Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1919 — PRESIDENT AND SENATE [ARTICLE]

PRESIDENT AND SENATE

“If the president had laid the proposed league of nations covenant before the senate —if he had followed the example of other residents—then we could have taken constructive action. It was done by Andrew Jackson, by Gen. Grant, by George Washington, and 'by Abraham Lincoln. And in the path that Washington and Lincoln have walked no man is too great to tread. If the president had laid that draft before the senate, if he had said to the senate: ‘I submit this draft to you for your advice; I hope for your approval andfor suchsuggestibhs as you may have to make,’ he would •have had the amendments laid 'before him to present to the peace conference in Paris. The battle would have been more than half won by the mere submission.” —Senator Henry Cabot Lodge.