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Show CALLS HILT 01 ilGLIffl OF PROPOSAL President Warns Senators Sena-tors He Is Final Judge of Results of Action on League of Nations.! Addresses in Colorado Emphasie Fact That I Treaty Negotiation Is! an Executive Function i By DAVID LAWRENCE. (Copyright. 1119. by Salt Uike TrU-ur.e.) K" KOl'TK TO OKLAHOMA CITY. ?tl't. 1 "resident Wilson stru.lt in Oolor.uio i : .tL ticivlly the same kind of apathy he !o:r.d In Ohio. I'ossibly there is today a revived interes,. in Ohio, but it is nevertheless true that, until the president presi-dent or his leading opponent. Senator Johnson o: California, started making a tour of tho country. i:;o---t pco;l had taken only a casual inu-rt In the at;ue of rations ar.J I tr:ice treaty. Colorado, for ins:H:Ke, fi.s rot Ifi'. tovi.h'U l-y Mr. Johnson at a " . and, until M r. Wi Is on caiiiO.JLlui-Uly i:ttera:c of importrvnee was one iiy o:.a-,or Thomas, ulio indicated indi-cated that ho would r.ot .--urort the covenant cove-nant without rt-Ptrvatio:.9. But the prv.Kh-r.t did ct". liven the ie-bate ie-bate and awnkn intererst in the league of nations by his p-eches at Denver and Pueblo. The K n-.onstration he received at the auditorium in Ienver when he ventured the belief that he was speaking for the American people and had their support, wan a very imprssive one. It is interesting to note that even In c:t:e? where scattering applause is given Mr. Wilson's arguments, largely b-.ause the subject n-.atter of world politics is still academic and remote to nst of his hearers, there always was an outburst of enthusiasm as the president nakes a general gen-eral statement expressing confidence that the people are behind him. WOMEN INTERESTED IN ENDING WAR. It is evident, too. that the women are especially interested, and the president never fails to get a response when he describes de-scribes the terrible weapons of the last war and the even more destructive instruments in-struments that would be used in the next war. ! The desire to be rid of all war in the j future is the angle of the argument that i comes does to home, and usually makes of the league of nations discussion something some-thing concrete. And President Wilson is ' now hammering away at his opponents, ' charging some of them with being anxious j to destroy the treaty and league by the i 'indirect means of attaching Jokers and j reservations that are reaily amendments. The president talks respectfully and cour- j teouslv of the so-called "mild reserva-tionists." reserva-tionists." and it was only when a new draft of article X of the covenant was , reported as agreed upon by Senator Lodge j and the mild reservationists, that the president thought he detected signs of ! defeating the treaty by indirection. I TIME TO MAKE THE ISSUE CLEAR. He decided it was time for him to make the issue clear. After declaring that "hvphens are the knives that are bein.gr stuck into this document," the president issued a challenge at Denver to his opponents to Rive tho real reason for delay and defined his own future course In unmistakable language. "It is time that we knew." he said, "where we shall stand, for observe, my ! fellow citizens, the negotiation of the treaties rests with the executive of the United states. When the senate has act-I act-I ed it will be for me to determine whether Its action constitutes an adoption or a rejection I do not wish to draw doubt-! doubt-! ful conclusions. I do not wish to do in-iustlce in-iustlce to the process of any honest mind. But when that treaty is acted upon I must know whether it means we have I ratified it or rejected It." KEY TO NEXT STEP IN THE