The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-15
McCumber AsSails G.. o. p. in
Individual Treaty Report.
Republican Senator Urges Re-
lection of All Amendments.
LODGE REPORT JINGOISTIC'
Says Shantung Change Would
Eject Japs From League.
North Dakota Scion Asks Re-
servatiOns Be Modified.

Washington. Sept. 15.-Changes in
the peace treaty proposed by the SEN
ate foreign relations committee are
"couched in a defiant, discourteous
and overbearing manner and seem in
tended to express a jingoistic spirit
that ought to be eliminated from
American craftsmanship" Senator
| McCumber, Republican, North Da-
kota, declared in an individual minor
ity report laid before the senate to-
day.
Rejection of all proposed amend
ments to the German peace treaty and
modification of the recommended
Strong" reservations was urged by
Senator McCumber, next in rank on
the foreign relations committee to
Chairman Lodge. Senator McCumber
did not join in the recent Republican
majority report and voted with the
Democrats on amendments and sew
eral reservations.
Calls Majority Report Immoral
Attacking the majority report of
Mr.. Lodge, Senator McCumber de-
nounced most of the majority amend
ments as selfiah, immoral and dis
honorable and charged that they seek
to isolate the United States from the
rest of the world and abandon our al
lies"
ITO the substance of some of the
proposed reservations" Senator Nc
Cumber's report declared, there can
be no serious objection, but against
the manner in which they are asserted
do most earnestly protest"
Scoring the committee reservations
10 Article Ten of the League of Ma
tions covenant, Senator McCumber
said 1t really is an amendment pure
and simple" and designed to take the
United States entirely out of the
league.
~. S. Would Kick Out Japan"
Special opposition was expressed by
Senator McCumber to the proposed
amendment of the Shantung provi-
sion. By this amendment, he said,
Japan would be knocked out of the
league by the United States and Sha-
tung possibly lost to China
Calling attention to what he termed
the failure Of the committees major
Ity 10 explain the purposes of the
League, Senator McCumber said:
Not one word is said. not a single
huston made concerning either the
great purpose of the League of Ma
tons or the methods of which those
purposes are to be accomplished.
Irony and Sarcasm as Weapons.
irony and sarcasm have been sub
stituted for argument. 1t is regret
CenteTS l.
most wholly against the league should
nave been engendered against a sub
1ect so important to the worlds well
rare 1t is Fegrettable that the con-
slderatlon of matter so foreign to
partisanship should be Influenced by
hostility towards or subserviency to
the president"
Analysing the committee amend
ments Senator McCumber said the
amendment to give the United States
equal votes in the league with Eng
land and the British colonies was un-
necessary"
The plan OF giving each member ma
ton one vote without regard to size
or Importance was the only possible
plan. the senator argued, adding that
to all intents and purposes the British
colonies are Independent
ASSailS Article Y Change.
Senator McCumber said his only OBJ
1ections to the Lodge reservation on
withdrawal from the league was of
form. As to the Lodge reservation to
Article Ten, Senator McCumber said
he had many objections
First, it is an amendment pure
and simple" he said. "of the most i'm
portant article in the League. Its pur-
pose is to take the United States as a
power Tor the peace of the world out
of the league entirely
Second, 1t places this country in
false and wrong position, an at
titude of encouraging powerful coun-
tries to inflict or impose any wrong
upon weaker nations. by our declared
policy of on-intervention."
With his report Senator McCum-
Der submitted the six reservations he
champions as substitutes for the com
mittee reservations. These recently
were made public.