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Senator FoInas@!5F ir:0s Oe-
bate In 1Gn1is.
He FEARS FOR kUTCE0MT
America, Once in the League, Couiu
i4ever, For Any Reason, Get Out
HonorabIy, He Declares.

Washington, Feb. 20 In Il speech
OF -.r@at force, Senator r li,eNtcr, OF
! Washington, opened the ii>ht against
! IT, league of nations N ihr senate.
l.. spoke three hours, and during
| tia, tine was listened to with close
! a5:"nt on by senators and by crowds
! il. ii galleries.
! y, subject under discussion III lie.
| spln "a at this session has produce |
! a i.'Hnif2&tatiOn of greater general i'll
| tc.,
/. was significant that when Sena-
! tor PnindeXter concluded the galleries
! started to applaud. hui wore immedi-
! ajcir checked by the vice president,
| applause not being permitted by the
| rii!" of the senate
HIS speech was a strong argument
against surrender of sovereign rights
| and III support of the senator's decla-
! ration that the membership in the
| league will force such surrender by
/ the United States
If the step proposed is once taken,
| the senator declared, il cannot be re-
| tracted.
Acceptance of the league of nations
will be irrevocable. There is no pro-
vision in which a nation can withdraw
from the combination. and any refusal
| by a nation to comply with the de-
crees of the league will be accepted
| as an act of war against all the other
nations and bring into operation the
| forces provided by the league cOnsti-
| tuition to punish or subdue the nation
which defes the authority of the
| league.
| No such agreement should he enter
| ed into. the senator contended, with
| out first submitting il to the people
| themselves for determination.
| At one point in his speech Senator
| Poindexter charged that former Presi-
| dent Taft is employed by oreaniZa-
| tons such as the Carnegie Peace
| Foundation and others TO advocate
! the acceptance of the league of ma
| tons program.
! do you mean that statement liter
! ally that the former president of the
| United States is employed 70 make
| speeches in favor of this plan?" asked
| Senator Reed
| 81 do" said Senator Poindaxter.
"ernloyed by these organizations TO
which I have referred"
Mr.. Poindexter said: 1--WE ought to
| attend to our own business and follow
the principles of Washington and Mon
| roe
Senator Reed observed Europe
has had 100 wars and we got into Just
one When you get through with your
| little league of nations you'll be into
| all OF Europe's wars"
| Senator Brandegee, of Connecticut,
| a Republican member of the foreign
| relations committee. interr1E<esl.8to
say that the proposed treaty for the
league could not be terminated like an
| ordinary treaty.
Senator Hitchcock Joined ia the dis
| cussi0n which Senator Pondexter said
| that no treaty ever had proposed to
| strip congress of its authority to raise
| military forces. Mr. Hitchcock point
| cd out that treaty With England pro-
| tides that the waters between the
! United States and Canada shall not
| bear naval forces.
THAT treaty is a direct restriction"
| aid Mr.. Hitchcock.
| Senator Knox, of Pennsylvania, Re-
publican, member of the foreign re-
lations committee, stated that the Ca
| radian treaty was solely a boundary
/ compact and precedent only to that
| NTtent