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NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS Relations With Mexico Strained When U. S. Troops Cross Border in Chase of Bandits. CARRANZA WEST FUTILE President Wilson Discusses Peace Treaty With Senate Foreign Relav tions Committee, Without Visible Result—Progress of the War on Profiteers and Hoarders. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. Relations with Mexico flared up again alarmingly last week and the amateur and unofficial prophets freely predicted that we would be, at war with our southern nejghbor within a short time. Once more American troops have crossed the border, without asking permission of Carranza, for the purpose of capturing Mexicans sho have committed outrages against American citizens and for whose actions the whiskered one says he cannot be held responsible. The capture and holding for ransom of the two army aviators who had lost their way was the act of a small band of bandits, but the administration at Washington shows a growing inclination to step across the border and “clean things up” if the federal government of Mexico cannot do the job. It appears that a stern warning was issued some time ago to Carranza, to which he replied at length, stating that his government would do and was doing all in its power to protect the lives and property of foreigners in Mexico. In this case of the captured aviators — who were released on payment of part of the ransom—federal troops were sent after the offenders; The American punitive expedition consisted of part of the Eighth cavalry, aided by some army flyers. They caught two bandits and killed four others who opened fire on them when surrounded. Under instructions from his government, Ambassador Bonillas entered protest against the “invasion” and demanded the immediate withdrawal of the troops. The reply, drafted by President Wilson, was a flat refusal to comply with the demand. The press of Mexico City was aroused to loud protest. One or two of the papers there, however, realize the seriousness of the situation that has been created by the numerous outrages against foreigners and admit that unless Carranza radically, changes his policies he will,invite disaster to himself and to Mexico. In the United States Indignation is by no means confined to the border states or to those who have suffered, financially or otherwise, at the hands of the Mexicans. The demand is general that our government give to American citizens everywhere the full protection to which they are entitled, and there is a feeling that unless it does so our membership in the League of Nations would be farcical. Which brings us to the second great event of the week, the unprecedented meeting of the senate committee on foreign relations with President Wilson in the White House for the elucidation of many points In connection with the peace treaty and league covenant. In accordance with the desires of both parties, the entire proceedings were given full publicity, but a study of them and of the subsequent comments of the participants . does not show’ that much was accomplished in the way of removing the obstacles to ratification of the treaty. Mr. Wilson made a long preliminary statement to the senators and then answered their many questions with all frankness. His position regarding interpretations and reservations might be summarized thus: If ordinary common sense is used in reading the treaty' and covenant they are unnecessary ; if they merely ‘accompany the act of ratification there is no objection to them: but if they are made a ' part of the resolution of ratification, long delays would- result because all

AMERICAN MONEY IN EUROPE Financiers of This Country Said to Be Considering the Investment of Immense Sums. Berlin. —There is a rumor in according to dispatches received here, that “representslives of an American banking syndicate” are negotiating with the government of German Austria for the purchase of the German Austrian state railways. The American financiers interested

