The Daily Star-Mirror

VOLUME VIII
MOSCOW, LATAH COUNTY, IDAHO, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1919
NUMBER 288

WASHINGTON.—President Wilson, in a final conference today with Senator Hitchcock, of Nebraska, before his departure tomorrow on his speaking tour, expressed confidence that the treaty of peace with Germany and the league of nations covenant, included therein, will finally be ratified without amendment and without "destructive reservations."
The president told Senator Hitchcock in addresses he will make on this trip he expects to "emphasize the fact that delay in ratification is obstructing legislation on the cost of living, the railroad question and reconstruction problems.
Hitchcock Denounces Lodge, Knox, et al.
WASHINGTON.—Declaring the real purpose of the foreign relations committee majority in amending the peace treaty was to kill the treaty entirely and that such a course would be suicidal to the United States, Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, democratic leader, asserted in the senate in a speech today, that a majority of the senators never would accept any committee changes.
The proposal of Senator Knox, republican, of Pennsylvania, that the treaty be rejected and a separate peace be made with Germany, he characterized as "insane poltroonery and folly."
New Zealand Ratifies the Treaty.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Tuesday.—(By the Associated Press.)—The peace treaty with Germany was unanimously ratified by parliament after members of the labor party had criticized the pact.
Kolchak Evacuates Omsk.
LONDON.—(By the Associated Press.)—A wireless dispatch from Moscow received here reports Admiral Kolchak, head of the All-Russian government.  has evacuated Omsk and transferred his headquarters to Irkutsk. Bolshevik! Suing for Peace. 