Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-07-18
BORAH SUGGESTS
POPULAR VOTE ON
LEAGUE COVENANT;
81 NS0RS At WORK
Id6SSS Sator Says French
and ,><6Sh Governments are
COIOriTg News That Comes
To America,
REPORTS SENT FROM
u. S. OF ONE SORT ONLY
Chamberlain CharaCterizeS
League as Colossal Confi-
denCe Gamei Resolution De-
pIOreS Shantung.

! fsV NoRsINo JOURNAL sPV-iNL LEASED wRHI
| Washington, July 17.-Shantung
and the league of nations were de-
bated in the senate again today while
! President Wilson was beginning his
conferences with republican senators.
Senator Colt, republican of Rhode
Island, announced to the senate his
conviction that the United States must
! enter the league to fulfill it's present
obligation to the world, and Senator
sherman, republican of Illinois. made
an attack on the league and the shan
tung provision,
In making his announcement Seno-
tor Colt said he withheld judgment on
certain reservations.
, Senator Chamberlain characterized
the league as colossal confidence
game of the ages" and said the pres-
dent and his followers were living in
"a psychological Millennium"
Without a record vote the senate
adopted resolution by Senator
Borah, republican Of Idaho. asking
the president for a copy of a letter
said to have been written by Gen.
Tasker II. Bliss on behalf of himself
and other American delegates at Paris
protesting against the Shantung set
tlement.
BY a resolution introduced by Sena-
tor Spencer, republican of Missouri,
and referred to committee. the senate
would declare its deep regret at the
disposition of Shantung.
Before the senate met the foreign
relations committee held another ses-
sion to consider the treaty, but de-
voted its time to reading the text
Text of Resolution.
! The text of the Spencer resolution
! follows;
Resolved, that the senate express
| its deep regret at the provisions of the
treaty which transfers to Japan such
broad rights and powers and physical
possession over the territory and peo-
pie in the Shantung peninsula in
| China, as being disregardful of the
| deep-seated desires of the more than
| thirty-six millions of Chinese inhabit-
ing the peninsula, unjust to the re-
public of China and threatening the
| future peace of the world.
TT is the sincere hope of the United
States that this manifest injustice
may be speedily reconsidered and
remedied."
Proposing that the question of a
| league of nations be left to popular
! decision, Senator Borah. republican of
Idaho, called upon the league sup
|
erendum.
Doesn't Like Closed Doors.
The president" said Mr.. Borah,
has been sending for senators and
will, | expect. continue to do so until
the quota is filled. 1t is a policy [
endorse l only regret that he began it
so late in his Administrations But 1T
| is not in accord with the tenets of
republican government to settle so
! l,.-Ig ,Iz a
either at the White House or any
where else.
What | would do is send for the
people, and the way to do that is to
have a popular vote"
! Senator Thomas, democrat of Colo
rado, asked whether the result of any
such a vote if favorable to the league,
would influence the course of Mr..
Borah. M@
IF / should stay in the senate un-
! der those circumstances" replied Mr..
Borah, ut would not But, there is
| such a thing as senator retiring.
! Neither will these resolutions and pc
| tions, manufactured and otherwise.
that are coming to us, have the slight
est effect on my course"
News censorship and propaganda
| Senator Borah asserted, are being
used to deceive the masses of both Eu-
rope and America regarding actual
sentiment on the league. Press re-
ports from Europe, he said, declare
the European masses desire tho
| league, while American reports to Eu-
rope assert the American people fa-
vor the league.
/ Declaring that French and British
press censorship continues as during
| the war, Senator Borah added:
That of the United States is worse
than either. There is only one kind
| of news (regarding American senti-
ment on the league) permitted to go
! abroad; that is the manufactured,
! propaEandiZed news"
| Attacking the league to enforce
| peace, former President Taft is presi-
! dent, Senator Borah said it was delib-
| erately organizing American public
! opinion and has furnished informa-
! ton used in the senate which is unre-
! liable and Misrepresentation of
| facts.
Knowing Misrepresentation.
And the men who have sent II out
| know it is q representation" he
| added.
A specific instance cited by Sena-
! tor Borah was resolution presented
| to the senate of June so, by Senator
| HltChCOCk, democrat, OF Nebraska,
! purporting to endorse the league as in
! corporated in the treaty. The resolu-
| tion, Senator Borah said, was report
ed to have been adopted by the Inter-
national Federation of Catholic Alum
nae a. st. Louis, and was handed to
Mr.. Hitchcock by Senator Walsh
democrat, of Montana
Senator Borah presented kilograms
from the officers of the Catholic or
ganization, declaring that the resolu-
! tion adopted at st. Louis declared for
league of nations, but specifically
condemned the proposed condemned.
The senators knew" said Mr.. Bo-
| rah, that the resolution was not an
| endorsement of this league, but con-
| demnation.'
| Thousands of Americans, Senator
Borah said, favor league in princi-
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