The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1919-08-20
SAY REPUBLICANS
REMAIN UNCHANGED
Johnson and BOrah on White House
Conference
CITE FAILS DEVELOPED
Declares America Will BE CompeJjed
to Take Part in World
Wrangles.

Washington, Aug. 19.-Senators
Johnson, California, and Borah,
Idaho, Republicans, declared in a
statement tonight that upon the facts
developed at the White House con,
foreIce today as stated by them the
position they had maintained, ain re-
spcct to this covenant OF the league
of nations is justified and con.
frned."
"The league Of nations as construed
by the President" they said, 'leaves
1t clear and mmistakable that when
we enter it we are 'compellinr'
moral obligation, to say nothing Of
the legal obligation which other sup.
porters contend we are under, to take
part in the disturbances, the con-
fiicts, settlements and the wars of Eu~
rope and Asia if any should arise,
and it is equally true that under his
construction, Europe would neces.
sarily be under the same impellnp
Of American affairs"
The Senators said that in tEei,
opinion, "the significant facts devcl>
oped by the interview with the Press
ident" were:
Other Treaties
"There yet remain treaties of peace
to be made with Austria Hungary,
Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire.
These treaties deal with subjects rs
important, territory as extensive and
matters as intimately affecting thc
United States as the treaty with Ger
many. The obligations of the United
States, therefore, what our country
assumes in the future, can not be de,
termined until these treaties are COM
pleted and presented 70 the United
States Senate.
"That the President regards the Oh,
legations which will be assumed ur-
der the league of nations, and par
ticularly under articles 10 and &c as
moral obligations. These, however are
of compelling force and would re,
bulrc action upon our part. For in
stance, the President comedies that
in an undoubted case of aggression
! from the Balkans upon the newly &C.
CURED territory of Italy, it would be
our duty to come to the assistance Of
Italy and prevent such aggression
The residents construction Of article
to. is at variance with the construction
10 afi of Sl>
Senate.
"A moral obligation, the President
insists rests upon usto carry out the
terms of the various treaties of peace,
1i.s normal obligation, the President
states, requires us under the Gerrran
treaty for fifteen years to maintain
American troops in Europe
"The President did not know, ror
had he heard Of the secret treaties for
territorial acquisition and partition;nY
various territories until he reached
Paris, UIerc the Senators outlined :te
treaties referred to-
"The President opposed the Sh&n,
tung decision. 1t was officially CEN
veyed to him that the japanese would
not sign unless the Shantung rights
were given to Japan. The United
States experts advised the President
that Japan's verbal promise to return
the sovereignty Of the territory in
Shantung, while retaining The econom-
ic concessions, was return Of the
ch nf Ln t..
retained the kernel The Chinese in,
sisted the retention of the enocomic
privileges meant practical sovereignty
but the President says he disagrees
with this view.
Only One Dsintcrested.
England, France and Italy ad.
hcred at the peace conference to their
secret treaties disposing Of peoples
and territories in the Shantung case;
therefore the President was the only
disinterested judge. The decision,
howovcr, was made unanimously.
"The United States asked China to
enter the war.
"Thc American commission at Paris
urged that a definite sum Of rcpara-
tions be fixed in the treatey. Why
this view did not prevail, the Presi-
dent felt he could not state without
dNulglng matters respecting other