Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-24
SENATOR FROM ILLINOIS
ATTACKS LEAGUE PLAN
introduces Resolution to Separate
World Society Provision
From Treaty.
DECLARES IT REVOLUTIONARY
Gays altruism Never Before Rose So
far Above Human Nature and
common Sense Than In tho Fran.
ing Of Covenant at Paris.

BY Associated prcss.l
ASlilNGTOS. May 23-A rcsolu-
AZ, an Ieciarins II the sense Of the Sen
80 that TIE covenant Of the league
W hatoE: be separated from the peace
caaty when II is submitted for ratif-
Of Illinois.
az the Senator's request action on
VIC resolution was deferred.
tsps;ors Eesa MissoSSr Ee and io habn .Sa,
on the subject next Monday Senator
Itecd IL expected TO oppose tho league
Plan and Senator Robinson to sup
The attack on the league Of nations
nsshn when Senator Sherman bitterly
, bounced tho league proposal as a reXo-
tntionarE attempt to set up "a para
a-chy'
Says National Sovereignty Conc.
.taponai aotcrc iGnty would disap-
Eear under the league. the Illinois
centuries Of struggle would be lost for.
SCI. Doomed with. the curse OF
rom its inception and birth" the
league, he predicted. would become "a
f.sanuc hrebrand for world conHa-
Senator Sherman made his address
, f,ess sInso ~ re, resoimiion deciaring
league covenant should be separated
from the peace treaty when the latter
IS submitted 10 the Scnat" for ratifca-
ton He charged that covenant and
treaty had been closely int.rwovcn in
me final draft for the deliberate pur-
nose Of securing notes for the former
ana argued that separate consideration
you'd give an opportunity for the
Senate and country TO pass a more
sober verdict:
Says President broke Faith.
Iin charged president, Wilson had
Srohen faith with China. Poland and
Italy; had yielded TO Grea, Britain
hac endcaNorcd 70 subvcrt the funda-
mental laws OF the republic, and had
Dromised 10 embark the United states
tend a million soldiers abroad
(. Senator. have not yst fully. measured
acler OF the assault made by the au-
'hors OF the league on American gov
ore sinister ahn ssseb,2 Of 5eye
threatened tho peace and safety OF our
.ountry than now demand that un-
limited powers over the lives and for
tunes Of tn" American poplc be sur
rendered into their keeping"
s,ii9 fNIyyisiggs. The original covenant:
Paris had improved only its gram
Iratical texture
"i.s3c The orig insl document i, is IN
he said "Asaiu it mus; be .cccp tcd ~
II flashes from the summit, where
come political bIasphemy 10 question
and treason 10 try To understand
Deliberately teriocked.
F. The league OF nations Is interlocked
Win the treaty OF peace dcslsnedly
for an Interior purpose. II II can be
welded upon the peace treaty il is
supposed 10 procure votes otherwise
impossible II IS confessed case OF
loGroIl!ng II tho league be ratified
while the government Is al var. the
vast and Unknown "ar powers OF un-
defined extent will be invoked TO
declare !; valid. II peace he FIRST con-
tlGded. those extensive and underlined
wa powers disappear
'Ie, this senate first ra;ify treaty
OF peaCr. th"n We may consider under
CIVIL procedure aud ciyil authority
unawch by executive war powers the
colossal vital changes proposed IN our
form Of government.
"Altruism never before rose 50 far
above the human nature and common
sense, nor idcHlism 50 deluded its
visionary worshIpcrs. The misguided
imagination % intellectual peTvcr;s
las wrought more evil than the vsci-
Gus propcnsitics o! the criminal Tho
man who writes book 20 protray
rev and perfect government he ms.
!, sarrs US NJ has invented IS more
1euyc~ous 20 his country than the
anarchist.
Charge. Disregard of Inv.
Colonel House forcshadowcd the
dcstruction OF constitutional govern
mcn: in the United States in his work
or fiction published in 1912. This novel
exhibits mis- disregard Of law and his
belief IN revolution George y. Her
ron. lately tho Presidents envoy 20
.he Rolshcvist Eovcrnmcnt in Russia.
saws ot the President in 1917:
"Hc IL a revolutionary beyond any
thing his words reveal Five mem.
be-s OF the Presidents cabinet are
Z OF his appoin;ees are known 10 be
oren and avowed Socialists The
administration OF Woodrow Wilson:
even rnssr Gonai hYbrs bs s9rms o,
French revolution and an Oriental
despotlsm. History would forget the
f, reign 81 Cal:sula in the excuses and
I foJiies OF the American government
cperatea under tho league of nations
,rtcrprc,od by President Wilson and
Colonel House.
section. senator sherman said at the
very outset tho instrument gave to
INC league scorc OF action pracA-
eally unlimited by empowering 1t to
rcore Of the leasuc or affecting the
ocace Of the world
Identification Complete.
"rhc Identification Of tho new
r,niem as permanent and indepen-
cent government is complete" he con-
tinued.
The aovcreigntv OF this nation
Masses from tho territorial limits OF
our country to foreign capital. Con-
f.css cannot ieEislate. it cannot pass
appropriation bills nor collect reve-
MUGS. II canno: enact labor lcgisla
ton nor exercise the usual police
,,ower belonging to an independent
state until the DEGREES Of the latest
orders Of the Geneva council or meas
,re in the assembly shall have been
studied. War cannot be declared nor
,eace concluded. armies raised and sup
rorted. navies provided and maintain in
"a. nor the national guard OF the
several states mustered and equipped.
Article XVI. declares if any mem.
Observation-Disclosures