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Show SENATORS SEEK CONFERENCE WITH WILSON: No Indication, However, That He Has Abandoned Aban-doned Opposition to Plan for Reservations. Proposal for White House Discussion Said to Have Been Made bj' Senator H. C. Lodge. WASHINGTON, Aug. H. Preside iu Wilson's offer to talk over the pence treaty with tho senate foreign relations committee finally was accepted today. At the suggestion of Republican members mem-bers and by a virtually unanimous void the committee decided to inform tho president it would be glad to meet him at his convenience to go over disputed points In the treaty and the leaguo oi nations covenant. At the same time tho committee voted to call additional witnesses wit-nesses and continue its hearings. The committee, In Us acceptance of t..e president's offer, stipulated, huwwe''. that It wanted no ban of secrecy on tli-j discussion, the members preferring to bo free to use as they saw 01 any ini'ormn-tion ini'ormn-tion the president might Imparl. U also left the way open for him to cilhe.' receive the com mi ttie at tho While House or con io before it at tho c;ip! tu:. Chairman Lodge's letter of not idea I ion saying the commUlco members wuu'ii meet Mr. Wilson "ut any time or phiet ho might select. WILSON AGREES TO SENATE PROPOSAL. President Wilson, replying toiv.ghl to Senator Lodge's request for an appoint -I meat with the scuaio foreign re'ai ionn l comrnitteo to discuss the peace trm I . j set Tuesday morning nt 10 o'clock, Th'i ; president staled that ft was his pret'c -; ence that the fullest publicity bo. given the conference, so that the p'opk; of tn" country might be pu t In possession ' : all the information he has abuuL tho , treaty of peace. The proposal to consult the problem, grew out of a general discussion wIu'IImt the committee should continue) its hearings hear-ings or proceed W act on the fart s a i -ready beforo It. .Senator Johnson, itu publican, California, is understood lies: to havo mentioned the president ;im ;l witness, but tho formal sucsl inn t n;i ' tho commit too meet id in was niado b. Senator Jodge. ' Democratic members, prompl ly s fond -Ing the suggestion, pointed out that tin; committee had been told in it bearing.! that only the pre.-ide'hl could rewal nr-tnin nr-tnin ff-aturi'M of tlx- paei ncgol i.n inn: . and declared thai Mr. Wilt-on' inl"rioa offer lo receive Hie iiM-mbrrs at th-: WIhIh llous.) reinaitnd open. ACTION TAKEN WITHOUT. VOTE LN COMMITTEE. This offer v., is made through cuainr' llilchcock. N. bni-ka. the admin): 1 ration leader, when 1 1 ie " -nu i n j 1 1 . e, first t'"l. np tho treaty a month ago. The d'''i,-io;i to act on the proposal was taken witinMJL a record o' e. In deciding to call additional it nn sr: , tlio committee r". ei 1 'd it:' i i l reached yesterday to Kpecd action on Met treaty. It was oted to rnpii'si app.;ir ance of five persons, udvis-TK n V-r-sailles. who resigned, it. h;is been i-cj1(hr;-cd, becaur.e they disagreed with deriyh.mM of the conference j-cm pling r-'ha m uijk and Hushia. Thev ar- K. T. Wiiliams, S. In. llor-nberk and William ( J'.-ilhtt. Tim others summoned are John '. Kerguson and Thomas K. .Millard, suL'fehtd ;(.- nu-tnori nu-tnori t ies on f a r eas tern a ff a Irs. iJividing I to the committee rejc.-tc.i a motion to (ju'-yihm aicj Mem. nil 'la: ker 11. P.lin?, nloiiei 1:. M. JIoifhc :.ud Henry White, who, with Wilson Wil-son a nd Sc-t-fta ry T,an: 1 tig, made up tho American peace ornmisyion proper. K was said afterward lhat the action with regard to Colonel Mouse might be nnm-sid nnm-sid ere. should mem Itm fa t j to get t rom I 'residen L W iison 1.1 ie in fori edt ion I Ivy de.crf about tiic h ague of nations nogu tia! ions. REVOLVES ABOUT THE RESERVATION QUESTION. Specula! Ion at the capi t o a.s to the purpose of t lie- com mi M ec j, rt.,,,r.t the: that the pres'deni. receive, it revolve.! around the. nuhjert ofycM i". a I ions to t ho (Continued on paac 2, Coluum u.J strong possibilitv" that tv . would start on his speaV-EV'-the treaty was reported bv-- " tee, - w- WILSON HOPES FOR EARLY START WEST. Mr. Wilson hopes to e in -coast in time to review Vve -r- ' fca-riy in September, ard" el-'V be . o r e he 1 eav es Wa si: - - ' ;:. wiii get well under wav"iV'--' signed to aid in the c&ipa-n hv.r.g costs, & Plans of ir-dividual serte vs- the foreign relations cn-r.