Show I II I EQUALITY IY I II I I IN LEAGUE Calif Leaves for Coast After Hurling Challenge Challenge Chal Chal- P al I le lenge ge at Take TakeI u I I Up Issue on His Return I By James Jumes R. R Nourse I Staff Corr itrI Sr I. I I IW v W ASHINGTON Sept 20 J Al AI- AI vY though the Johnson amendment amendment amend amend- amendment ment to raise the voting power of the United States to an equality with that of the British Empire in the league o of nations has suffered nn an indefinite postponement it was the subject J ct ofa oa stirring n debate i e in the IC if r v Senate today Senator Johnson busy with his lis plans to get gel away to the thc Pacific coast had not intended to Lo make any uny speech today on the amendment But nut when he learned that it was wab being attacked by Democrat senators he lie hastened to tu the Senate and delivered a fiery I speech defending defending- the right of the United States to have as mau many votes otes J Jas as Great Britain Upon what wha L da days s 's ha have hac c we fallen I demanded tl the tho i nr lop In his most niost forceful tone when Americana Americans senators sea sen of tho ho United States Slates of oC America shall question tho the idea that America shall have o an equal vote yoto and po power cr with any nation on the taco face of or the earth Upon what will theory you ou enter Into a i situation put head Into a where you h have he e I sixth one of the votes otes of oC an any nation on the taco face aco of or tho the cart earth 1 JInner nail and Ton Tone Tennis Senator Johnson did not not speak In tho manner to which tho the Senate sinate is b tomed lie He spoke the wa way he did on his his recent tour of or the he middle west when audiences were swept oft off their feet feel h hy by his hammer and ton tongs longs s eloquence His ha speech held the senate In close attention atten atten- tion tn to th flu Ilio i I n It ml might ht be too loo much to 0 o say 51 that list the opening of or dLa debate debase e on n the amendment T made votes for Cor It or that it won wun over oYer some of or the senators who hO have IU beep been wavering in lii their relation to It It Hut it Is unquestionably hh truo true that list Senator John ons OnH speech did did much to away awny the lie mists of oC argument and nd that have ha been hen in injected In- In jetted Into the question notably the stat statement made b by President Wilson on the thic stUmp tump regarding the tho unimportance of oC preponderance of or yo voting ling power v Senator LOll Lodge nt at tho conclusion oCI of oC I the debate said Sl the Johnson amendment amendment amend amend- m ment nt was in a stronger position th than n nIt it has over ever boon o before hore In the Senate I Senator John Johnson on departed Jor for San S i Francisco on the 6 G o'clock train accompanied accorn h hy by Mrs Johnson His farewell tl I I to th the Senate w wo a challenge to take up the lie amendment as soon oa cis 8 ho re returns ro- ro turns an and answer his arguments for tor its adoption He lie notified the administration lI senators sena na- na tors that he lie will Ill them every e op op- thc they ma may desire to debate the lie question with him hini It Is of ot the of or orthe the tho country with respect to thi th the great reit question lInn Involved ol In Sr Senator Johnsons Johnson's g gI I amendment that hl his mall mal toda today was Wa loaded with letters r containing checks I and drafts draft ansI and currency from persons unknown to him who urged him to use the the- money on his hIli trip rip The drafts were o of various amounts one ono one being n a check cheek for tor or O from roil Aman a A- aman aman man in Iii nn an oll obscure town in Tennessee who wished him God Goj speed In telling the tho II people ople a about out tho Iniquities 8 of the tIle t treaty r t Another letter nn was Wag from a it t at t CamP Grant Irant III lit to which was attached a A. 10 bill which ho he begged the senator to use Use- Usein in spreading tho ho league anti gospel hospel Senator Johnson directed his secretary secretary secre secre- tar tary to to return all tho ha mone money with ith thanks thank to the lie donors Wilson UMon Threat Debated Another interesting t feature of or to today's today's to- to days day's debate wn was the this discussion of or the lie challenge challene J Issued b by Wilson last nl night ht In his published speech to ci th the effect that IC r the treaty were erl- erl 1 Continued on lana ar 2 JOHNSONS JOHNSON'S FIERY PACT SPEECH ROUSES SENATE Continued from Page PaPe 1 1 amended or emasculated he hc might withdraw it from tho the Senate The most important t development de in connection with ith this statement was an answer b by Senator Lodge to the tho effect that the rules of ot the Senate will make mace it impossible for the President to withdraw withdraw with with- draw the treaty if he should choose to todo todo todo do so Tho The senator said The treaty Is now in iii the custody ot of the Senate The Tho President ent cannot withdraw IL It The Senate might ht vote ote to return it to to- him but I do not be belIc believe be- be lIc lieve th tho Senate is likely to do that It could not bo hO t l n out of or tho ho Senates Senate's Senates Senate's Senates Senate's Sen Sen- ates ate's bands hands t except l b by y a l vote yole of ot th the Senate l O Of course if It the President was as speaking of 0 what he ho might do tie o with the treaty after aCter it has been ratified or acted acted act act- ed ad upon b by th the Senate that is a a. different differ differ- ont eat matter Ho He ml might ht refuse to submit h t tJ 1 h 1 I I v I U U In 11 tho the Senate Senator Borah expressed expressed ex ox- pressed time the hope that the President would carry out his threat because this would make it possible for or the Prest- Prest Ident to get set a. a ote Vote on the treat treaty lIe Ho said Comment by The Tue Presidents President's stand as reported d In Inthis Inthis Inthis this mornings morning's papers is correct