Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-10

people Of Georgia want 1t, they can
send another to the senate to do
their folly. AS long as I am there
and alive, I will never vote for il"
! The audience answered with tre-
mendous applause.
And if the president wants to dis
cipline me for taking that position; .
with him, according to some editors
and professors Of loyalty. But I call
it patriotism! (Applause.) Mr.. Pal
mer says l am harassing the pres1-
dent. If the president could be in
duced to say he is not. a candidate
for a third term, he would relieve
his party of a great deal +of harass-
ment. And if he would admit the
right of a senator to have an opin-
ion, he would relieve the country of
great deal of harassment. He
would relieve it of delay in the rat
ifica ton of the treaty" prolonged
applause.) s
AS to England's six votes to our
one, Senator Smith said simply: 81
don't like that" then paused for re-
ply, and the audience replied with
white people than England" he went
on, land we produce more than Eng
land, and we will have to put up
more to support the league than Eng
land. SO the senate adopts a reser-
NdliOI Saying IudL SIIdIl
vote no more votes than we vote on
a question involving their interests
versus ours. What harm is in that?
England doesn't object. Why should
the president object?"
Finally, Article 10
fl Discussing Article 10, the great
battle-ground of the controversy"
Senator Smith devoted as much at
tention to it as to all Tho others COM
bined. He went into it in detail to
show to what extent it involves our
government in fundamental
departure from constitutional
procedure and long established
precedent. He showed how it binds
the members of the league, to, pro
tect and preserve" the territorial In
tegrity and political independence of
than an obligation to enter the wars
Of the world, whenever and wherever
they may occur, and for whatever
reason they may occur; that it leaves
the congress, our sole and exclusive
war-making authority, no freedom Of
decision, but puts upon it an obliga-
ton to employ the men and money
Of the United States.
He showed that the president left
out the senate in making the treaty
and took with him certain other adj
visers selected personally, and that
all OF these are against Article 10
without reservation, and begged the
president in Paris not to consent to
it, these advisers being Lansing,
White, Bliss, House, Auchincloss and
Miller. He showed that Hoover,
abroad at that time as a confidential
adviser Of the president, begged him
not to consent to Article 10. He
showed that majority of Rcpubli-
cans and Democrats in the senate are
against it, including all but one DEM
ocrat from a doubtful state; that
most of the leaders of the Demo-
cratic party except the president
want reservation of Article 10. He
showed that the article is totally diff
ferent in language and spirit from
the article offered by President Will
son at the outset of the peace confer
ence, but the presidents article was
rejected and the General SHUTS ar
ticle was substituted for it, and the
president accepted it because it SEEM
ed to be the only one he could get.
"Let Posterity Decide"
Concluding his argament Oh Article
X, the senator read the reservation