The sun., 1919-09-11
CHANGES VITAL
TO j. s. ASSERTS
TREATY REPORT
Chairman Shows Necessity
of Preserving American
Principles.
HITCHCOCK WILL FIGHT
Minority to Submit Contrary
Statement Upholding the
President.
HITCHCOCK WILL FIGHT

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.-The peace
treaty, with it's greatest wrongs
rlghted by the Foreign Relations
Committee, and containing the League
of Nations covenant with its most
serious faults eliminated by reserva-
tions, was reported to the Senate to-
day by Senator Lodge (Mass.).
AS chairman of the Foreign Rela-
tions Committee Senator Lodge intro
duced report pointedly marking the
fatal defects of the original treaty
and league covenant and answering
effectively many of the attacks made
on the committee of late by the Presl-
dent. The motive of the majority
members Of the committee in making
the changes in the treaty and agree
ing upon reservations was tersely
summed up as follows in concluding
the report:
To preserve American indepen-
dence and American sovereignty,
and thereby best serve the welfare
of mankind, the committee propose
these amendments and reserva-
tions.
Mr.. Lodge pointed out that the
criticisms of delay" aimed at the
committee in considering the treaty
and the league were manufactured by
the Administration and It's news
paper organs" by financial interests
vitality interested in the Wilson
League, and by the unthinking outcry
of many excellent people" who "for
the most part had never read the
treaty."
''ro yield helplessly to this clamor
was impossible with those 10 whom
was entrusted the performance of a
solemn public duty" the report de-
clared.
Committee Work Hampered.
Despite the hampering of the COM
mittee's deliberations by refusing it
vitally important documents, the ne
cessity Of sending to Paris for maps to
show how 1t was intended to cut up
Europe. the fact that many documents
were obtained from the British House
Of Commons and the French Chamber
Of Deputies before the President saw
fit to transmit them to Congress, and
the lack OF specific information from
the President and the Secretary of
State, the committee used only thirty
seven working days in deliberation
over the enormously bulky document,
1t was pointed out. The Presidents
absences at the Paris conferences
lasted more than half a year.
The plea that trade with Germany
cannot be resumed until the treaty is
ratified was manufactured out OF whole
cloth. the report showed. as such trade
has been in progress for some time. In
June American exports to Germany ex-
ceeded the same sort of American trade
with Spain.
The "sedulousIy cultivated and con-
stantly expressed fear that textual
amendments to the treaty would require
summoning Of the Peace Conference
again Is only another vision on the
horizon, the report says. The confer
ence is now In session in Paris with all
of the Powers signatory to the treaty
represented, and is likely to remain there
another six months. Thus textuaI
amendments could be considered there at
once.
Such employment would be at least as
useful, the report stated. as dividing
and sharing southeastern Europe and
Asia Minor" German delegates could
be brought to Paris instanter. So far
as the league is concerned, the report
points out briefly that when Germany
enters the league she will take it as she
finds it,"
Reservations Explained.
The report explains fully the -four
reservations:
The right OF American withdrawal.
Refusal TO obligate the United
States to protect the territorial integ-
rity of the whole world.
The right to decide what are purely
American domestic questions.
The protection OF the Monroe Doc
trlne.
The amendments likewise are ex.
planned. Many OF them merely deny
American representation on many com.
missions provided in the peace treaty
One amendment provides for American
representation on the reparations com.
mission. but without vote except where
shipping quest ons in which the United
| States are directly involved are con.
cerned.
The amendment TO turn Shantung ovei
to China instead OF Japan is explained
briefly. So also are the amendment.
providing for voting power for Americs
equal to that OF Great Britain and hei
dominions. Another amendment provide.