Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-09-12
Treaty Battle to
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 the U. s. Senate
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such power of compulsion had been exhausted and that Germany had closed the chapter by signing and by iratifying." '1f an amended treaty is not sign- Jed by Germany" the report added then it is in none of it's parts bind ing on her."
 The report mentioned 12 concess- ions the United States would lose by failure to ratify the treaty. these in- cluding industrial and economic ad- vantages and agreements.
 Attempt to Destroy.
 Reservations proposed by the majority, the report said, were "for the purpose of destroying the league" which has stood the test of world wide criticism and unlimited at tack"
 The minority urged that the work of the peace conference be confined and the peace of the world advanced by ratification of the treaty described as the best hope of world "even if like all instrumentalities it be not divine ly perfect in every detail"
 AhS !ePoA SoHteHueu Ildt the ln- dustrial world was Gin ferment," The financial world in doubt and com merce halted while delay on the treaty had been caused "by the ma joritv of the people," This was de- Iclared to be government by obstruct- ion as we'll as by minority.
 Export trade, the report said, had suffered because of delay in ratifica- tion; that private credit waited for peace, and that this government which has been advancing to Euro ,pean governments, has about reach ed the end of it's authority given it by congress. Private enterprise, it said, from now on must keep up American commerce with Europe. An swering the majority, the minority report said exports to Germany since the armistice amounted to only IA cents worth of American products for each person in Germany, or two cents per person per month.
 Referring to the action of the majority of the committee, said the report, Eve unite in opposing and condemning the recommendations both as to textual amendments and as to proposed reservations. As far as the proposed textual amendments are concerned, we see no reason to discuss their character at length. In our opinion they have no merit, but whether they be good, bad or indif- ferent, their adoption by the senate can have no possible effect except to defeat the participation of the United States in the treaty. None of them could by any possibility be accepted by even the great nations associated with the United States in the war and none of them could by any pos sibility be dictated to Germany. To adopt any one of them, therefore, is equivalent to rejecting the treaty.
 Peace Conference Ended.
 "The suggestion of the majority report that the peace conference is still in session in Paris and could consider any textual amendments to the treaty made by the senate and that German representatives could be brought to Paris for that purpose, indicates a total misconception of the situation.
 "The peace conference has acted finally upon the treaty. Great Brit ain has ratified it, France is about to do so, and with the action of one oth- CT power. it will in all human probab- ility be in actual operation even be- fore the senate of the United States reaches a decision. Moreover, the peace conference possesses no further power to bring German representa- tives to Paris The power of com. pulsion has been exhausted. Ger many was told where to sign and when to sign and when to ratify and Germany has closed the chapter by signing and by ratifying. Germany cannot be compelled to do anything