Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-09-11
REPORTS PEACE TREATY
WITH As AMENDMENTS
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Declares Pact Forms an Alliance
Not Il League.
SUBMITS FOUR RESERVATIONS
Declares Only Aim Of Changes in
Document Is That American Sow
ereignty and Independence Shall
BE Preserved From Invasion.
tBy Associated Press

league which will breed wars in
peace treaty, including the covenant
for league Of nations, was formally
rcportcd TO the Senate today by the
Foreign relations Committee, with
forty-hve amendments and four rcser-
vations.
1t will be the first great docume Mt
OF It's kind 10 be discussed in the open
without the confines OF executive
session
Accompanying the treaty was the
majority report of the Foreign Re-
lations Committee subscribed to BY
every Republican member excepting
Senator McCumber. Of North Dakota,
EXPLAINING the amendments and rescr-
Nation3. all Of which, il was declared. Z
were "soverned by single purpose
and that is to guard American rights
and Sovereignty, the invasion o! which |
would stimulate breaches Of faith en-
courage conflicts and generate wars"
What Reservations Propose.
The reservations propose:
J. Unconditional right TO withdraw
from the league.
2 "Dcciinalion by the United States
to accept any. OF the legal or moral
obligations OF the much discussed |!
Article y, or to accept any mandatory |
from the league except By action OF the |
Congress OF the United States"
}. ReservtnG TO the United states
she exclusive right TO decide wha,
tic jurisd!ct
4. Absolute reservation Of the Mon
roe Doctrine TO the judgment OF the
The principal amendment. are pro-
Equal voting power for the United
States with Great Britain in the as
sembly Of the league.
Giving to China instead of Japan
the province OF Shantung.
Commtssionn Eliminated.
Relief OF the United States from
having representatives. on commissions
deciding matters in which IL has no
concern
otners concern phraseology.
These amendments and reservations !
The majority report SAYS, are sub
mtted 10 preserve American indie
pAndence and American sovereignty
and thereby best serve the welfare OF
mankind"
Fears tina, other nations may no,
accept an amended covenant the re-
port dismissed with the statement:
That is one thing that certainly
will not happen. The
other nations viii take us on our own
is wreck and all their gains from
a victorious peace are Imperfect"
That the adoption OF amendments
peace conference the report denies. as
scrtins that the conference probably .
as usefully employed" as they now
arc in dividing and sharing Southeast
srn Europe and Asia Minor" German
easily be brought to Paris and as
Germany is not member OF the league.
changes OF the covenant
Replies to Criticisms.
At the, outset the majority repor,
deals a, length with criticisms OF de-
peace conference took six months 10
aEree on the treaty the Senate Foreign
nss'1 worEns days has nnd 0r sr
speed lin the most important subject
that ever came before the Senate OF
were largely the work OF the admins (
tration and its newspaper organs"
a second "ar,ifieial'' demand for
haste, the report says, came from Ger /
tain great banking firms which had
a direct pecuniary interest In securing (
vest" IN the adjustment OF hnanclal
obligations Of the warning countries (
The third was in the "unthinking
desired early action and for the most /
part had never read the treaty or never /
got beyond the words league Of ma
establishment of eternal peace"
TO yield helplessly to this clamor."
I, those TO whom was intrusted the !
performance OF a solemn public duty"
Recounts It's Difficulties.
Recalling the Senates responsibility
as equal with the Presidents. the re-
culties the Foreign Relations Commit
tee experienced in getting information !
On on ihe 'ffe o. being obliged 70 send
get -impcrfec, information from press
feports. and having at its DISPOSAL
treaties. the report says. the committee
was unable TO get. OF the sum of
information received in conferences
The people themselves know how
much Information in regard TO the
hIrf ha -
upon those two occasions"
=. ,m While criticism ,hi for delay has been
mittee. the report points out. no ac-
ton has been taken by France. Japan
or italy: The argument that the treaty
with Germany might begin. the report |
dismisses as rather faded" and de-
clares the United States has been trad
OF the armistice in increasing volume
The statement that trade cannot be
rhs1a",sr! Until the treaty is ratified is
\ Refers to Lloyd Georges Speech.
Before leaving this subject" says
the report, 1T may not be amiss to
remark that Mr.. Lloyd George has re-
cent,S made two important speeches
expressing grave apprehensions as TO
inc social and political unrest and the !
economic troubles now prevalent in |
Ems land He seems to have failed to
point out, however. that the ratifca-
tlon or the covenant of the league of |
nations by Great Britain had relieved
the situation which he had described. |
He was apparently equally remiss in
emitting to suggest that prompt ac-
ton by the Senate OF the United States !
IN adopting the covenant Of the league
or nations would Immediately lower
The first amendment offered by the
committee relates to the league. 1t
is proposed to so amend the text as to |
secure for the United States vote |
IN the assembly Of the league equal TO !
that OF any other power Great Brit
ain now has under the name Of the
British Empire one vote in the council |
or T. e league. She has four additional |
votes in the assembly OF the league for |
her self governing dominions and colo |
MES. which are most properly members |
or the league and signatories to the !
treaty. She also has the vote Of India |
which is neither a self-Eoverning do |!
minion nor colony. but merely Il part |
OF the empire. and which apparently |
was simply put in n signatory and |
member Of the league by the peace |
conference because Great Britain de-
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