The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-09-11
20. 900 GREET THE PRESIDENT
iNTHE COUNTRY OF M'CUNIBER
I'M THE BAD LANDS OF DAKOTA
With Reservations and Amendments
Treaty Of Peace Reported to Senate
Chairman Lodge Announces He Will Call Up the
Paper for Consideration Next Monday and Will
Keep 1t Before the Senate Until 1t Is Disposed Of.

now in Paris, with delegates fully rep
resenting all the signatory nations as
it has been for six months and it
seems likely to be in session foi six
months more.
Textual amendments If made by the
senate, can be considered In Paris at
once and the conference would be at
least as usefully employed in that con-
sideration as they are now in dividing
and sharing Southeastern Europe and
Asia Minor, in handing the Greeks Of
ThFaee over to our enemy. Bulgaria.
and in trying to force upon the United
States the control of Armenia, Anato-
liza and Constantinople through the me-
dunn of large American army.
"Still more unimportant is the bug
bear which has been put forward of
the enormous difficulties which will be
incurred in securing the adhesion of
Germany . 1t Is to be remembered
that Germany is not a member of the
lea que and when she enters the league
she will take IL az she finds it,
Regarding the Shantung amendment
the report saws that the majority of
the committee could not assent to take
the property of a faithful ally in full
fillment of a bargain made by other
powers in a secret treaty.
1T is a record which, rhey are not
ze.ts or leave behind them for the con-
temptation of their children" the re-
port says:
ARTICLE X.
The reservations on article X the
report says. Is intended to meet the
most vital objection to the league COW
enant as il stands
Under no circumstances, the report
continues, must there be any legal or
moral obligation upon the United States
to enter into war or TO send its army
or navy abroad or. without the unfet-
tered action of congress TO impose
economic boycotts on other countries.
No American soldiers or sailors must
be sent to fight in other lands at the
bidding of league of nations. Ameri-
can lives must not be sacrificed except
by the will and command of the
| American people acting through their
constitutional representatives in con-
gress.
The reservation also makes il plain
that congress alone has the power to
accept for the United States any man
date over another country. The re-
port declares that the reservations on
the Monroe Doctrine anA-on MS set
Element of domestic questions are i'm
peratively necessary TO preserve Amer
lean rights
Unless these reservations are adopted
the committee reports asserts that the
league as it stands will breed wars in
stead of securing peace.
THE anne ndnients and reservations
alike are governed by a single pur-
pose and that is to guard American
rights and American sovereignty. the
invasion of which would stimulate
breaches of faith, encourage conflicts
and generate wars.
The United States can serve the
cause of peace best. as she has served
IL in the past. and do more to secure
liberty and civilization throughout the
world by proceeding along the paths
she has always followed and by not
permitting herself to be fettered by
the dictates OF other nations or i'm
fne-sed and entangled in all the broils
and conflicts of Europe"