Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-12-04 | Page 1 | Senate Delays Action

Cummins' Resolution to ; Send Committee to ; I Europe Held Up. G. 0. P. STARTS FIGHT' 'Opposition Leaders Dis-I Dis-I cuss Wilson s "Four- teen Points' I WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 Action on1 (the resolution of Senator Cummins of J Iowa, Republican, proposing that ai l senate committee be ce'nt-to-Paris-YoH the peace conference, was postponed' until tomorrow by the senate foreign relations committee today after an executive session to dlscucs the reso-, 'lution and hear Senator Cummins in, 'its behalf. When the meeting was over admin- ' istration leaders said privately the resolution would not be approved. Most of the Democratic leaders of the .committee are said to have opposed j lit while the Republicans were divided1 1 on the subject, J During the deate Senator Borah of Idaho, Republican, introduced a reso-; lution providing for publication of the, peace terms as soon as agreed upon' , and for open discussion of the treaty! 1 in the senate. j I j WASHINGTON. Dec. 4 General! ' discussion of President Wilson's four-1 teen peace principles was started in) the senate today by a speech of Senator Sen-ator Frellnghuysen of New Jersey, lie-1 ! publican, advocating a resolution he! had introduced calling upon the prcsl- j dent to make a public declaration in-! terpreting the principles. Senator Frelinghuysen said the pros-' ident's fourteen principles were open ( to various interpretations and added: "The president should not on be-;half be-;half of the American public make radical rad-ical proposals until he is sure that they are endorsed by the people." i ' Senator Walsh of Montana, Demo-j Demo-j crat, declared that lack of criticism1 i until recently of the president's four- j ! teen terms had justified general bo-' lief in their acceptability. Senators Knox of Pennsylvania and Poindexter' of Washington, Republicans, sharply dissented. i