Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-03-20
senator Asserts Pact Should
Have Larger Reservation
of Monroe Doctrine.
ASSERTS TARIFF QUESTION
AND IMMIGRATION AFFECTED
harvard President Admits Pres
ent Document Needs Clarifi-
cation Before Adoption.
BIG ovATIoNs GREET SPEAKERS
Salon Says Roosevelt
Favored Present Attitude OF
Republican Leaders.

BOSTON, March 19.-"If the Iearue
shall be put in such shame that u y.i,,
promote peace instead OF breedinp die
'roer, and will work no ;,iu.tic. -
'hese United States. will sunpor, g :"
'aio Senator Henry Cabot Lodge in re-
pising to question OF President
lawrence Lowell, of Harvard. during
'heir debate on the league OF nation.
covenant tonight. II hope from nv
neart IL will be amended" bc ,6ded
nope that such league will be
ranned somewhere. In my belief II
VII not be done in Paris"
demand from DR. Lowell that Mr.
oose say whether he would vote for
ne covenant II it were amended ac
roihg ,orhg TO his wishes led to the Sena
Mooressing an audience OF 5000 per-
rUt. IN symphony Hail. the distin-
ersiIv speakers were applauded lib,
na frequently and apparently i'm.
NO HECKLING, THOUGH
CRIES ARE OFTEN HEARD
30 ine1e .ea, was no heckling. though cries
teElng points in the arguments
Senator Lodge outlined his a,titu5.
prien. as in favor of league OF
nations. nations. bu, no, OF the covenant as as
drafted" he asserted. '"1T,a "Tha, Gs is mv re,
"rsf srb. beonse5metiye sonr ~ eritieism.'
| eSlo Dr. Lowell in summing up his
plea for the vocenant. when we must
uecide whether our country shall take
na,,nn ms p1acs ,a iike n Erea, and generous
guardians OF law. order and justice I'm
the world or whether It shall turn its
race away from world in agony"
PROMINENT PERSoNAGEs
He prefaced his argument with the
statement that although ne had always
been AN inconsistent Republican" and
frequently had been in agreement with
his utterances on the league of nations
covenant. and still less with those OF
his senatorial colleagues.
symphony Hall where the debate
vas held was filled. Three thousand
persons had seats and 800 stood Half
or the audience was made UP OF mem
state judiciary. Governors of New Eng
/ land States: army and navy officers.
members ot the Harvard faculty: dele
gates OF the Central Labor Union and
other half represented the lucky ones
who had been awarded admission by
chance from twenty-five times as many
applications.
/ FAYORS LEAGUE HAVING
DIFFERENT AGREEMENTS
Governor Coolidge presided. intro
duced the speakers and held the watch.
senator Lodge led off. speaking for
an hour. He received n noisy recep-
,ion and was repeatedly interrupted
with applause.
Senator Lodge in opening his argu-
ment said he was not against a league
Of nations. but was anxious to have
the free nations OF the world unite TO
secure peace and bring about gen
He also denied the charge of incon-
sistency because of speeches in 1915
and 1916, favoring 'in general" a
:. At this time and later. in fact up to
the very last. he explained he was in
, constant consultation with Colonel
Two weeks before his death" he
said, II was with Theodore Roose-
I, yelt for some hours. seeing him for
draft now before the country was not
then before US, but we discussed fully
the league Of nations In all It's bear
SAYS HIS STAND HAD
RoOSEVELT'S APPROVAL
Tho position that I have taken and
now take. had his full approval. The
line have followed in the Senate and
elsewhere was the one he wished TO
transfer any responsibility from my
shoulders to his. All l do and all 1
"The question before US" said sena-
tor Lodge. the only question of
practical nature, is whether the league
that has been drafted by the commits
before it will tend to secure the peace
of the world as 1T stands, and whether
ii is just and fair to the United States"
In answer to the charge there had
been no constructive criticism of the
league, Senator Lodge exclaimed:
MY first constructive criticism is
that this covenant ought to be re-
drafted This is essential. he added,
because the sanctity of treaties is vital
above all else.
GEOGRAPHY AND HUMAN
NATURE NOT TRANSIENT
AS another constructive criticism he
demanded a definite statement in the
covenant of the vote required in the
executive council for it to recon-
mend" or advise" or propose" as the
He also declared for "a larger res
crvation of the Monroe Doctrine" the
policy which Stands on two facts
neither transient nor ephemeral"
at must not be within the jurisdic-
tion of tho league Of nations to say
who shall come into the United Staets."
he said
"To have other nations meddle with
our tariff would run up against our
Constitution.
questions affecting immigration and the
tariff from the purvieW Of the league
as fourth constructive criticism"
AS anOIner constructive criticism,
hc called for n provision permitting
withdrawal from the league to make
unnecessary denunciation or abroga-
ton Of the treaty.
URGES SERIOUS THOUGHT
BEFORE ENTERING PACT
In concluding his opening argument,
senator Lodge referred to the provision
for mandatories, with its failure to
state who will select them" for the
7 Cries OF mo- mo" that nearly.
drowned scattering shouts OF "Yes!',
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