Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-02-28
Nebraska Senator in Four
Hour Address Condemns
Treaty in VitrioIic Terms as
"Giving Lie to ID Points"
TWO PREMIERS GONE;
WILSON NEXT, HE SAYS
Predicts Democratic Defeat
With Document as Campaign
Issue-Asserts "Great Pow
ers Have Divided the Earth"
By E. c. SNYDER.

Special Correspondent Of The Bee.
! Washington, Feb. 81. - Especial
Telegram.) - One of the bitterest
speeches yet heard in the senate III
denunciation OF the treaty was de-
livered today by Senator Norris.
He attacked particularly the pro-
visions of article l47 of the treaty,
which, he said, had led to the spolia-
ton of Egypt by Great Britain. He
predicted defeat for the democratic
party, if the treaty is campaign is
sue. i'll these words:
"Orlando has been defeated in
Italy; Clemenceau has been over
thrown in France; Lloyd George
sees the handwriting on the wall and
Woodrow Wilson is watchfully wait
ing the condemnation of the Amer
lean people
Assails the President.
He assailed President Wilson for
not interfering at Paris when inter-
terence was possible.
Egypt was denied admission to
the peace conference" he said
when she was being tried for her
own life. Refused admission, sne
wrote her plea, addressing it to those
who should have heard her. In
every instance these communications
were ignored. The communications
had been received but nothing
more Men who love liberty can
not read these messages, coming
from this much-abused faithful ally,
without shedding tears.
If we are going to require our
enemy, Germany, to recognize the
rights of Egypt, we can do no less
than accord the same recognition
ourselves. AS it now stands, Amer
ican lives and American blood are
mortgaged to add Egypt to the
British empire, contrary to the most
sacred pledges ever made"
Gives the Lie.
Senator Norris read pledges made
by British officials promising to safe
guard the independence of Egypt.
This treaty, which President Will
son asks us to ratify unchanged,
gives the lie to every pledge I have
read today" said Senator Norris.
at gives the lie to every proclama-
ton ever made by our own president
in his famous IA points.
"The great powers have divided up
the earth and have put a fence
around it.
Mask Is Off,"
"The mask is now off. Great Brit
ain has now cast aside all the beau
,tiful speeches made by her leaders
and has taken over 100000 of un-
wiling people, contrary to the doc
trine of elf-determination and con-
trary to the armistice.
IF you compare the sacrifices
made by Egypt with those made by
Japan in the war" he continued, "it
is like a comparison of the noon
day sun with the weakest star.
Egypt poured out her blood, her
food, her treasure in behalf of her
allies. Yet Japan, whose sufferings
were practically nothing, had a seat
at the peace table while Egypt was
denied entrance"
Canvass Democrats Stand.
Only for a brief period just be-
fore adjournment was there any dis
cussion of the pending reservation,
which deals with decision of do
mestic questions under the league.
Adoption of the reservation i'll its
original form was advocated by
Senator Smith, democrat, Georgia,
who argued that the substitute pre-
sented by Senator Hitchcock, the
administration leader, would amount
to amendment of the treaty.
While the debate was in progress
the leaders on both sides made sepa-
rate canvasses of the attitude of
democratic senator's toward accept
ance of the crucial article 10 reserva-
ton in the form it went through
last November, with the result that
both claimed. to be gaining strength.
Among the republicans it was de-
Cared that only a few more demo-
cratic votes would be needed to in
sure ratification, but the administra-
ton senators asserted that ratlfca-
ton would fail by wide margin un-
less the republican article 10 reserva-
tions were modified.