Show OEM DEMOCRAT OCR AI CHAIRMAN SEEKS FO FOR PRE PRECEDENT 3 CEO EN 1 Cummings C in Defense oi oj I Wilson Dictatorship Has Ha Delved Into Records of oi 9 Other Historical Crises Crise v WASHINGTON April G. G In hi in i z statement tonight declaring thai thaia a careful observer cannot fall fail to note not that opposition to the league of nations na is rapidly crumbling S. S chairman of the Democrat Demo crat national committee reproduced extracts from a speech delivered b by Senator Lo Lodge ge in I 1906 OO to show th the th attitude of the Republican leader at al that time toward the negotiation oi ol treaties by bj the President without advance advance ad ad- vance ance consultation with the Senate Statements issued by opponents of ol the league lr Cummings sai said are arc less sweeping in their character arid and carry the implication that when the time comes for ratification the t h treaty will vill be resisted by bS a very sm small minority Criticism Is rapidly narrowing down downto to mere trifles the statement continued contin tied and those who who follow the lc lead d' d ol 01 th the tho senators tors w wh who issued the round rO robin l accompany col pany t their 1 lr rapid rapidly diminishing diminIshing dimin dimin- objections with attacks upon President Wilson for or the manner in iii which tho the matter has been handl handled The provision in the constitution r re relating relating re- re lating to the approval of or treaties b band bYan by an and with the advice allIc and consent of or the Senate Is la still till being relied upon to chanen challenge u e the conduct I 2 of ot 11 the h l' l President in n 1 A. A IS I'S PaL HU i.- i. 1 functions of the Semite Senate Lodge Culled tl Senator Lodge has been particularly with reference ref re- larl Jarly Inclined to be captious ereno to tho the attitude of the President and man many others rs have followed that I cal leal Recalling b that tha there thele was criticism In Inthe Inthe inthe the Senate o of President Roosevelt for tor toren or sending bending en d delegates to the con con- ferenec on the Moroccan question Mr lh Cummings quoted the following following- from a speech on January 2 23 1906 b by Senator Jphn C. C Spooner of VI Wisconsin a a. member member mem mern- ber of oC the foreign relations committee commit commit- tee Lee The Senate has l nothing to do with the negotiation of oC treaties or 01 tho the conduct conduct con con- duct of or our foreign f Intercourse and re relations rc- rc lations savo save the exercise of oC the tho one ono constitutional function of or advice and find con content en which the tIe constitution requires as precedent condition to the making makin of a n. treat treaty The ri President negotiates the thc treat to be begin ln with Ho Me may cm cm- plo ploy such agencies as as' as he hc chooses to negotiate ne negotiate ne ne- the proposed treaty The Senate Senate Sen Semi what he ate has no right to demand domand shall unfold to the world or to It it even evon evenIn evenin In executive session his Instructions or orthe orthe orthe the prospect or progress of the When Whon he shall have negotiate tinted l and sent ent his proposed treaty to tho the Senate the Jurisdiction of or this bod body attaches and Its power begins Senator Lodge speaking later Mr 11 Cummings s said gave save his complete Indorsement In Indorsement In to the position assumed b by jr Senator Spooner by saying saIng S SI I don dont don't t think that it Is possible for anybody to make an any addition to the lie master masterly statement In regard res-ard to the powers of the President in treat treaty treaty- making which we e have hao heard from the senator from Wisconsin Is Mr tr Cummings also quoted from n speech b by Senator Lodge on the same day In which he discussed mistaken Ideas a about out Washington's warning against entangling alliance and r remarked cd that Washington was altogether eU too sensible and too practical cal a man mun to suppose that because we WI were not to engage in alliances which might Involve imo us In the wars of or Europe Europe Eu Eu- rope In which we had no concern I therefore we were rere never to engage i tany t. t nations o 0 any agreements with an any Europe no flO matter mattea how beneficial the might be ue to the world at large or t t- I IoUI oUI ourselves |