The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-09-16
N Gu MBER SWATS
REPORT Of MAJORITY
AGAINST THE TREATY
SAYS ACTION is SELFISH, MINOR
Al AND DISHONORABLE AND
EXPRESSES JINGO SPIRIT

Washington, Sept. l5.-Rejection OF
all proposed amendments to the German
peace treaty and modification of the
recommended strong" reservations was
urged in an individual minority report
filed with the senate today by Senator
McCumber, republican, of North Dakota.
next in rank ON the foreign relations
committee to Chairman Lodge. Sena.
tor McCumber did not join in the recent
republican majority report and voted
with the democrats on amendments and
several reservations.
Attacking the majority report of
Chairman Lodge, Senator McCumber
denounced most of the majority amend
ments as selfish, immoral and dshon.
orable,' and charged that they seek ITO
Isolate the United States from the rest
of the world and abandon our allies"
"Fo the substance of some of the pro-
posed resolutions" Senator McCumber's
report declared there can bee no serious
objection. But against the manner in
which they are asserted | do most earn.
estly protest. They are couched In
defiant dscourteous and overbearing
manner and seem intended to express a
jmgoistc spirit that ought to be elm.
mated from American statesmanship'
Scoring the committee reservations to
Article 10 of the league of nations GOV.
enant, Senator McCumber said it really
is an amendment, pure and simple"
and designed to take the United States
entirely out of the league.
Special opposition was expressed by
Senator McCumber to the proposed
amendment of the Shantung provision.
by this amendment, he said Japan
would be kicked OUT out of the league
by the United States. and Shantung
possibly lost to China.
Calling attention to what he termed
the failure of the committees majority
to explain the purposes of the league.
Senator McCumhcr said:
Not one word is said not a single
allusion made, concerning either the
great purpose Of the League of Nations
or the methods by which those purposes
are to be accomplished.
Irony and sarcasm have been sub.
stituted for argument. 1t is regrettable
that the animosity which centers almost
wholly against the league should have
been engendered against a subject so
| important to the worlds welfare. IT il
regrettable that the consideration OF a
matter so foreign to partisanship
should be influenced by hostility toward
or subserviency to the president"
Anayzing the committee amendments
! senator Mp(rnpphats
ments TO give the United States equal
votes in the league with England and
the British colonies was unnecessary.
The plan of giving each member ma.
ton one vote without regard to size
or Importance was the only possible
pan, the senator argued, adding that,
to all intents and purposes, the Brit,
ish colonies are Independent.
Senator McCumber said his only OBJ.
lection TO the Lodge reservation on
withdrawal from the league was OF
Article 10 Senator McCumber said he
had many objections.
First, it is an amendment pure and
simple" he said, "of the most import.
ant article in the league. Its purpose
is to take the United States as a pow.
er for the peace Of the world out Of the
league entirely.
Second it places this country in
a false and wrong position, an attitude
Of encouraging countries to inflict or
impose any wrong upon weaker ma.
tions, by our declared policy of non
intervention"
with his report Senator McCumber
submitted the six reservations he cham.
pions as substitutes for the commit
tee reservations. These recently were
made public.