proceed with Intelligence to- ••onfldense. There - .n be no .*u-y o- uormal Industrial 1 i "edit* because there cun he no cotifi ' dent or periimneni revival uf hualnes'. \ iliere can be iu> stabili/.atiou of wages •juse there it. he n<> -otthsi eon d 1 ion of employment Every element of normal life ai'.ougst us depends u|X)ti and awaits ' the ratification of the treaty of prater ml ui cannot afford to lose a single summer's day hy not doing all thul »ii can to mitigate the winter's suffer iug. which, utile-., we find menus to prevent it may prove disastrous to h { large portion of the world, and imiy lit Us worst bring upon Europe conril | p uis even more terrible than those | brought hy the war Itself. “Nothing. I am led to believe, stand' hi the way ot the ratification of the treaty except doubts with regard to the meaning and Implication of certain art tries of the covenant ot the league of nations: hihI l must frankly say that I ttui unable to understand why such ■ doubts sliouhl he entertained You will reeall that when i hint the pleasure of » conference with your committee itml will) the committee of the lions** of ; representatives on foreign affairs at the White Hmis** in March Iasi, the questions now most frequently asked about the lea... nations were all canvassed, with a view to their im mediate clarification. The covenant of the league v\*s then in its first draft and subject to revision It was pointed out that no express reeogni lion vva* given to the Monroe doctrine. Hi*l it v\a* not expressly provided that the league slioald have no authority to act or to express a judgment on mat ter* of domestic policy, that the right to withdraw from the league was not expressly recognised, and that I tie.u stitutiotial right* of lit** emigre** to de teriuinc all questions of peace and war was not suffiirtently safeguarded, tin my return to Paris all these mat ter* were take up again by Ihe com mission on the league of nation* anil every suggestion of the i.'nit**rt States wit* accepted. "The view of the I uited Slates with regards to the questions I hove men tinned had in fact, already been accept cd by the commission ami there was slip [insert to to- nothing inconsistent with them in the draft of the cove nant tirsi adopted, tlte draft which was the subject of our *!*'* fission in March; tint no object ion was made to anything explicitly in tile text that all had sup I |io.*cd to be implicit in it. 'The Monroe doctrine is expressly j mentioned ns an understanding which j i* in uo way to l» impaired or inter i fered with by anything contained In the covenant and the expression "re 1 initial iinderslaiiiling like the .Monroe | doctrine.” was used, not because any one of the, conference thought there was any comparable agreetnent any where else in cxi nee or in rnutem pint Ion but only because il vva* thought best to a oid tlo* Mpiienraiir»* of dealing in *ih h a document with the i*ilicy of a single nation ••With regard to domestic quest inns. Article X. 11 of the covenant express ly provide* that, if In case of any dispute arising I"'1 cpcn member* id the league the tntuter involved ia claimed hy one <>( In- partie* and i» (mind hy the uni I to arise out of a matter which hy utertiational law la solely wilhiu the domestic jurisdiction of thal i>arty. the < •um ll shall no re (•on and shall tux >e no recotumeuila tlon a* to it* seltlet •tils. The Inited States wa< hy no i:.son* ihe only gov 1 eminent interest.*; in the explicit adoption of this provision, and there is no douht in the mind of auy author dative -1 i|i ten I of international law 1 that such matters a> immigration, tar iffs. and nat urali cu on are i neon test ahly dotncstji quest ions with which no ■ international hodv could deal. “The right of any st«t,. to withdraw had been taken for granted, hut no object ion w as made to ttiiiking it ex (illcit Indeed, so *.sMi M' the view* expressed at the White House confer, euce were laid hef.ni1 the commission it wa- at once coBiv*ded liiat it wa* hest not to |eav. the answer to so important a que* u to inference. No pro|sisal was made to set up any trill miuI to pass Judgment U|iou the que* tlon whether a withdrawing nation ha in fact fulfilled all its international obligations and all its obligations ui. der the covenant. It was recognised that that question iniist lie left to he resolved hy the conscience of the u.i lion proposing to withdraw, and 1 inusi -ay that it did not seem to me worth while to proposo tiiai the article he made more exp! t because 1 know that the I'niled Stj'es would never it self |iro(sisv.‘ to w i. lid raw from th*. league if ita conscience was not en tirely clear as to ttu fulfillment of all its international obligation*. It ha* never failed to fulfill them and never ! will. 4 Article X b in no respect of doubtful '‘leaning when read n .he light of the cove I r ant a* a whole The council of the league can only advW upon*' the mean* by which I the obligation* of that great article are to be given effect to. Unices the United Situ* ,4 a party U> the poll or action in question, her pan affirmative vote ia the council ia necessary Iwfoce any * Itriee can be given, for a unantmou* vote of if c4Mincil i« required ff the i* a party, the woublc ia hem anyhow, end the unanimous vat* of the council I* only advice in any case. Koch government is ! frae to reject it if it p!*a*«* Nothing could have been more clear i*» the conference than the right ef oar cony a« under oar consti tution to eearcue lie ImU-pendent judgment in all matter* of pear** and war No attempt wa* made to question or limit that right Tin ! United States will ir.deed undertake under Article X to respect and preserve a* against external aggression the territorial integrity of all member* of the league.** and that en gageaaent constitutes a ' cry grave and sol i emn moral obligation But it is a moral i not a legal obligation, and leavaa our con | < res* abaolutely free to put it* own intcrpre 1 tation upon i* in all rases that call for i action I “Arttrie X seem* to me to constitute the j very backbone of the s hole covenant. With I out it the league would be hardly more than •a influential debating soriety “It ha several times been suggested in 1 public debate an«f in private conference, that J interpretations of the • *n*e in which the United Stales accept* tii engagements of th* • covenant should be embodied in the instru ment of ratification There ran he no reas | unable objection to sum interpretation* ac companying the act of ratification provide they do not form a par*, of the forma! rati fication itself But if sorb interpretations should constitute a part of the formal reso lution of ratification long delays would t* the inevitable ronsequrr.ee, inasmuch a* alt the many governments concerned would havr to accept, in effect, the language of th« senate a* the language of the treaty before ratification would b* complete. The assent of the German a**emh'y at Weimar would have to tie obtained, among the mt, and I miut frankly say I couiJ only with the great est reluctance abroach that a«*eml>ly for permi*#ioii to remedy the treaty as we under stand it and a* those who framed it quit* certainly under*total it. “If the United States were lo qualify ths document in any way moreover, I am confident from what I know of the many conference* and debates which accompanied the formation of the treaty that our exampls would immediately be followed in many qua/ ten, in some instance* with verjr *eriou» roservations and thst the meaning and op erative force of tbs treaty would presently be clouded from on# end of ita clause* to Um other.” Children Cry for Fletcher’s The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been in use for over thirty years, has borne the signature of and has been made under his per. sonal supervision since its infancy. Allow no one to deceive you in fhig All Counterfeits, Imitations and “ Just-as-good ” are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment. What is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric* Drops and Soothing Syrup6. It is pleasant. It contain neither Opium, Morphine nor other narcotic substance. Ita age is its guarantee. For more than thirty years it has been in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency, Wind Colic and Diarrhoea ; Haying Feverishness artafeg therefrom, and by regulatiug the Stomach and Bowels, aits the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children’s Panacea—The Mother’s Friend. 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