The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-07-18
Fight Breaks in Senate With
New Fury Over This
Provision.
WAS "PRICE PAID JAPAN"
Chairman Lodge Says as Much
in Connection With Japan's
Acceptance of the League of
Nations.

washington, July 17.-The stormy
senate fight over the peace treaty
has shifted away from the league of
nations covenant and broke with a
new fury about the provision givins
Shantung peninsula to Japan.
In five hours of debate the treatv
opponents charged in bitter terms
that the Toxic government hao
wheedled Shantung from China at the
peace table without the shadow of n
cause except the ambition of conquest
and supporters of the treaty defended
the course of President Wilson in the
negotiations by declaring the only
alternative was failure of the whole
peace conference.
chairman Lodge, of the foreign re-
lations committee, declared Shantung
was "a price paid" for Japan's ac-
ceptance of the league of nations.
Senator Norris, Republican, of Ne
braska, charged that Japan in 1917
secretly had inveigled the European
allies into promise to support her
Shantung claims. Senator Borah. Re-
publican, Of Idaho, asserted that IL
the United States must either under
write the Shantung agreement or ac-
cept the challenge Of another power.
the country would choose the latter
course.
Won Fairly by Japan.
Senator Hitchcock. Nebraska. rank
ing Democrat of the committee. re-,
piled that the German rights in
Shantung were obtained legally by
treaty, in 1889 and were won fairly
from Germany by Japan long before
the United States entered the war.
Senator Williams, Democrat, of Mis-
sissppi, said the president had to ac-
cept the Shantung settlement or come
home without a general treaty of
peace and that Japan never would
give up the peninsula unless forced
to do so by war.
In the end the senate adopted with
out record vote a resolution by Sen
ator Lodge asking the president for
any available information about a
secret treaty alleged to have been
negotiated between Japan and Ger
many in 1918 embodying a plan for
Russian rehabilitation and promising
Japan's indirect protection of German
interests at the Versailles conference.
sweeping request for information
about the conversations at Versailles
also was sent to the White House by
the foreign relations committee.
which adopted resolution by Sena-
tor Johnson, Republican, of Cali
fornia, calling for all proposed drafts
for a league covenant for the reports
OF the arguments relative TO the
league, and for "all data hearing upon
or used in connection with the treaty
of peace"
Committee Reads Treaty.
At its meeting the committee began
the reading of the treaty, covering in
less than two hours about one-ffth of
its sections but passing over for fu-
ture consideration the league COW
enant. the boundaries of Germany.
and many minor provisions.
There was no discussion of Presi-
dent Wilson's offer to consult with
the committee on doubtful points of
the treaty, nor was any attempt made
to have the committee open it's doors
to the public. 1t was said these ques-
tions might not come to head for
several days, after the reading of the |
document was finished. There was |
growing conviction, however. that
should the president see the commit
tee. 1t would be at the White House |
and not at the committee room.
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