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Show Uncle Sam May Join Reparation Board ; T what 1 porated In the senate resolution of October 18, 1021, by which the senate ratified Ihe separate treaty between the United States and Germany. . This reservation, which was later Included In the President's proclamation, proclama-tion, provided "that the United States shall not be represented or participate In any body, agency or commission, nor shall any person represent the United States as a member of any body, agency or commission in which the United States Is authorised to par tlclpate by this treaty unless and nntll an act of the congress of the United States shall provide for such representation represen-tation or partlclpatlon.H . ' ; ) : Thus the administration holds that under the specific language of the sen ate's ratification resolution the Initiative Initia-tive Is clearly left with congress and, it is argued, suggestions from senators sena-tors or congressmen that the President Presi-dent should go ahead and name a representative rep-resentative and transmit the name to the senate for ratification ore clearly beside the point ' Senator Underwood recently declared de-clared In the senate that the only way tnr h TTnltoH States ta rut an nart tXTASHINGTON. The United " States may yet be represented upon the Interallied reparations commission, com-mission, despite President Harding's decision to refrain from asking congress con-gress formally for authority for such participation. '' This view has been conveyed to congress con-gress In an Informal manner, but owing ow-ing to the peculiar political situation the President has determined that It would not be becoming of the executive execu-tive to ask for such authorization. To snggestlops coming from congress that the Initiative In the matter should be taken by the executive and not by congress, State department officials replied' that the basis for the executive's execu-tive's reluctance to take the Initiative la the reservations "agreement" lncor- of the German reparation payments was to get representation on the allied al-lied reparation commission. |