Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1920 — ASK WILSON TO BOW TO LODGE [ARTICLE]

ASK WILSON TO BOW TO LODGE

make peace, then LET PEO. PLE SAY, IS ADVICE HANDED TO PRESIDENT.

president Wilson is expected to reveal soon his views on the failure of the senate to ratify the German peace treaty, for which hfe and the Republican irreconcilable* were responsible, and also his attitude toward further measures to re-estab-lish peace. . ■, The president probably will do this in response to ap appeal presented to him today by many distinguished Americans to re-submit the treaty M the senate, accept the league of nations covenant, as modified by the Lodge reservations, and refer the questions remaining m dispute to further negotiation or to the people in the presidential was presented at the White House by Samuel Colcord of New York, author of the proposal; Prof. Woodbridge of Boston, and Hamilton Holt, editor of the Independent. „. .. The delegation did not see the president, but Mr. Tumulty promised that their memorial would be submitted to Mr. Wilson at once. The proposal will be laid before Republican and Democratic senators Wednesday. 4 T Mr. Colcord said that the names of the several hundred signers of the appeal to the president to accept the- Lodge reservations Would be made public in instalment*. It has been signed by William J. Bryan adn Herbert Hoover and by a number of well known Chicagoans. Among the signers whose names were made public today are Cardinal Gibbons, President Lowell of Harvard university: Cleveland H. Dodge, George W. Wickersbam, Jacob H. Schiff, George Haven Put--nam, Dr. W. W. Keen, Augustus Thomas, the Rev. S. Parkes Cadman, Frederick R. Coudert, andthe Rt. Rev. Chauncey B. Brewster, bishop of Connecticut. * Mr. Colcord thus described the plan presented in the memorial: “That by understanding between the president and a sufficient number of the majority and minority senators we at once accept the inevitable and Join the league of nations upon tne basis of what are known as the Lodge reservations as adopted by a majority vote of the senate prior to March 19, with such favorable modifications as nave since been accepted by the majority, ot as may be immediately obtained, and leave the remaining ! questions in dispute to he settied later—-by referendum, if a referendum must be taken, or by continued negotiation. “Or, in other words, they may take their referendum if they wiu, but not while the world waits in suspense and agony for the pledge of aid we are willing to give. The letter to the president said: “With as simple formality as, may be consistent with propriety and the high respect we owe you, we de--aire to present what is probably as spontaneous an appeal as was ever presented to the president of the r6 “our memorial respectfully proposes a plan hjr which you might take the question of adoption of your highest ideals respecting the league of nations before the electorate, and the opposing vitrtr be presented on the other hand, wrtnout keeping the world waiting for our aid, and'without subjecting the vital question of our becoming s part of tim league of nations to the uncertainties and perils of * ,P*f~ tisan political campaign m which, by entirely unforseen influences, au may he lost.