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Show SENDING DELEGATES Resentment in Republican Republi-can Circles Over President's Presi-dent's Failure to Include In-clude One of Them. Wilson's Address to Congress on Eve of His Departure Awaited Await-ed With Interest. By Universal Sendee. PARIS, Nov. 30. Tho municipal munici-pal council today adopted a roso-lutiou roso-lutiou recommending that tho day of President Wilson's arrival in Franco be mado a national holiday. By Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Nov. 30. Seldom has any utterance of President "Wilson been awaited with greater interest Hum the annual address ho is to deliver Monday at the opening of tho winter session of congress, and on the eve of his departure for Europe to attend the peace conference. Members of the senate and house expect to bear something some-thing of Aniorican plans for tho conference, con-ference, as well as an outline of the executive's views of legislation needed to aid in the task of readjusting the war-organized country to a peaco basis. Arrangements were made today for A joint session in the hall of the house Monday afternoon at X o'clock, after congressional leaders had been notified that the president desired to be heard on tho first day of the new session, instead of on tho second day, as usual, in order to hasten his departure. The address will constitute his goodbye to congress, and through it to the people, for he is expected to sail on Tuesday. UNCERTAIN OF RANK OF FOUR DELEGATES. No official comment was forthcoming during the day on the personnel of the peaco delegation' announced last night at the Whito IIousc. No one would undertake to say whether the president himself would be regarded as a part of the delegation accompanying him, or what might be the formal rank accorded the four delegates Secretary Lansing, former Ambassador Henry White, Colonel E. M. House and General Tasker H. BIis3. Informally, it was indicated in-dicated at the state department that these points coujd not be cleared up because be-cause of uncertainty as to the course to be followed by tho heads of the associated as-sociated governments and their accompanying accom-panying delegations. Exact information was said still to bo lacking. The state department made public the names of the chief officers and attaches of the delegation, including the secretaries, secre-taries, and Dr. James Brown Scott and David Hunter Miller, expert advisers in international law. The war department announced the personnel of the group of assistants to General Bliss, among whom will be a number of officers detailed de-tailed from the American expeditionary force. large Clerical force and corps of experts. All of the party, which, with its large clerical force and corps of experts in various lines, will number so mo hundreds, hun-dreds, will sail on the steamship George Washington with the president Preceding Pre-ceding them on tho steamer Orizaba, leaving New York at noou tomorrow, will be several hundred American newspaper news-paper correspondents, going across to report the proceedings of tho confer- ence. Resentment among members of the senate over the president's failure to take one of their number on the delegation dele-gation was apparent today, although no statements on the subject wcro issued for publication. Several of the Republicans Repub-licans discussed plans for introducing resolutions Monday proposing to tend a special senate committee to France, to remain during the conference, particularly par-ticularly to keep congress advised regarding re-garding the proceedings Senator Cummins of Iowa was one f those, who prepared to offer such a resolution. reso-lution. Others were ti nderstood t o be making ready speeches on the general subject of the president's policy, and there were predictions that the sessions (Continued on Tigo Two,) SENATORS QiSCUSS SMG DELEGATES (Continued from Page One.) during tho first days of the week would bo lively ones. Secretaries of the delegation announced an-nounced today by tho state department will be Joseph Grew, former secretary of embassy at Berlin and later in charge at Vienna and who now is in Paris making preliminary arrangements; Iceland Ice-land Harrison, of tho Latin-American division, and Philip H.'Patcluii, confidential confi-dential assistant secretary to Secretary Lansing. PRESIDENT'S SPEECH UNIQUE IN HISTORY OF UNITED STATES By JAMES R. NOURSE, Universal Service Staff Correspondent. WASHINGTON,- Nov. 30. President Wilson will go before the two houses of congress at 1 o'clock next Monday to , deliver his annual message and to give whatever information he may desire on h's decision to head the American peace delegation to Europe. Arrangements for the joint session : were made today upon receipt of word j from the White house that the president desired to appear in person before the congress. Neither Senntor Martin, the Democratic leader, nor Speaker Clark, to whom this request was communicated, was advised as to what the president might say on the subject of his trip. Senator Hitchcock, chairman of the foreign relations committee, is likewise in complete Ignorance as to whether the president will discuss his reasons for going go-ing abroad. It is possible, but not believed be-lieved probable, that the president might ignore congress completely so far as any explanation of his purpose, is oncerned, , as he did in making up the peace dele-! dele-! gation. ! Most Notable in Career. ; For many reasons the address of the , president and his appearance beforo the houses of congress are looked forward to as likely to be the most notable in his career. Tn the first place, it will be the ! first time that any president of the United States has addressed congress on the eve of a trip to a foreign country; in the second place, strong evidences prevailed pre-vailed today that his decision to go abroad hns provoked a sentiment which, if not openly hostile, is at least out of sympathy with his declared purpose. Senator Cummiiu of Iowa expressed his disapproval of the president's action by announcing that on Monday he will ofer a resolution for a committee of four 1 Democratic and four Republican senators to go abroad and keep tho rest of the senate Informed as Lo what transpires at the peace tabje. Senator Hiram W. Johnson of Califor-i nia, in a statement ' issued to the press, expressed himself more forcibly, as follows: fol-lows: "There is no God but God, and Mahomet Ma-homet is his prophet. "In f-electing himself as head of the five American delegates to the peace conference. President Wilson has named himself five .times. We cannot but admire ad-mire the courage cf the president in eay-, eay-, ing to one hundred and five millions of 1 our people. 