Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1919-09-10
Peace Treaty Would Breed
War Instead Making Peace

senate by the foreign relations COM
mittee with forty-five amendments
and four reservations.
The report sayes the treaty with
the league covenant will breed wars
instead Of securing peace. 1t will
be the first great document of the
kind to be discussed in open with
out the confines Of an executive ses.
sion The majority report, signed
by every republican except McCum-
ber Of North Dakota, explains all
amendments and reservations and de
clares these are governed by a
single purpose and that is to guard
American rights and sovereignty, an
Invasion of which would stimulate
breaches Of faith, encourage col.
flicts and generate wars"
The reservations propose the un
conditional right to withdraw from
the league, declination of the United
State sto accept any legal or moral
otnAations of Article \ or accept
any mandatory from the league ex
cePi by action OF the United States
congress, reserviug to the United
states exclusive right to decide wnaJ
44esOions are within its domestic
Jurj a'ltiOn and absolute reservation
ol the Monroe Doctrine to the jutg
meut of the United states alone.
The report dismisses the fears tLat
other nations may not accept the
amended covenant in this way. "Tha
is one thing that certainly will moi
happen Other nations will take Us
cu our own terms for without them
the league is wreck and all their
gains from victorious peace are i'm.
porilled"
The report denies tnat the adop-
Iou OF amendments will uecessltate
reassembling Of the peace confer
eaee and asserts that the conference
probably will be in session six
months more in Paris and might
as we'll be, at least as usefully EN-
ployed AS they are in dividing and
sharing southeastern Europe and
Asia Minor The German delega-
tton could be easily brought to Paris
and, as she is not a member OF the
league need not be consulted about
changes in the covenant The report
deals with the criticism Of delay and
points out that the peace conference
took slX months while the foreign
relations committee had only forty.
seven working days The report de.
mands for speed are largely the work
of the administration and newspaper
organs.
The second artificial demand for
haste in the report came from GER
tain great banking firms, the report
says, which had a direct pecuniary
interest in securing an early oppor,
tunity to reap a harvest in adjust
ment Of the financial obligations of
the warning countries
The report says the committees
responsibility is equal to the presi-
dents, and recalls some of the diff.
ftculties experienced in getting in
formation. The committee was
obliged to send to Paris for maps.
get imperfect information from press
reports, and had few official docu-
ments Regarding conferences with
Wilson and Lansing. it says: The
people themselves know how much
information in regards to peace was
received by the committee upon those
two occasions"
Regarding the argument that the
treaty should be speedily ratified so
trading might begin with Germany.
the report says the United States
has been trading with Germany since
the armistice with increasing volume
and says the statement that trade
cannot be resumed till the treaty is
ratified is a mere delusion."
The principal amendments pro
posed provide: Equal voting power
for the United States with Great
Britain in the league assembly; Civ
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