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Show JOHNSON ASKS FOR REJECTIONOF PACT CALI FORN1 AN MAKES ADDRESS AT SPECIAL SESSION OF MINNESOTA MIN-NESOTA LEGISLATURE. Abandons Proposed Trip to Coast to Answer President Wilson's Speeches in Order to Return to Washington to Take up Fight in Senate. St. Paul, Minn. Senator Hiram Y. Johnson of California in an address delivered to a special session of the Minnesota legislature Friday uioruing, September ID, presented his arguments in opposition to the unqualified ratification ratifi-cation of the league of nations covenant. cove-nant. The senator expressed the opinion that if actiou on the league could be delayed sixty days the people would speak In positive terms and insist upon its defeat or amendment so as to protect pro-tect the country's interest. "Public sentiment against the league is growing every day and is fast assuming as-suming the proportions of a revolution," revolu-tion," said Senator Johnson. "Its friends realize that if it is not rushed through now, before the people have had an opportunity to understand it, their cause is hopeless. That explains the haste to have it ratified without amendment." He referred to the fourteen points which President Wilson had declared would be incorporated in the peace pact, and asserted that lie was obliged to abandon them one by one and accept ac-cept a trtsaty written by European diplomats. dip-lomats. Following his St. Paid address, Senator Sen-ator Johnson announced .that he would abandon his proposed trip to the coast to answer President Wilson's speeches and would return to Washington on Sunday to take up the fight in tlje senate sen-ate for the adoption of amendments proposed by apponents of the administration admin-istration program. Addresses were made by Senator Johnson at Minneapolis and St. Paul on Saturday. Before leaving Minneapolis' foi Washington, Senator Johnson said : "I deeply regret that I am obliged to abandon the speaking trip to California which I had planned to answer President Pres-ident Wilson's arguments on the league of nations. But I feel that I should he in Washington when action is taken on my amendment to the peace pact which is designed to correct cor-rect Creat Britain's preponderance of voting strength in the assembly of the league of nations. "I believe this amendment will he finally acted upon by the senate this week, and then I may decide to go to California to deliver a number of ad-drosses. ad-drosses. "The success of my speaking trip through the middle west was beyond my fondest expectations. My purpose was to arouse the people to thought on this important question and I believe be-lieve I succeeded." America's entry into the league of nations will murk the formation of a partnership between the one going solvent sol-vent country in the world with certain European bankrupts, v 'ho, after our first experience in meddling and muddling mud-dling in fweign politics, have come to secretly despise and detest us, declared declar-ed Senator Johnson, in addressing a large and enthusiastic audience at Ihiluth, Friday night. "The league of nations," he said, "conies to us after its principal mein-b mein-b i-s have been gorged with territory, with their boundaries and their lini'ts .increased beyond Hie wildest dream and with other immense tracts of the world's surface yet to be distributed among them. "Alter these extraordinary accesv. j sions of territory, the one going solvent national concern on earth undertakes by article X to guarantee forever these extraordinary territorial limits. "This section freezes the world into immutability. It assumes to put the world in a strait-jacket, wherein there can be no movement for betterment or progress of humanity. "fleyond and above all (his. the maintenance main-tenance of this static condition is to be accomplished by the blond of just one nation, and that is ours." As a guest of the Commercial association asso-ciation at Lincoln. Xeh.. on Thursday. Senator Johnson gave Lincoln business Mien his reasons for opposing the ratification rati-fication of the league of nations covenant cov-enant in its present form. Senator Johnson discussed the various var-ious amendments lo the peace pact pending in the senate and made a stirring stir-ring appeal for changes in the document, docu-ment, which, he declared, are necessary neces-sary for the adequate safeguarding of American interests. Senator John, at a luncheon given by Omaha business men on Septem- j her 17. made a plea for the defeat of the covenant in its present form. I I |