Show PRESIDENT THROWS LIGHT o ON TREATY ram r rT WILSON AND ANDSEN SENATORS TORS DISCUSS PACT PROVISIONS AT WHITE HOUSE SESSION 1 I Minute Explanations of Disputed r Points In League of Nations Covenant Cov Coy Are Brought Out Presly J ri- ri y n nd d dent t Urging Early Action Jt T Washington President Wilson In Interpreting Interpreting In In- the league of ot nations coy cov- for the senate cenate foreign relations t on Tuesday declared It Im- Im posed eil no legal obligation for the use t. t of qt American l an military t force In n protecting protect protect- r J lug ing the territory or Independence of t t other nations nation But he added added that int the covenant co I V might involve In- In certain ln certain circumstances circum stances tunce an nn absolutely compelling obligation which might be bei i ven Stronger than a legal promise l. l i for a more exact definition t by committee members who Insisted i th that t the whole arrangement was a n nI S' S rope robe of san sand he averted asserted that on the to o he considered It as iS s placing T l the nations In an in attitude of ot comrade comrade- I i h hilly and imd protection which would com- com T 11 yel pel respect for or the principles of justice jus jus- r I tIce and JIbed liberty I f i Meeting the committee in a roundtable round round- round round-I j table discussion in the cast east room of I the Wh White tc House in contradiction contradiction- to j. j the pr precedents of ot more than a century cenI cen- cen I tUl tury and with the whole nation lIst listening listen listen- u- u lug ing through medium of a n rela relay 0 of t f public stenographers the president d dent lt went Into many thany of the details of I IL Ii i L lic peace pence negotiations and ami touched on nil the hotly debated questions which I i. i have ha divided the senate In its consid- consid I ratIon of ot the peace treaty I X of the covenant guaranteeing guaranteeing guaran laran teeing the integrity of league members mem mem-I mem be bers against aggression he lie declare declared declared- would leave to each nation complete te I freedom of choice as to to the application I tion of ot force Even If the American AmericanA A V representatives on the he council joined V. V In iii a unanimous recommendation for V military action the final d decision for fori i peace or orar r w ar vir r must rest so far as concerned concerned concerned con con- the lie United States with congress con con- V gress he said Wl advice the council gave V under Its authority to take such action V V a as Is deemed appropriate must also V V. V United be deemed appropriate by the States to be binding on this government govern govern- f V ment meat he lie argued though In the background background back back- be such moral V ground vv would a potential V V force that lIe he doubted If It the nation would often decline to act V The president revealed that Japans Japan's promise to return Shantung province to China Chinn was reduced to written form fonn formin in the minutes of the peace conference V He Lie asserted he lie had every confidence V that the promise vv be e carried out V und and told the senators it was the best that flint could be got out of the negotiations negotiations Japan having given notice she V would withdraw from the conference If It her demands were refused V The American delegates he said had tried to keep the nation free from obligations obligations ob ob- ob- ob V V In European affairs so far faras faras faras V as it was honorably possible to do so so- so Ic V but he asserted that It might be necesS S V S ly to keep some American troops In Inthe Inthe inV inthe the district under the treaty V for or the next fifteen years jears ears V V He declared the nation would be Its V own o sole judge wh whether ther Its Us obligation obligations had been fulfilled under the disputed V V withdrawal clause of the league covenant covenant cove cove- V V nant that purely domestic questions vere were safe from the leagues league's Interference Interference V ence and that tile Monroe doctrine V V v was vas as clearly preserved ed V The league the president explained was built bulit on the plan of General Smuts V of South Africa Mr Wilson revealed that lIe Jie had V suggested the United Suites Stales take no part of the German reparations but V V had asked that the conference reserve V dI disposition n of the German Pacific V Island of Yap on a It suggestion that V V It was needed for an American naval V V V station V 1 Early action on the treaty was urged V In n a stat statement ent by the lie president at the V V outset outlet of the conference This was necessary V he held so that a It peace V V V V basis asis might be reached ind md the oilier oHler treaties under negotiations now at VerV Yer Yer- I IV sallies bailies w were ere being delayed until the t V V V world l learned arned what would happen toV to V V V the treaty with Germany Germany- He said heV he V saw no o reasonable l o objection to senate reservations but thought it unwise toV to Th I ratification V V Incorporate them In the t Itself iV |