Arizona republican., 1919-05-27
RULE IF WHITES
 GIVEN OVER BY LEAGUE ARTICLES
Reeds Speech Keen Andy sis of Race Feature Says Charter Gives One Negro of Panama. Vote Equality With 50O,OOO White Amer jeans
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 WASHINGTON, May 26.-The lea gue of nations was debated in the sen ate again today with an increasing show of bitterness.
 Senator Reed, democrat of Missouri, attacked the proposal in such vigorous terms that he aroused repeated objec- tions from senators supporting it and developed a running debate, colored by dramatic accusations, and heated retorts.
 The Missouri senator declared the league would place the destinies of the white race in the hands of ignorant and superstitious nations of black and yellow populations. and charged that many democrats were supporting it for partisan reasons.
 In frequent interruptions of Senator Reeds speech, Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, ranking democrat of the for eign relations committee. insisted that the premises for these charges were false and that the inference drawn were unfair and dangerous. He drew in return a reply from Senator Knox, republican of Pennsylvania, who sug- gested that supporters of the league covenant should read it before they dis cussed it.
 So heated did the exchanges become at one point that the chair rapped for order and Senator Reed declared that Senator Hitchcock had lost his tenn per-"
 Would Surrender White Rule
 The measure which brought the lea que issue before the senate was the resolution of Senator Johnson. repub- lican of California, requesting from the state department the full text of the fu wa to reach a vote on the resolution and l. the measure went over again as un- finished business, to come up when the senate reconvenes Wednesday. With out spaking directly on the Johnson resolution, Senator Reed made gen eral attack on the covenant itself as | proposal to hand over control of the l white race and the civilized world to an assembly of nations where a majority always could be brought together on any race question, in opposition to white supremacy.
 ! He declared support of the plan nev- i CT could be explained at home by sen ators from the south. with it's negro I problem, or from the west, with it's Chinese and Japanese problems. Turn ing dramatically to his democratic colleagues, he continued:
 If republican president had brought it here-if Roosevelt had 1 brought it here-there isn't a democrat that wouldn't have been standing by my side fighting to the last ditch to l rescue the country from so monstrous and so cruel a thing.~
 One Negro Made Powerful
 Senator Hitchcock interjected that Mir. Reed confused the powers of the league membership with those of the council, but this was denied by MT Reed.
 Analyzing racial and moral condi- tions in Honduras, Panama and other small nations, which would have league membership, Senator Reed said "Oh, you men of the south-you lily whites You want to give Panama, with it's 90 per cent of negroes and mu- lattos, a vote equal to the United States. Go tell your people that, in Ethe league, one negro outside the United States would have vote equal to 5O0,- 900 whites of this republic" Southern democrats particularly were chided for refusing to recognize the negro as an equal at the ballot box, but at the same time accepting South Afri- ca, and other nations, where the black race predominates as members of the league assembly, on an equality with the United States.
 In his speech of nearly three hours, Senator Reed presented mass of sta tistics and other information regard ing the smaller members Of the league The member nations in which the white race was predominant, he said, totaled in population, 2S9, 9,4SS. 800. while those where other races are in the majority had a. population of S11.- 425,0o0. He said white nations would have fifteen votes in the league and other nations seventeen.
 Illiteracy is 85 Per Cent
 In these countries, he asserted, the : average of illitracy was S5 per cent , and he quoted extensively from refer ence works to show that many of them were overrun with superstition. While the Missouri senator was ss- } sailing the league in the senate, rep resentative Madden, republican of IT. . linois, made a speech critiizing it in the house, and declaring the American l people never mingle on equal terms |, with the peoples of Europe. No gen eral debate developed however. When the Johnson resolution comes . up in the senate Wednesday, Senator Robinson, democrat of Arkansas, ex- 7 poets to open debate with a speech supporting the league