New-York tribune., 1919-10-14
Shantung Vote
In Senate Nav
Be Postponed
Indefinite Delay OF Amend
ment to Treaty Likely to
Follow Decision Not to
Ask for Reports Now
Attack Wilson's Speeches
Senator Norris, Concluding
Address, Charges Repeti-
lion Of Error by President
Ns7r vort 1'riban.
WASHINGTON Bureau

Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON. Oct. 13.-Senator
Norris. os Nebraska, read in the SEN
ate to-day excerpts from official copies
of President Wilson's speeches to prove
shat after the President had privately
telegraphed TO the Senator an ad.nis-
sion that he had made migstatements
regarding Shantung in his st. Louis
speech, he had continued 70 make the
same misstatemeats to the American
publ throughout the remainder of his
trip.
SIT is hardy conceivable that he made
q mistake at St Louis said Senator
Norris, because he knew the facts
were not what he said they were; but
not only has he Withheld the facts
from the people, but after he has
acknowledged in d private way the
error he has repeated the statement" !"
The Presidents statement to which
Mr. Norris referred was to the effect
that Great Britain and other countries
had promised Shantung to Japan be-
lore Japan entered the war. Immedi-
ately after the st. Louis speech Sena-
tor Norris disputed the Presidents as
sertion and declared that the secret
treaties by which Great Britain.
France, Italy and Russia agreed that
Japan should have Shantung. were not
made until more than two years later.
Charges Repetition of Error
The President telegraphed the Sena-
tor, thanking him for correcting an
rnlntentional inaccuracy,' as ex-
clusivey tod in a dispatch to The
Tribune. Senator Norris said that
Notwithstanding the Presidents ad-
mission that he had been in error. he
repeated almost the same statements
in Los Angeles, Reno, Salt Lake CITY
and Cheyenne.
"Ihe truth probably will never over.
take the lie said the Senator, "buu
| can hardly conceive how any man
should deliberately state and restate
again and again. something that he
| rot only knows but has acknowledged
to be wrong.'
Senator Norris concluded three
days speech on the Shantung amend
ment to the treaty. Senator Lodge
expects to speak tomorrow and start
ing ednesday discussion on TIE
treaty VIII be confined to the amend
ment until it has been voted upon.
\ vote on this amendment, by whic
Shantung would be given to China
instead OF to Japan, may be DELAYED
lndeinitely, however, as the result OF
to-day's action of the Foreign Rela-
tlons Committee. which decided to
postpone indefinitely action on The
Po1ndeXter resolution calling upon the
President to transmit to the Senate
contidentlal reports on the Japanese
Chinese relations
Documents Called Vital
The resolution asks FOR documents
which the treaty foes in the Senate re-
gard as vital in their bearing on the
Shantung award in the treaty The
resolution reads in part:
That the President is requested. #
not Incompatible with public interest
to transmit to the Senate, contiden
/ TALLY if required. the copy of the cable
dispatch from the Ambassador of the
United States to China, addressed to
the President, IN Januty. 1919, III
which the Ambassador discussed fully
and confidentially the Japanese Chinese
relations, which dispatch was forward
ed to the President through the State
Department about January G, 1919"
The President is also requested in
the resolution to cause to be trans
mitted TO the Senate. contidentially if
required, copies-of the dispatches of
the military attaches of the United
States at Toxic and Peking, addressed
to the chief of the Bureau Of Military
Intelligence, War Department, in Jan
uary, 1919
The committee withheld action on