the other nations would have to be asked to accept the language of the senate as the language of the treaty; it would be especially humiliating to have to ask the assent of the German national assembly. Senator Fall called the president’s attention to the fact that Germany is not' to be an original member of the ’“ague and consequently any amendments to the covenant proposed before her admission would not be submitted to her. Mr. Wilson admitted this was true and that the point had not occurred to him, but he insisted that Germany already has a relationship to the league and that it was the plan to admit her immediately. As for article 10, the crux of the whole fight, President Wilson interpreted it as follows: If the league calls on the United States to send troops abroad to preserve the territorial Integrity of another member state from external aggression, the United States will be under an absolutely compelling moral obligation, though not a legal obligation, to comply. But the league cannot call on the United States for such aid unless the American member votes his approval in accord with American public sentiment. After it was all over, Senator Hitchcock said the president had clarified many Involved questions in a wonderful manner and that speedy ratification would be* the result. Senator Lodge said Mr. Wilson had not given them much real information and that the admissions he had made had vindicated the criticisms leveled at the league covenant. Between these extremes stand the “mild reservationists.” To capture their votes. Senator Pittman of Nevada took the reservations they advocate, called them “interpretations or understandings,” and put them into a resolution which he presented to the senate for its adoption apart from the resolution of ratification. He asserted that he was acting with the president’s approval, whereupon Senator Hitchcock, administration leader, felt himself Ignored and showed that Pittman’s resolution was not much to his liking. The opponents of the covenant were brutally outspoken in condemning the resolution. In the course of the lively debate Mr. Pittman admitted That the League of Nations was “hardly more than a meeting place where the consensus of the civilized world may be obtained and its moral force brought to bear.” “If you’ll write that into the league covenant there will be no difficulty about its ratification,” interrupted Senator Reed of Missouri (Dem.). Paris correspondents predict that the peace conference will adjourn within two or three weeks and that when it reassembles In November or December the United States will not be represented unless fn the meantime the Senate shall have ratified the treaty and decided that we shall accept mandates. The work for the conference after it reconvenes will be the partition of Turkey and the settlement of the Thracian and Adriatic questions. If the United States does not take part in these, both Italy and Greece expect to win their demands, for the Americans are now their only opponents. As to Thrace, the American delegation insists on the creation of a buffer state that will give Bulgaria access to the sea. The Greeks and Turks, who make up the bulk of the population of Dedeagatch district, involved in this plan, are bitterly opposed to the continuation of anything like Bulgarian rule there and are reported to be preparing to resist it by arms. It is not the Intention of the peace conference to leave any part of Thrace in the possession of Bulgaria. The council of five hopes that the Austrian treaty will be signed within a week. It also is feeling optimistic about Hungary, where a new coalition cabinet has been formed, and thinks it may soon be able to recognize 'the government at Budapest and present the Hungarian treaty for signature. The week’s news from Russia was somewhat more encouraging, for Admiral Kolchak appeared to have stopped his retreat and to have checked the pursuing bolshevists. The red forces were ousted from Odessa, and lost ground in some other regions. In the Gulf of Finland a British fleet encountered a number of

in the project are said to be in Moravian Ostrau at present, where they are inspecting the local eoal fields with a view to buying the property, as that section is the basis of coal supply for the German Austrian railroads. The dispatches add that the Americans probably also will visit Upper Silesia to investigate the possibilities of acquiring the coal mines in that province. The Vienna report Is one of many stories circulating about American investments in central Europe. The

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bolshevist vessels and sank four of them, thereafter concentrating against Kronstadt. The fortress was bombarded and the city set on fire. The situation in Upper Silesia is confused and confusing. The Germans and the Poles are fighting each other in a desultory fashion there, and both are contending with the striking workers of the country who have become so violent that the German authorities proclaimed martial law. The new German constitution has just gone into effect, and a summary of it has been made public In America. It seems to be in most respects an admirable document, designed to establish and maintain a moderate and commendable form of republican government, more strongly centralized than our own. The powers of the president are very great. The equality of all men and women before the law is asserted, and titles of nobility are abolished except “as a part of a person’s name.” It is noticeable, however, that Germany is .still called an empire. It may be added, as a matter of interest, that the former kaiser has just bought a place of residence in Holland, and that current reports of his fast failing health are flatly contradicted by a correspondent who sees William nearly every day. Uncle Sam’s war against the profiteers and hoarders went on steadily if not so swiftly as the victims of the H. C. of L. might have hoped. The ultimate consumer hailed with enthusiasm the assertion by Attorney General Palmer that the small retailers as well as the big retailers and the wholesalers are going to feel the heavy hand of the department of justice. He appeared before the house committee on agriculture to discuss proposed amendments to the food control act, and argued against a provision that would exempt from prosecution as profiteers those retailers who do an annual business below SIOO,OOO. Many of the complaints of extortionate prices, he said, are against rhe small dealers and he added he would feel hopeless if he were restricted to the larger dealers. Mr. Palmer also asked the committee to withdraw the proposed provision giving the president authority to fix prices. This, he said, he considered unnecessary and calculated to provoke too much discussion. The only amendments he favored were one extending the scope of the act to include wearing apparel and containers of foods, feeds and fertilizers, and one Imposing a penalty of $5,000 or imprisonment for two years for profiteering. The great quantities of foodstuffs which have been seized in various cities by the agents of the department of justice will not be placed on the market until proper court proceedings have been completed. Meanwhile the government is disposing of its vast surplus army stores practically at cost, and the way in which hundreds of thousands of people struggle for a chance to buy these commodities 1» evidence of their need. The actors’ strike, after spreading to Chicago, became so stubborn a struggle there that the unions of musicans and stage hands were called on for help, with the result that nearly every theater was obliged to close. Efforts to end the strike amicably in New York were fruitless, and it was , said there it might be extended to cover the entire country and all hall ’ shows, including the movies. Within a week there probably will be a conference between the officials of the steel workers’ unions and representatives of the United States Steel corporation. If it is refused by the ) latter, a committee headed by Samuel ' Gompers is empowered to call a strike ' forthwith. The corporation maintains ' the open shop, and the unions wish to 1 present to it a rather portentous list of 12 basic demands. Cudahy, Wis., and Hammond, Ind., i were the scenes of strike riots and i state troops were hurried to both ; places to restore order, which they ' did. , —— . i The farmers have won their fight against daylight saving, for although the rest of the population is unanimous in its favor, the bill for repeal of the law was pas-ed by both house ‘ and senate over the veto of President Wilson.

