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Show Sifliissl mm reply Senator Lodge Is Disappointed Disap-pointed President Should Enter Into Discussion. WASIIINTON, Oct. 8. While moit congressional leaders tonight approved F'resi'lcnt WiUon's note of inquiry to Germany, and especially his refusal to accept any proposal for an armistice until the enemy evacuated occupied ter-ritorv. ter-ritorv. Senator Lode of Massachusetts, Kpuldican li-adcr and senior minority member of the scoatc foreign relationj committee, and Representative Foss of Ohio, chairman of the Republican congressional con-gressional campaign committee, ex- j pressed keen disappointment in the course taken by the president. "I am keenly disappointed, said Senator Lodge, "that the president should at thu stage enter into a discussion dis-cussion with the imperial German government, gov-ernment, as he has done in the note signed by Mr. Lansing. In his first and second paragraphs he asks for further information and invites further discussion. It is true that in the last pnragrauh he inquires whether Prince Maximilian of Baden represents merely the constituted authorities of the German Ger-man empire, friiicp Maximilian is the chancellor of the German empire, appointed ap-pointed by the kaiser. I do not understand under-stand what he can possibly represent .except the constituted authorities, which represent the German empire and the people unless a revolution has occurred oc-curred of which the world has as yet no knowledge. ' Personally, I adhere to the statement state-ment of the president made in his speech of September 27, in which ho said : ' 'We are all agreed that there can be no peace obtained by anv kind of bur'uin or compromise with tho gmernnientj of the central empires, because we have dealt with them already al-ready and have seen them deal with other governments that were parties to this struggle at Hrest l.itovsk and Hucharest "The president, answering the suggestion sug-gestion by the imperial Gorman government gov-ernment of an armistice, says the good faith of this proposal rests on the consent con-sent of the central powers to withdraw their armies from invaded terrirorv. Are they to withdraw unattaeked from Belgium nnd northern France, burning and robbing nnd destroving as thev go to positions behind the Rhine, where they will have time and opportunity to refresh their armies and replenish their munitions? Alsaco and Lorraine are not invaded territory. " I can not but feel a painful anxiety as to what effect this note will have upon the allies, upon our nrmies. upon our soldiers who are fighting and dving and conquering in order to 'crush the thing' with which tho presideut is opening op-ening a discussion." In expressing his disappointment. Representative Rep-resentative 'ess said the president had taken the step "against which the country has been warned." "The way has been opened," aaj, Mr. Kpss. "for Germany to save herself by withdrawing her armies within her own border bv agreement, rnther than bv retreat under tire, as she has been forced to dp the past few weeks I eace discussions with Gerniany beore our armies are on her soil wilf not in sure the future. I had hopo 1 that uo step would be taken to transfer the discussion dis-cussion from the Held to the table I do not. believe the soldiers or the conn-try conn-try will ever be satisfied with anything short of a conclusive pence, which can only be assured bv such chastisement ot German as -,ll mnke n like s,ri. lice in the future impossible '' Senator llilchcock of Nebraska chairman of the foreign relations com-' mil ee, declared tho president's course ivtll compel a pence on hi, terma " It is evuleht." said Senator iliirh-cock, iliirh-cock, "the president intend, to snv Im Germany must accept the term, he has laid d.uvn. I think the note will' ''''' . '-''"I ssue between the countries. 1 Se..tr lio.Mli of Idaho. Ke-M.blicnn said the note " , well designed to clii ily a very involved situation." |
