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Show I OPPONENTS JSIIff COURSE (y Their Antagonism Is Confirmed as Result of Conference. pie Statement Bearing on yjjite House Discussion of League. r.;HLVGTOX, Aug. JO. Senators Cn California, and Borah, Idaho, 'blioan:, declared in a statoment ''1, that upon the facts developed 'C White House conference today '.atti by them the position they 'ciintained "in respect to this 1 3t 0 tlio league of nations is ,'nii and confirmed.'' '-re' league of nations as construed he president," they said, "leaves (,ar and unmistakablo that ivhen ,.,jr it ivo are under a ' compell- moral obligation, to say nothing of val obligation which other sup-''outend sup-''outend wo are under, to take in the disturbances, the conflicts, ren's and the wars of Europe "i-ia if anv should arise, aud it ,.',!iv' true that under his construo "j'.roue would necessarily be under ',--e impelling force to take part -Tiet'.lement of American affairs." r-e 'senators said that in their opin-1 opin-1 "the significant facts developed the interview with the president" Pete vet remain treaties of peace to with Austria, Hungary, Bul-raand Bul-raand the Ottoman empire. These t-ts dual with sub.iects as impor-! impor-! if rritorv as extensive and matters ik.T.atelv affecting the United Uvi as the treaty with Germany. In ligations of the United States, iercfr-ro, what our country assumes I'if future cannot be determined un-1! un-1! :ie treaties are completed and jf-eateJ to the 'United States senate. If Compelling Force. president regards the obligations ,j:'h Kill be assumed under the league 1 rations, aud particularly under ar-K! ar-K! ten and eleven, as moral obli-II obli-II or.?. These, however, aro of "com- E-.it" force, and would require action : our part. For instance, the pres-r.t pres-r.t roncedes that in an undoubted Wt of aaression from the Balkans y.a the newly acquired territory of iiv, it would be our duty to mi to the assistance of Italy K prevent such aggression. The pres-kt's pres-kt's construction of article ten is t variance with the construction of kt democrat ic attorneys of the senate, ft mora obligation, the president in-Ik in-Ik rests upon us to carry out the Iks of the various treaties of peace, t moral obligation, the president lr:, requires us under the German ?:v for fifteen years to maintain noun troops in Europe, ne t. resilient did not know, nor had tk'Hd, of the secret treaties for ter-ml ter-ml acquisition anil partitioning- va- Jf territories until he reached Paris, ire the senators outlined the treaties lined to.) fouling Controversy. !tt president opposed the Shantung jti'ion. It was officially conveyed Him that the Japanese would not p unless the Shantung rights were ro to Japan. The United States advised the president that .la-It .la-It i verbal promise to return the treitnty of the territory in Shau-lilo Shau-lilo retaining the economic con-im con-im was a return of the shell of J m by Japan, while she retained 'rr.el. The Chinese insisted the ttrtion of the economic privileges J practical sovereignty, but the ,nt savs ho disagrees with this upland, France and Ttalv adhered JMe,) conference to their secret be terminated for all nations concerned. con-cerned. The president also vr.is asked to what nation, nations or association of! nations na-tions the German colonies wore assigned under the treaty and if the United States was to receive any of those territories. ter-ritories. Reasons for the designation of American representatives on the Saar basin, the Belgian-German frontier fron-tier and the Upper Silesia plebiscite commissions and for omission of the designation in part of the nations to have representatives of the Saar basin and Polish-Czecho-Slovakia boundary commissions were asked: Another series of questions concerned details of resumption of trade relations with Germany and whether any of the northern European neutrals or Switzerland Switzer-land had decided to join the league of nations. treaties disposing of peoples and territories ter-ritories in the Shantung case; therefore, there-fore, the president was only the disinterested disin-terested judge. The decision, however, how-ever, wras made unanimously. The United States asked China to enter the war. The American commission at Paris urged that a definite sum of rijpara' tions be fixed in the treaty. Why this view did not prevail, the president felt e -could not state without divulgint-matters divulgint-matters respecting other governments he felt he should not divulge. The president ielt that he could not divulge the details of what transpired in the meetings of the commissioners, and could not therefore afford information infor-mation respecting these matters. For this reason, he could not divulge the vote upon racial equality, nor now the United States commissioners voted. Fall's Questions. Senator Fall, New Mexico, Republican Republi-can member of the foreign relations committee, at the conclusion of today's White House conference, submitted to President Wilson twenty written questions ques-tions to the peace treaty wThich the president promised to answer. The questions concerned three subjects, sub-jects, chiefly, the possibility of declaring declar-ing the war at an end prior to ratification ratifi-cation of the treaty, the disposition of the former German colonies and the reason for appointment of American representatives of various reconstruction reconstruc-tion commissions created by the peace conference. The New Mexico senator first asked whether the president could not by proclamation declare the war at an end, whether congress the power which declared war acting with the approval of the president, could declare de-clare peace, whether merely by the filing of the first process verbal under un-der the treaty the state of war was uot terminated, and, if so, could not trade and governmental relations with Germany be resumed in full, and whether wheth-er through filing of the first process verbal and ratification by three of the principal powers the state of war would |