Arizona republican., 1919-05-09
OPINIONS VARY AMONG SENATORS
 ON PEACE TREATY
Lodge Withholds Statement -Borah Objects To Al liance With England - Sherman Opposes League AS Part of Document Hitchcock Pleased-Mos- es Puzzled
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WASHINGTON, May s.-As they completed their study of the ofticlal summary of the treaty of Versailles today. senators began to give eXpres- sion to their views on the momentous document which is in the hands of the German plenipotentiaries. A few sen ators. however still withheld comment, preferring to examine the complete text before reaching a definite con- clusion. These included senators Lodge of Massachusetts, Shoot of Utah and other republican leaders.
 Sharp opposition to the proposal that the United States, in consort with Great Britain, commit itself to Frances aid in the event that country were at tackled, was voiced by Senators Borah of Idaho, and Curtis of Kansas, while Senators Sherman of Illinois, and Moses of New Hampshire criticised the league of nations covenant in the treaty.
 Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, re- tiring chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, approved the treaty as a whole and said that in his judgment, the ''crowning glory of this great document is the fact that there is embodied in it the great constitution of the league of nations"
 Hitchcock is Satisfied
 The senator declared the treaty was "a monumental work" and measured up ito the highest moral standards of the world with justice as the basis of reorganization.
 General approval of the military and naval terms imposed on Germany was given, not only by both republican and democratic senators, but by officials and diplomats generally. They con- cured in the view of army and navy officers, that with the carrying out of the terms, Germany would be stripped of every vestige of power necessary for it to disturb again the peace of the world
 Senator Borah made no comment on the treaty itself, confining his state mept solely to the proposal for a triple alliance between the three leading as sociated powers. He declared that whether the United States should take part in any future European war was "a matter which should be determined upon the facts, when and as they arise, and by the particular generation which must bear the brunt of the war. and by the intelligence and the conscience and knowledge of the American people as they see the situation, when face to face with it."
 Senator Sherman said the manner in which the treaty has been presented is a resort to gag rule.'' He declared it was "a confession of weakness that the league of nations has to be dragged through as an annex to the treaty of peace," and said he would vote to sep arate the league covenant from the treaty and take a vote on each.
 Moses Doesn't Understand Senator Moses said he was unable to understand the part of the treaty providing that except as between the United States and Germany, pre-war licenses and rights to sue for infringe ments committed during the war, are cancelled"
 q don't understand" he said, "why that exception WAS made as to the United States, or why we are to be Jeff open to litigation growing out of the use of German formulas and patents
 Senator Norris of Nebraska -nadt this statement: One thing that lilS, particularly about the peace treaty i: ] the disarmament proposition. How ever. my own idea is that the treat, Continued on Page Twol