Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-09-19
TREATY PUT UP
TO U. S. SENATE
Report on Peace Document Given
Law Makers Says 1t Will
Breed Wars.
PROVIDES As AMENDMENTS
Reservations Give Unconditional Right
to Withdraw From League and Give
U. S. Exclusive Right to Decide
Own Domestic Questions.

Washington, Sept. 13.-Rejection of
the German peace treaty with its
League of Nations covenant or adop-
ton of amendments would mean sac
rifice by the United States of all con-
cessions obtained from Germany I'M
der a dictated peace, minority mem
bers of the foreign relations commit
tee declared in report presented to
the senate.
The report presented by Senator
Hitchcock of Nebraska, ranking Dem
ocratic member of the committee,
urged speedy ratification of the con-
vention without amendments or res
ervations. 1t depIored "the long and
unnecessary delay to which the treaty
had been subjected, while locked up
in the committee whose recommend
ations were from the start a foregone
conclusion" and asserted these re-
concentrations could have been made
in July.
Washington, Sept. 12.-Character-
lied as an alliance and not league,
which ''will breed wars instead of Sc
curing peace" the German peace
treaty. including the covenant for a
League of Nations, was formally re-
ported to the senate by the foreign
relations committee with forty-f1ve
amendments and four reservations.
1t will be the first great document
of it's kind to be discussed in the open
without the confines of executive
session"
Accompanying the treaty was the
majority report of the foreign rela-
lions committee, subscribed to by
every Republican member except Sen
ator McCumber of North Dakota, ex-
planning the amendments and reserva-
lions. all of which it was declared
were governed by single purpose
and that is to guard American rights
and sovereignty, the invasion OF which
would stimulate breaches of faith, en-
courage conflicts and generate wars"
The reservations propose:
1. Unconditional right to withdraw
from the league.
2. Declination by the United States
to accept any of the legal or moral
obligations of the much-discussed ar
ticle X, or to accept any mandatory
from the league except by action OF
the congress of the United States"
3. Reserving to the United States
the exclusive right to decide what
questions are within its own domestic
jurisdiction.
4. Absolute reservation OF the Mon
roe doctrine to the judgment of the
United States alone.
The principal amendments are pro
posed to provide:
Equal voting power for the United
States with Great Britain in the as
sembly of the league.
Giving to China instead of Japan
the province of Shantung.
Relief of the United States from
having representatives on commissions
deciding matters in which it has, no
concern.
Others concern phraseology.
lneS6 dUleHuuGulS anu ICoSA FdCA
the majority report says, are submit
ted ito preserve American independ.
ence and American sovereignty and
thereby best serve the welfare of man
kind"
Fears that other nations msy not ac-
cept an amended covenant the report
dismissed with the statement:
"That is one thing that certainly
will not happen. The other ma
lions will take US on our own terms
for without US their league is wreck
and all their gains from victorious
peace are imperiled."
German delegates, the report con
tends, could easily be brought to
Paris, and as Germany is not mem
Der of the league she need not be con
suited about changes of the covenant
AT the outset the majority report
deals at length with criticisms of delay
and points out that whereas the peace
conference took six months to agree
on the treaty, the senate foreign rela-
lions committee had AZ working days
Demands for speed "in the most i'm
portant subject that ever came before
the senate of the United States" the
report says, were largely the work
of the administration and it's newspa
per organs"