Show root replies to governor coxs charge charae 1 of misstatements M I 1 ustate ants new york oct 21 ellhu root tonight laade ade public the fal hallowin lowin telegram to governor cox reply 1 ing to his request to 4 correct an alleged also false instatement in mr air roots new now york address tuesday regarding the governors position upon the league of nations 1 I have today received your telegram dated yesterday I 1 would A not willingly do you injustice and I 1 do not think I 1 have you began your campaign by an interview with the president and an authoritative I 1 statement that you and he lie were in complete accord upon the league of i nations I 1 can not be mistaken about this position throughout the long struggle in the senate he refused to give bis his assenti assent to any reserva reservation Uon which buestan bially changed the tro covenant as be I 1 brought it back he certain certainly 1 has not changed his very recent utterances show abow that if you alve b alvo changed from that complete accord 1 with him I 1 have not beard heard of it such a change Js not indicated by the vague and general expression of your telegram saying baying that you will accept reser reservation valtIon that will ill clarify that will be helpful that will reassure the american people that you would bit sit down with the members of the senate that you would confer with mr wison mr taft and myself with all other others who have a sincere pur purpose etc because you arc the one who would determine what was helpful what would reassure the american people what advice you would follow and you are solemnly publicly pledged to an aggree ment with mr wilson concerning the covenant he broucht brought back from europe A DEFINITE IDEA there Is in one statement of your telegram that does give a definite idea of ahre you 1 ou stand upon mr wilson declare de clarea a to b bo 0 the he heart a rt of the league e tb tho 0 g general en eral a alliance ill a uc b 0 or f article ten b by Y wh which I 1 ch the he t U united n I 1 ted states would undertake to guarantee as against er external aggression to make that guarantee good by war if necessary you say in your telegram that you will accept reservations that will clearly state to our associates aBao clates in the league that congress and congress alone has the right to declare war and that our constitution sets up limits in legislation or treaty making belond which e can not go that it seems Is what ou are willing to do about article ten I 1 well it is absolu absolutely tel nothing everybody knows already that only congress has a right to declare war and that there thero are limits to legisla alon and treaty making power all I 1 governments of nil all civilized nations know it you accomplish nothing by telling them of it again the trouble about gluing the guarantee provided in article ten Is that the making 0 of I 1 a treaty concer concerning chig it Is a solemn assurance to all the nations that it Is within the treaty making power and that the promise to make war binds congress as fully as it binds all other members of our government to maintain the plighted faith of the united states in all governments the power to declare war rests rents somewhere and an agree hopt to make war Is an agreement that that power shall be so exercised by ihu the officers in whom it rests A refusal by congress to pass the tile necessary resolution would simply be a breach of the treaty DRAWS ANALOGY an analogous case Is the power i of congress to appropriate money thera there Is no other power in our gov ornament to do that but it the united states makes a treaty agree ing to pay a million dollan dollars to an other country would any one say that the obligation could be can celled colled by a refusal of congress to appropriate tho the inocete In Certai certainly not tho the only effect would ho be thai the united states would have broken faith the real question ie is whether we ahall shall enter into a guarantee under which the faith ot of treaties will require congress to pass A resolution declaring war that la Is what tho the president proposed that ie in what your telegram makes it clear you pro propose iDone on tho the same day when you sent thi tho telegram tole cram according to the press reports porta re in a mooting at providence some ono one in the audience asked you would you accept the lodge reservation reservations to tho the league of nations there was your opportunity among thole those reservations was one which bald said the united states assumes no obligation to preserve the territorial integrity or political independence of any other country by the employment of its military or naval forces etc unless in any particular case the congress which under the constitution ution hae has the sole power to declare war or to authorize the om em of tho the military or naval forces of the united states shall in the exercise exer clee of full liberty of action by act or joint resolution so provide that reservation mould leave congress free whenever the timo time camo to act in accordance with its judgment and conscience and the judgment and conscience oc of lie ito con regarding the merits of the controversy at that time your position as you now state it would leave congress bound by the solemn pledge of faith of our country to pass the resolution for war no matter what tho the merits of the controversy might be if you did not mean that congress should be bound you had an opportunity at that meeting in providence to any say 1 I agree to this reservation ar to this part of this reservation your answer Is reported ported to have been the lodge reservations never wore vere seriously for them in the republican blat form adopted at chicago and thus you eldo alde stepped the question and you state in your telegram telo eram to mo 0 the perfectly futile thins thing you are willing 4 to do upon the tho subject of article ten ton your telegram to me undertakes to state your case caso and both what you say and what you saying confirm the understanding I 1 expressed in my speech thai youl position and purpose are to impose upon the united states the covenant negotiated at paris without any real change whatever |