Show i M ii fA T I URGED I Sen McCumber Fl Flays ys i 1 Party Companions I. I Who Favor Shantung provision Is Report I i WASHINGTON VJ Aug 26 YV Declaring the Republican I c majority of the foreign relations committee ommittee was attempting by the I Shantung amendment to the peace treaty to drive e a poisoned dagger ger Into the peace treaty and to place plate the United States in the position tion of ot a big bully Senator McCumber McCumber Mc Mc- Cumber umber of ot North Dakota the only Republican member of ot the committee who hl ho voted against the amendment asked tasked the senate today to overrule the committees committee's action I IThe The iker said no greater blow could ever ver be struck struck against the real interests of ot China th than n by the committee committee committee com- com amendment the actual purpose of ot which he asserted was nas to kill the treaty and the league The amendment amendment amend amend- ment merit provides that the old German rights in Shantung province shall go goto goto goto to China in place of Japan v SENATE HOSTILE TO TREATY Why did the majority of ot this committee committee com com- com I pause in m the midst of their hearings bearings to make this particular I amendment he continued and then proceed with the usual leisure to lay layout layout layout out dates for further hearings which will consume a week or so more The purpose is apparent It is to lo signify to the country that the senate is hostile to this treaty It is 18 to put pUl Japan in a position where she cannot cannot cannot can can- not without an appearance of ot being coerced do what she has promised to todo todo do It is 18 to create trouble between this country and Japan and thereby send the first dagger thrust into the body of ot this treat treaty Is it an act of ot true friendship toward China or a mere political move to defeat the treaty If It its I sponsors now novi fail to come forward land and openly pledge that If Japan is I driven out of this treaty then the the United States will proceed single handed and alone to drive Japan out of ot t China will China will renew this world war and send Bend our soldiers into the orl orient nt lo to fight for her then by this act th they y are delaying China with a feal feat Kiss NO W WAR R WITH JAPAN I The They know and we know that this country will w never go to war against Japan to prevent Japan from doing Just what we have allowed every other nation to do in China without a protest te With the l league gU of nations na- na floE fra I China obtains ta an assurance ss which h is tantamount to a guaranty by all the world that thal not only will Japan return to China what Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- many wrested from her in 1898 but henceforth and so long as this league shall last no other nations shall rob China of ot an increase In her territory territory territory terri terri- tory or exercise any control over her people Inconsistent with the claims of complete independence and sov sov- |