M. President. if the Senator from Wisconsin will pardon me. the Senator from Nevada read from the treaty a provision which President Wilson had put in that treaty upon his return to Europe. after he had brought the original draft here and conferred with various and sundry Members of this body. My recollection. is that upon his return to Europe he incorporated in the treaty a provision similar to the one the Senator is now discussing. namely. that tie treaty should not apply or be construed to apply to purely domestic questions. such as immigration. which I think was almost the language. Now. with that very language or substantially the same language in the Versailles treaty as in this treaty. when that treaty came before the Senate the majority in this body insisted that the rights of the United States could only be safeguarded by the specific terus of the resolution just read by the Senator .from Nevada in the reservation. The two cases seem to ine to be on all fours. and it is strange. with that history fresh in the minds of at least two of the delegates. that they should not have insisted upon incorporating in the treaty some such provision as they had insisted upon incorporating in the resolution of ratification of the Versailles treaty.
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