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Show i Hint That President May Soon Indicate Attitude: Cone erning Reserva- j tions to Peace Pact. Opposition E 1 e m e n t Awaiting Definite Step by White House; Lodge Talks With Lansing WASHINGTON, July 26. The next! important move in the senate disagreement disagree-ment over reservations to the peace treaty is expected to come from President Presi-dent Wilson. Having canvassed the senate situation situa-tion in his conferences with fifteen Republican Re-publican senators, all of whom are said to have told him they would support certain reservations, it is expected the president soon will moke known definitely defi-nitely his attitude toward such a course It was indicated at the White House today that expression of his views on the subject might not await his speaking speak-ing tour to begin two weeks hence, but might be embodied in a public statement state-ment in a few days. This aroused great interest a.mong Republican senators. Several Republicans Repub-licans have told Mr. Wilson the treaty never could be ratified without interpretative inter-pretative qualifications, and yesterday at the suggestion, it is understood, of Republican Leader Lodge, a tentative draft of reservations indicating in a general way the trend of opinion among many Republican senators, was laid before the president by Senator Spencer, Spen-cer, Republican, Missouri. PRESIDENT'S MOVE, REPUBLICANS SAY. Leaders for reservations say it is now the president's move. The group of republicans who, under the lead of Senator McCumbcr, North Dakota, and McNary, Oregon, are working on a reservation res-ervation program designed to clarify the league of nations covenant without vitally weakening it, believe the president presi-dent will announce his acceptance of such a course and that quick ratification ratifica-tion of the treaty will ensue. In their talks with Mr. Wilson, they say, he has indicated no radical antagonism to sen-atc sen-atc qualifications, his only fear being that the whole subject might be thrown back into renegotiation. The president's letter to Mr. Lodge said : "In response to your letter of July (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) rotary Lansing. Mr. Lode is under- : 5;tool to have suuested that the com- s inittcc have T lie benefit of expert ad- '' !. vice on some sections, particularly those I ? dealing with alien enemy property. It j i is expected that Bradley Palmer and I others who advised t lie American dele- jt jration at Versailles will appear before the committee next week. President Wilson had intended, it b was said at t It e White House, to go to p the eapitol tliis afternoon and talk over tho treaty situation with ndministra- tion senators, lie abandoned the plan S when he learned t liar the senate was not iu session and that Senator Hitch- cock, Nebraska, the administration leader in the treaty fipht, was out of f town. The foreign relations committee I also had recessed over today and will F meet gain Monday when it expects to complete preliminary reading of the E treaty text. f Rests With President. In tho opinion of many Republican senators, the lines to be drawn in the i reservations controversy rest with the I president. - They say if he gives his as- I sent to a reservation program designed 5 to further safeguard national interests, they quickly can come to such an agree- f ment as to insure ratification of the treaty. But if he takes an uncompro- f mising stand for unreserved ratifica- I tion, and by public speeches attempts jt to discredit the senators who arc hold- t ing out against it, t he opposition lead- crs look for a long and bitter fight. I President Wilson's advisers said today that, after studying1 the letters written by (' former President Taft to Chairman Hays; a of the Republican national committee and S several senators regarding reservations to the peace treaty, the president had eon- Si eluded that Mr. Taft did not write for i publication. They said the president be-' lieved Mr. Taft was making an honest T effort to bring about a settlement of the league , controversy, and that he had no . Idea that what he wrote would be pu,b- u lished aL this time. i Some of t)ie president's advisers let it be known today that they deprecated the k action of some senators who have visited f the White house in placing- their own -'in- terpretations in statements for publica- , tion upon what the president had said to h them on the peace treaty and the league U j covenant. Colombian Treaty. , p Colombia has agreed to senate amend- B i ments to the treaty between that country r 1 and the United States, by which sugges- b tions of regret by this country for the i- j partition of Panama wrere eliminated, r I Chairman fjodge of the senate foreign re- ; lations committee said today after a con- ! ference with Secretary Lansing of the R j state department. v i Senator Lodge said the treaty would J 1 be taken up in the senate next week, and i ; that, in view of Colombia's action, he an- :; I ticipated no delay in its ratification. Consideration of the treaty of Versailles ; will be continued next week by the foreign i relations committee, Mr. Lodge said, and Bradley Palmer, an American expert, who y assisted in framing he sections of the treaty relating to alien enemy property, f will be examined probably Wednesday or Thursday. ji Appointment of a special subcommittee ? to recommend legislation embodying a i permanent military policy for the nation, was authorized today by the senate mili- f tary committee. These senators were named: V Chairman Wadsworth, Sutherland of t West Virginia, New of Indiana and Fre- ? linghuyscn of New Jersey, Republicans; 7- Chamberlain of Oregon. Thomas of Colo- y rado and Fletcher of Florida, Democrats. The special house committee to investi- gate operations and expense of the ship- ping board and emergency fleet corpora- jf tion v as appointed today by Speaker Gil- t lett. Composing yie committee are Rep- n resentatives Walsh of Massachusetts, Kelly of Michigan, Hadley of Washington, ' Foster of Ohio, Republicans, and Repre- j sentatives Steel of Pennsylvania and Con- nally of Texas, Democrats. NEXT MOVE WILSON'S, HEPUJjUCJIWS SAY (Continued from Page One.) 22 requesting members of the committee commit-tee on foreign relations to send to the committee tho agreement referred to in article 237 of the treaty with. Germany, Ger-many, in the event that such an agreement agree-ment has been determined upon by the allied and associated governments, I would' say that bo far as I know such an agrecment has not yet been reached. As 1 recollect the business, an attempt was being made to reach such an agree, ment, but I have not yet learned of an agreement having been arrived at yet. I '-'May T not add, with regard to the i oTher request which I have received from ! the committee for papers and information informa-tion of various sorts, that I was not able to bring from Paris a complete file of papers. I brought with me only those which happened to be in my hands when I lett Prance. These alone constitute a considerable mass of papers, and T have been going over them as rapidly as time and my engagements permitted, and must beg the committee's indulgence for the delay in informing them which I can supply them with." The president's Democratic support- cvs in the senate .are not in accord with this view, and predict he will as- scrt himself for unreserved ratifica- tion and then go to the country in an" I effort to fortify public sentiment bo-j bo-j hind that stand. ; Replies to Senate Request. The president saw no Republican j senators today, but in a letter to Mr. I Lodge replied to inquiries about the treaty sent to the "White House by the foreign relations committee. He wrote that, so far as he knew, no decision had been reached for division of Germany's j indemnity payments under the treaty's provision that it shall be allotted among ! her enemies "in the proportion which i has been determined by them in ad-Jvancc." ad-Jvancc." The letter also said Mr. Wil-; Wil-; son was preparing to send the committee commit-tee papers they had asked for in con-j con-j neetion with the Versailles ncgotia-: ncgotia-: tions. The letter was interpreted in some , quarters as meaning that the president would withhold some of the documents in his possession though the committee's commit-tee's resolution wns very sweeping in character, asking for "all data" that influenced the necotiations. I Today Chairman Lode diseussed 1 some features of tho treaty with Sec- |