Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-09-11

sion of the disputants under the lea que rules shall cover the aggregate vote of the member of the league and it's self f-governing dominions and parts of empire combined if any one of them is involved in the con- trovery. r1<
 "The remaining amendments, with with single exception, may be treated as one, for the purpose of all alike is to relieve the United States from having representatives on the commissions established by the league which deal with questions in which the United States has and can have no interest and in which the United States has evidently been inserted by design. The exception is amendment number 45, which provided that the United States shall have member of the repara- tion commission but where the in- terests of. the United States are di- rectly involved, cannot deal with or vote upon any other questions be- fore that commission except under instructions from the government of the United States.
 "The committee proposes four re- servations to be made part of the resolution when it is offered. The committee reserves, of course, the right to offer other reservations If they shall so determine. The four reservations now presented are as follows:
 The Reservations.
 "1. The United States reserves to itself the unconditional right to withdraw from the League of Ma tions upon the notice provided in Article 1 of said treaty of peace with Germany The provision in the league covenant for withdrawal declares that any member may with draw provided it has fulfilled all it's international obligations and all its obligations under the covenant. There has been much dispute as to who would decide if the question of the fulfillment of obligations w1As raised and it is very generally thought that this question would be settled by the council of the League of Nations. The best that can be said about it is that the question of decision is clouded with doubt. On such point as this there must be no doubt. The United States, which l has never broken an international 1 obligation, cannot permit all hts existing treaties to be reviewed and its conduct and honor questioned by other nations. The same may be said in regard to the fulfillment of the obligations to the League. Ii must be made perfectly clear that 1 the United States alone is to deter mine as to the fulfillment of it's ob- legations, and its right of with drawal must therefore be uncondi tional as provided in the reserva tion.
 "'2. The United States declines to assume, under the provisions o1 Article ten, or under any other ar ticle, any obligation to preserve. the territorial integrity or political in dependence of any other country ol to. interfere in controversies be. tween other nations, members of the league or not, or to employ the mili tary or naval forces of the Unitee States in such controversies, or te adopt economic measures, for the protection of any onther country whether member of the league ol not, against external aggression ol for the purpose of coercing any other county or for the purpose o1 intervention in the internal conflict. or other controversies which may ,4x,xy ,1,I mandate shall be accepted by tho Uniter States under Article 22, part l, of the treaty of peace with Ger