Bisbee daily review., 1919-08-24
SENATOR'S GIVE SHANTUNGB BACK
 TOITSOWNERS
Committee Strikes Jap Title To Chinese tProvinCe From The Treaty; Ask President to Furnish Some More Light

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 WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.-After voting to amend the peace treaty by striking out Japan's title to the Ger nan rights in Shantung, the Senate foreign relations committee notified President Wilson today that it could not intelligently proceed with it's work on amendments until he furn- ished additional information.
 The action on the Shantung provis- ion was taken in short order, Chair man Lodge proposing the amendment and the committee adopting it virtual ly without debate. The vote was nine to eight, with all the Democrat mem bers and Senator McCumber, Republi- can, North Dakota, voting in the neg ative.
 Then the point of inadequate infor- nation was raised by Republican members, Chairman Lodge declaring there were in the Presidents hands important documents which were ab- solutely essential to the determination of question involved in the, commit tees work. During it's entire consid- eration of the treaty, the chairman said the committee had been ham, pered by lack of information that should have been given it weeks ago.
 Democratic members are under stood to have expressed general op- position to any interruption of the committees plan for prompt action, but finally on motion of Senator Will Hams, Democrat, Mississippi, and without a record vote, the chairman Sr,c fl, nj nd fn hn for the treaty with Poland signed on June 2S, two agreements regarding the Rhine section to which the United States was party, and such informa- tion as may be available about the treaties, now under negotiation with Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria and Fur key.
 In amending the Shantung provis- ion the committee took the most di- rect methods. Chairman Lodge simply moved to strike out the word Japan wherever it. occurred in the section relating to the German-Shan- tung rights, and to insert instead the word China"
 The effect would be to restore to China all the German holdings in Kiao Chow and vicinity.
 With the committees action the fight over the Shantung settlement is transferred to the Senate floor
 The Republican leaders say they have the votes to uphold the commit tee amendment but administration Senators appear equally certain that it would be beaten.
 Members said there was no discus sion on the proposal when it came be- fore the committee today, those on both sides having made up their minds and the subject having been debated at length in the Senate. Sen ator Brandegee, Republican, Conn.,, asserted all of the American peace delegates had gone on record as be- lievirtg the award of the Shantung rights to Japan was wrong, and asked that the committee vote for what it believed was right. Senators Hitch cock, Nebraska, Pittman, Nevada, and | Shields. Tennessee, Democrats, were absent but their votes were recorded in the negative.
 | All of the documents asked of the President, Republican members de. clared, had a direct bearing on the | treaty now under consideration and should be before the committee, off cially when it acted. The Polish treaty and the Rhine agreement had been submitted to the British house of commons some time ago, it was as serted, and British prints had been received unofficially by committee members and put into the Senate record.
 What effect the request for informa tion might have on the hopes of some members for a committee report next week, was matter of widespread speculation.
 Chairman Lodge declared considera tion of the treaty was progressing as rapidly as possible and that any delay had been due to an inability to get information. Some Democratic mem bers on the other hand openly charged that committee action was being un necessarily delayed by the treaty's opponents.