The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-19
LEAGUE LOOKS LIKE WINNER
 OF STRUGGLE. Present Senate Situation Promises Success to Vii
 son Document. e. o. ?. VAIL
 LACK OF TIrdE Meanwhile Industry, Fin ance and Commerce Are
 Unsettled.

tho Foreign Relations Committee has opened the last and most intense en- s-areu1enz l-. the Senate over the Epsa-ue of Nations This battle, con sastinE of a series CE engagements, bids fair to Eas1 several weeks. and sarr-ival anything that has come be Tore the upper house of Congress In many decades.
 Chose obsa-vers-thoso who check each doubtTuI Seus tors qualms and emotions dai-y-are stul stronEiy of the opinion that 1ho League of Va ef1us as esooussd by Woodrow Will son appears -he winner. In this th=y are assured by the admitted collapse oF the attempt to kIll the peaca treaty without rEspre5Dg TO cover. and the belief that ag1 similar attempts under the glllse of amendments and reser- vat5o1s appear equally certain Co fa3l-
 The LodEe or ma Jor5-y report stresses the point that rho committee has had the trentv but six weeks, whereas the peace conference look SIX months tO prepare the treaty. But it is frequently asked when in all his tory did it take as long to destroy as to build2 Considering that The an ragouisric Senators were blind-y as sailing the League of Nations months before they knew Its dste5lS the oomp1ainE of inadequate time has not made an Impression
 Bur tho minority report aSccs up the Cud-els promptly and pOinCz out the commercial unrest tho world oyer that can be directly traced to the de- lay incident to preparing a majority report that all Senator Lodges ''lz5u ElrB league some way colleagues sou1d agree to, In the following Ian sgHage:
 '"The industrial world is 5n fer Eusza, the financial world tn doubt. ana eomu2ecs hal9s while tnss great delay Rn tho peace settlement has Aesn cauzsed by tho naaiozl-v of a sonu'r1se known o0 Dc out of har- rnany wBan tho majority Of tho Som ars and tho majority of tho pBopls- Iyhis Is Euverument by obstruction as we'll as by a minority
 Not daring tO openly assert t1,2a Prr@fdenn Wilson hza 1zgpt anything from rhrn at ths famous LShira HDuse meeting between Inc chief s-r- eCutlve and thB members of r-e For e1En E1elatlnns CU-zui1tee. tlls report of the -na5orlry hy 1rrpl5s-atlDus says Ghnn nothing was E1slneE on that oc- uaE1pu, being another ezcuse for de fRy tn ugportlas chs treaty
 What evidently was c0uzE5srsd a ~7be1l ra1Ear" argu-u@u1 by Senator IsO5Es Ama his co-0Brts saErBnd7v has bson-1R a sOJwCs of 1.snusg-1en1. This gygiu1 was tho armDun- Of exgorf 7Bns- 3nfss tIalusac1BH by tho United sia.tes wt-h Cssr1maTy ztrsoa Inc zrr1lz15rss-
 8erwyeen that gEumt and -hB end of gu1y," srnUur1reE tls T.r1-g re port, ~vB hazR ezporteH 1a Cg-r--l71z- goods walasd at sIl.ZzD. .Bzt.- ear7s nisprUwazgas the aura1rl1ztr.a-Ao-l e-na-n tl1srt c1ramaH1s Of trade 7z11h Germany would Do c1u8s1 BntI ths pRace rzsHtE vgEB rarh1Ra-
 But SguatUr HIttchrre7z sna ll{s rg7- EaaEsws8 who ErHgare1 Inc s11tnorzrr report hook the ITumf1B bD dD noue .atEu1trlgs, and the general t-11-zzx.c1a Is thE1 Se1ra1Dr L,oEssp wishes he had ioeeas egtuallv dTlisuEt G1szs tt.s mt noz5tY repgrt1
 -Tale cla1rn by Eha5. majority CT Etzs ,eU1nIntttee Ehat 7s f1zzB sgzpgrtsa '0Wsr eleven million dollars worth of E7o'ndB to Germany z1nce the a-z1szEtzUs and without peacB sBtr1en1sun is no GUu7gt tr7ua. To Crtaar couu--zpgz sr7r- ing the EamB period WIG ez-pe--gF s7vs,. five thog1Sard naEL3gn dollars worth Rzsat WEas ezpUrtera tD CsEr-ns-v as statea by the majority ys91r1 v7gs practically nothing. II Is only IA sa1ntB worth of Amnsr5-arl r1rc171g4vz GDr each IoarsDL t1n Germany in seven GnTsrthB or two csmts per person Der nacmf7s yR4 the majority rsport noasrs Uf 1t as evidence of trade s-7v5v-s1 i'm spite of treaty dls1ly- The za-ae Bfatas-neu graws1E azszars us that their @g111saB prove that df fs A mere 6s3glEsi0n to say we cannot trade win Germany till a Peace settlement ss made Two cents per u10mEh per per som tn hard5ly trading with Czer-lauy.''
 IIeamwfn5l@ another b1t of perueFE- fly has aE1ssn to bother t7aa 5rrecou- eileabae elements that Senator Lodge lrsAs failed to whip into an aereenoeut tO kin the League of Nations. and hence the entire peace treaty. The New York Sum. cne of fgss r7ogt vso- tent OppOnen1B of the Leazue. re- oe1fly propounded a series Of cr1es- t4cms tO a ~Atgh French gowrrnrneut erlcaaES in regard to the Lodge a1nHenGaneut5 ana reScTwatE0nn. fae re- p1es to three Of which are regarded SIS GeeD1y significant.
 One of fine qIaestfous was --zYouas9 sucsl reservations (fg1ose s1ssrnaf+sd flu the majority geportS be regarded aS equivalent to aznendrnents,s and thS aGsNsr U1Es Yes without dOubfsS
 Another was -gVov7d s,1ch reserva- tfons have t0 loo accepted by ali t7na s4snaAoT5es before they yyouid be valid as applying t0 naan1borEhiD in tho Leagas of 1-ataous." flls auguer bstnEs ''NTost esrtainly.'' Germany, 1t w5ll be rea3embered. sras ono of the stgpatoFies
 StIl another query was, 'sYould France object to any of t71s reserra- ttons," and "tho answer t0 this was ''t1lat they seemed highly dauzsrous te the treaty but as there appeared to De tittLS chance that fhey would bs accepted tils question was hardly worth d'seHssiBg,"
 Meanwhile tae Presidents am nounSstHeat in the West that pro- GsFFuaHisIa was again raising lts head in America is being borne out in the Senate of tiIs United States. Senators EaWgyaRsa aapafffgtaFsc cfa ae