Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-10

securing an early opportunity to
reap the harvest" in the adjustment
of financial obligations of the war
ring countries.
The third was in the "unthinking
outcry of many excellent people who
desired early action and for the
most part had never read the treaty
or never got beyond the words
League of Nations which they be-
lieved to mean the establishment of
eternal peace"
ITO yield helplessly to this
clamor," declares the report, was
impossible to those to whom was
intrusted the performance of a SOL
emn public duty"
Couldn't Get Data
Recalling the Senate's RESPONSE
bility as equal with the Presidents,
the report recounts at some length
the difficulties the Foreign Rela-
tions Committee experienced in get
ting information on the treaty, be-
ing obliged to send to Paris for
maps, being compelled to get i'm
portant information from press re-
ports" and having at it's disposal few
official documents. Collateral trea-
ties having a bearing, the report
says, the committee was unable to
get. OF the sum of information re-
ceived in conference with President
! Wilson and Secretary Lansing, the
| report remarks:
THE people themselves know
how much information in re-
gard to the treaty was received
by the committee upon those
| two occasions"
While criticism for delay has
been aimed at the Foreign Relations
| Committee, the report points out, no
| action has been taken by France,
| Japan or Italy. The argument that
the treaty speedily should be rati-
| fed that trading with Germany
might begin, the report dismisses as
rather faded" and declares the
| United States has been trading with
| Germany since the signing OF the
armistice in increasing volume. Ihe
statement that trade cannot be re-
sumed until the treaty is ratified
is characteristic as a mere delu-
| sion"
Price of Beef!
Before leaving this subject says
the report, 'it may not be amiss to
remark that Mr.. Lloyd George has
recently made two important
speeches expressing grave appre-
tensions as to the social and politi-
| cal unrest and the economic trou-
bles now prevalent in England. He
| seems to have failed to point out,
| however, that the ratification OF the
! covenant of the League of Nations
had relieved the situation which he
| had described. He was apparently
equally remiss in omitting to sng-
| gest that prompt action by the
United States in adopting the cove
nant of the League of Nations
would Immediately lower the price
of beef.
THE amendment offered by the
| committee relates to the League. IT
| is proposed so to amend S @ text as
| to secure for the United States q
vote in the assembly of the League
equal to that of any other power.
! Great Britain now has under the
name of the British Empire one
vote in the Council of the League.
| She has four additional votes in
the assembly of the League for her
| self-governing dominions and col
| onies which are most properly men,
| bers of the League and signatoriCs
| to the Treaty. She also has the
vote of India, which is neither q
| self governing dominion nor a coll
ony. but merely n part of the en-
| pire and which apparently was SIM
| ply put in as n signatory and meE-
Der of the League by the Peace
| Conference because Great Britain
desired it. Great Britain also will
control the votes of the Kingdom
| of Hejaz and Persia. With these
| last two of course we have nothing
| to do. But If Great Britain has six
votes in the League assembly, no
reason has occurred to the commit
tee and no argument has been made
| to show why the United States
| should not have an equal number.
! If other countries like the present
| arrangement that is not our affair;
| but the committee failed to see WHY
! the United States should have but
one vote in the assembly of the
League when the British Empire
| has six.
China Gets Shantung
Amendments 80 to A, inclusive,
! transfer to China the German lease
and rights, If they exist, IN the CHI
nese province of Shantung. which
| are given by the Treaty to japan.
! The majority of the committee were
| not willing to have their votes re.
corded at any stage in the proceed
| ings in favor of the consummation
! of what they consider a great wrong.
| They cannot assent to taking the
F.; property of faithful ally and hand
| ing 1T over to another ally IN full
| fillment of bargain made by Other
| powers in secret treaty. 1t Is n
! record which they are not willing To
! present to their fellow citizane or