The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-09-18
TREATY PUT UP
TO U. S. SENATE
Report on Peace Document Given
Law Makers Says 1t viii
Breed Wars.
PROVIDES As AMENDMENTS
Reservations Give Unconditional Right
to Withdraw From League and Give
U. S. Exclusive Right to Decide
Own Domestic Questions.

Washington, Sept 13.-Rejection OF
the German peace treaty with It's
League of Nations covenant or adop'
tion of amendments would mean sac
rifice by the United States of all con
cessions obtained from Germany I'M
der a dictated peace, minority mem
bers of the foreign relations commit
tee declared in a report presented to
the senate.
The report presented by Senator
Hitchcock of Nebraska, ranking Dem
ocratic member Of the committee,
urged speedy ratification of the CON
vention without amendments or res
eryations. II deplored "the long ana
unnecessary delay to which the treaty
had been subjected, while locked up
I'm the committee whose recommends
ations were from the start foregone
conclusion" and asserted these re-
concentrations could have been made
IN July.
Washington, Sept. 12.-Character-
lied as on alliance and not a league
which "w II breed wars instead Of Sc
curing peace" the German peace
treaty, including the covenant for a
League Of Nations was formally re-
ported to the senate by the foreign
relations committee with forty-ive
amendments and four reservations.
II will ne the first great document
of its kind to be discussed in the open
without the confines of executive
session"
Accompanying the treaty was the
majority report of the foreign rela-
tinns committee, subscribed TO by
every Republican member except Sen
ator McCumher Of North Dakota, eX-
planning the amendments and reserva-
lions. all of which 1t was declared
were governed by a single purpose
and that is to guard American rights
and sovereignty, the invasion of which
would stimulate breaches of faith en-
courage conflicts and generate wars
The reservations propose:
/. Unconditional right to withdraw
from the league
.. Declnation by the United States
10 accept any of the legal or moral
obligations of the much-discuSsed ar
tlclc y. or to accept any mandatory
from the league except by action Of
the congress Of the United States"
3. Reserving to the United States
the exclusive right to decide what
questions are within It's own domestic
jurisdiction.
4. Absolute reservation of the Mon
roe doctrine to the judgment of the
United States alone
The principal amendments are pro-
posed 10 provide:
Equal voting power for the United
States with Great Britain in the as
sembll of the league
Giving TO China instead of Japan
the province of Shantung.
Relief Of the United States from
having representatives on commissions
deciding matters in which It has no
concern.
Others concern phraseOlogy.
These amendments and reservations,
the majority report says, are submit
ted "to preserve American independ-
encp and American sovereignty and
thereby best serve the welfare of man
kind"
Fears that other nations may not ac-
ccpt an amended covenant the report
dismissed with the statement:
"That is one thing that certainly
Will not happen. .. The other ma
tions viii take us on our own terms
for without us their league is wreck.
aud AN their gains from victorious
pence are imperiled."
German delegates, the report con
tends. could cusily he brought to
Paris and ms Germany is not mem
Der Of the league she need not be CON
suited about changes Of the covenant,
Al the outset the majority report
deals AZ length with criticisms of delay
ana points ont that whereas the pence
conference took six months 10 agree
On the treaty the senate foreign rela-
tions committee Ind A working days.
Demands for speed lin the most i'm
portant subject that ever came before
Tho senate Of the United States" the
report snys were largely The work
Of the administration and ITS ncwspa-
per organs"