Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-08-07
Reminds Republicans He Cannot Be Expected to Remember
 180,OO0- Word Treaty.
LEAGUE FORMED ON
 COMMON SENSE BASIS
Admitting Treaty Does Not Square With All of Presidents Prin- ciples, Declares IA Points
 Maintained.

Washington, Aug. 6.-Secretary Lansing, before the senate foreign relations committee, today expressed the opinion that the Shantung pro- vision of the peace treaty did not square with President Wilson's enun- ciated principle of self determination, but maintained that the treaty as a whole carried out Substantially" the presidents 14 points.
 Declaring his unfamiliarity with many details of the peace negotia- tions and of the treaty itself, the secretary told the committee he was unable to answer many of its ques- tions and reminded senators in an- swering others that he merely was expressing his own personal views.
 Ask the president" the secretary said, when pressed for details of the Shantung and league of nations ne- gotiations. On three of the points raised, he asked permission to re- fresh his memory and make a state- ment to the committee later and when he was asked for detailed construction of the labor and repara- tions clauses, he protested that llc Soulu IOG Uc expected to carry the minutiae of 180,- 900 word document in his mind easier to ask questions prepared beforehand than to answer them off hand.
 U. s. Should Decline Preparation.
 As his own personal view, Mir. Lansing said that Japan would prob ably have signed the treaty without the Shantung provisions; that the United States should ask no part in German reparation, that the kaiser could not be legally tried; and that the mutual guarantee of territorial integrity from external aggression as contained in article 10 of the league covenant, imposed a moral obligation but not legal one.
 The secretary said it was true that the IA points had not been discussed, to his knowledge, in the prepara- tory stages of the peace negotiations; that the American draft of the league of nations never was "pressed" be- fore the conferences: that the presi- dent had asked the peace confer ence not to lay before the French senate the record of discussions on the leapue; and that the United States did not know of secret treat ies between the allies and Japan re- garding Shantung when this country by the Lansing -Ishii agreement. recognized Japan's Special interest" in China.
 It was not true, Secretary Ian- sing said. that he and other members of the American delegation "pro- tested" against the Shantune settle ment: that Great Britain "refnsed to hermit" discussion of the freedom of the seas bv the peace conference or that any of the American exnert ad- visers had resiened because they dis aoreed with the decision regarding Shantung.
 Treaty on Common Sense Basis.
 The general basis on which the treaty was framed. said the secre- tarv, was Common sense and gen. eral principles with an evidence of policy and expediencv." Verbatim records of the discussions. he told the committee. had been left in Paris, adding that he would not favor giving to the senate the less complete trans cripts in the nossession of the state department. because it might cause "irritation" to other governments.
 Both the Shantung provision and the league covenant the witness said. had heen negotiated laroely bv the nresident, who alone of the American delegates would be able to reveal de- tails of the discussions.
 The secretary was before the con- committee during the whole of an all- day session. and althonph senators apnarentlv had finished their nnes- tioninp when adiournment was taken tonight. it was thoucht likely that other points might he brou"ht I'D when he appears again next Monday. MT. Lansing asked to he given until that time to nrepare his statements in reply to questions asked today about thn Lansing-Ishii aoreement. the attitude If the United States to- ward Janan's 21 demands on China in 1915, and what nart this government took toward bringing China into the war
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