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up that commission with an army, TO
furnish, American troops to protect the
commission and to enforce Its ends the
commission itself is given power to re-
cruit military forces When the people
Of the United States understand that
these commissions provide for matters
of this kind they will elect a Congress
that will reject the treaty II this Con-
gress approves and ratihes II.
II shall cffer an amendment to strike
out Part is: to strike out of Articles
11s and 119 the words and associated
Powers I shall refuse TO become
party to farce by which we shall enter
now into an agreement for governing
German Southwest Africa, Togoland,
Nigeria and the Rameroons, when to-
day the British flag is flying oyer the
German Southwest colonies and the
French nag by agreement with Great
Britain Is flying over the Kameroons
and Togoland, already divided.
Qnestions Put to President.
AT the White House conference
submitted to the, President q series OF
questions. Number 10 was:
HAS there as vet been any agree
ment. tentative or otherwise, as to the
disposition of the government OF such
South African colopies--'or any part or
same, to which the United states is
party?'
The Presidents answer was: There
has been a provisional agreement as 10
the disposition of those overseas pos
sessions whose confirmation and execu-
ton are dependent upon the approval
of the League of Nations, and the
United States Is a party to that pro-
vlsional agreement
"And the provisional agreement which
1 refer to was that France has agreed
to allow Great Britain to take Dei1a-
rara and German Southwest Africa and
that France should take the Kameroons
and Togoland, provided she left to Great
Britain a strip on the coast known as
the Nigerian strip. That was the agree
ment which has been carried out"
III this treaty is ratiled| interrupt
ed Senator Knox (Pa.) by it's terms
the overseas possessions of Germany be-
come vested In the principal allied and
Associated Powers, OF whom we are one.
We will get an undivided one-fifth OF
the sovereignty Of all those overseas
possessions The question that occurred
TO me was this: The instant that treaty
Is ratifed, that - the property OF the
United States. How can the property
of the United States and the sovereignty
Of the United States over that property
be conveyed away in advance by any
agreement to which Congress is not
partner"
II will admit the Senator from Penn
sylvania cannot secure an answer to
that question from myself" replied Mr..
Fall. y
Moses Refreshes Recollection.
ct will refresh the recollection of the
Senator from New Mexico" Aterposed
Senator Moses IN. HI, "by recalling
that l asked the President II 1t was not
the fact that we took title in fee to an
undivided fifth part of the German over
seas possessions, and he fastened to
qualify his acquiesence in that statement
by saying 'as trustees. however"
Exactly" replied Senator Fall. He
gives tho same answer with reference to
the title under articles l1S and 1le. I'm
der article 11S as to the German pos
sessions in Europe, Germany simply re-
nounced, outside OF certain boundaries.
and does not cede at all. But under
article 1ls. as to her overseas possess
sions, South Africa and the Caroline
| Islands and others. she cedes in favor
OF the i've allies and associated Powers
and II is to the wording of that cession
that the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr.
Knox has referred.
st do not believe the President meant
to convey the idea that there was any