Upper Silesia venture has been mentioned repeatedly boih in German and 1 entente newspapers. There also was ! a report, which since has been denied, 1 that American capitalists had chased the Krupp works. The lamentable part about theke 1 reports of American enterprise tn Eu- ' rope is, however, that they are invariably denied in well-informed German financial circles. Krupp’s own man- < aging director refuted the Krupp story J as cabled in a special dispatch some . time ago.

WORLD'S EVENTS 111 SHORT FORM BEST OF THE NEWS BOILED DOWN TO LIMIT. ARRANGED FOR BUSY PEOPLE Notes Covering Meet Important Hap* peninga of the World Compiled in Briefest and Most Succinct Ferm for Quick Consumption. Washington Without any change more important than the insertion of a semicolon, the federal food control act was passed by the house at Washington as proposed by the attorney general. There was no roll call on any of its provisions. A penalty of $5,000 fine or two years’ imprisonment is provided. Bjr a strict party, vote the house at passed and sent to the senate imposing a tariff of $lO a unit or S6OO a bon on crude tungsten ore and $1 a pound on serrdtungsteta and other tungsten salts. * • • Prohibition scored again. The senate at Washington .'passed a bill prohibiting the sale and use of intoxicating liquors in the Panama canal zone. ** • ' In a conference at the White House at Washington.unprecedented in American history. President Wilson discussed the peace treaty with the senate foreign relations committee, an-, swered questions put by senators and gave out a stenographic transcript of the proceedings to the public.' Making a plea for ratification of the treaty that the world might be turned wholly back to a peace basis, the president said he saw no reasonable objection to the senate expressing its interpretation of the League of Nations covenant as long as those interpretations did not actually become part of the act of ratification. • • • '.' The president has not the power to declare peace by proclamation, nor could he consent in any circumstances to take such a course prior to the ratification of a formal treaty of peace by the senate. President Wilson so wrote Senator Fall in answer to one of the 20 written questions the senator presented at the White House conference at Washington. • • • Favorable report on amendments to the food control act imposing a $5,000 fine and imprisonment for two years for profiteering was ordered by the house agriculture committee at Washington. • • « Repeal of the daylight saving act has been accomplished. The senate at Washington voted to sustain the house in passing the repeal measure over President WilsorYs tpto. The vote was 57 to 19. j A resolution directing the federal trade commission to investigate the high cost of shoes and determine the cause for increased prices was adopted by the house at Washington. • * • Advices reaching Washington reveal that American intervention in Mexico is the all-absorbing topic in Mexico City and that its possibility is admitted in official circles there. « • • r Personal General Pershing, commander in chief of the American army in France, who has been visiting the Italian battle front and the principal cities of that country, returned to Paris. * • * Senator Duncan U. Fletcher of Florida, who was knocked down by a street car in Washington, was not seriously injured, and probably will be out in a week, physicians announced after an examination. • * • Thomas Nelson Page of Virginia has formally resigned as ambassador to Italy, it was said at the state department at Washington. ♦ ♦ ♦ Alva S. Chisholm, forty-eight, assistant to the president of the American Steel and Wire company and a wellknown figure in the steel world, died from heart failure at Cleveland, O. , * * « General Pershing spent part of Tuesday in Venice. In the evening he left Venice for a tour of the battlefields and the liberated regions. * * ♦ Foreign Roumanian military authorities are preparing for an offensive east of the Dniester river for the purpose of joining forces with General Denikine’s army in southern Russia, according to the Echo de Paris. •• • . The Polish army has administered a crushing defeat of the bolshevik! in the neighborhood of Dubno, the Polish general staff at Warsaw announces. The soviet forces are in retreat everywhere, with the Polish army in pursuit. • • An explosion from an undetermined' cause occurred aboard the American steamship Mohegan; which was discharging its cargo aj Rio Janeiro. The vessel and the cargo were damaged $250,000. Armas Herman Saastamolnen, the first provisional minister from Finland, presented hfe credentials to Presiden* Wilson at Washington. Martial law has been proclaimed throughout Hungary! says a Budapest dispat th. i i•• * * • Thr Japanesp transport Shijlki Maru struc’; a rock and foundered south of according to a Nagasaki dispatch. One hundred and ten of thosf who were bn board are reported < missing. !

