Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-10
ASSERTS TREATY WILL
CAUSE LIVELY TIMES
II Opinions Now Expressed Go in
Senate Things Will
Burn.
ONE SENATOR HAS NEW IDEA
Would Have League at Proposed
Meeting i'll Washington During
October Receive and Pass on
Treaty After Senate Acts on 1t.
by JUSTIN McGRATu.

WASH NOTION. May 9.-Scnator
mc nsw it,e::, Ill, Illinois. today advanced
the covenant of tho league OF nations
Inc argument has been made that if
INC INC treaty were amended by the Sen.
by the allies and the United States
, wheh v rensscmbied In Paris, and that
Senator Mccormick suggests that if
the first meeting OF tho league of ma
tons is to- be held in WASHINGTON in
the Senate could be submitted TO tho
league At that time and passed on i'm
the revised form.
Views Show state of Mind.
= II Republican Senator'S talk in the
senate when the peace treaty is un-
der consideration as they now say pri-
,Vaicly they intend to talk, there arc
lively times ahead
Some of them have found now
arsuihcnt against tho league OF nations
as a result OF = careful reading of the
summary of the treaty. 1t is that tho
the covenant as it now stands is to
commit tho United States to preserve
Tor the victor ious allies the territory
tne payment of the great indemnities
which they have imposed. | am rather
INCLINED TO doubt that any of them
nan nant on this ground when it comes to
nc test: If they really had made up
,he mind to fight the covenant
through a conviction that the United
states ought not TO stand as the guar
antor or eNactions mposed on Ger
think, to take that stand publicly now
Nevertheless. their views privately
expressed have an interest as indicat-
ing their present state of mind
Ono Calls E1nctions IIursh.
Why should we continue to fool
ourselves about the situation which
confronts the people of this country
nsoi result OF the treaty which has
OF these Senators to me today I'VE
are only laying up trouble for our
S SSrie in the future by this sclf-dc-
what we really think.
p, TO" an yman can read the. sum
FOR which President Wilson said VIC
Went 10 war is beyond my understand
i nG rms treaty. instead Of bers an
niEh prihcipies or International NOR
amy which the President proclaimed is
that 10 the victor belongs the spoils.
II differs from past treaties only i'm
the new high standard ii sets of harsh
cNactions.
Against Proclaimed Principles.
Now even if we grant that it is
right and just that Germany should
nave all her colonies taken from her
should surrender large slices OF he,.
ties which will crush generations yet
unborn, why should the United States.
which gets neither territory nor in
IDENTITIES, bind itself for all time to
guarantee Great Britain, France,
ltayl. Belgium. Poland Serbia and the
others permanent possession of the
spotls they still intend to demand OF
Turkey and BulEaria?
Since the peace is not being made
on our plan, but in mos, respccts
against our proclaimed principles why
should we bind ourselves to forever
guarantee it's terms? That the Amcri-
can people should commit themselves
to such folly is incomprchensi bile TO
me-"
Concludes Lively Time Coming.
Some of the Senators said that tho
cabled statement in the press today
that President Wilson had written the
treaty which violaes nearly all the
principles which he so vigorously cs-
pouscd when the United States entered
the war was the browning absurdity
Having gotten little or nothing for
which he contcndcd," remarked one
critic. the President is now being
given the cred ii for authorship of the
treaty which has embittercd the pco-
pie Of Germany. At least we might
have been saved that"
IL opinions such as these shall be
given voice in the Senate when the
treaty is UP for consideration in opcu
session. then L repeat lively times are
ahead"