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Show SPENCER SIS M, QUESTION President's Denial of Senator's Statement Brings, Another An-other Query WASHINGTON, Oct. 6. President Wilson today telegraphed Senator Spencer, Republican, Missouri, thai he was content lo let the voters ol" Missouri decide which ol them was telling the truth. Vhe telegram referred re-ferred lo Senator Spencer'a charge that the president had promised mill-taiy mill-taiy aid to Rumania antl Serbia, which the president yesterday said was "false." ST. LOL1S. Oct. 5. United States Senator Selden P. Spencer late todav replied to President Wilson's denial that h. had promised American mill- 1 1 tary assistance to Rumania and Serbia in event of Invasion of those coun-' ti les. The president's denial was pro- j oked by a recent address of Mr. Spencer Spen-cer In which the senator. In effect. I declared the president had made such' a promise The senator's reply in part follows: "I beg to acknowledge receipt of your telegram of October o in which you deny that you promised American military aid to Rumanians and Serbs and that the previous denial which Mr. J. P. Tumulty has made at your 1 j request The statement of yours to!' which I have- often referred to in may addresses was the statement In the Stenographic noten of the eighth plenary plen-ary session of the peace conference in which you aro reported to havel said to Premier Rratianu of Rumania a:i follows- "'You must not forget that It Is! force thai is the fin it uuaranty of thei public peace. If Ihe world is again troubled the United States will send to this side of the ocean their army i and their fleet. "The .statement was made upon the , floor of the senate on February J j ninteen hundred twenty, by senator Reed and so far as 1 have learned has never been denied until now. It . has been Widely circulated over the t'nited States If vou did not make I that statement to Premier Bratlanu 1 1 should he much Indebted If you would be good enough to inform me." |