The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-08-04
Majority of Committee Ia
vOr Ratification of Peace
Treaty and League
AMENDMENTS WILL
CAUSE LONG DELAY
League Is Organized to Secure Endur-
ing Peace - Noted Speakers to Ad-
dress Annual Convention of Ameri-
can Bar Association.

can Bar Association.
ST. LOUIS, Aug. ratification OF the
peace treaty, including the league OF ma
tions covenant, without amendments.
viii be recommended at the convention
of the American Bar association mere,
Aug. % to 27, inclusive. The recommen-
dation will be in the majority report OF
special committee appointed to con-
slider the treaty.
The committee which signed the report
was composed of Edgar A. Bancroft OF
Chicago, William H. Wadhams OF New
York, and the late Frederick n. Judson
of this city.
Charles Blood Smith of Topeka, kans
and Henry st. George Tucker OF Lexing-
ton, Va, will present minority report
in which they assert they are unable to
concur with the majority committee.
Sections of reports to be presented at
the convention have been received by
members of the local arrangements com
mittee The reports treat OF various
subjects.
Your committee is of the opinion
that the treaty, including the proposals
for a league of nations, should be ratified
II without amendment" the majority re
port on the treaty declares. The world
is anxious to return to a more settled
condition which awaits the termination
Iof the great war. Ii amendments are
, proposed by the United States, other gov
ernments would undoubtedly propose
, amendments, and it is unlikely that sec
] ond conference could produce a more
satisfactory treaty.
1T is particularly fitting that the
Il United States should support the pro
4 posal for this league. The league is based
upon our own experience in a federation
of states enjoying liberty and peace. 1t
has been our high destiny to join with
our allies in preventing the destruction
of liberty and establishing it as the gov
efnihg principle in the life OF the states.
Upon entering the war we expressed
it as our desire and purpose to secure
not only for ourselves, but for all nations
of the world, an enduring peace, based
I upon those principles of liberty and of
il Justice which we enjoy. The league is
organized for that purpose. Should the
\ United States refuse to enter the league
the United States join, it gives the best
assurance of its success
4 Dealing with the subject of amend
ments and reservations, the reports
iterate that amendments are destructive
to the pact, and emphasizes that only in
Iterpretatiye reservations should be- pera
mitted.
Another report suggests that the cleo
ton of the president of the United States
and his Inauguration be brought nearer
together, and that the short session of
the old congress be abandoned
The interval between the election and
inauguration of president, this report
declares, is a serious evil, fraught with
much danger, because, if an administra
tion is discredited by popular vote of
want of confidence, the prestige of the
government at home and abroad is weak
ened and there is danger of humiliation
and disaster to the republic" The report
does not recommend any other date for
the election or the Inauguration.
Recommendation that the making of
rules for the conduct of aviation be held
in allegiance until airplanes become more
numerous, is set forth in another report
| a large number of prominent speakers
are expected to address the association
!, including Sir Auckland Geddes, British
, ambassador to the United States
Franklin *. Lane, former secretary of the
interior; Albert j. Beveridge of Indiana
former United States senator. and Judge
Ben b. Lindsey of Denver. Hampton /.
Carson of Philadelphia is president OF
the association.