Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-09-11


 ized as an alliance and not league which twill breed wars instead of securing peace," the German peace treaty including the covenant for a league of nations was formally re- ported to the senate today by the foreign relations committee with 45 amendments and four reservations. It will be the first great document of it's kind to be discussed in the op- en-without the confines of "execu- tive session." Accompanying the treaty was the majority report of the foreign relations committee sub- scribed to by every republican mem Der excepting Senator McCumber of North Dakota, explaining the amend ments and reservations, all of which it was declared were governed by a single purpose and that is to guard American rights and sovereignty, the invasion of which would stimulate breaches of faith, encourage con- flicts and generate wars.'
 The reservations propose:
 1. Unconditional right to
 withdraw from the league.
 2. Destination to assume any
 fthe obligations of the much
 discussed article 10 "except by
 action of the congress of the
 United States"
 3. Reserving to the United
 States the exclusive right to de-
 eide what questions are within
 it's own domestic jurisdiction.
 4. Absolute reservation of the
 Monroe doctrine to the judgment
 of the United States alone.
 The principal amendments are proposed to provide:
 Equal voting power for the United States with Great Britain in the as- sembly of the league.
 Giving to China instead of Japan the province of Shantung.
 Relief of the United States from having representatives on commits sions deciding matters in which it has no concern.
 Others concern phraseology.
 These amendments and reserva- tions, the majority report says, are submitted ito preserve American in- dependence and American sovereignty and thereby best serve the welfare of mankind"
 As to Acceptance.
 Fears that other nations may not accept an amended covenants the re- port dismissed with the statement: That is one thing that certainly will not happen. + # The other nations will take us on our own terms for without us, their league is a wreck and all their gains from 8 victorious peace are imperilled"
 That the adoption of amendments vxy1lI 1t,fn ,f tlT peace conference the report denies asserting that the conference prob ably will be in session for six months more in Paris and might as well be lat least as usefully employed" as they now are in dividing and sharing Southeastern Europe and Asia Min. or"
 German delegates, the report con. tends, could easily be brought tc Paris and as Germany is not mem. Der of the league she need not be consulted about changes of the covenant.
 At the outset the majority report deals at length with criticisms of de. lay and points out that whereas the peace conference took six months tc agree in the treaty, the senate for elgn relations committee has had 41 working days. Demands for speed in the most important subject that ever came before the senate of the United States," the report says, were largely the work of the administra- tion and it's newspaper organs"
 A second artificial" demand fo1 haste, the report says, came from "certain great banking firms which had direct pecuniary interest in securing an early opportunity to real the harvest in the adjournment ot financial obligations of the warning countries. The third was in the minimizing outcry of many excellent people who desired early action and for the most part had never read the treaty or never got beyond the words league of nations which they believ. ed to mean the establishment of eter- nal peace."
 Delays Elsewhere.
 "To yield helplessly to this clamor' declared the report, twas impossible to those to whom was intrusted the performance of solemn public duty Recalling the senate's responsibility as equal with the presidents the re-
 
 faculties the foreign relation com mittee experienced in getting infor- nation on the treaty obliged to send to Paris for maps, being compelled to get imperfect information from press reports" and having at it's dis posal few official documents. Col lateral treaties, having at it's dispos- al few official documents. Collateral treaties, having a bearing, the report says, the committee was unable tc get. Of the sum of information re- ceived in conferences with President Wilson and Secretary Lansing, the report remarks:
 "The people themselves know how much information in regard to the peace treaty was received by the committee upon those two occasions While criticism for delay has been aimed at the foreign relations cont- nlltte. the report points out no act ion has been taken by France, Japan or Italy.
 The argument that the treaty