Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-09-06
SENATORS TAKE
FLING At SOME
STATEMENTS BY
THE PRESIDENT
McCumber of North Dakota
Presents Set Of Resolutions
of Mild Type Defines Ar
tiCIe 10,
RESERVES POWER TO
AMERICAN CONGRESS
Would Have Specific Author
ization by Legislative Branch
Before Use Of Military or
Economic Force.
sy MORNING ,ouss>L SPECIAL LEASED wlRsl

Washington, Sept. 5.-President
Wilson's addresses to the country IN
support of the peace treaty and league
o. nations evoked prompt and spirited
replies today from the senate floor.
Senators Borah Idaho. and Sher-
man, Illinois, republicans, assailed
statements by the president at Indian
apolis and Columbus. On the other
hand Senator McCumber, republican,
North Dakota, attacked the treaty
reservations adopted yesterday by the
foreign relations committee and pre-
sented six substitute reservations re-
garded as expressing views of repub-
lican senator's favorlng reservations of
mild" type.
Referring to the presidents state
ment at Indianapolis that under the
league I'VE can mind other people S
business" Senalor Borah cg,ticized
American military operations in kus,
STA, declaring such to be IA usurpa-
tion Of power" without authority un :.
der the constitution and for the pur-
pose of aiding Japan's Siberian policy
Sherman Also Speaks.
Senator Sherman resented the pres
ident's assertion in Columbus that the
international labor conference author
lied under the peace treaty would b.
held here next month regardless of
whether the senate had ratified the
treaty by that time. The presidents )
attitude showed "contemptuous dis
regard" of law, the Illinois senator
said, adding that officials had been
impeached for lesser breaches.
In presenting his proposed substi-
tute resolution of ratification, Senator
McCumber spoke only briefly. In
lieu of the committee reservation 10
article ten of the league covenant he
proposed a reservation merely declar-
ing that specific action be reuuir i
from congress to make territorial
guarantees effective and that failure
of cqnfress g ~, as. proDosed. hy ,ar=
tfclS ten, should not be considered a
violation of the covenant, The conf
mittee reservation, Senator McCurl-
ber asserted, would be far worse :
than an amendment striking out arti-
Gle ten and Invites and encourages
war;"
McCumber Resolution.
other substitute reservations pro-
posed by Mr.. McCumber would in the
main change only the phrasing of the
committee reservations regarding the
Monroe doctrine, withdrawal from
the league and action on domestic
questions Two additional reserva-
tions presented by Senator McCum-
ber provide for return of Shantung
province by Japan to China upon
adoption of the treaty and for liinita-
ton of voting power of British col
onies in the league as to disputes with
with the mother country. The latter
two provisions were covered by the
committee as amendments instead of
reservations.
The substitute by Senator McCum-
ber follows:
THAT the advice and suggestion of
the council (of the league) as to the
means of carrying the said obligations
(article ten) into effect are only adj
visory and that any undertaking un-
der the provisions of article 10, the
execution of which may require the
use of American military or naval
forces, or economic measures can.
under the constitution be carried oJt
only by the action of congress- and
that failure of the congress TO adopt
the suggestions of the council of the
league, or to provide such military or
naval forces or economic measures,
shall not constitute a violation of the
treaty"