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Show t 1 .1 ' I UNITED STATES SENATOR ! LENROOT of Wisconsin, who J i hints that congress may take peace- ; !;j making job out of the hands of the ; J president. j. I hi 4 ' i i vV . x 1 ! I-X - , f x. x V. I I " ' ' If HEED SCENTS S PLOT pin Senator Is Interrupted in Attack by Cheers for President. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., March 18. At what he termed a "school" on the league of nations proposal, United States Scuator James A. EeedoC Missouri Mis-souri today presented his views on the question at a joint meeting of the senate sen-ate and house o the state legislature. In opening his argument against the league constitution as at present drawn, Senator Keed asked how many legislators legisla-tors had read the constitution of the league. He estimated that about one in six held up hands. Tonight Kcpreseutativo Tolson announced an-nounced that the representatives planned to introduce-"" in the house tomorrow to-morrow a resolution indorsing the leuiruc and supporting President Wilson in his efforts to have it established. The largest crowd (hat has ever assembled as-sembled in the new capitol heard Senator Sena-tor Reed's address, which consumed more than three hours. Calls It "Visionary." " Visionary, ' ' "worse than autocracy" autoc-racy" and "British plot" were some of the expressions used by him in characterizing char-acterizing tho leaguo constitution, which, he declared, with the exception of slight modifications, was a British document. At one point Senator Reed was interrupted inter-rupted with cheers for President Wilson. Wil-son. "I am glad to hear cheers for him," Senator Reed resumed. "But the president presi-dent is wrong." Cries of "No, you're wrong," again interrupted. The league constitution is the "most strangely constructed document ever put together." Senator Heed declared, and eontiuued : "Great Britain laid this plot. I unhesitatingly un-hesitatingly charge it. - If she can make our .soldiers fight her fights, why shouldn't she want it?'' Wouldn't Answer Question. He said he had been asked what his, remedy was, ami declared he did not have to answer that question, lie compared com-pared himself t6 a physician, saying one serum might kill, but he would not be bound to find a cure for it. "I have no remedy for war," he declared. de-clared. "When you get ho ou won t fight to defend your homes there will be do w ar. ' ' lie urged complete disarmament and dismemberment of Germany, and cIo?,rd with an impa-sioned plea to preserve, "Dot the flag of the Bobhevists. not an international flag, but, by the living God, our flag the American flag." ! Challenges League Advocates. 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' .roe it- if 1 ia- na,-. u-r ..nn.l ot t ; ,- or,,. 1 :. if il.. mo-,-,1 of t'.o ,n-;,J v ji i.f.i .-afll.r "ho t "J" . 1 - 1 . . ,f . ' , - O ' l' ' . ' - ' or 1 f .-i fCon'.inucd on Tan Coltimu .) SAYS PACT IS PLOT OF BRITISH (Continued from Page One.) nssertpd that America would be directly entangled in European alliances. Asserting that the league charter contains con-tains no provision for withdrawal of nations na-tions from the league, Senator Heed continued: con-tinued: "Thoye who conceived its structure did not intend to allow the United States to escape, once it should falcfully step within the entangling web. "The American people were told that the constitution of the league had been conceived by American representatives and was being- forced on reluctant Europe. Eu-rope. It now transpires that the entire scheme from first to latt, with some elighl modifications, is the product of British stat-sma nship." The executive council feature of The plan was attacked especially by the senator. sen-ator. ... Fears an Oligarchy. "Wo thus create an oligarchy clothed with more arbitrary powers than were ever wielded by any despot on earth," ho said. "Here is a tribunal of five men, without any limitations whatsoever upon their authority, against whose decision, once rendered, there is no appeal save to 1 armed forces. .If this be not a creation of the very command of the world, tnen the language of agreements cannot create' powers." 'Citing questions which he said would be brought before the league, Senator Keed said that among them might be a grant by Mexico of land to Japan, or sale hv Colombia of land to f;omo foreign power which could erect a fortress to command the Panama canal. The , disarmament provisions of the league charter, the Missouri senator as serted, would give the executive council ! absolute power to limit American arma-j arma-j merit. He added: "We may be beleaguered by enemies. All the enemies of destruction may be gathering about us. Yet unless we can gain the consent of the five masters of the world (the executive council) we i must remain unprepared and meet our 1 fate with naked hands." |