The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-16
STORM IN SENATE SHIFTS FROM THE
 LEAGUE COVENANT
 ID JAP CONQUEST
Treaty Opponents Charge Japs With Wheedling Shan tung From China With
 out Cause, Except
 Lust for Conquest
By A.seeistsd prsss

By Associated Press
 Washington, July 15.-The stormy Senate fight over the peace treaty shifted away from the league of nations covenant today and broke with a new fury about the provision giv- ing Shantung peninsula to Japan.
 Tn five hours of debate the treaty opponents charged in bitter terms that the Tokio government had wheedled Shantung from China at the peace table without the shadow of a cause except the ambition of conquest, and supporters of the treaty defended the course of President Wilson in the ne- gotiations by declaring the only all ternative was failure of the whole peace conference.
 Chairman Lodge of the foreign reia- tions committee declared Shantuny was "a price paid" for Japan's accept ance of the league of nations. Sen- ator Norris, republican, Nebraska, charged that Japan in 1917 secretly had inveigled the European allies into a promise to support her Shantung claims. Senator Borah. republican, Idaho, asserted that if the United States must either underwrite the Shantung agreement or accept the challenge of another power the coun- try would choose the latter course
 Senator Hitchcock, Nebraska, rank ing democrat of the committee, replied that the German rights in Shantung were obtained legally by treaty in 1898 and were won fairly from Ger many by Japan long before the United States entered the war. Senator Will Hams, democrat, Mississippi, said the President had to accept the Shantung agreement or come home without a general treaty of peace and that Japan never would give up the peninsula un less forced to do so by war.
 ASK TREATY DATA
 Tn the end the Senate adopted with out record vote resolution by Sem ator Lodge asking the President for any available information about a secret treaty. alleged to have been ne- gotiated between Japan and Germany in 1918 embodying a plan for Russian rehabilitation and promising Japans indirect protection of German interests at the Versailles negotiations.
 A sweeping request for information about the conversations at Versailles also was sent to the White House by the for eign relations committee, which adopted a resolution by Senator Johnson, repub- lican. California, calling for all proposed drafts for a league covenant for the reports of the arguments relative to the league, and for "all data bearing upon or used in connection with the treaty.
 The reading will continue at a long session tomorrow. the Senate having ad- journed tonight until Thursday so that fha nyr,itt nf ho ix,to torJ in its work. There was no discussion of President Wilson's offer to consult with the committee on doubtful points of the treaty, nor was any attempt made to have the committee open it's doors to the public. It was said these questions might not come to a head Hnr several days, after the reading of the document was finished.
 There was a growing conviction, how ever, that should the President see the committee, 1t would be at the White House and not at the committee room.
 Senator Lodges charge that Japan's s support of thes league had been pur- chased by the Shantung agreement was coupled with warning that Japan was following in the footsteps of Germany as an empire builder.
 There's another great power being built up on the other side of the Pa : cific." said the foreign relations chair man. we are asked to put our name at the bottom of that robbing of China handing over control practically of that great province to Japan. do not want to see my country's name at the bottom of such thing
 ONLY OBJECTIONS REMOVED
 Asserting that the senators opposing the Shantung settlement never had raised their voices against Germany's acquisi-
 (Continued on Pare Two.)