The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-10-17
BITTER IN
DEBATE ON TREATY
AND ALSO SHANTUNG
McCumber IntimateS That Some
Have Too Much Love for
Germany.
REED THEN FLARES UP

Dul NSSuIUDeT REFUSES
to Take 1t Back-CrOss-Fire of
OratOry Follows the Heated
Discussion.
Washington, Oct. 16.-Bitter feel
ing engendered by the peace treaty's
Shantung provision got close to the
boiling point again Tuesday in the
senate.
Repeatedly during a five-hour de-
bate on the subject the gavel sound.
ed to bring order out of CONFUSING
cross-fre of oratorical projectiles, and
once it was ruled that language used
had violated the senates rules by i'm
putting to senator's conduct unworthy
and unbecoming
The declaration to which formal OBJ
lection was taken was made by Sem
ator McCumber, Republican, of North
Dakota. in the course of a heated eX.
change with Senator Reed, Democrat,
of Missouri. and had to do with charg-
es that Japan was acting in bad faith
in the promise of her statesmen to
return Shantung to China.
McCumber Anglers Reed.
Japan was our associate in the
war" said the North Dakota senator.
but l know that now that the war
practically has ended, many senator's
prefer to consider her as our enemy.
Germany seems to be more an object
of solicitude than our friends who
helped us defeat Germany"
"If the senator means that" shout
ed Senator Reed, 81 want him to name
the senators to whom he refers"
Senator McCumber retorted that he
would let recent utterances in the
senate chamber speak for themselves,
and when he declined to yield to fur.
ther questioning by Senator Reed the
latter appealed to the chair declar
ing loudly. while Senator McCumbe-
continued his speech, that the lang
uage used had been unparliamentary.
Sticks to What He Said.
When he had quieted the disput
ants Senator Ball. Republican, OF Del.
aware. temporarily presiding. thumb
ed through a senate rule book while
n half dozen other members tried all
at once to get in word OF advice.
Senator Reed then withdrew his oh.
lection, whereupon Senator McCum
her declared he had no intention OF
taking back what he had said. and in
o? his speech which had been question
ed. That brought a renewal of the
Missouri senator's protest. Senator
Ball ruled the language out OF order.
and Senator McCumber resumed with
the. remark that he hadn't in the
least changed his mind about the
truth of what he had said.
Senator McCumber, a Republican.
member of the foreign relations com
mittee, was speaking in reply 20
Chairman Lodge. of the committee
y no had just completed a prepared
address opposing the Shantung
amendment and declaring JGp&n was
building in China an empire menac.
ing the United States. Japan relent-
lessly had broken her pledges and
would continue TO do so IL further.
ance of her scheme for China's eX-
ploitation, Mr.. Lodge asserted.
League Would Force Peace.
In replying, Senator McCumber
argued that the proposed amendment
would be Of no avail because Shantung
already was in Japan's possession and
altering the treaty would not change
that possession. On the other hand.
he said. the league OF nations would
put "the civilized world with a grip
upon Japan's throat" to compel her to
make good her promises to restore
the provinces to China.
Later Senator Reed made an ex.
tended argument against the league,
asserting that If 1t had the power to
force Japan to give back Shantung il
certainly would have the power to
compel the United States to do what.
ever il desired. He argued that the
| league council and assembly would
not be judicial bodies, but every mem
Der would be an Interested party in
any big world question
Senator Reed also engaged in a Sc
ries of heated exchanges with Sena
tor Hitchcock, of Nebraska. the ad
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