'I am the only American fit to sit at the peace table.' " Action Was Expected. Senator Watson of Indiana said-"The said-"The president's Action In entirely overlooking the senate In naming his pence delegates was to be expected. Republicans Re-publicans believed, however, that he would follow the precedent to the extent of naming a regular Republican as one of the commissioners. Tn naming Mr. White, he has followed the same policy he always has followed when the appointment ap-pointment of minority party members to office was required by law. He has named a man vlu may be a Republican, or who may not be. Mr. White has been out of public life so long that we do not know whether he is a Republican or not However, we are looking up his record." Other members of the senate showed by private conversation on the subject that they deeply resent the president's failure to select at least one member of congress to join the peace delegation. The Cummins resolution, however, failed to find many supporters, for this reason: Wiser heads In the senate, after study of the situation, concluded that. Inasmuch as the president has seen fit to ignore the senate in making h!s selections, it would be highly undignified for the senate sen-ate to send a delega tion over to France to gather up information about the peace discussions. As one senator aptly expressed ex-pressed the situation: "We don't think it would be dignified for a eomm'.Uee of senators to go around to the kitchen door of the peace con-, con-, ference trymg to pick up stray bits of in-i in-i formation." ! The Cummins resolution, therefore, j will be referred to the foreign relations ! committee and probably will not be i he;ird of again. The senate, however, will become the I forum of open discussion of all of the peace phases, and every matter of interest inter-est that Is transmitted to this country i from the peace table will be made the subject of discussion in the senate. Sen- tor Hitchcock, among others, believes this Is the most dign'fied course the ren-at ren-at can take, that of keeping the public informed ihrmiRh public deheate in the senate rsarding everything which is proposed by the peace delegates. There was some talk today that when the president speaks he may be Interrogated Inter-rogated from the floor of the house by a member of either the senate or house i as to why he is going abroad. The ru-n. ru-n. or lacked df initenes and probably will nn' he avrain beard of. I Tli: r was a revival, also, of the sug- gestlon that a current resolution might be offered to direct Vice President Marshall Mar-shall to perform the president's duties while the latter Is abroad. Senator Knox of Pennsylvania announced an-nounced that he will address the senate soon on the subject of tho president's trip. AWAIT EXPLICIT STATEMENT MADE BY PRESIDENT WILSON By Universal Service. PARIS, Nov. 30. Premier Clemenceau conferred with Colonel House at the lat-ter's lat-ter's bedside this afternoon. It was the first official visit of its kind the colmel has been able to receive in weeks. T-vo davs ajo he had sufficiently recovered, from the attack of influenza to take a short walk, but a relapse set in shortly afterward and his physician bade him to exercise the utmost care, since he is still very weak. Colonel "House's physical condition makes it Improbable that he will' attend next week's conferences of allied leaders in London, preceding the peace preliminaries. prelimi-naries. Premier Clemenceau leaves for London late this evening or early tomorrow, tomor-row, and it is believed he called upon the American delegate for the purpose of gathering a clear outline of the latter's views on the subjects to be discussed In the Downing stret conference. Rainy weather is impeding the colonel's recovery and he Is constrained to conserve his "strength for the conference confer-ence proper. Messrs. Hoover and Hurley have made repeated calls at " his residence resi-dence to discuss the food and shipping-problems. shipping-problems. The Portuguese peace delegation arrived ar-rived here today, it ijr the first full dele-gation dele-gation to reach Paris. Delegates of the other nations will begin to arrive early next week. By tacit understanding, the various representatives have arranged it so that they will arrive here just prior lo the opening of the preliminary conference, confer-ence, so as to avoid even the semblance of shaping sentiment for or against certain cer-tain issues that will come up at thg world congress. France's peace delegates are expected to,he named on Premier Clemenceau's return re-turn from London. The preliminary deliberations will begin be-gin well before Christmas. None of the delegations are molting extensive reservations at Versailles, which is taken as proof that the all-important woik is to be done at the foreign for-eign office on the Qua! d'Orsay, with only tow or three olenary sessions. Including the final ratification nt Versnllles. Premier Pre-mier Lloyd George and a few others, however, may continue to reside at