Hostilities broke out between the Germans and Poles on the southeastern Silesian frontier, the Germans gradually attacking the Polish lines I and occupying two villages. The Polish population rose and drove them out and occupied two villages on the German side of the line of demarcation. says a Warsaw dispatch. •• * * Railroad communication between Belgrade and Salonikl has been discontinued because of the destruction by ■ the Bulgarians of the bridge at Semia, * * * Domestic Secretary of the Navy Daniels and his official party of officers and men of the dreadnaught New York, arriving at Honolulu, were treated with the hospitality that long has distinguished the Hawaiian islands. ** * . Dr. P. F. Trowbridge of the North Dakota experimental station at Fargo stated that the state’s wheat crop this fall will total 50,000,000 bushels. A copy of a manifesto calling- upon President Carranza to resign, issued in Mexico City by Alfredo Robles Dominguez, prominent engineer and former adviser of President Madero, has been received at San Antonio, Tex. • • • The national convention of the newly formed National Labor party will be held in Chicago on November 22, with 2,000 delegates from all parts of the country in attendance. • « • One hundred Australian soldiers will arrive at New York from England Aui gust 29, on their way to the University of California, where they will take a course in agriculture. • « • k More than SIOO,OOO damage was done in the Connellsville (Pa.) coke region by a cloudburst, which flooded mines, swept away buildings, street railway and railroad tracks. Four Columbus (Ohio) baking com--1 panies, together with five officals of the companies, were indicted for violating the Valentine antitrust law by the Franklin county grand jury. Sixty-nine officers and 2,339 men of the Third division arrived at New York on the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria from Brest. Libel proceedings were started at St. Paul, Minn., by the government in the United States district court against Armour & Co. for the seizure of 165,210 pounds of frozen poultry. • • • Seven of the Mexican bandits who robbed sailors from the United States cruiser Cheyenne off Tampico last month have beer, apprehended and put to death by the Carranza authorities, according to a Galveston dispatch. • • • What ofltcers believe to be the largest moonshine stir tn Ohio was put out of commission when Cleveland detectives and federal authorities raided a house in a wood near Fullertown. • • * Traditions and professional ethics are wanted by the auctioneers of lowa, who opened a two-day conference at Mason City. Licensing of auctioneers and legislation to control them were also discussed. • • * Four Mexican bandits were killed by American troops in Mexico. Capt. Leonard Matlack, who arrived at Marfa, Tex., by airplane, reported the fight. They were surrounded in an adobe blockhouse the Mexicans had I constructed in a mountain pass. Walter Elliott, a negro, who is alleged to have assaulted a farmer’s wife, was shot to death two miles from Louisburg, N. C. The mob took the negro from Sheriff Kearney while on his way to jail. • • • With Mrs. Josephus Daniels, wife of the secretary of the navy, pressing the button that flooded the structure, the great Pearl Harbor dry dock at Honolulu was dedicated by Secretary Daniels. • • • One hundred tanks of the one-man type and 3,000 rifles have been shipped from the army reserve depot at Columbus, 0., to forts on or near the Mexican border within the last week. « • • The Third Avenue Railway company, operating 14 surface lines fn New York city and Westchester county, anrnounced it voluntaryily had granted a 25 per cent increase to its employees. • • • Street cars have resumed operation in Des Moines, la. Announcement was made after the striking motormen and conductors had considered plans suggested at a meeting of a citizens’ committee. • • • Andrew Carnegie died worth $50,000,000. His will is to be offered at New York for probate. Mr. Carnegie stipulated that the Home Trust company of Hoboken act as executor. • • • Lieut. H. G. Peterson, one of the two American aviators held by Mexican bandits for $15,000 ransom, crossed the border to the American side at 1:15 in the morning. The ransom money was taken across the border to the band rendezvous by Captain Matlack of the Eighth cavalry. Shortly after Lieutenant Peterson crossed the border Captain Matlack returned bringing with him Lieutenant bavls. The city scavengers at Freeport, lIL, struck because their request for a raise in wages was denied. •■ * « Six persons, all members of train crews, were almost instantly killed and 16 passengers.injured when Pere Marquette freight train No. 355, northbound, plowed head-on into southbound Traverse City-Grand Rapids passenger train No. 6 at Grawn, Mich. • • * A Washington dispatch says the American passenger liners Finland, Kroonland and Louisville (St. Louis) will be released from government service as soon as surveys for repairs have been made. All have been transports.