-C .-f-engaging the United Su-";-.--obligations ia reluon ioZ::-. fairs a-re to be directed lines, it was learned h-re t- ' Senator Fall, F.epu:h;ar.. y'7'vr expects to move to str:"r. treaty all reference to Arr i- -pation in the various o;i-V; are to supervise reconstr 'C j- t. rope. Senator Knox, Eepb"-ai, rania, proposes to tree both mittee and in the senate a n :-tne :-tne peace terms and the I ear :-V be divorced and the latte- ei-; ther consiceratioa after tl '"V"--ratif.ed. Senators Bcrah and Johr.?r : stood to favor defr.itelv .--''uJ j league by striking it bcdv treaty. SENATORS HEIDI FOR CONFERENCE Will Meet President at the White House and Discuss Treaty-Covenant (Continued From Page Ona.) treaty and the leaijue cover.ant. Before Ihe committee acted it hf-ci been intimated inti-mated at ihe White House that the president presi-dent had not changed his atut-de against reservations. In asreemg to ca'.l on the president, the committee accepted an informal invitation invi-tation transmitted iy Senator Hitch-cook, Hitch-cook, The admimstrat.on leader, a few dKys after Mr. YViison laid the treaty ' before t-e senate. I Several members, including Senator Borah, were ur.derstooo to have orjectei ' if the talk with the president nas to I re confidential. Senator Fail was sa.d ! to hive indicated that he would r.ol go because no record of the discussions would be kept and disputes would arise afterward aa to what the president said. DEMOCRATS DEMAND j EARLY ACTION ON PACT. Democratic members opposed the culling cull-ing of all witnesses, on the ground that virtually every senator had made up his t mind how he would vote and that public j sentiment derr-Anded that a vote in the j senate should rot be unduly delayed. i The d.scussion in the comm.ttee was ; started by a leiter from Senators Jorah and Johnson, asking that more witnesses be called, which was laid before the committee com-mittee by Chairman Lodce. The letter conclude.1. after designating the persons wanted as witnesses: "When Secretary of Stcte Lansing was examined recently, he was asked concerning con-cerning engagements or commit n.er.ts of the United States now bcinc completed with Austria. Bulgaria and Turkey. The secretary answered, in subst&nce. that he was who! y ignorant of the engiace-ments engiace-ments to which the L'r.lted States had been committed, and t'.-rfct it would be Impossible to determine, until all the treaties were before us. in what our country would be involved In the future. We deem it essential, therefore, before any report be made upon the pending German trea ty that we have before us the treaty with Austria, and those with Bulgaria and Turkey a-s we'.L LETTER RECITES THE PRESIDENT'S STATEMENT. "Ton recall trit Secretary Lansing said the presidtnt ins s ted, t hough we had not declared war upon Fuigana and Tur-i Tur-i key. that we should be a part of the j ultimate settlements made with those I countries. Our people, therefore, should ' not be committed piecemeal to a peneral ' European and Asiatic peace settlement, 'and should know before -action w.is ic.ken i on any treaty the en sr cements to wiilch ; we were committed under all." t "hile gratl!:ed that the senate foreign : relations committee has deeded to spce-l vp cor.sidcra t ion of the peace treaty, j Ire-sldent Wilson, it was paid today, hrt : not receded from his position against reservRtions. It was intimated at the White House that the attitude of Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, who told the foroipn relations rela-tions commit tee yesterday that im ess the committee reported the treatv out m the near future nn Attempt would be niado to have it oalld up in the senate., reflected that of the president. I Secretary Tumulty s,vid there was "a |