Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-09-15
WOULD REJECT ALL
PACT AMENDMENTS
Senator McCumber Also
Urges "Strong" Reserva-
tons Be Modified.

Rejection of all proposed amend
ments to the German peace treaty and
modification of the recommended
strong reservations was urged in an
individual minority report filed with
the Senate today by Senator McCum-
Der. republican. North Dakota, next in
rank on the foreign relations commits
tee to Chairman Lodge. Senator Nc
Cumber did not join in the recent
republican majority report and voted
with the democrats on amendments
and several reservations
abandon Our Allies"
Attacking the majority renort of
Chairman Lodge, Senator McCumber
denounced most of the ma iorifv
amendments as selfish, immoral and
dishon9fable" and charged that thew
seek to isolate the United States
from the rest of the world. and
abandon our allies"
To the substance of some of tbe
proposed reservations" Senator Nc
Cumber's report declared, there can
pc no serious objection. But against
the manner in which they are asserted
DO most earnestly protest. They are
couched IN defiant, discourteous and
overbearing manner and seem intend
ed to express a jingoistic spirit that
ought to be eliminated from American
craftsmanship"
Scores Article z Change.
Scoring the committee reservation to
article x of the league of nations
covenant, Senator McCumber said Il
really Is an amendment pure and
simple, and designed to take the
, nniIed States entirely out of the
Special opposition was expressed bv
senator McCumber to the proposed
amendment of the Shantung proyis-
ion. BY this amendment, he said
Japan would be kicked out" of the
league by the United States and Shan
tung possibly lost to China.
"Ignore Leagues Purpose"
Calling attention to what he termed
the failure of the committee majority
! to explain the purposes of the leaens
Senator McCumber said:
NOT one word is said. not a single
alluslon Is made concerning either the
great purpose of the league of ma
lions or the methods by which those
purposes are to be accomplished.
Irony and sarcasm have been sub
stituted for argument. 1t is regret
table that the animosity which cen
! tiers almost wholly against the league
should have been engendered against
, subject so important to the worlds
welfare. 1t is regrettable that the
| consideration of matter so foreign
| to partisanship - > should be in
| fiuenced by hostility toward or subsery-
| iency to the President"
Says Vote Change Not Needed.
| Analysing the committee amend
ments, Senator McCumber said that
| the amendment to give the United
| States equal votes in the league with
| England and the British colonies com
bined was unnecessary.
J The plan of giving each member-na-
! ton one vote without regard to size
! or Importance was the only possible
plan, the senator argued. adding that
to all intents and purposes the British
colonies are Independent.
i Senator McCumber said his only OBJ
lection to the Lodge reservation on
withdrawal from the league was of
form.
| AS to the Lodge reservation to ar
ticle X, Senator McCumber said he had
many objections.
First, it is an amendment pure and
simple" he said, "of the most i'm
portant article in the league. Its pur-
pose is to take the United States as a
power for the peace of the world out
of the league entirely.
Second, it places this country in a
false and wrong position, an attitude
of encouraging powerful countries TO
f; inflict or impose any wrong upon
weaker nations, by our declared policy
of non-intervention."
| With his report Senator McCumber
| submitted the six reservations he
champions as substitutes for the COM
mittee reservations. These recently
were made public.