The sun., 1919-05-06
NEW PEACE DRAFT
IGNORES ROOT PLAN
Brandegee Says Senate Should
Demand the Reasons
for Rejection.
7. s. RIGHTS ENDANGERED
Connecticut Senator Renews
Attack on Work Of Paris
Conference.
special DesputeA 10 THE suE.

WASH rNGroN, May 5.-Senator Bran.
t.see Conn.,. Republican, who had
not Indicated his stand on the revised
covenant OF the League of Nations, Is
rued a statement tonight in which ne
announced that the Paris conferees had
absolutely failed to incorporate any OF
senator Roots amendments in the new
draft
The statement was made after a
series OF conferences with Republican
leaders In the Senate and with George
Wharton Pepper of Philadelphia, who is
organizing nationwide propaganda
against the league in its present form
Senator Brandegee's statement is the
first shot fired by tho Republicans since
Senator Lodge requested that the cove
nant be carefully studied and analysed
before being discussed for publicat ion.
senator Brandegee's Statement.
IN his statement Senator Brandegee
said:
In his letter Of March 20. 1919. IN
chairman Hays Senator Root analyzed
the original draft OF the constitution OF
the League of Nations.
After observing that a large part OF
IS provisions are likely to be OF great
value he recorded his conclusion that
the constitution has very serious faults
which may lead to the ultimate failure
Of the whole scheme unless they are
-elnedied and some faults which un.
necessarily and without any benefit
whatever 70 the project tend to en-
barass and hinder the United States in
giving Its full support to tho scheme. !
think there should be several very i'm
portant amendments to the agreement
He proceeded to specify and propose
six ouch amendments.
The constitution In the form finally
approved by the Peace Conference en-
bodies no one Of the six amendments
thus proposed. Every one of them
might have been adopted by the con-
ference without impalring the effective
ness of the plan of which the constitu-
ton is an expression.
Their rejection places the conference
as equarely on record as IL 1t had de-
liberately made the following declara-
tons on the six points in question:
y. We decline to create a high
court OF justice or to do more than
direct that plans be formulated for
tribunal whose only Jurisdiction
will depend upon me consent of the
parties. We decline to exact national
covenants to arbitrate tusticiable
questions instead OF fighting over
them. We persist In vesting in the
International executive cabinet the
power TO make final decision upon all
disputed questions whether legal or
political in their nature. We accord
iogly reject Senator Roots first
amendment
"2. We persist in the practical
abandonment of all effort to pro-
mote or maintain a system of inter-
national law. We decline to provide
for conference of powers 10 state
in such positive form the principles
and rules of International law. We
reject Senator Roots second amend
ment.
80. ta) Not recognizing the Mon
roe Doctrine as a declaration of ira
ditiCNIf opposition to the extension
on the western continent of tho SOW
ereignty OF foreign states, We insist
rather upon classifying it as re-
sional understanding and we leave
the cabinet Of nine to determine IN
any emergency whether or not to
recognize the validity of the doctrine
according to their political opinion
" its effect upon the peace OF the
world.
"tb) We refuse TO permit the
United States or any nation specifi-
caliy to reserve for its own decision
what immigration il will sanction or
forbid
(c) We decline TO sanction the
specific reservation by the United
states of purely American questions.
We insist upon leaving the question
II protective tarH. the Panama
Canal and the coastw. se trade Of the
United States in the Uncertain posi-
ion in which they wery left by the
original draft"