The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-09-11
Majority Report is Formally
Submitted by Foreign Rela-
tions Committee With Amend
ments and Reservations.
ALL REPUBLICANS BUT
ONE SIGNED REPORT
instrument Is Characterized as
an alliance and Not a League
Which Will Breed Wars In
stead of Secure Peace"

Washington, Sept. 10.-Character-
tied as an alliance and not league
which will breed wars instead OF Sc
curing peace" the German peace urea
". including the covenant Tor ieasue
of nations was formally reported 10
the senate today by the forelsn
lions committee. with Tor y-liNe
amendments and four reservations
IL viii be the first great document
oT its Kind to be discussed in the open
without the confine of executive
session"
Accommodating the treaty was the
majority report of the foreign relation
committee subscribed to by every re-
uublfcan member excepting Senator
McCumber of North Dakota, explain
ing the amendments and reservations
all or which 1t was declared were
Govern "a by a single purpose and that
- 10 guard American rights and SOW
ereignty. the invasion OF which would
stimulate breeches of faith, encourage
conflicts and generate wars"
The reservations propose:
i. Unconditional right to Withdraw
from the league.
peclination to assume any OF the
obligations Of the much discussed ar
ficle Y. except by action or the con-
gress of the United States"
4 Reserving TO the United States
the exclusive right to decide what
Questions are within its own domes-
tic Jurisdiction.
A. Absolute reservation OF the hcn-
roa doctrine to the judgement or the
-1nlted states alone
.rhe principal amendments are pro
posed 70 provide
Isouaf voting power for the United
states with tir.at Britain in the as
nslnbly of the league.
Giving to China instead OF japan
ito province os ShantunG
Relief OF the United States from naS-
ing representatives on commissions
deciding matters in which y nas no
concern.
Others concern phraseology-
r,hn~e amendune nts and reservations
,he ma1ority report says. are submit
tod 10 preserve American indepcn-
aepcc and American sovereignty and
thereby lest serve the welfare OF man
kind"
Fears that other nations may not
accent an amended covenant tho re-
port dismissed with the statement
THAT in one thing that certainly VIII
rot happen The other nations VIII
take us on our own terms for with
nut us their league Is wreck ana al
their gains from victorious peace are
imperilled."
That the adoption of amendments
win necessitate reassembling OF the
peace conference. the report denies,
asserting that thS conference probably
VIII be in session for six months more
in Paris and might as well be "at least
as usefuily employed" as they now
are III dividing and sharing south
eastern Europe and Asia Minor Ger
man delegates. the report contends.
could easily be brought to Paris. and
AZ Germany is not member or the
league. she need not be consulted about
changes or the covenant
At the outset the majority report
deals at length with criticism OF delay
and points out that whereas tie peace
conference took six months TO agree on
che treaty, the senate foreign rela-
tions committee Las had forty-seven
working days. Demands for speed in
ohc most important subject that ever
came before the senate of the Unit
ed States" the report says, were large
~ the work OF the administration and
trz newspaper organs"