Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-07-09 | Page 10 | Senate Will Ratify Peace Treaty by Large Vote

SENATE WILL RATIFY PEACE TREATY BY URGE VOTE That the United States Senate will ratify the peace treaty at an early: date and that the opposition of a small COterle Of Republican opponents will' crumble without much debate, is the view of L. W. Richards, private sec-j retary of Senator William H. King, who has arrived in Ogden for a brief visit with his cousin Harm W Peery, at the Peery camp in Ogden canyon Mr. Richards said lhat. from hi personal ob.-ervmion in ihe national capitol and from (he comment through out official circles, Ins opinion is the! treaty will be ratified at an early date He said that the visit of President Y rll8QO to ihe senate tomorrow and ihe delivery of the message upon the' treat-, was being looked forward to1 with much interesl by Democrat and Republican members of the senate and the houce Mr. Richards said that, the opposition opposi-tion to the treaty was small Those In favor of the treaty haVe refrained from talking much while Borah. Knox, Johnson. Reed and Poindexter have Indulee.i in an endless stream of de-j de-j nunciation. F"rom what he had heard in an unofficial un-official wa) Mi Richards said that he believed that the majorit of the etUl tors and congressmen were re cer ing hundreds of letters dally from th citizens of the states they represented, repre-sented, urging them to vote in favor of the treaty. Mr Richards said lhat the I'tah congressional delegation. Senators Smnor and King and Congressmen Welling Mid Mays, are among the hardest workers in congress. In addition to his duties as private secretary to S'nator King, Mr. Richards Rich-ards is a student at the Georgetown University where he puts in ivo hours each night in the studv of law Dunn? the period of the war. 'Rei ' as he is beiier known in Ogden, was in naval aviation in Florida. His fir-t training in aviation was at Seattle Then he was transferred to Florida. Before the armistice was signed, Richards Rich-ards made several aerial trips and in ! landing too quickly one plane was ! smashed but he was not injured. After Af-ter ihe armistice was sipned he was not allowed to make more flights