The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1919-07-16
LODGE RESOLUTION
ABOUT SH!ANTUNG
Delivery to Japan Passes SEN
ate for Investigation. Hitch
cock Says No Peace
TREATY OUT IT
(By the Associated Press.)

(By the Associated Press.)
Washington, July 15-The stormy
Senate fight over the peace treaty
shifted away from the League of Ma
tions covenant today and broke |
with a new fury about the provision |
giving Shantung peninsula to ia |
pan.
In the five hours of debate the
reaty opponents charged in bitter
| erms that the Toxic government
had wheeldled Shantung from China
at the peace table without the
shadow of a cause except the am
bition of conquest, and supporters
of the treaty defended the course
of President Wilson in the negotia-
tions by declaring the only alter
native was failure of the whole
peace conference.
/ Chairman Lodge of the Foreign
Relations Committee, declared
Shantung was "a price paid for
Japan's acceptance of the League
tof Nations. Senator Norris, Repub-
llican of Nebraska charged that ia
pan, in 1917 secretly had inveigled
the European Allies INTO promise
to support her Stantung claims.
Senator Borah, Republican, of Id
aho, asserted that if the United Stat
es must either underwrite the Shan
tung agreement or accept the chal-
,lenge of another power, the country
would choose the latter course
Senator Hitchcock, of Nebraska,
. ranking Democrat of the committee,
replied that the German rights in
Shantung were obtained legally by
; treaty in 1898 and were won fairly
from Germany by Japan long before
i. the United States entered the war.
: Senator Williams, Democrat, of
mississippi, said the resident had
Ito accept the Shantung settlement
or come home without a general
treaty of peace, and that Japan
never would give up the Peninsula
unless forced to do so by war.
In the end the Senate adopted
without a record vote a resolution
by Senator Lodge, asking the Pres
iident for any available information
labout secret treaty alleged to have
cen negotiated between Japan and
t Germany in 1918 embodying a
!. lplan for Russian rehabilitation and
4 promising Japan's indirect protec-
f Ition of German interests at the Ver-
: lsailles conference
A sweeping request for informa-
Ition about the conversations at Yer
Isailles also was sent to the White
House by the foreign relations com
mittee, which adopted a resolution
by Senator Johnson, Republican.
lof California, calling for all proposed
Idrafts for league covenant for the
5 reports of the arguments relative
It to the league, and for "an iata bear.
e ing upon or used in connection with
< the treaty of peace"
e At it's meeting the committee be-
e gan the reading of the treaty, GOV
IL lering in less than two hours abou
It one-fifth of it's sections, out passing
s over for future consideration the
IAOo6uO SONCAdAI, IuO U
Germany and many minor provisions
D. The reading will continue at a lon,
d session tomorrow, the Senate havfn,
) adjourned tonight until Thursda,
SO that the committee would not b.
J. interrupted in it's work
There was no discussion Of Pres
4 ident Wilson's offer to consult witt
,r the committee on doubtful point
q of the treaty, nor was any attemp
made to have the committee opel
;, its doors to the public. It was sal
: these questions might not com
= to a head for several days after tn
reading OF the document was fin
ished. There was a growing convie
tion however, that should tn
e, President zee the committee it vii
n be at the White House and not a
the committee room.
ed Senator Lodges charge that ia
he ipan's sappoet OF the league had bee
he purchased by the Shantung agree
to lment was coupled with a warnin
ia that Japan was following in the foo
he lsteps of Germany as an empi
builder.