: PRESIDENT DENIES ; TREATYJMI PACT Wilson Tells Senate Committee ■ Congress Only War Maker. r • JAPAN WON’T RULE SHANTUNG Tells Senators Tokyo Has Promised to Give Up Any Sovereignty There— Asks Them to Interpret but Not to Change Treaty. ' Washington, Aug. 20.—1 n a conference at the White House unprecedented in American history. President Wil--1 son discussed the peace treaty with • the senate foreign relations commit- ’ tee, answered questions put by senators and gave out a stenographic transcript of the proceedings to the 1 public. • Some of the inside details of the peace conference, how the League of Nations covenant was drawn, and oth- ’ er historic happenings were handed out verbatim for the world to read. In contrast to the time-honored procedure of • secrecy, presidential and senatorial ‘ “confidence.” » Nothing approaching the conference ’ In that respect is recalled since George Washington went to the senate to discuss troubles with the Indians. ' Urges Speedy Ratification. Making a plea for ratification of the r treaty that the world might be turned 1 wholly back to a peace basis, the president said he saw no reasonable objection to the senate expressing its in- > terpretation of the League of Nations i covenant so long as those interpreta- , tions did not actually become part of r the act of ratification. If interpretations were part of the formal ratification, the president con- - tended, long delays would follow, as » other governments would have to “ac- ; cept in effect the language of the seni ate as the language of the treaty before ratification would be complete.* Most of the interpretations, the presit dent said, seemed to him to suggest t the “plain meaning of the Instrument i itself.” Must Get U. S. Consent The much-discussed article ten, the t president told the senators, was not of i doubtful interpretation when read in t connection with the whole covenant - The council, he said, could only “advise,” and as its action must be unanimous, the affirmative vote of the Unit- > ed States would be necessary for any » question affecting It. t Article sixteen, the president said, t provided that where there is a dispute , found to be solely within the jurisdiction of one of the parties; under International law, the league council shall • so report and make no recommendation for its settlement. Immigration, • tariffs and the like, the president said, I clearly came under that provision. The plan for the league, finally submitted in Paris, the president said, had > been built up first from a plan drawn • by a British committee headed by a Mr. Phillimore and later included ideas 1 from a plan drawn by General Smuts. • From these and other discussions, coupled with the president’s own ideas, the league plan was made. Own Redraft Not Submitted. His own private redraft of the Phillimore plan, the president said, was not submitted to the American peace mission. He had seen Secretary Laneing’s proposals only Informally. The president said the United States would have “complete freedom of choice as to the application of force” In carrying out article ten of the league covenant , The president told the committee the league council would have “nothing whatever” to do with deciding whether the United States had fulfilled Its obligations in case of withdrawal from the league. The conference was not held in the blue room, as had been planned, the president taking his visitors into the east room, where they were seated around a big table. Senator Lodge sat next to the president. Japan Won’t Rule Shantung. To a query as to what sovereignty Japan retained in Shantung President Wilson said: ,“She has not retained sovereignty over anything. I mean she has promised not to. Senator Borah has asked whether this understanding'was oral or otherwise. I do not like to describe the operation exactly If it is not perfectly discreet. As a matter of fact, this was technically oral, but literally written and formulated and the forinulation agreed upon.” President Wilson said ho disagreed with the opinion given the committee by Secretary Lansing that Japan would have signed the treaty regardless of whether it contained the Shantung provision. “When is the return (of Shantung to China) to be made?” asked Senator Johnson. “That was left undecided, but we were assured at the time that It would be as soon as possible.” “Did not the Japanese decline to fix any date?” “They did at that time, yes; but I think it is fair to them to say they could not at that time say when it would be.” Senator New—Mr. President. Joes not this Indefinite promise of Japan’s suggest the somewhat analagous case of England’s occupation of Malta? She has occupied Malta for something like a century, I believe, under a very slmi- r lar promise.

