The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-02-03
AMELIA RE|NHARDT
ADDRESSES SENATE
FORMER MOSCOW WOMAN PRE-
SENTS MONSTER PETITION
FOR RATIFICATION

DR.. Amelia Reinhardt, president of
Mills College, California, formerly
Miss Aurelia Henry, of the Univer-
sity Of Idaho, recently visited Wash
ington, d. G. with a monster petition
signed by the women of California
asking immediate ratification of the
treaty of peace with Germany and
the league of nations covenant. The
petition was presented to the senate
by Senator Phelan, of California. The
account of the presentation and the
address of Dr. Reinhardt, as it APP
peared in the congressional record,
follows:
Mr.. Phelan Mr. President, I am
charged with the very agreeable duty
of presenting this morning a petition
from very large number of woman
of California-20, 000-whose names
are attached to this petition, request
ing the senate to ratify the treaty of
peace with Germany and the covenant
of the League of Nations. | do not
know any better method of ascertain
ing the sense of the people between
elections than by a resort to the con-
right of petition, and where
as many petitions have been, sent to
this body urging action by the senate,
there is no petition more formidable
than this one which / have the honor
to present this morning. Mr.. Presi-
dent | ask that you receive it and
lay it before the senate.
| also ask unanimous consent to
have printed at the same time the re-
marks of DR.. Amelia Henry Reinhardt,
president of the Mills College, Cali
fornia, representative woman of my |
state, who, in rendering the petition to
the California senator's for presenta- |
ton here, urges the purpose and the
sense of the petitioners in eloquent |
language.
The Vice President. There being no
objection, it is so ordered
The matter referred to is as follows |
Remarks of DR.. Reinhardt.
On Saturday, January "a, DR.. Aur-
ella H. Reinhardt, president of Mills
College, Oakland, Calf, representing
he petitioners, women of California,
presence of the Vice President and
many Senators in the room of the
Vice President:
II thank the senior senator from
California (Mr. Phelan) for his court
,Ous introduction and the Vice Pres
dent of the United States for his hos
,itality to the women of California in
them in this historic room
0 present to their senators this me-
norial in behalf of the peace treaty
nd the League of Nations for pre-
entation to the senate.
1.-THE great clock which I am facing
eminds me that if Americas ambas-
ador to France had met with the al
ed statesmen in the clock room OF
he French foreign office on Friday
f last week / would not be here using
ne time of senate members with my
7ords of explanation and appeal.
at was a Frenchman visiting our
Dung republic years ago who remark
d upon the propensity of Americans
, talk much and leave little time for
linking. Would his witty allegation
ring condemnation on the head of
ne who has had five days of thinking,
| crossing mountains and prairie, as
preface to these five minutes of
beech to which ] limit myself? How
yer, it is not in my words, but in the
lent suffrage of thousands of Cali
'rnia citizens that this petition which
bring has value. These multitudes
, signatures, bound together with
lie colors of our country, ask that ac-
on be taken for the immediate rat
ication of that agreement reached
= delegates of ID nations assembled
st winter in Paris-that agreement
hich is called the treaty of peace, in
uding the League of Nations coven-
1T. These signatures speak for no
arty but for individual Americans
no base their request not on policy
1T on principle, not on personal in