The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-07-18
SENATE ROWS OVER
TREATY OF PEACE.
Shantung Was Japanese Pact
Price, Lodge Declares.
SAYS CHINA WAS ROBBED
Adopts Resolution Asking the PresI
dent for Information as to an Al
legged Treaty Negotiated Be-
tween Japan and Germany.


record vote, the senate adopted Sena.
tor Lodges resolution asking the pres.
ident for information as to an alleged
treaty negotiated between Japan anC
Germany in 1918. The senate then adj
journed until Thursday.
Senator Lodge charged in the senate
during debate on the peace treaty
that the Shantung settlement was IS
price paid" for Japan's signature ia
the League of Nations, with the rob
bling of China as the consideration.
"Shantung was the price paid, and
all the world knows It," Mr.. Lodge
said. "There is no statute of limfta
tons that runs against wrong like
that"
Handed Over Against Protests.
Reciting how Germany secured the
Shantung concessions and how japan
succeeded Germany by virtue of war
Senator Lodge continued:
England and France took Belgium
away from Germany during the WIZ
Does that give them claim to Bel
gium2 Shantung was not enemy coun
try like Fiume. 1t was handed over
to Japan against the protests Of some
of our delegates and the experts
charged with this question.
"It was handed over because ia
pans signature was needed to the
league It was done as a necessity
kaEy no fnr NJ r
ally who had been loyal, and hands il
over to a great military power In the
East
Japan is building up great pow
er In China. and we in this treaty
are helping her do it,
The debate on Shantung was pre-
cipitated by Senator Lodge calling uI
his resolution asking the president fol-
information as to an alleged treaty Sc
cretiy negotiated between Japan anC
Germany in 1918.
Senator Hitchcock (Neb.), senior
Democrat of the committee, said he
desired to protest against resolutions
Of this class, based upon such slender
information and having the effect OF
indicating to friendly country thai
the United States senate gives ere
dence to newspaper reports OF this
character.
eft is unworthy of the senate" he
declared.
Senator Lodge replied that it seemed
to him that when we are making 0
treaty that includes the gift to Japar
of 36yOOO,OO0 of Chinese we ought tc
know whether there is any truth liz
the assertions.
"It has been stated that copy 81
the treaty is in the hands Of the state
department and has been for some
time l. think it perfectly reasonable
that we inquire about It," he declared
Declares Treaties "Extorted."
Senator Hitchcock said it was wei
known that German rights i'm Shan.
tung were obtained in the treaty OF
1898, recognized by all the world.
Senator Lodge replied that the 1895
treaty had been "extorted" from
China by German fleet, while Sena
tor Norris asserted that by this agree
ment it was stipulated that the Ger
man rights in Shantung could not be
transferred to any other nation with
out China's consent.
"China gave that consent" said Sen
atOr Hitchcock, Shy the treaty OF
1915"
"And that treaty was forced from
her, and everybody knows it" returned
Senator Norris.
When Senator Hitchcock declared
! that, whatever China lost by the Yer
sailleS treaty, she gained something
more valuable than all else, protection
under article TO-" there was a burs1
of laughter on the Republican side @.
the chamber.
"Never Raised Voices"
Senators laugh" shouted Senator
Hitchcock, "but they know that il
the past China has always been &c
spoiled, and that under article 10 she
will be protected. The same senators
who now shed crocodile tears over the
fate of China have never in all the
past raised their voices against hel
spOliation."
Mr. Lodge said that England "stoot
by" and let Germany take Schleswig
HOlstein, HelgOland and other terri
tory near her door.
ashes paid the bill of those awful
mistakes" he added. "She's done il
nobly but at great cost.
There's another great power being
built up on the other side of the Pa
cific. We are asked to put our ap
prevail at the bottom of that robbins
of China-handing over control prac
tically of that great province to Japan
I do not want to see my country's
name at the bottom of such thing"