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Show COVENANT II IS SPEEDING IIP Complete Agreement on Amendments Expected in Present Week. President Pleased With the Progress Shown in Concluding Con-cluding Great Pact. By Universal Service. PARIS, March 22. A complete agreement agree-ment on amendments to the covenant of the league of nations will be reached in the early part 01 next week, was the prediction pre-diction made here this evening following the conclusion of the meeting of the league committee, with President Wilson presiding. pre-siding. Substantial progress is known, to have been made today and President Wilson, when he departed from the gathering, appeared ap-peared very much pleased over the afternoon's after-noon's work. A committee was appointed to deal with the suggestions made by the Japanese delegates. del-egates. These suggestions wero referred to the committeo at the request of the British delegates. President Wilson has let the various peace delegates know that he is most anxious anx-ious to sidetrack lesser matters now under consideration and -devote the coming week to the essentials which will make possible a complete treaty agreement within the next seven days. The peace conferees will be able to devote their entire time to bringing about agreements in the various committees ai soon as the amendments to the league covenant are agreed upon. "Equality" Is Eliminated. Tho 'Japanese have eliminated the word "equality" .from their proposed amendment amend-ment to the covenant of tho league, it was reported, and row demand only justice alike for the nationala of the n:c-mbers of the league. Their original amendment asked for "justice and equality." The elimination, the report had it, was decided upon at a private eonlerence of the Japanese delegates. This modification would make the clause virtually unobjectionable to America, it was said, because the constitution of the United States says the same thing the Nipponese now propose. The British dominions. do-minions. It is understood, find even the modified clause objectionable, especially Australia, and it appears the whole mat-.ter mat-.ter is oue for British solution. The Japanese Japa-nese continue to insist that something similar to what they suggested is essential essen-tial to quiet the anxiety of Japan. Baron Malsuka's Statement. In behalf of the Japanese delegation, Baron Matsuka gave out an .Interview today in which he ald; "The amendment proposed by tho Japanese Japa-nese delegates makes no specific reference refer-ence whatever to the immigration question. ques-tion. I cerUinly believe that it was not in the minds of the Japanese delegates in moving the amendment to take advantage of such a clause in the covenant of the league of nations when adopted to press for a solution of such questions as immigration. "i again repeat that the amendment is only the t iiL'nciaiion of a broad principle and should not ho confused with the immigration immi-gration problem." He fv.rther Discussed at great length the reasons for insisting that almost all the problems of the league are internal, such as disarmamei't, etc. Text of Communique. The text of tho communique on the meeting of the league committee follows: "The commission - on the league of nations na-tions met this afternoon under the chairmanship chair-manship of. President Wilson. This was the first meeting of the commission since the draft covenant was presented to the plenary session conference on February 14. "Discussion took place on a number of amendments suggested by members of the commission as the result ei ther of the recent exchange of views with representatives rep-resentatives of neutral states or of the constructive criticism to which tne cove- . nant has been generally submitted. "The commission will resume its ex- 1 amination of the covenant on Monday eve- ning at S:;iu p. m." |