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Show PRESIDENT WILL DISCUSS TREATY WITH SOLON S TODAY WASHINGTON", Aug. 18. At a conference confer-ence in some respects' unparalleled in American history, President Wilson "will talk over the peace negotiations and the treaty with the senate foreign relations committee tomorrow at the White House. By virtue of extraordinary plans to inform, the public of every word that Is spoken, the meeting will have the aspect of an open forum discussion at which the whole nation can look on. As head of the American delegation and one of the Inner circle which formulated formu-lated the world settlement at Versailles, the president is to be asked the meaning and purpose of provisions of the league of nations covenant, the reasons behind the decision to give Japan control in shan- tung province, just what part the United States Is to take in reconstruction, and many other questions raised In senate consideration of the treaty. Whether Mr. Wilson will answer fully In so public a manner nil the questions put to him, or will consider that some of the information he received at the peace table ta-ble should be held in confidence as a matter mat-ter of national policy, remains conjectural. con-jectural. Hut the committee members mean to give him the opportunity, if he chooses, to tell the whole of the inside story behind the treaty. During the day the strategic positions of the opposing forces In the treaty ratification ratifi-cation fight in the senate showed no sign of change, but there was another outburst out-burst of debate, during which Senator Borah, Rrpuhlican, Idaho, declared that news of unrest abroad was being suppressed sup-pressed by British and French news agencies "while the senate Is being whipped to ratify the treaty before the facts are known." |