The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1919-09-19
Minority in Foreign Relations
Commit ee Thus Challenges
Report Of Lodge Majority
WORLD PEACE IN BALANCE
Until Treaty Becomes Effective Fer.
ment In Financial and Industrial
World viii Continue.

on Foreign Relations made the report
today to the senate on the Peace
Treaty and League of Nations cove
nant. The report was signed by Sen
ators Hitchcock, Williams, Swanson.
Pomerene, Smith and Pittman. The
report is a direct challence TO the ma.
jority report of the committee made to
the senate yesterday which recon-
mended a number Of amendments and
reservations to the treaty and owe
nant.
The minority report declares adop-
ton by the senate OF these amend
ments and reservations to the treaty
and covenant,
The minority report declares adop-
ton by the senate of these amend
ments or reservations would kill the
present treaty and necessitate the re
opening of negotiations with the Allies
and Germany. The report is a plea to
the senate and the country for ratifi-
cation for the treaty without amend
ment or reservation. to the end that
Industrial conditions be stabilized on
the basis Of world peace, guaranteed
by the nations of the world organized
in a League Of Nations,
1.-THE Industrial world Is in ferment,"
says the report, the financial world
I'm doubt and commerce halts while
this great delay in the peace settle
ment has been caused by the major
ity Of a committee known to be out VI
harmony with the majority OF the sen
ate and the majority of the people.
This is government by obstruction as
well as by a minority"
Our export trade already shows
the undeniable effects Of delay and
doubt in treaty ratification and peace
settlement. For the first seven months
following the armistice our exports
averaged almost eve hundred mill.
ions per month but in July they fell
to $3.50, 600, 900. Europe undoubtedly
wants our products but can only take
them in full quantity il our financial
institutions provide the credit to
bridge oyer the period necessary to
restore European industry to product
iveness. This private credit cannot
and will not be furnished as long as
the peace settlement is In doubt. Pub
lie credit has heretofore carried this
great balance OF trade
"Our government, however. has
about reached the end Of its authority
given by congress and will advance
but little more. From now on II we
are to keep up our m with
Europe private enterprise must fur
nish the credit to cover the trade
balance until European Industries gel
started and are able to pay Us with
their goods. Peace settlement delays
sll doubts and paralyzes this revival
II uncertainty continues depression is
inevitable.
referring to the action OF the ma
jority of the committee We unite IL
opposing and condemning the recon-
mendations both as TO textual amend
ments and as to proposed reserya
tions. In our opinion amendment,
have no merit. but whether they be
good. bad or Indifferent their adoption
by the senate can have no possibl,
effect except to defeat the partici
patton OF the United States in thu
treaty. No need Of them could by any
possibility be accepted even by The
great nations associated with tn,
United States in the wal and no neeC
of them could by any possibility bC
dictated to Germany. To adopt am
one Of them, therefore, is equivalen
to rejecting the treaty.
"To adopt an amendment or to re
? ject the treaty means that the unite'
States will sacrifice all Of the cohces
biOHo htAuiNu AAonA otAhNh1 ~ q uAN
: tated peace. Among the concession
which the United States would sac
rifice by the adoption OF anv amend
ment or the rejection Of the treat,
may be included in the following:
First, Germany's acknowledgement
Of responsibility for the war and he
promise to make restitution for dan
ages resulting,
Second, Germany's promise to u
IN the treaty that she will not in
, pose higher or other customs duties o
charges on our goods than thos
charged the most favored nation an
viii not prohibit or restrict or dis
eliminate against imports directly o
indirectly from our country.
third. Germany's promise to us 1
the treaty that she will make no diI
elimination in German ports on shiI
ping bearing our flag aud that GU
shipping In German ports will be civ
en- as favorable treatment as Germa
ships receive.
Fourth, that for six months afte
the treaty goes into effect NJ custom
duty will be levied against import
from the United States except tn
fo.v.pt dutfao that n apo IN farca IA