and I hope lopo it will bo be carried out J if amend amend- ed cd T r hope the President will accept the opportunity that would be offered to withdraw and have hae a l. l test before belore the country Xo No 0 amendments amendment or reservations reser can protect the United states and therefore tho President will do a service to his hisco co country b by withdrawing it and letting the people vote ote on It ft I Another Interesting development of or of I today was a speech by Senator Cumnins Cummins Cum Cum- mins of or Iowa in which he ho announced I that ho would support the Johnson amendment but would oppose the Shantung Shan Shari- tung amendment Senator Cummins has been at various times classed with tho called eo-called mild hut but In his speech to toda today to- to da day he left no doubt that he holds to toA toa A strong strong- position with ith respect to tho the treat treaty and that the reservations particularly par pai Jl that on article X must be strong strong- and effective or ho he will vote voto against tho treaty Tho The debate on th the lie Johnson amen amendment amend amend- ment mont was started b by a satirical statement state state- ment b 1 by Senator John Sharp Williams of Mississippi In reference to Senator Johnsons Johnson's trip to the Pacific coa coast t. t S Senator Williams read into the rec record ord a memorial signed b by twenty I prominent Californians urging Senator Johnson to support the league Twelve I of or the signers Senator Williams said I I were members of ot Senator Johnson's Johnsons presidential campaign committee Commenting upon tho the m memorial the tue I Mississippian said ho surmised that the i I I trip to trio the coast was for tho I purpose of ot mending hi his political fences and for making secure his title to mansions In tho the political skies R Retort tort to lo Senator Johnson thus challenged to defend the time object of his trip to the peo peo- pIe of ot the west vest replied with the as as- as as- as that If Ie the tho Sen Senate te were to do Its whole duty it would o a recess and permit every e member to go So to hl his own people and tell toll them what hat tIle the treat treaty means menns He lie saId I recognize that the senator from lIs Mississippi would be unable to compre compre- h bend hend nd adequately that I am nm going Into I the state tato of ot California and er e every other othor state that I can cnn reach not to mend an any political fences but 1 I am going oln there because of ot an optimism which I 1 think the tho senator from pl j Is u Utter utterly erly unable to tIco tice to the comprehend In Jus JUs- common people of ot this land and just common folks whom the from Mississippi ls cannot perhaps senator wholly understand hear the stor story of ot the len league ue of ot nations understand what It I por portends ends realize the he rn mystic utterances 8 that have 11 been made recently concernIng concernIng concern- concern concerning I Ing it it that these common toll folks s of or America will America and in respond nn an American a Americans spirit for tOl The purpose o of this trip I Intend to take t IH In to pr preach ach tho the gospel of ot Americanism Americanian 01 In iii this land Senator Johnson countered 1 Senator by v Introduction Ion lon of the th c referring to a t. t petition sent lent to Ic him bin recently by by mun many citizens of M ai I sippi asking him to oppose e the tue league Ut and to a a. nt t political con contest te t In th tho same state in tn which tho the people went wenton on record against tho the league He Ho declared ho intended to explain to o tho the of or tho the west that the tho r r league UC covenant Is a disproportionate representation that it is a a. challenge to o a mans man's self sele respect who is an ar and and an affront aront to a man roans pa patriotism Ho lie inquired why It if as the Pr has stat stated Britain's six votes are arc of 01 no consequence It was vas necessary for the he British representatives to insist upon having them j I Ho lie declared his amendment as full fully as the President did id in Ic L his lachrymose appeal the thc sacrifices of or the British dominions and their rights to have separate votes within I the tho league Senator Johnson said that the u ars-u- ment meat that France Francc Hal Italy Japan an and md I other nations do not have six votes did I not conc concern rn him as ns he lie was interested I only in the theote vote ote given g the United I States by Son Senator at Or Williams spoke at consider able length lens in reply to Senator Johnon's Johnsons Johnson's John John- sons son's argument Ho lie offered the ex cx- that while the British om- om piro Iro ha has sj six voices in the assembly It t has only one vote ote The rhe letter which President Wilson nn and Lloyd G George orge signed t assuring Canada that each of ot the BritIsh Brit Brit- sh isit self governing c minions don would be lie eligible to a seat scat in the council was war I interpreted b by Senator Williams 1 to tc mean mean ican that a n. Canadian or an Australian might light bo be eligible to election but that there Hero could not be c a a. representative o of ol I Great Britain and Canada and Aua- Aua Autralia ralia at the same Hame time Sen Senator tor Borah and Senator Johnson ri ridiculed this suggestion and Senator L orah Borah read the letter Jelter which Senator need Iced put in the tho record the other day to o prove pro that the Mississippian was vas wron g. g In In- Inclosing closing the deb debate to Senator Johnson John John- son cm made his most vigorous speech re re- re pJ plying lying to the arguments pu put forward forwar by y Senator Williams lIe He sal said suid tho tIme rea reason on America should have e n as many votes as tion ion wa any other naion nation na- na nation was that thal It Is tho the nation jn In the league preponderating No 0 argument could convince hIm lie ho said that Airier Airier- lea should have only ono uno vote while tho British I Amer-I empire has six |