The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-05-27
BITTERNESS IN
SENATE DEBATE.
On THE LEAGUE

WASHINGTON. May 90 -1no IedS ue
of nations was debated in the senate
again today with an Increasing show or
bitterness
Senator Reed. Democrat. OF Missouri.
attacked the proposal in such vigorous
terms that he aroused repeated ooJec-
lions from senators supporting It, ana
DEVELOPED a running debate colored oy
dramatic accu sations and heated re'oFNS'
The Missouri senator declared the
LEAGUE would place the destinies OF the
Ivhola race in the hands OF ignorant and
superseitious nations OF black and yell
low DO: citation. and charged that many
Democrats were supporting It for paru-
San reasons.
In frequent interruptions off the MIS-
aopry senator's speech, Senator HlIch-
cock. Of Nebraska ranking democrat Oh
4ha foreign relations committee, Insist
ed that the premises for these charges
vera false and that the differences Drawn
were unfair and dangerous. he are"
m turn n reply from Senator Knox. Re
publican, Of Pennsylvania. who sus-
rested that supporters OF the league
coyeynant should read it BEFORE they
discussed it
Heated Debate
c. heated did the exchanges become
NJ ono point that the chair raped lot
order and Senator Reed declared tna'
Ssratnr Hitchcock had lost his tenn
per- . .ha
Tho measure which brought the
%par1,e issue before the senate was the
resolution Of Senator Johnson Repuo-
Ncsn. of California, requesting 1F0t,l ."e
'rt.4a department the full text OF inc
speacs treaty. There was no a'eupI "
,,s,cn a vote On tho resolution on Wnicn
asSstn hexun last Friday and the mea-
Ia u-nt over again as unfinished DUST
~. N Gonna rp when the senate recon-
venes wednesday.
wT+f,out Speaking directly or the
Johnson res olution, Senator Reed niauo
a general attack upon the league coTe-
nant itself as q proposal TO nano Over
CONTROL Of the white race and the CIVIL
ia world to an assembly OF natlons
where La majority always could DC
hronght together on any race Qnesuon
IN opposition to white supremacy. nc
declared support Of the LEAGUE plan
never could be explained At homo oy
senator's from the south, with us neSIo
nroblern, or from the west. with It's
chinesa and Japanese problems. Turn
ing dramatically to his Dernocra1lc e"i-
leagues, he continued:
Attacks FOLLOW Dernocrass-
rTf a Republican President mad
brought II here-if Roosevelt had
brought it hcre-R Roosevelt had
crat that wouldn't have been stanoins
by my side lighting to the last dltcn
70 rescue the country from so rnonstfous
and so cruel a thing"
The senator presented statistics 10
show that OF the total populations OF
the countries composing the league
S11,425,500 would be OF black. yeliow'
brown and red races. with only ZeSs-
ASSOC Of the white race. In tho as
seunbly which Is to be the eoEsrnlns
lody. he said. white nations would have
Q representatives and other nation IT
representatives.
Senator Reed told the senate that tho
revised covenant Of the league hal
overcome mono Of the grave dangers OF
the original draft. but had astonished
rany students Of international atrars
BY its allotment Of membership In the
league He quoted figures to show That
in many Of the countries admitted to
full membership the full vote Is very
high.
"Colored" League Of NSdoas.
IAN examination. however. Of the
membership Of this present league Will
frst astonish and then arouse the in
aipnation OF every thoughtful man,
tinct shock that this Is "eolored'
league Of nations. That Is to say the
majority Of the nations composing the
league do not belong to the white race
Of man. On the contrary. they are
conglomerate Of the black. yellow.
brown and red races frequently 80 term
cd as to constitute an Understandable
mongrel breed.
How will senators from the south.
who represent states which have con-
tended that the white race alone is mt
TO control the destiny Of the states or
America contend that Liberia, Hayti
and other negro or sem-negro nations
should be permitted to sit at the council!
table Of the world. and each executive
votes the equal OF that Of the Uniteo
States.
How can theFrepresentatives Of the
Pacific states. who have contended and
who still contend that neither Japanese
nor Chinese shall land upon their shores
and that both are totally unfit for csti-
zenship. justify their conduct IL they
shall now vote that in the council OF
the world Japan and China shall each
cast a vote equal TO the vote Of the
United States?
I'm any contest which may hereafter
arise involving the equality Of race, Is
II not perfectly plain that the dark races
will all unite and declare fof race equal
ity in every part Of the world? IT must
be remembered that this is living and
burning question. that Japan has ex-
pressly reserved il for future considers
ton, and that If II comes before the
league Of peace as now organized the
lark races will have a majority"