The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1919-12-12
OFFICIAL PAPER INCOME COUNTY
MYERS FAvoRs PEACE
TREATL RATIFICATION
WITHOUT DELAY

WITHOUT DELLA
Washington, Nov 29-On the eve c
the converting of the regular sessio
of congress, Senator Myers Of Nor
tana authorized a statement that b
favors the immediate taking up an
adoption OF the peace treaty and tn
league OF nations covenant. The Mon
tana senator, however, said he woul,
vote for more reservations this tim,
than at the last session. Compromis,
Is necessary, he said, before the sen
ate can get together. Senator Myers
statement follows:
| think it was a mistake for the
peace treaty and league of nations t.
be combined. / think they would bet
ter have been seperate documents
submitted separately to the United
States senate, for its action. Had that
been done, | have no doubt the peace
treaty would have been ratified long
ago. The league of nations could
then have been considered with de-
tied the peace of the world How
ever, they were submitted in one docu-
ment and had to be considered as one
proposition and SO accepted or reject
ed.
The combined instrument, the
treaty and league, in my opioion was
by the senate made political foot
ball. Politics was injected into it
by both political parties and, to a
great extent, 1t was banded back and
forth from a viewpoint of political
advantage. l think this was most
unfortunate
Wanted the League.
The large majority of the senate
wanted league of nations of some
kind Aside from the small percentage
OF senator's, democrats and republi-
cans, who are opposed to league of
any kind, the republicans would not
have the kind of league the democrats
wanted and the democrats woul dnot
have the kind the republicans wanted
As 1t takes two-thrids vote to ratify
treaty and as neither party had two
thirds of the senate, there ensued a
deadlock, which resulted in the ad-
journment of congress without any
pence treaty or league of nations.
which I consider most unfortunate.
The peace conditions of the world are
unsettled and business suffers We are
neither at war nor peace. Conditions
are anomalous and nobody knows
what to expect.
think each side partially to blame.
think the majority of the republican
senators, under the leadership of Sem
ator Lodge, insisted on having reseva-
tons that we're too extreme and which
greatly crippled the league of nations
and made it doubtful If other nations
In the league would accept them. if
ratified by us. l think President Will
son and his unwavering supporters
we're too yielding in demanding that
the league of nations be ratified pre-
cisely as sent to the senate by the
president / think a middle ground
would have been better and, at one
line, before each side became un- I
alterably obstinate, it could have been
'eached. I think there should have (
,een compromise. Each side, how
,ver, remained obdurate and no com !,
promise was had. While, am sure, t
lot altogether controlling, think poll q
ical considerations had much to do s
With the unyielding attitude of each v
ide.
Votes for Ratification. C
In the end, on the day OF the final
'oting on ratification, | voted for
atification OF the league with all of
he Lodge reservations and voted to
atty it as the president submitted it,
,ithout any reservations. voted for
republican league" and for a de ii
locratic league" preferred either to
either I'll
I want peace and want league OF q
atoms q some kind and would rather
ave It IN any form in which it was Z
admitted than to have none. While
u league covenant with the Lodge ;.
'seryations IL, l think, largely en- u
much Of good remains In It, {,
In he preliminary stages OF con- =,
dsFatton, I voted for two reserva- Il
~, The 90 wl.ch withheld assent Il