Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-03-04
BORAHDENOUNCES
Secret TREATIES
Betrayal of China, He Charges,
Japanas Price for Supporting
League of Nations.
REED ON TRAIL OF BRITAIN
Attacks Her as "Grab ALL" White
Idaho Senator Charges Japan
With Massacres Of Chinese. 555
REED ON TRAIL OF BRITAIN.
lBy Universal Service. !

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WASHINGTON. March ia soittar
debate on the Shantung reservation fo
the peace treaty was the only accom-
plfshment in the Senate today in tha
negotiations for ratification Senator
Lodge hopes to be able to get a yots
on the observation tomorrow.
The debate was chatacterizeda 4 by
savage criticism of what his foes called
the Presidents surrender to Japan on
the Shantung issue. and of Great
Britain's territorial grabs n Persia,
Mesopotamia and other parts ;.of tia
world. ;s,9
:, Senator Lenroot, supporting the
Shan,tung II,t,g observation, charged that
pediency at the peace conference { In
grader to get Japan's support for the
''ssas Senate OF "fs,1ns BoGas Supplemented this
statement with the assertion that it
the Senate had sent the treaty back
the STde5 to Gles TAXI
Britain. France and Italy would have
agreed to do so.;4s 5
Borsh'a "F1inx'' at Democrats.
In the course Of the debate. Sena-
their support Of the Lodge reservatioi;s,
charging that they are about to desert
the President and surrender and Vote
signs Of "crumbling" on the e Demo rssnas
cratic side, and added: IL
von III ,Ss,, In9s staI, know Il in the end any OF
tons; That which you denounced six
months ago as treason you Will vote
win send to the. President the trearN l
new s,S. inteFDfetation ot the Monies d DOE ~
q Senator Rorah dec tred, heSss had no
'faitth Ni, tta IN the Famors sthat tie fsssdent
With WITH fesfoSs Fsn to assent the
Presidents followers desert him ana
iions iSte t9 rat,fy With the Led reserya
cept the ratification in this form. , !
Discussing what he chara cterised as !
on shantunS iaaa sssTrspdsT TO sapap
every single. principle advanced by the
i'i ipresident rs prerequisite OF peaeelwas
sailles conference" Europe had her
way in everything. he said, and tSS
de d, Livery i, Of shantlne was tho priss
para ZOE the league of nations ys-.7'' sissEs
senator Mccormick fntefrunted-8 10
say say that Shantung was not the oniy. Z
p'eee. pLaee af 6pt s,,wss, was merely Sone the
Japanese MurderinK Chinese. sSss
The ShantunE reservation. Senator
Borah continued. would not right thu
WI wromg na,l done TO Shantung and the peopis
He charged that already the ,Jananes,,,j
t are numbering the native population of4
SSnantung. Sa,In ana by the. Importation or
TO debanch and demoraiise" the Chiz
neSe IN that territory. lie added th,rt
,net nne Seenate; Sc instead of recording iss,
10 save our consciences from everIast1
inS soaring by saying In a reservation
'"s sepater We doRt Rnr,h ahppr9ye r7s OF IL.
secret treati which. he said have aii
oe9n En- recognized @ by the German treaty
in New YORK CITY CITY has seflain in lts lay o,aa dsm
complete tile of all the data reiatin5
to to the drafting OF the treaty was made
ing the debate. The Senator saiS M
mad unimpeachable authority for the
statement that the information which
Senate Is in the possession Sf this arm
Whose name he declined to give. ,rhe &
said: = g y = : .ss ts
Nnox,s Friend "Busies" Himself.
was told within the last week bss
whom I know that he had occasion t8
snsn v,sls a. law office in New York upon 3
upon whom he called he bus bnsieg ssnsiamsn himssif
VIII n looking about tho Office. i R
volues OF ,Se as
Bttseord, which were labeled, Treaty Of
eaossb neass With " 1,,es ,GeftrS.any He had ilms
propositions, counterpropositions pro.s
tocois. original drafts. niodIfications az
~, iaLlS' apparently every detail connect
g eu -, VIII the treaty with Germany; and
at a = least six other volumes. equally snss
cinc IN detail, relating to, the trea e
", Win n Austria. There is not one ten th (
me illes Of the Senate, either in" ,a I
eiH,m,slse eissMherse" on Foreign Relations or
~ 4 statement 81 by senatorl Hitehc ocE
tnat =, thS British empire is democraeYs
IL in In ,niier Ter sense than the United states,
u Is. a and ahat Japan Is rapidly becoming.
rStort I,,t from Senator Reed, or Missouri
nrit;ss ane senator reviewed the power OF ti,G
ainn i1isn monarch. and cited the opprese.
peoples OF India. Persia and Egvpt az
bsGOs bsi0r that that empire was far, froni
fie declared that the dcstruatios ornt,s..Is5
th Eerman autocracy had brought aboliIs
a sns streng gthening OF the British frmis
over H,i'ions of OPPRESSED people.