The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-08
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cept the reservations that they wouldn't accept it at first?
 Answer.
 never heard of a message that the nations of the world wou:c accep' A message like that usually comes through the state de- came. If what is meant is :: Lord Grey's letter that England i would accept those reservations, you must remember that Lord Grey was no. In ofsico when he said that. All his statement meant WAS that Lord l If you sake his statement at its face value 1t means no mora than that l some nations would be willing to ac- l. cept reservations.
 Question. I
 Wasn't there Congressional in-1 yestigation during the last six months | at which Woodrow Wilsoe was called i, and that question was asked that I asked you.
 Answer
 The gentleman has something in his 7 mind that can't get because I don't :! know what 1t is. He asks if there was Congressional investigation and President Wilson was called before them and President Wilson was asked if we would be at war with Russia now if we were in the league. There has been no investigation on that or any other questioning of President Wilson by the Senate or the House or both of them together. The only times that President Wilson discussed the League of Nations with Senators or Representatives as far as know were the two times first, in March or Feb ruary, 1919, when he came back with the tentative draft. He then invited the Foreign Relations Committee to the White House and showed them the tentative draft and talked it over with them. Then when he came back in July with the completed covenant. he invited the Foreign Relations Com mittee to the White House and they had five or six hour session and what transpired was all taken down in shorthand and is in print. l have read it and the question you are now asking was not in that Those are the only occasions that I know of that the President deliberated with the Senate on the treaty.
 Question,
 Will you discuss the question Of England outvoting the United States have heard it said they outvote us six to one.
 The governing body of the League of Nations is council which consists of nine nations each having one vote. Five of those persons forever must be, one a representative of the United States, one a representative of the
  of France, one representative or Italy and one representative or Japan. Four others representing some other nations out of the 39 or 40 in the league are to be chosen to four votes in the council. Each such na- | tion when chosen is chosen tempor- arily and can be changed by a vote of l the assembly, but while there it's rep | resentative has one vote. Every ac- 1 ton to be taken by the council except fo oIj lnth jr1C 0 l like that must be taken by unanimous vote. Therefore if all the other eight | votes in the council vote one way and 1 the United States votes the other way, that destroys the whole action I One negative vote destroys the entire l action. In the assembly, which is the l larger body, every nation that joins 1 the league is entitled to represents 1 tive or rather a vote which may be 1 exercised by not more than three per l sons. When the assembly of th' | league meets, the United States ha! one vote, but it can send three per 1 sons to vote. Any other nation cal do the same. thing. In the assembl. the vote must be unanimous to hav' any effect whatever. Therefore, i every other nations representa- n the assembly vote one way and tn United States votes the other, tha destroys the unanimity and therefor
 their capacity to act. In the makeul Of the aSSemDly treat BrlldlH- -Iudt l England Ireland, Scotland and Wale l-have one vote and the self-govern II ing dominions of England each hay
 member-South Africa. New Zea
 land, Australia and Canada each hav
 a member and vote in the assembly
 so that if you take England and he self-governing dominions, the whol
 British Empire has six votes in tn assembly but they are of no more i'm
 portance than the single vote of tn
 United States, because the single vot of the United States will destro
 unanimity if in opposition to thei
 six Why was it done? There is provision in the league that any self governing dominion of any natio could be admitted to a vote in the as , would include the Philippine Island:
 The idea is to have as many points c
 view as possible. If it is a questio } of the South Seas. somebody froI ! Australia could tell how Australf
 felt about it, somebody from Sout
 Africa how South Africa felt about i , from New Zealand how New Zealan l felt about it. But as unanimous ae t tion is necessary, the adding of a . those votes together doesn't mak , them effective against the vote Of an 3 nation. Don't forget that Urugua. = Paraguay. Colombia, San Salvado ; Panama, Costa Rica. all the Centrs l and South American Republics hay l a vote. all the small European natlor = like San Marine, which has an arm 8 of seven people and is hardly large l than this room all have a vote in tf
 assembly. I was on the western iron
 IT saw a part of the 500.0o0 soldiel e that Canada sent over there to hel s along, our men. I saw the New Zes t flanders. who fought like tigers. . saw the Australians. They died e protect positions essential to our sid
 and I think the great peoples out
 1 whom those boys came are entitled e representation in the assembly to te l. the peoples of the world their sic Il of questions. e Question.
 r We have been told by the Dem @ cratic candidate, Governor Cox, '- Ohio. that if we would go into u It League of Nations. under Article , e the Irish question would be taken u ;- You answered that this evening e stating that everything requires una o imous consent. How are they goil