CONTROVERSY. The foregoing paragraph Is the key to the next step in the great controversy now going on in the senate. Mr. Wilson I serves notice that he has no objection ; reservations that are, as he says, a I "multiplication of words." by which "you can make simple words speak their meaning more distinctly,'1 hut he most decidedly opposes 'qualifications1' which mean asking "special exemptions and I irivileges for the L mted States. In o her words, the president, while not s-iving it In so many words, reveals that, while he would he loath to abandon his original position In favor of an absolute acceptance of the treaty as signed at riris nevertheless he sees that he cannot can-not verv well object to reservations that are simplv a paraphrase of his own state- ! ;' ;s or Interpretations in puhlic I sneec'hes Indeed, he practically accepts what formerly was tiie position of the j n, Id reservat ionists. tnough he thinks ; some of their suggestions are superflu- (Cont:nued on Page 4, Column 5.) amfnded" trip treaty and that he. as sir.alory thereto, must reopen tho no- potiations Willi a view to oh:;t'.n:nc th.e iacceptftnoe ot the Bmori.iir.on'.s b- a1; t Ih-j Ih-j other powers, and th.e rrosiocnt says thus i Inoluil. O.or:r.an. too. I Senator Fall has r.rpued that iuas-mirh 1 as Germany is not to be a.iinitte.i nn-I nn-I me.liau-l.- to the leairoe. .iie oannot oou-aistentlv oou-aistentlv he given a oiee m llie amenl-ms amenl-ms of tlie eoverant. Mr. Wii.-on, on the otlier haml nans that Germany sub-serihea sub-serihea to the oo enunt in tKe .icr.se thuit she is ohl;ed to a (tree to the lornia-tion lornia-tion of the league as a means of eve-cut eve-cut in various articles of the treutv :t-silf. :t-silf. such as the Saar basin and lefer-endum lefer-endum votes on otheri)Uestions of nationality. na-tionality. lut the president has made it clear that whatever the senate ma. call then action. Teservat ions or '"innondiucnt.-.'' he will be const It u t lona I i v tie oudce ci whether the s, nate has ' vot ed ' for 1 e adoption or the re'ectlon of the treaty. The hue between cUuuf.in rescr. .1 ; ions and destructl. e 1 eser. a 1 ions us beuit: closel- draw n. CALLS IT M jmE OrPAGT (Continued From Fa One.) ons b.-cniiTSt" already covered in the Iftn- j tunte i f the irortty. I It' whe-i the nn:d rosona 1 1011I ?t s ap- )M iV -o -.o.n tht- trom.?: in limitm , . .,. , yuy.'f of America". ohl'fi.uioti under i ,-o i:uit Ih.sl tho prcMdcnt steps in ,1 s a hi.lt Toople in the son;-te ; 1 ir, iv rot tlnnk the pte.dent onld dare 1m V'O. ..ini the reaction of 1 'O '.I'.Miy. . In 1,. teels so intensely on tho riihiovt , v" , 1 hr w nl ii!uiufs;ioiin My do so 1 1" he , troil.s iiiiv i-os.-i ai ions 'nit Into ihe rati-; t-.n J i.' -oltitlons mier the niranini; of the1 , t ni the is i-a; . When the pres.- ' ,1, ill V. ir.miicd his h.-arns at IVmrr that I Y.vu 1,1 nrcot 'rtte trefitii-N rrMs with; thi , o. iilHf hi- wh?. utternikt h warniiit; v.naif jn.d the onntry as to tlu- ' , oi so v hi' -1 oultl he con ipe i '.ed 1 o "n.lont il the senate ehuncod the nioaniiik: o! ill-' ti'-aiv. p,,.. ,v i.., hroti much eonfiisun over . ,,1 the terms "rn 1 1 It on t ;on" n?id '.,,, P , ,oi " ? n )v,a i t er of ( ...t . the Heli.nl o!e of Ihr sonrtlr merely "uileiMs ' n ii , ,ii . and it is dlplomi'tn pi e, .-dent ),,; piiM.'n'iit oi t'e 1'in'r.l Slates 1m i . i oi m tin- at I of "rn : x'uk" bt f.,i r i.l not., e Jo oilier po. t.H or hy pi ,., . , in. 1 1 ion. Ir.clvulos (iormany. If ho coiis'd-t! that the M-iMi!r did not n.h-pt. l'ot .ipnaienllv toie.'led. th paot. I wo'.id t'lon i Olilv t'i Ottn iinvrr ; ;, , 1 t !;- i , I ' ! 1 Mat. S ffliili' hni |