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Show INIlSUIWtNCtH FIGHT GETS HOT Defies President to Show He Didnl Promise to Send More Armies to Europe WASHINGTON. Oct. 7. Todaj I contribution from the White House In the controversy between I,r--i,Hr. 1 Wilson and Senator BpeiTCer, .f Missouri, Mis-souri, who rharKd the president with, h.-ivlnx cfinlteh pi'omlsed th' aid Of the Am rlc.m army and navy tfi Ru tnanla and Serbia at the p-ace conference, con-ference, was a statement by Secretary Tumulty that the president baa no stenographic report of tho eighth plenary plen-ary session, at which the promise Is alleged to have been made to give military aid to these nations "GOT BY CENSORS. ' KANSAS CITY, Mo, '.t 7. Asserting? As-serting? thnt President Wilson had inide a statement at the peace confer-enoe confer-enoe promising Hunianla and S' rbl i Anirk:m mllltarj aaslstant und the proposed league of nations covenant. coven-ant. United States Senator J.itoes A. Reed of Missouri, Democrat, yesterday sent a teiejrrHm to Senator s Iden P. Bpencer, his Republican colleapruc, dc-I dc-I daring that the statement was a mat-I mat-I ter of record and suegf.sttnj; that the president produce th' stenographic reports of the peac- j nference show-ling show-ling 'Just what was sald.V Senator ! Reed's telegram was In response to I one from Senator Spencer asUIng In- . (formation on the subject. Senator I Reed's message declared the statement was mado by the president In an d-flress d-flress before the peace conference May 31, 1919, but "did not get by the cen- sors" until December S, 1919, when it, j was brought to this country bj ;i inewspapei correspondent and ptlb-i ptlb-i lished In the W aVhlngton star of that j I date. I "The speech also appeared In full in' I the Congressional Record of Decenil.. r 4, 191H.' the telegram continued, addling add-ling that It also was copyrighted bj i j new r-ppr syndloats and given wi le I ctrcUiaildn throughout the country CALLS FOR REPORTS. On several occasions I challenged the Attention of the senate W this Speech," the telegram said. "My speeches by scores of thousands were I circulated throughout the country, j Numerous publicists and Speakers I have repeatedly referred to and com- : mented upon this declaration, its I authenticity nrae never disputed in the senate or elsewhere to my knowledge until Mr Tumulty recently denounced it as false. The spech bears known I phraseology of the president. In view j of these facts a discerning public uill ; not be inclined to accept Mr. Tumulty's j denial There is one way this depute cqn be settled Let the president produce pro-duce the stenographic records of the peace eonfrenre showing Just what wa.-i said These official reports have 1 been studioufcly suppressed and kept , secret, although the senate foreign relations re-lations committee asked expresslv for 1 them. It was stated by Clemeneeau's I private secretary that the reason the 'sessions were held in secret was be-I be-I cause the president of the United J Stati v Insisted upon it ns against Clem-lencrau Clem-lencrau s own judgment. "That the latter statement Is abso-lutly abso-lutly correct is shown by the testl-mon testl-mon of Srcrctary Landing given be fore the foreign relations committee i of the senate August 8 1919 " SEN n MEN OVERSEAS. Senator Reed also gave out a statement, state-ment, saying. "What now do we understand ' That President Wjlson now means we are not under obligations to send our armies to protect Rumania and other meinben of the league against attack at-tack ? If :-;o. what becomes of Article 10 Which he declared is the heart of the covenant V After all. " Senator Reed continued, this controversy :; Immaterial Article Arti-cle ten of the leogue expllcltlv provides pro-vides that we undertake to preserve against external jggresslon the territorial terri-torial Integrity ami Independence of other member of tbefleague. That means we Join the league therefore to defend Rumania and Serbia against atta k and preserve their existing political po-litical indepr ndenrc That obligation i ,.t anv time call upon us to send our armies and navies across the oi in This la just what the preeldi nl in his speech is alleged to have promised. prom-ised. The statements nre'as alike as two eggs laid by the same chicken st W VR PROGRAM. "Besides that, the pi ident demanded demand-ed at u time when I., regarded our entrance into the league as certain, a standing arm;, of 574,000 nu. universal uni-versal draft for all boys as soon as they arrived at the ,,r is eriaet- ment of laws to enable th. president to apply the draft to all persons between be-tween 18 and 4.", whenever the t'nit.-d Staces should be engaged In war, '' 50.-000 50.-000 sailors and marines for the navy and an appropriation of J913.00O.00O to build the greatest fleet of war ves-I ves-I sels ever attempted :it one time. ' The president's secretary of war, 1 Mr i:iker. and chief of staff, Oen-j Oen-j eral March, both testified before con-' con-' gresslonal committees that this lin-i lin-i mense mllitarv -estatdlshment was lii i e-.-.ij v in urd r t... redeem our ol-! ol-! ligation.'' Ill J IUNSON T M K1-BT K1-BT LOUIS, Mo, Oct 6. President Wilson s address before the peace con-i con-i ference In which he Is reported to ; have promised American military aid to Rumania If the need arose, was contained In an article by Frank H. Slmonda that was Incorporated In the f'onKrc.islonal Itecnrd :il the Instance of Senator Hiram Johnson, of ';iii-fornln. ';iii-fornln. the senator telegraphed Scna- tor Seidell P. Spencer here tonight. The telegram sent from San Fran- Cisco, which was made public by Sen- ator Spencer's secretary was as follows fol-lows . ! "Just observed your controversy with president. December 4, 191, I j put In Congressional Record article of Krank II Jsimonds, containing address ; of president at Paris peace conference, i with statement substantially as quoted by you. Tho record thus made offl-I offl-I clal, h;is never been challenged. The statements contained in president's ad-. ad-. dress have repeatedly been quoted all over country. Mmonds can conclu-I conclu-I slvely establish authenticity and ex-i ex-i plain where and how he obtained the i speech." |