The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-10
ommittee Files Six Page Report Containing
Sharp and Bitter Phrases Directed at u,
President Wilson.
||NOR|TY REPORT TO Be PRESENTED
|eaeue Of Nations Condemned as Breeder of
War and Declared Not Suitable for Rati-
6cation by America.

treaty therefore was not in the pcs.
! session of the committee for action
until July IA, 1919. The report upon
| the treaty was ordered by the com
mittee on Sept. 4. Deducting Sundays
and holidays the treaty has been be
fore the committee on foreign rela
tons for 45 days. The committee met
on 81 of those working days, sitting
i whenever possible both in the morn.
! ing and afternoon. The eight working
days upon which the committee did
not sit were lost owing to unavo1d
able delays in securing the presence OF
witnesses summoned by the commit.
| tee.
! In view Of the fact that six months
were consumed by the peace confer
ence In making the treaty In addition
to month of work by the various dele
cations before the assembling OF the
conference, the period Of six weeks
/, consumed by the committee in consid.
| ering 1t does not seem excessive.
| These facts are mentioned because
there has been more or less clamor
about delay in the committee. This
demand for speed in the considera-
ton of the most important subject
which ever came before the senate
of the U. s., involving as it does
| fundamental changes In the char.
acter of the government and the
! future of our country for an un-
limited period, was largely the work
OF the administration and its news
paper organs and was SO far wholly
artificial Artificial also was the de-
mand for haste Disseminated by GER
tain great banking firms which had
q direct pecuniary interest In secur-
! ing an early opportunity to reap the
harvest which they expected from
| the adjustment of the financial obli-
cations OF the countries which had
! been engaged in the war. The third
element in the agitation for haste
was furnished by the unthinKrng
cutlery of many excellent people who
desired early action and who for the
most part had never read the treaty
or never got beyond the words
league Of nations" which they be-
! lieyed to mean the establishment of
eternal peace. To yielG helplessly to
this clamor was impossible to those
| to whom was entrusted the perform.
ance Of solemn pubic duty.
The responsibility of the senate In
regard to this treaty LIS equal to that
| Of the executive, who, although aided
! by a force of thirteen hundred as
sistants, expert and otherwise, con-
sumed six months in making 1t and
the senate and its committee on
foreign relations cannot dTspose OF
this momentous document with the
light hearted Indifference desired by
those who were pressing for hasty
and tfioughtless action upon It. The
committee was also hampered by the
! impossibilty OF securing the full In
! formation to which ,ney were en-
titled from those who had conducted
| the negotiations.
| The committee was compelled to
get such imperfect information as
| they secured from press reports, by
summoning before them some OF the
accessible experts who had helped
| to frame the complicated financial
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