Little Helen’s Idea. Helen had a good imagination. One day. when playing blind man’s buff, ahe was seen crawling on all fours. The “blind man” stumbled over her and when she uncovered her eyes and asked why Helen was down on her knees, Helen replied: “I thought you would think It was a dog.” Excels the Nightingale. The hermit thrush Is declared to be the most talented and brilliant singer in the world, not even excepting the

The President —I hope you wiH pardon me if I do not answer that que»tion. Senator Fail asked who would defend the mandate territories against external aggression under the league, and the president replied that primarily the duty would rest with the mandatory power. Only through action by cengres* shall the United States lend any military assistance to other members of the League of Nations. This wa» stated emphatically by the president. The United States is only under moral obligations to the other nat’oQs, the president said, declaring that the league covenant does not In any way detract from the power of the congress. Asks About Other Treaties. After the president had delivered tain statement. Senator Lodge said: “Mr. President, so far as I am personally concerned—and I think I represent perhaps the majority of the committee in that respect—we hare no thought op entering ’upon arguments as to interpretations or points of that character; but the committee was rery , desirous of getting information on certain points which seem not clear and' , on which they thought information would be of value to have in consideration of the treaty which they, Y think I may say for myself and others, desire to hasten in every possible, way. “Your reference to the necessity of action leads me to ask one question. If we have to restore peace to theworld, it is necessary, I assume, that there should be treaties with Austria. Hungary, Turkey and Bulgaria. These treaties are all more or less connected with the treaty with Germany. The question I should like to ask is. what the prospect receiving those treaties for action?” • Senate Cause of Delay. The President—l think it is very good, sir, and so far as I can judgo 1 from the contents of the dispatches from my colleagues on the other side of the water, the chief delay is dne to the uncertainty as to what is going happen to this treaty. This treaty is a model of the others. I saw enough 1 of the others before I left Parte toknow that they are being framed on the same, set of principles and the treaty with Germany Is the model. I think that Is the chief element of delay, sir. ‘ Senator are not regarded as essential to the consideration this treaty? * ‘ I The President—They are not regarded as such, no sir; they follow this treaty. Senator Lodge—l do not know about the other treaties, but the treaty with Poland,- for example, has been completed. Treaty With Poland Signed. i The President —Yes and signed; teut It is dependent upon this treaty. My thought was to submit it upon the action on this treaty. J Senator Lodge then asked whether the pesident could show the committee the tentative League of Nations drafts submitted by Great Britain. France and Italy. The President—l would have sen* them to the committee with pleasure, senator, if I had found that I had them. I took-It for granted that I had tteenay but the papers that remain in my hand* remain there in a haphazard way. I can tell you the character of the other drafts. The British draft was the only one as I remember that was in the form of a definite constitution of a league. The French and Italian drafts were in the form of a series of propositions laying down general ryles- and assuming that t he commission, or whatever body made the final formulations would build upon principles if they were adopted. They were principles quite consistent with the final action. At Liberty to Interpret. In reply to Senator McCumber the president repeated that he felt it would be a mistake to embody Interpretations in the resolution of ratiflentioa. saying: “We can Interpret only a moral obligation. The legal obligation can be enforced by such machinery a* there is to enforce it. We are therefore at liberty to interpret the in Which we undertake a moral obligation.” Senator McCumber asked witether the other nations could not accept interpretations by the senate “by acquiescence.” The President—My experience as a lawyer was not very long, but that ex? perience would teach me mat the language of a contract is always part of the debatable matter, and I can testify that in our discussions in the commission on the League of Nations we did not discuss ideas half as much as we. discussed phraseology. The president said if reservations were embodied in the ratification “there would have to be either explicit acquiescence or thfe elapsing of a long enough time for us to know whether they (the other governments) were ini--plicitly acquiescing or not.” Guests at Lbncheon. ' The satisfaction of the president’s household turned into positive j«v when the senators accepted Mr. Wilson’s invitation to stay to lunciienu. “The pleasant character nf the luncheon,” said Senator Borah, “indicates merely that the opponents of the treaty are not in the least actuated by any personal hostility to the president. They merely disagree with him upon principle and policy.” Senator Borah, and other sealers who have opposed the treaty. Laid this would be made manifest w the senate within the next few days, when it will be demonstrated that no convictions had been changed by the discussion at the White House or by the ■friendly familiarity at the president*? table.

nightingale, says the American Forest- > ry association. The tail of this little bird is of a reddish brown, much brighter than the back and head, while the breast is quite heavily spotted with black. It winters «n the Gulf states. Mrs. MrJaprop. Mrs. Browne—Yes; they’re in Egypt now, and will spend title summer on the Nile. Mrs. Malaprop—How nice! They will get a chance to see all them Pyrenees and the Phoenix, won’t they!.' .