The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-02-26
SEN. CUMMINS
 OPPOSES LEAGUE
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any surrender of American sover- eighty, Senator Cummins said:
 First, we ought to agree, and all other nations ought to agree that justiciabIe disputes-those Issues which can be determined by the ap- pfcations of recognized law to estab lished facts-should be settled either by arbitration or adjuciadon; and we ought to agree, and all other nations ought to agree, that with respect to other international disputes war shall not be made until some permanent, regular, international body shall have a fair opportunity to discuss and ex- anime it. Upon such questions there should be no award, no judg- ment and the sanction should be con- fined to moral influences which time, thought and free discussion will awaken.
 Third, if any nation should refuse to submit a proper controversy to judgment, or refuse to perform the judgment when rendered, or refuse to delay war, I am willing to agree that ostracisrn shall be the penalty inflicted.
 Fourth. the compact should con tain a program of disarmament; and
 
 hope of permanent peace. The con stitutiOn proposed is most disappotnt- ing in this regard, for a careful study gives us little right to believe that there will be disarmament among the strong powers.''
 The Iowa Senator said the proposed constitution would ''neutra1ize all the benefits of a peaceful settlement of disputes between nations affirmative ly destroy the national structure and commit the United States to a course wh.ch must end in humiliation and dissNter.' Some of the provisions, he asserted, were in direct conflict with the United States constitution and under the charter this nation would "cease to be distinct" Analyzing the principal provisions 1 of the leagues constitution, Senator Cumnins said Article 10, providing guarantees against aggression and for territorial and political independence of states, is the most destructive, un- just and reactonary proposal ever submitted
 Tt will be rejected with a, storm of obliquy," he declared. We are sol emnIy asked to guarantee that the boundaries of nations as they now ex-
 
 has re-drawn the map of Europe Asia, Africa and Oceanica, shall re- main without change forever The leagues provision for mandate ries was attacked by MT. Cumnins as the grOssest violation of our powers under the constitution''
 Tt is all too absurd to contem- p1ate,' he said When the American people reflect upon such a. proposal they will reject 1t with all the en- phasis of unanimity''
 Article 15 of the charter, Senator Cummins said, would require submis- sion of domestic questions to the league, which, he added, is incredible He cited, as an example, the Amer1- can policy of Chinese and Japanese exclusion as a, question which would be left to the league council. Referring to recent statements on the league Cby former President Taft, the senator said MT. Taft had been 'conspicuously unfair and uncandid '' Quoting President Wilson's plea, in a Paris address for justice to peoples '-who go to bed tired and wake up without the stimulation of lively hope" Senator Cummins said, in con- clusion:
 They understand their wrongs and they are going to correct them They need no such league of nations to as l sert their right. We ought now to be bending all our energies upon the vi 1 tai subject of reconstruction, and this should be our immediate contribution to the welfare of humanity"