Show PRESIDENT THROWS LIGHT ON TREATY THEM WILSON AND SENATORS DISCUSS PACT provisions AT WHITE HOUSE SESSION minute explanations of disputed points in league of nations covenant are brought out president d ent urging early action washington president wilson I 1 interpreting n the league of nations cov fiut aunut for the senate foreign relations lons committee on oil tuesday declared it imposed no legal obligation tor for the use of american military force in protecting the territory or independence of tiny iny other tin tion but he be added that the covenant might Ii nohe in certain efream circumstances tin nn absolutely compelling moral obligation which might be even stronger than llian a legal promise pressed for a more exact definition by committee in members embers who insisted that the whole arrangement was a rope of sand lie he asserted that on tile the contrary lie considered it as placing the nations in an attitude ol of comrade and protection which would compel respect tor for the principles of justice and liberty meeting the committee in fit a roundtable in the east room of the white house in contradiction to lie precedents of more than a century anil and mth the hie whole hole nation listening in through tile medium of a relay of public stenographers the president went into many of the details of tile hie peace pe ke negotiations and touched on all the hotly debated questions chith hae divided the senate in its consid ik alion of the lie peace treaty alicle X of the covenant guaranteeing the integrity of league mem tiers against aggression lie he declared krould bould leave to each nation complete freedom Ill edoin of choice as to the application of force len it the american i plesent athes on oil the co council joined lit in a tin unanimous aninious recommendation for military action the final deci decision SiDn for I 1 pence peace or war must rest so far as concerned the alie united states with congress lie said Wha whatever teNer advice the council gave under tinder its authority to take such action its as is dee deemed nied appropriate must also he e deemed appropriate by the alic united states to be binding on oil this government lie argued though in ili the background V mould be such a pot potential atiat moral force that ali at lie doubted if the nation bould often decline to act I 1 the president revealed led that japans promise to t return shantung province to china was reduced to written form in the minutes odthe ot the peace conference lie he ns asserted arted lie he had every confidence that flint the promise would be carried out and told the senators it was the best that could be got out ot of the negotiations japan having given ghen notice she bould withdraw from the conference tf if lier iter demands were mere refused the american delegates he said had bad tried to keep the nation tree free from obligations ligat ions in european affairs so far as it was honorably possible to do so but lie asserted that it might be necessary to keep some american troops in the rhine district under the treaty for the next fifteen years lie ile declared the nation would be its 0 it sole judge whether its obligations had been fulfilled under the disputed dispute withdrawal clause of the league covenant that purely domestic questions were safe from the leagues interference and that the monroe doctrine was clearly preserved the league the president explained was built on oil the plan ot of general smuts of south africa sir wilson revealed that he had suggested the united states take lake no part of the german reparations but had asked naked that the conference reserve disposition ot of the german pacific island of yap ou on a suggestion that it was needed for an american naval station early action on the treaty was urged in ili a statement by the hie president at the outset ot of the conference this was necessary lie ile held so that a peace basis might lie be readied reached and the other tre treaties atLes under negotiations now at ver sallies were being delayed until the world learned what would happen to the treaty with Germa germany nv lie he said lie he saw no reasonable objection to senate reservations but thought it new unwise ise to incorporate them in the ratification itself |