The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-09-12
Reports to Senate that Rejection
of League of Nations Cove
nant Would Mean Loss of
All German Concessions.
PEACE CONFERENCE
POWER is REMOVED
Versailles Delegation Has No
Further Authority to Call
Germans Back as Suggested
i'm Majority Report.

Washington, Sept. 11.-Reiection of
the peace treaty with it's league OF ma
tions covenant or adoption of amend
ments would mean sacrifice by the
United States of all concessions OBJ
tanned from Germany under dictated
peace, minority members of the for
eign relations committee declared in a
report presented today to the senate.
The report, prepared by Senator
Hitchcock, cs Nebraska. ranking demo-
cratic member of the committee, urged
speedy ratification of the treaty with
out amendments or reservations. 1t
deplored the long and unnecessary
delay TO which the treaty has been
subjected while locked up in the COM
mittee whose recommendations were
from the start a foregone conclusion,
and asserted these recommendations
could have been made in July
Senator Shields democrat of Ten
nessee, did not sign the report, having
announced he favored league covenant
reservations prepared by Chairman
Lodge. IT was stated he would not
present separate report. Those sign
ing in addition to Senator Hitchcock
were Senators Williams OF Mississippi;
Swanson. OF Virginia; Pomerene. of
Ohio; Smith, OF Arizona, and Pittman.
The minority denied tho claim put
forth in Chairman Lodges report that
the peace conference still was in ses-
sion and has power to bring German
representatives to Paris" saying such
power of compulsion had been exhaust
ed and that Germany, had closed
the chapter by signing and by rati-
flying"
IF an amended treaty is not signed
by Germany" the report added. "then
IL is i'm none of its parts binding on
her"
The report mentioned twelve conces-
sions the United States would lose by
failure 70 ratify the treaty, these in
cluding industrial and economic ad-
vantages of destroying the league
which has stood "the test of world
wide criticism and unlimited attack
The minority urged that the work o
the peace conference be confirmed ant
the peace OF the world advanced b,
ratification of the treaty described a.
the best hope of the world. "even |
like all nstrumentalities it be not dt
vinely perfect in every detail"
The report contended that the in
dustrial world was Sin ferment." th
financial world in doubt and commerc
halted while delay in the treaty ha'
been caused. "by the majority OF !
committee known to be out of harmon,
with the majority of the senate an
the majority of the people" Thi
was declared to be government by OBJ
struction as well as by minority.
Export trade. the report said ha
suffered because OF delay in ratifica
ton; that private credit waited fo
peace and that this government. whic
has been advancing to European gov
ernments. has about reached the en-
OF it's authority given it by ccngres:
Private enterprise, il said, from noN
on must keep up American comme-c
with Europe. Answering the major
ity the report said exports to German
since the armistice amounted to onl
fourteen cents worth of American pro
ducts for each person i'm Germany, c
two cents per person per month.