The Washington times., 1919-09-10
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FULL REPORT
. Of LODGE ON
. PEACE PACT
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treaty which was in two languages
and hlled J3T quarto pages. The
treaty therefore was not in the pos
! session Of the committee for action
until July Il, 1919 The report upon
the treaty was ordered by the com
| n1ittee on September 4. Deducting
Sundays and holiday, the treaty has
been before the Committee on Foreign
Relations for forty-five days. The
committee met on thirty-seyen of
those working days, sitting whenever
I possible both in the morning and
afternoon. The eight working days
I upon which the committee did not
sit were lost owing to unavoidable
/ delays in securing the presence of
witnesses summoned by the committee
In view OF the fact that six months
| were consumed By the Peace Confer
ence In making the treaty, in addition
to 6 month Of work By the various
delegations before the assembling OF
the conference, the period of six
weeks consumed by the committee in
considering it does not seem exces-
sive.
SPEED Demand ArtIfIeaI.
These facts are mentiontd because
! there has been more or less cla5,or
about delay in the committee Thia
] demand for speed in the considera- :
tioH OF the most important subject
which ever came before the senate
/ OF the United States, involving as n
| does fundamental changes in the
I character OF our Government and tbe
future OF our country for an unIinit-
eo PERIOD, was largely the work Of
! the Administration and its Newspaper
organs and was so far wholly ar
tIlielSL. Artificial also was the de-
/ mand for haste disseminated nv cer-
| tain great banking firms vbicL b.d
oireet pecuniary interest in Sc
curing an early opportunity to rean
the harvest which they expected fr6r1
the adjustment OF the financial ohH1a-
lions OF the countries which had been
engaged IN the war. The third eIe
ment in the agitation for haste vas
furnished by the unthinkinR outcrv AZ
many excellent people who desired
early action and who for the most psrt
had never read the treaty or never 1ot
beyond the words League of Sa-
tons" which they believed to mean
the establishment Of eternal peace
To yield hefplessly to this eIamor was
Impossible to those 70 whom was en-
nc uduCe OF. a solemn
public duty.
Senate AIno Responsible,
The responsibility OF the Senate in
regard 70 this treaty is equal to that
Of the Executive, who. although aided
oy force OF thirteen hundred assis
tants, expert and otherwise, consumed
six months in making il, and the Sen
ate and its Committee on Foreign Re
lattons cannot dispose of this rnoneu-
tous document with the Iight-hearted
indifference desired by those who were
pressing for hasty and thoughtless
action upon It The committee was
also hampered BY the impossibility AZ
securing the full information to which
they were entitled from those who had
conducted the negotiations. The com
mittee were compelled to get such i'm
perfect information as they secured
from press reports, by summonins be-
fore them some Of the accessible ex-
peTts who had helped to frame the
complicated financial clauses and GER
tain outside witnesses. As an illus
tration in a small way OF the Difficult
ties in securing information, IL may
be stated that no provision had been
made TO supply the Senate with the
maps accompanying the treaty. and Il
was necessary to send to Paris to pro-