Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-07-16
pnublicans Now Feign Great
 Interest in Welfare of China.
oRRIS SAYS ALLIES
 BOUGHT JAPAN'S AID
tempt to Make Capital Out of Shantung Affair Thwarted by Williams and Hitchcock,
 Who Relate Facts.

Washington, July 15.-The stormy hate fight over the peace treaty }fted away from the League of Ma ns covenant today and broke with new fury about the provision giv- Shantung peninsula to Japan. In five hours of debate, the treaty bonents charged in bitter terms | the Tokio government had Wheed- Shantung from China at the peace ble without the shadow of a cause kept the ambition of conquest, and bporters of the treaty defended the lrse of President Wilson in the gotiations by declaring the only Iernative was the failure of the ole peace conference.
 Says Allies Bought Japan.
 Chairman Lodge, of the foreign re- fons committee declared Shantung "a price paid" for Japan's ac- ttance of the League of Nations. bator Norris, republican, Nebraska. Urged that Japan in 1917 secretly nveigled the European allies in promise to support her Shantung ms. Senator Borah, republican, |ho, asserted that. if the United tes must either underwrite the ntung agreement or accept the llenge of another power, the coun- would choose the latter course. enator Hitchcock, Nebraska. rank democrat of the committee, re- Id that the German rights in lntung were obtained legally by Pty in 1898 and were won fairly m Germany by Japan long before United States entered the war. ator Williams, democrat, Mississ- said the president had to accept Shantung settlement or come ne without general treaty of ce, and that Japan never would up the peninsula unless forced to Po by war.
 Jap-German Pact?
 the end, the senate adopted cord vote, resolution by Senator ge asking the president for any laole information about secret ty alleged to have been negotia- between Japan and Germany in \, embodying plan for Russian Pollltatlon and promising Japan rect protection of German inter- at the Versailles negotiations.
 US meeting, the committee be- the reading of the treaty, cover m less than two hours about one
 Of its sections, but passing over future consideration the league vehant, the boundaries of Ger ", and many minor provisions. reading will continue at a long lon tomorrow, the senate having Pudned tonight until Thursday SO committee would not be interrup- in it's work.
 alere @ was no decision of President So;. s';.s s offer to. consult with the nl'tee 4'1 on doubtful points of the ", nor was any attempt made to n,ne: .he committee open it's doors to
 was said these instructions "' not come to head for several
 alter the reading of the docu- was finished. There was a Tng '1a convistion, however, that a' ;t @ lne president see the commit !. u VIII be at the white house and al the committee room.
 underwood Urges Ratification
 ssaracterlzlng the League of Ma Do is ; practical step toward world
 "voiVlng no sacrifice of nat
 sovereignty. Senator Under ba n, uemocrat, of Alabama. urged mo 'u senate @ today, acceptance of the (sso, Se covenant without amendment % ans great cause of the war;" he ds. "ay De parapharased in two S, e;,, ,:, national selfishness' J1nt;l Id d'r'za5lon tn 5, of the world is pre- s ls en, eo dethrone it's own selfish IT naol ~,lu to recognize the rights of ml'so peoples, the inherent canses of ,nus. an, continue to exist.
 btion Df' nf F prepared to say that the hin 'i itsa,e ol the ne present treaty carries bes 'efeir of ,, the elimination of these e will G1 war, or that in the end
 that t'' pc, De no more wars, but I tv v'a., a,. within the folds of tbis ,y, s,oS we find an agreement ] bet ua u,ann anrs great nations oc .1 between Etions of S'i m the future carry It of of q; national dispute to 3 a ", # if na 1lnal arbitration and in n Tors I and not {; most instances, avoid
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