Versailles Ver-sailles while the congress lasts. French Press Restraint. None of the neutrals who plan to senrl representations to the conference on the I formation of a league of nations hns as j vet made reservations. The Scandinavian klnedoms are known to be vitally Interested Inter-ested in the solution of the "freedom of th seas" problem. The French press is exercising a re-mnrltnhle re-mnrltnhle retrnlnt toward the flood of unofficial interpretations appearing In English nnd American newspapers, supplemented sup-plemented by forecasts of controversies on the subject of the freedom of the sens. The general opinion here seems to be that the best course Is to await an explicit ex-plicit statement from President Wilpon before am comment whatsoever N made on his views, which are thus far unstated, un-stated, excent in a general way in his various International utterances. T'ise old political writers here look wl'h amusement upon the Idea which sor-ie "English pnd American commentators annenr to foster, namely, that their nd-vprse nd-vprse comment noon what they believe are President Wilson's views and ron-temHn ron-temHn red rolicles may succeed in "deterring" "de-terring" him. may nrompt him to change his mind. Th"ae French students of international in-ternational affairs nnd of the predominant predomi-nant Inte-natlonal figure nolnt out that nmhinc could he more foolish and futile thpn this idea that a man of "Wilson's caliper would be likely to alter his views owing to adverse comment. Nor Is there any tendency here toward searching for controversies on other issues, is-sues, such as the Jugo-Slav-Italian situation, situa-tion, or even toward stirring nn a discussion dis-cussion on this or other points before th pee preliminaries nctuallv b"ln. Tn other words, the nolicy of the Frn-h pres.-. and of author. tative quarters here, appears lo be: "We ' wi'l cross tho bridges when w-e rear-h them." j Premature discussions in the pres. it Is armed, could lieneflt only the enmy. ! French public opinion, knowing that! the return of Alsace-Lorraine .Is achieved, is now interested largely in Waking Or- 1 , many pay for the cost of tV war, par-1 ticularly making the Hohenzollerns personally per-sonally pay. It is still believed here that the tremendous tre-mendous amount of. work to' be done in the prelminaries, coupled with the unstable un-stable conditions fn Germany, make it unlikely tnat the conference proper will begin before the middle of January, and that It will be late in the spring before finaJ peace is actually signed. WILL BE CONVOYED BY PENNSYLVANIA AND DESTROYERS ; NEW YORK,1 Nov. 30. The American Ameri-can transport George "Washington, selected by President Wilson to convey to Europe himself and other members of the American delegation to the peace conference, will be convoyed by the battleship bat-tleship Pennsylvania and a fleet of five fast destroyers. The Georpe Washington Washing-ton is lying tonight at her pier in Ilobo-ken, Ilobo-ken, in readiness to sail on her history-making history-making trip-at a moment's notice. To Rear Admiral Albert Cleaves, commander com-mander of the cruiser and transport force of the Atlantic fleet, fell the honor of providing for the presidential ship, arranging details of the voyage, and the protecting force of war vessels, and selecting transport's complement of officers of-ficers and men. Captain Edward Mc-Cauley, Mc-Cauley, U. S. N., commands the George Washington, and the crew has been drawn entirely from the navy. The escorting es-corting battleship is commanded by Captain Lewis Nnlton. The George Washington, a vessel of 25. -570 gross tons, was formerly one of the crack liners of the North German-Lloyd fleet. Although she has beon used ns a troop transport for more than a year, many of her luxurious cabin suites were not removed and the best of these have been reserved for the presidential partv. "When launched in 1908. the ship was named by Dr. David Jayne Hill, then American ambassador to Germany, and it was the only large German vessel seized by tho United States, name of which was not changed. Capable of making about twenty-one kniots speed at that time. American marine engineers have improved her engines and it is possible that she-will she-will establish a new record for herself on the coming voyage. The exact time of the departure of the George "Washington is not yet known, but today the engines of the big liner were given a last testing out at the dock (Continued on Page Three.) SENATORS DISCUSS SEMG DELEGATES (Continued From Page Two.) at which she Is made fast, prepared for the arrival of the presidential party. The ship is lying convenient to a spur track over which the president's train will arrive. ar-rive. The' pier and track will be under guard of soldiers and sailors and secret service men. ESCORTED TO BREST BY ARRAY OF U. S. FIGHTING CRAFT LONDON, Nov. 30. President Wilson on ; reaching European waters in all likeli-hood likeli-hood will be escorted to Brest by only American warships, but by a formidable array of them. In vw of the lack of official notification regarding Mr. Wilson's Wil-son's trip it Is understood that neither the French nor the British government has been requested to aid in the naval reception. re-ception. The British authorities, however, unofficially are discussing plans to welcome wel-come the American president, should he ccme here. American battleship commanders, probably prob-ably all nine of them in these waters, are understood to be holding themselves In readiness to proceed to a point 100 miles or so oif Brest to meet the presidential liner and the battleship accompanying it across the Atlantic. It is probable that twenty-four American torpedo destroyers will join in the reception. There Is r.o likelihood, it is stated here, that the warship will proceed as far as ; the mid-Atlantic for the meeting, as has ; been stated. |