The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-09-10
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Four Revisions and Forty-five
Amendments to Treaty Con-
tanned in Report of Foreign
Relations Committee.
WOULD PROTECT U. S.
(By Associated PresaS

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1o.-Charac--
terized as an alliance and not a league
which will breed war instead Of Sc
curing peace" the German peace
| treaty including the covenant of the
| league of nations. was formally re-
| ported to the Senate today by the
| foreign relations committee with As
amendments and four reservations.
II will be the first great document
| of its kind to be discussed in the
| open-without the confines of "execu-
| tive session
Presenting the majority report.
| Chairman Lodge announced that next
| Monday he would ask the senate to
! take up the treaty, adding:
Il shall endeavor to keep it before
| the senate until disposed"
1t was announced that the minority
| report written by Senator Hitchcock
would be filed tomorrow.
| Accompanying the treaty was the
| majority report of the foreign rela-
tions committee subscribed to by ev-
cry Republican member excepting
| Senator McCumber Of North Dakota.
| explaining the amendments and re-
| servations, all of which il was de-
| cIaTeQ were governed OS d Single pui-
pose and that is to guard American
rights and sovereignty, the invasion
| of which would stimulate breeches of
faith. encourage conflicts and general
| wars"
| Four Reservations.
The reservations propose:
Unconditional right to withdraw
| from the league.
2-Declination to assume any of the
obligations of the much discussed Ar
ticle 10, 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.
Submit Amendments
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 commits
| sions deciding matters in which it
has no concern.
Others concern phraseology.
These amendments and reservations
the majority report says are submit
ted ito preserve American independ-
ence and American sovereignty and
thereby best serve the we4iare
mankind"
Fears that other nations may not
accept an amended covenant the re-
port dismissed with the statement:
That is one thing that certainly
will not happen. The other nations
will take us on our own terms for
without us their league is a wreck and
all their gains from a victorious peace
are imperilled."
Denies Need Of ReassembIine
, That the adoption of amendments
will necessitate reassembling Of the
peace conference the report denies.
| asserting that the conference prob
ably will be in session for six months
more in Paris and might as well be
at least as usefully employed, as they
j are now in dividing and sharing south
, eastern Europe and Asia Minor. Ger
man delegates, the report contends
? could easily be brought to Paris and
as Germany is not a member of the
League she need not be consulted
, about changes of the covenant.
: At the outset the majority report
deals at length with criticisms of de
, lay and points out that whereas the
peace conference took six months TO
: agree on the treaty the senate foreign
: relations committee has had Al work
, ing days. Demands for speed I'm the
( most important subject that ever came
States" the report says were largely
before the senate of the United
the work of the administ ration and
its newspaper organs"
{ A second "artifciar' demand for
| haste. the report says, came from
: certain great banking firms which
: had direct pecuniary interest In Sc
: curing an early opportunity to reap
the harvest" in the adjustment Of the
financial obligations of the warning
countries. The third was in the "un-
thinking outcry of many excellent peo-
pie who desired early action and for
the most part had never read the
treaty or never got beyond the words
League of Nations, which they be-
lieved to mean the establishment OF
eternal peace.
ITO yield helplessly to this clamor."
declares the report, was impossible
to those to whom was intrusted the
performance of a solemn public duty"
Information Difficult.
Recalling the senate's responsibility
as equal with the presidents, the re-
port recounts at some length the diff.
culties the foreign relations commit
tee experienced in getting information
E on the treaty, being obliged to send
, to Paris for maps, being compelled to
> get Imperfect information form press
reports" and having at its disposal
, few official documents
, Collateral treaties having a bearins
the report says. the committee wal
. unable to get. OF the sum of informa
tion received in conferences with
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