The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-05

policy favoring amendments.
Text of the ResoIutions.
The resolutions presented by Joseph
E Warner of Taunton. Speaker OF the
massachusetts, House, as chairman of
the platform committee, said:
one diplomatic outcome of the great
conflict has been League OF Nations in
which the United States is a major party
concerned. In this controversy rigorous
party lines have not been drawn and the
question is n matter of national rather
than partisan policy, All are agreed
that this nation should do everything In
It's power to secure and perpetuAte world
peace and to substitute forever for the
horrors and miseries occasioned by war
rare just and permanent method of
settling with honor and certainty the in
evitable disputes between nations and
peoples. All are also agreed that the
sooner a final disposition OF this prob
lem Is made the better 1t will be for the
peoples of the world.
we therefore favor prompt ratlfica-
ton Of the treaty of peace without
amendment. but with such unequlvocal
and effective reservations as will make
clear the unconditional right of the
United States to withdraw from the
league upon due notice, as will provide
that the United States shall assume no
obligation to employ American soldiers
or sailors unless Congress shall by act
or resolution SO direct, as will make It
clear that no domestic questions. such
as the tariff and immigration, will be
taken from the control of the United
states and that the United States snail
be Sole Judge as to the Interpretation Of
the Monroe Doctrine. There must be no
abrtdgment OF the sovereignty of the
nation. of the control OF its own domes-
tic Affairs or Of the maintenance of its
national policies.
/ I'VE deprecate the action by our peace
commissioners in Paris in opposing the
wishes OF the Italian people with regard
to Ftume and the Greek people In regtId
to Thrace. We condemn their course In
consendng to the Acknowledgement OF
China, our republican ally, by depriving
her OF her richest province, Shantuug.'
The reading of the resolutions was
frequently interrupted by applause. which
swung sharply to a loud chorus of mos"
as the chairman of the committee read I:
We. therefore. favor prompt ratifica-
| ton OF the treaty of peace without
amendment--
When he was able to proceed with,
but with sucn uneQuivocal and eff
fective reservations as win make
clear" the applause was renewed.
In approving the platform Senator
Lodge said too much emphasis had been
placed on the difference between an
| amendment and a reservation. There
were, he said. two more amendments of
consequence now before the Senate.
| One was that striking out the provision
| regarding Shantung. which he described
as morally indefensible as well as polit-
ically shortsighted." The Senator said
he would vote against the Shantung pro-
vision whether 1t be by amendment or
reservation. whenever 1t is presented to
me-"
| THE other amendment" he added, ''is
to give the United States an equal vote
in the league with any other nation.
think that at whatever council table the
United States may sit her vote should
be the equal Of any other nation there
Necessity for Reservations.
Discussing the necessity for reserva.
lions, Senator Lodge said without then
"the treaty is dead
Three days ago." he added, that
would have been merely my assertion
But on Thursday we demonstrated It
The Fall amendments were simply In
tended to take our commissioners out Of
thirty or forty commissions to settle
boundarieS-to take hem out of the
commissions in regard to business which
did not concern us. which were not vial
They will all be adopted in the Teserva-
| tons"
| nsents Senator Lodge said:
"If those amendments, all to De COW
| cred by reservations. received such votes
| as that what chance do you think the
| treaty has unless the reservations
haze described are NADER There would
be early half the Senate voting against
1t without reservations.
People forget what is the truth with
many Senators to-day on this question
They do not care a straw what becomes
of them or their fortunes; personally
they have been deaf and are deaf tC
cries of party expediency either for oil
against They believe. rightly OIL
wrongly. that that treaty as 1t stands
puts America in danger. They will not
let 1t live unless It Is safe for the United
States.
There are men there, strong men too
| who would kill 1t at all hazards. have
stood there trying to get an agreement
| on these four reservations. think
have succeeded completely. and II those
reservations are adopted the treaty will
be saved-saved probably with not more
than one amendment"
| THE convention gave unequivocal in
dorsement to Gov. Coolidge "for his
| ready and fearless service for the en-
| forcement of law and order" The
| Governor. who has been Ill. was pres
| ent long enough to deliver a brief ad-
dress, in which he reviewed the admins
| tration Of his ONCE and defended his
attitude at the time OF the police strike.
at Is my purpose" he declared, ito
maintain the government of Massachu-
sets as Il was founded by her people
the protector of the rights of all. but
| subservient to none"