The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-10

the medium OF iaISe
army.
\ Still more unimportant Is the bug.
bear which has been put forward o.
the enormous difficulties which VIII
be incurred in securing the adneslon
of Germany, NO great amount OF Itne
need be consumed in bringing GERMAN
Representatives to Paris.
When Germany enters the league
she will take II as she finds 1t.
The first amendment offered by the
committee relates to the league. II Is
proposed so to amend the text to
secure for the United States vote IN
the assembly of the league equal TO
that of any other power. Great brl-
tain now has under the name OF the
British empire one vote in the council
of the league. She has four additional
votes in the assembly of the league
| for her self governing domlnions ana
colonies, which are most properly
members of the league and signatorles
to the treaty.
| She also has the vote of India wnlcn
is neither self governing dominion or
colony. Great Britain also Will con-
| troll the votes of the kingdom OF HeJaz
/ and of Persia. But if Great Britain
has six votes in the league Assembly
no reason has occurred to the com
mittee and no argument has Deen
made to show why the United States
should not have an equal number. III
other countries like the present dr-
rangement that is not our affair; put
| the committee failed to see why the
| United States should have but one
vote in the assembly Of the league
when the British empire has six.
| Amendment number two is simply TO
provide that where member OF tne
league has self governing dominlons
and colonies which are also members
of the league, the exclusion OF the as
putants under the league rules snaii
cover the aggregate vote OF the mem
Der OF the league and its self govern
| ing dominions and parts OF empires
combined if any one of them Is In
volved in the controversy.
The committee proposes four reser-
vations to be made part or the reso-
luton of ratification when 1t Is Oh
fered. The four reservations now pre-
scented are as follows:
1.-The United States reserves TO
| itself the unconditional right to with
| draw from the league Of nations upon
the notice provided in Article One or
said treaty of peace with Germany.
The provision in the league cuve-
nant for withdrawal declares that any
member may withdraw providing 1t
has fulfilled all of its international 3D.
| legations and all its obligations under
the covenant.
! On such a point as this there must
be no doubt The United States which
has never broken an international op-
legation, cannot permit its existing
/ treaties to be reviewed and its con-
duct and honor questioned by other ma
tons. 1t must be made perfectly clear
that the United States alone is to de-
termine as to the fulfillment of its Cd.
legations, and its right to withdrawal
must therefore be unconditional as
provided in the reservation.
2-The United States declines to as
sumo under the provisions of article
item or under any other article, any oo-
LEGATION to preserve the territorial
Integrity or political independence OF
any other country or to interfere In
controversies or to adopt economic
measures for the protection OF any
other country, whether member Oh
| the league or not, against external ag-
/ gression or for the purpose of coercins
any other country or for the purpose OF
Intervention in the internal conrilcts
or other controversies which may
arise in any other country and no man
date shall be accepted by the united
States under article twenty two, part
one of the treaty of peace with Ger
many, except by action of the con-
gress Of the United States.
! This reservation Is intended to meet
| the most vital objection to the league
covenant as 1t stands. Under no CIT
| cumstances must there be any legal Q,
moral obligation upon the Unlteu
! States to enter into war or TO SEND lte
army and navy abroad or without the
unfettered action Of congress TO I'M
! nose economic boycotts on other coun'
tries.
! This reservation also covers the
subject of mandates. The decision
as to accepting mandate must rest
exclusively within the controi Oh tne
United States congress as lhe fesel
vation provides and must not De oele
gated. even by inference, to any Per
sonal agent or to any delegate or
commissioner.
| 3-The United States reserves TO
itself exclusively the right to decide
tic jurisdiction. -.
| It is not necessary to follow out
here all tortuous windings, which 10
those who have followed them
through the labyrinth discloses the
fact that the league under certain con-
iditions will have power to pass upon
and decide questions of immigration
and tariff, as well as the others men
/ ioned in the reservation.
| The fourth and last reservation ls
as follows: , -
THE United States declines TO
submit for arbitration or aroitration
or inquiry by the assemDly or uue
,orncil ri the league of nations pro-
yided for in said treaty of peace any
1 questions which in the Judgment OF
the United States depend upon or re-
late to its long established policy,
commonly known as the Monroe doc
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