The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-08-24
COMMITTEE ADOPTS.
AMENDMENT TO GIVE
'SHANTUNG TO CHINA
FOREIGN AFFAIRS BODY. . TO g.,
WOULD TAKE GERMAN RIGHTS
FROM JAPAN

Washington. Aug. 23.-By a vote of 3
to 8, the senate foreign relations com
mittee today adopted an amendment to
the peace treaty by which German
rights in Shantung province in China
would go to China instead of TO Japan.
All the democratic members and Sen
ator McCumber, republican. North Da.
kota, voted against the amendment.
Chairman Lodge offered the amend
ment, under which the word Japan"
would be stricken from the Shantung
sections of the treaty and the word
"China" substituted.
The committee also instructed Chair
man Lodge to request President Wilson
to send the senate the treaty between
the United States and Poland, signed
June 2S at Versailles, and such infor-
nation as he has regarding the treaties
now under negotiation with Austria
Bulgaria and Turkey. without taking
Aup any other proposed amendments to
Ahe treaty with Germany. The com
jttee adjourned until Monday.
Senators Hitchcock of Nebraska,
Shields of Tennessee and Pittman of
Nevada, democrats, were not present,
but their votes were recorded in the neg
ative on the Shantung amendment
The action was taken without extend
ed debate shortly after the committee
began its work on amendments under
plan to report the treaty to the SEN
ate If possible within the next week.
The Shantung amendment is expected
by leaders on both sides to develop great
er strength than any other on the SEN
ate floor. Democratic leaders say they
have the votes to defeat it, but the re-
publicans predict that it will be adopted.
After the meeting Chairman Lodge
said he did not know to what extent
the requests for more information might
interfere with the plans of leaders for
quick action on the Versailles treaty and
declined to predict when the committee
would be able to report to the senate
He said that while there was n move
ment in the committee for report next
| week he had never expressed any opin-
| ion as to whether action then would
/ be possible.
The committee, the chairman said
was making every effort to reach re-
port as soon as practicable, but had
| been hampered becaues it had been
compelled TO get lnlOrHlallOn mere anu
there which should have been in its
hands officially weeks ago. Besides the
Polish treaty and the information about
THE others under negotiation, the COM
ktee voted to ask for copies of the
|brotocol regarding the Rhine occupa-
Ifion, signed by the big five powers and
Germany on June 16. These things, the
chairman said he considered :;abso-
lutely essential to intelligent discussion
of the treaty provisions.
The motion to ask for the additional
information was made after the point
| had been discussed at some length by
Senator Williams, democrat, Mississ-
| |ippi. and is said to have been agreed to
without objection.
Requests for hearing of representa-
tves of the Hungarian and
. of the African race were granted, but
no dates set for them to appear The
committee took under advisement re-
quest from British subjects in Scotland
that they be permitted to present their
claims for self determination.