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 Relief of rhe United States from having rcpr- sautativcs on commits 7ious deciding matters in which It has no concern.
 Others concern phraseoiOgy
 These amendments and feserva- tions the majority report says. arc submitted ito preserve American in- dependence and American sovereignty and thereby best serve the welfare of mankind"
 Fears that other nations may not accept an appended covenant. the re port dismissed with the statementi
 That Is one thing that certainly will not happen. The other nations will take us on our own terms, for without US their league is a wreck and all their gains from a victorious peace are lmperilled."
 That the adoption of amendments will nCcessitate reassam4llng of the peace conference. the report denies, asserting that the conference proba- billy will be lu session for six months more in Paris and might Hs well he "at least as usafully employed" as they are now in dividing and shar- ing southeastern Europe and Asia Minor" German delegates. the re- port contends could easily be brought 10 Paris. and aa Germany Is not a member Of the league, she need not be consulted about changes of thee oveuant.
 At the outset the majority report deals at length with criticisms of de- lay, and points out that whereas the peace conference took six months to agree on the treaty, the Senate For eign Relations Committee has had 47 working days. Demands for speed ''lu the most important subject that ever came before the Senate of the United States" the report says were largely the work of the administra- ton and its newspaper organiza- tions."
 4 second artificial" demand for haste, the report says, came from certain great banking firms which had a direct pecUniary interest in Sc curing an early opportunity to reap the harvest in the adjustment of fl nanciaI obligations of the warning countries. The third was in the "unthinkinR outcry of many excellent people who desired early action and for the most part had never read the treaty or nev4E got beyond the words League of NaIous,' which they be- lieved to mean the establishment of eternal peace"
 .To yield helplessly to this clamor.' declares the report. twas impossible to those to whom was intrusted the performance of a solemn public duty"
 Recalling the Senate's responsibility as equaIs with the presidents, the re- port reCOunts al some length the diff faculties the Foreign Relations Com mittee experienced in getting infor- nation on the treaty, being obliged to send to Paris for maps, being compelled to get imperfect infOrma-
 ton from press reports and having at It's disposal few official documents Collateral treaties having a bearing the report says the committee was unable to get Of tho sum of infor- nation received in conferences with President Wilson and Secretary Lans ing. the report remarks:
 nThc people themselves know how
 much informa t1on in regard to the treaty was received by the committed upon those two occasions"
 While criticism for delays has at tended the Foreign Relations Com '-littee, the report points out. no ac- ton has been taken by France. JapaT or Italy. The argument that the treaty speedily should be ratified tha' trading with Germany might begin the report dismisses as rather fad. ed" and declares the United State. has been trading with Germany since the signing of the armistice in in creasing volume. The statement tha' trade cannot he resumed until tn, treaty is ratified is characterized as . mere deIusion."
 Before leaving this subject" says the report, Tit may not be amiss tC remark that MT. Lloyd George has re gently made two important speeche! ! expressing grave apprehensions as tC the social and political unrest and tn, i economic troubles now prevalent il i England. He seems to have failed tt point out, however that, the ratifica ] ton of the covenr0t of the League O | Nations by Great Britain had relieved the situation which he had described He was apparently equally remtss il emitting to suggest that prompt ac ton by the SeIate of the United i States in adopting the covenant of tn, | League of Nations would immediately 1 lower the price of beef.
 The amendment offered by thu i committee relates to the lea que. I | is proposed to amend the text as tt | secure for the United States a vote il the assembly of the league equal t, ! that of any other power. Grea l Britain now has under the name O | the British empire one vote in tn, | council of the league. She has fou ! additional votes in the assembly O | the league for hcrself-governing do rlinions and colonies which are mos | properly members of the league ant ] SignatOries to the treaty. She alsr ] has tho vote of India, which is neithe ! @ self-governing dominion nor a col ! ony, but merely a part of the em l pire and which apparently was sim | ply put in as a signatory and membe | preferably. from our point of view 1 in government securities. If it wa
 good business for John Jones or Ton | Brown to invest part of his earning l in Liberty Bonds or thrift stamp | during the war, it is equally to hi l advantage of the country to have it