The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-09-15
McCUMBER WOULD
REJECT ALL THE
AMENDMENTS
And Tone Down Strong"
Reservations Pres ented
by the Majority of the
Committee Headed by Sen.
Lodge - He Declares Lat
ter Report Would Have
the United States Dodge
Its Responsibility.

Washington, d. G., Sept. l5.-Rejec'
tion of all proposed amendments to the
German peace treaty and modification OF
the recommended "strong" reservations
was urged in an individual minority re-
port filed with the Senate to-day by
Senator McCHmber, Republican, of North
Dakota; next in rank on the foreign rela-
lions ,committee to Chairman Lodge
Senator McCumber did not join in the
recent Republican majority report and
voted with the Democrats on amend
ments and several reservations.
Attacking the majority report of
Chairman Lodge, Senator McCumber de-
nounced most of the majority amend
ments as selfish, immoral and deplor-
able" and charged that they seek to
isolate the United States from the rest
of the world and abandon our allies"
To the substance of some of the pro-
posed reservations" Senator McCumber's
report declared, "there can be no serious
objection But against the manner in
which they are asserted / do most ear
nestly protest, They are couched in a
defiant, discourteous and overbearing
manner, and seem intended to express a
ingoistic spirit that ought to be elm
mated from American craftsmanship"
Scoring the committee reservation to
article 10 of the league of nations cove
nant, Senator MeCumber said it really
is an amendment "pure and simply" and
designed to take the United States en-
tirely out of the league.
Special opposition was expressed by
Senator McCumber to the proposed
amendment to the Shantung provision.
Hy this amendment, he said, Japan
would be kicked out" OF the league by
the United States and Shantung possibly
lost to China.
Calling attention to what he termed
the failure of the committee majority to
explain the purposes of the league, SEN
ator McCumber said:
Not one word is said, not single
allusion made concerning either the great
purpose of the league of nations or the
methods by which those purposes are to
be accomplished.
"Irony and sarcasm have been substi-
4uted for argument. 1t is regrettable
that the animosity which centers almost
wholly against the league should have
been engendered against subject so
important to the worlds welfare. 1t is
regrettable that the consideration of a
matter so foreign to partisanship should
be influenced by hostility towards or
eubserviency to the president"
Analysing the committee amendments,
Senator McCumber said that the amend
ment to give the United States equal
votes in the league with England and
ahe British colonies was unnecessary.
The plan of giving each member nation
one vote without regard to size or i'm
portance was the only possible plan, the
Senator argued, adding that to all in
tents and purposes the British colonies
are Independent.
Senator McCumber said his only OBJ
jections to the Lodge reservation on
withdrawal from the league was of form.
As to the Lodge reservation to article 10,
Senator McCumber said he had many
objections.
First, it is an amendment pure and
simple" he said, "of the most important
article in the league. Its purpose is to
take the United States as a power for
the peace of the world out of the league
entirely.
Second, it places this country in a
false and wrong position-an attitude of
powerful countries to conflict or impose
any wrong upon weaker nations, by our
declared policy of non-intervention."
With his report, Senator McCumber
submitted the six reservations he cham
pions as substitutes for the committee
reservations. These recently were made
public.