Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-12
LANSING WAS
OF
THE EFFECT?
w. G. Bullitt Quotes Sec
retary Against Terms
Of Peace Treaty.

Secretary Of State Robert
Lansing at his summer home
in Henderson HarbOr, this aft
enOOn. would make absolutely
no comment on the testimony
Of William &. BuIlitt before the
senate foreign relations com
mtttee that the secretary OF
state had said that ii the Amer
lean people knew what the
treaty meant they would de-
feat it.
The Associated Press dis
patch covering the testimony
was read to Mr.. Lansing. bat
he would say nothing other
Than that he WOuId make absO-
lutely no comment.
Secretary Lansing leaves for
the Gall0Upe islands this after
noon with the FOTtnightIy club
for few days OF bass fishing.
Washington. Sept William
c. Bullitt, of Philadelphia. Pa, for
merly attached to the American
peace mission, testified before the
senate foreign relations committee
today that Secretary Lansing told
him in Paris last May that if the
senate and the American people
knew what the treaty meant, it
would be defeated"
Blames England and France.
Mr.. Lansing told me the day |
resigned" the witness saId, mat
he was opposed to that part of the
league covenant relating to a man
date for Armenia. He said he con-
sidered the Shautung award and
the League OF Nations bad-that
the league would be entirely use
less; that the nations had arrang-
ed the world to suit themselves,
and that England and France got
what they wanted.
Lodge in For Politics.
After saying he believed the sen
ate would defeat the treaty if it re
allied its meaning, Mr. Lansing ex-
pressed the opinion that Senator
Knox really would understand the
treaty, that Mr.. Lodge would, bit
that Mr.. Lodges position would be
come purely political
The committee senators burst
into a round of laughter and Bullitt
said he begged to be excused from
reading any more from the mem
orandum of his conversations.
1t was near the close of an ex-
tended examination during which
Bullitt explained that he had been
sent TO Russia to investigate con-
ditions and later had resigned be-
cause he was out of sympathy with
the treaty and with the league COW
enant, that he was asked by Sen
ator Lodge how the American dele
gates stood.
Others of Same Mind.
Secretary Lansing, Henry White
and General Bliss all expressed
vigorous opinions regarding the
treaty, he said. Senator Lodge ask
ed if the opinions were enthusias-
tic.
Il regret to say they were not"
said Bullitt.
1T was no secret in Paris, he de
clared, that Lansing. White and
Bliss objected vigorously to nu-
merous provisions of the treaty
When Senator Lodge said he
thought the secretary opinion on
was known, Bullitt add
ed
4 think Secretary Lansing was
not at all enthusiastic about the
League of Nations"
Files Original Copy.
President Wilson's original prop
OsitiOn on the League of Nations,
written by his own typewriter, was
fled with the senate foreign Tela-
tons committee today by Bullitt.
The copy was presented 10 Bullitt
by Colonel Z. NJ. House and bore
he inscription by the latter IN
OF your help in the
lour of need"
In answer to a question by Sen |
itor Knox, BulIitt said that in its |
inaI form, the only proposal by |
he president that remained intact T,
vas article 10.
Senator Knox wanted to know if |
here was not a feeling of dissatis
action at Paris at the way in |
which the American delegation 5 /
work was handled.
There was little contact be- |
ween the top OF the delegation and |
he experts" BuIlitt replied.
Sent 10 kuSSIa~
Bullitt said he was sent TO Rus !
ia by Secretary Lansing in Febru +
.ry to obtain from the soviet gov
rnment a statement of exact (
erms on which it would agree TO
top fighting on I'll fronts.
Before proceeding Bullitt said he
-sked Colonel House a number of
IueStiO0s hearing uDOn the Amer
can position and House tOlC him.
lie said, that if the bolsheviki were
eady to stop fighting and declare
n armistice the United States
would approve.
BuIlitt was in Russia one week
nd on his return to Paris sent a
eport to President Wilson.
There was serious discussion of
onditions in Russia and the ques-
ion of Withdrawing troops, BulIitt