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Show CALIFORNIA oPEiiie President Specific in Reply Re-ply to the Objections Raised by Senator Johnson to League. Progressive Republicans Refuse to Follow Lead er in Opposition to Treaty, Lawrence Says. By DAVID LAWRENCE. Copyright. 1 by T.-.e t-.: Lake Tr:'oui;-..t SAN F';AN:iS.'-'. CaI.. S.-;:. IT. I 're ; . il - ii Wilson tools; ocoas on in :a' ti'.e s.;-o.".i;ho!d o' Snutor H.ra;:i Jo'inon ;o to ov.::-o;i:e t'.vo n-.ain su.rj- s of oppul'.ior: :o nea.-e tro;i;y. namely, t'.e i" j,:iv.:-:: o: I'r.v v: syn'.;':i:!'..:ers. who ''la::ti '"r-"a: Br.ta::; has s: v'.es :ri tl'.e propose! I.-aue of na'.loi'a o America's Amer-ica's one. arid trie easi'y aro 1 antipathy an-tipathy to ;;r.y;:'.l:; Japa:;ese wriic.i l:as I e ? n kindle-i uric-v in . ' . - : fc r : . by ; r. e ullet'd ;-npropr:-;:y of :l;c L'n.tej :a"e5 :n san ri.orun the i r of German r:zl-l in S.antu:'le; to Japan. T h e r r ue:;, rea::ze.1 lh.il C a I f o r r. i a Asnied 'o knev ab-.-:t t'.;.in:i::.. and he p.ive the most de:ili.-d i-'.-'.-irui'ion he has yec n ace of the QUfS'-.'-n of leased terri-ior.es terri-ior.es in China. Mr. Y;lu:i told ho'.v Germany, making a prc-it.-xi of the murder mur-der of German missionaries in order to se:ze Kiaochow. practically forced China In 10S i j lease territory and valuable mining ai.d railway rights for a period of ninety-nine years. Those rights would have remained in Germany's hands but for the recent war, when Ja?an alone undertook to drive Germany from the far east ; but, jut as t he United States in Ib.Js when Willia-n McKinley was president. presi-dent. d:d not. h:'. its voice in protest against t::e enf-'-red session or" t..an.ur,i ".o GTcrrnany. o :i:e L'nited Stat-.s. v:.ea T h. eod ' ' r e ii o o e v e ! t was p r es : e n t . did rot say a word in o'iij-i',:;i!i t'" the t-ans-:"tr 01 por: Arthur from Kussia to Japan at the rlose of the war be'.ivu- n those two countries. That, declared Mr. W;l-so-a, is the historical truth.. SYSTEM TO CHANGE, PRESIDENT ASSERTS. The Fre?ide!it"s point was that the whoie business of taking territory in China bean in 1Sl. when John Hay was secretary of s:aco of the United States: but America did not object so long: as the oen-door policy was maintained, so lone: as she was permitte! to trade on even trms in those leased territories. Mr. Wilson openly condemned the system sys-tem whereby Germany, itussia. France and Japan had in turn obtained Chinese territory, and the plain implication of his remarks was that Atr.eriiu could not very well a-k Japan to give up her concessions in China without askmir all the other powers to do likewise. Tut. ti'.e president presi-dent revealed, the system is going: to be changed. He disclosed tor the ftrst time i ha c he had exacted at Paris a promise from a.l the powers that they wouid cede hack to China the rights they had obtained. ob-tained. That, he declared, was the service which would be performed for China by the league o: nations. He insisted that the pea-'e conference iiad really taken nothing from China, but had simply transferred from Germany to Japan r'-hts and privileges whih. in any i-asc China would no: have gotten back rVcm Germany for ninety-nine years; but he added slTnirica ntly that something had hen obtained irr China which, she would never ha ve o'- 'tain-1 1 from Germ a n v, namely, a dei:n;e promise to surrender Ktao-'iiow and rights of sovereignty in Shantung. Mr. Wilson condemns the who!-1 system of ro'iiiiiis; China of territory, but sa.ys llie league of nations Et last puts an end (Continued on Page 8, Column 2.) California In the Vnitcd Plates senate. It Is argued that Hiram Johnson has presidential pres-idential ambitions and chose his present line of policv as a means of attraclinK nation-wide, attention, but it Is nrcied cn the other hand that Chester 11. ltou.'ll. who Is the progressive Kcpuhliran party s national committeeman In this state, lias an ambition to run for the I'nited Slates senate, and therefor favors the league of nations. California was sonielhlm,- of a puzzle in the. la IT. election, and Chester Howell's views about I'a.ipTnia were curiously confirmed in the election result. As between two Iriends who have m;nle California polities a vocation, one encounters en-counters many admiring intimates of Senator Sen-ator Johnson who oper.'y t-.iv Unit h's presence In the atmosphere of the mitton:,, eapitol has made it impossible for him to read his own constituency us we, I as Chester Rowcil. who runs a news"al"-r In Fresno und has unmlerrui't.vt y W. pi his hand on the pulse of Califoru.a throUKn-out throUKn-out the war. CIIF01I5H ' WSLSQrj UPHOLD ACT j (Continued from Pago One.) I 'to it, for. under the famous article X whereby all the members promise to "re-spoi't "re-spoi't and prcsor c" the territorial integrity integ-rity of all nations signatory to the treaty. It will be impossible tor any territory to bo taken from China without the unanimous voto of the council of the league, and the United States, by bein a member of that council, couUl exercise a veto over any proposal whatsoever which tendel to violate the spirit or the letter of article X. The president's explanation of the voting in the league was very well received. re-ceived. It w.ts e;u" to see the intense ert ire mess of his audience to have him discuss the alietred inequality in votinu: strength a? between Great Britain and the United States. Karlicr in the day Mr. Wilson hud answered spec i lie questions in this rea;.rd which had been propounded propound-ed by the S;in Urancisco Labor council. He reiterated to a Ml: audience of women at luncheon that America's single vote was equivalent to the six votes of the British colonies, for those votes were given not in the council, but in the assembly as-sembly of the league. I le declared that votlne: occurred onlv on the question of admitting new members, and in order to make a majority vote valid It must contain con-tain in its number the votes of all the countries which are members of the council. DECLARES AMERICA HAS VETO POWER. And. of course, the United States, by voting nye or nay in tho council, can invalidate the vote of Great Britain's six colonies or can support their vote, as we choose, lint Mr. Wilson points out that the only q ties t ion ever to be voted on in the assembly is the admission of m-.v members, and the reM purpose of gUiiuc six votes to Great Britain is to enable Canada, 5.0 nth Africa, Australia and other self-Kovernina: peoples of the British empire em-pire to have a voice in the debates, for the assembly will be la rely a deliberative delibera-tive soe: wty, intended chiefly to marshal the public opinion of tho world in sue a fashion that the council of the I'M cue may b the more easily nbj to discern its several duties and ohU-atlons. The president was ask.-d if he thoucM the lea true forward od (r hindered t m cause of Irish freedom, and in answer pninfd to the privib-ce of any na; !.-n - brine up any tubj t In the assembly. Thus wh.tt the Amenemia like Frank Walh and former G'-vernor Dimno trim, to do at Fans, but .vta prevented from doing because nf thr- d-Mii-a-'ie-s of intr-national intr-national law now eistmg betwen friendly friend-ly nattnr.s it would not La .::d--.iicjie or lmnro'ep for the Unird 't.ite- government govern-ment itself to sanction. AmerVa representative rep-resentative at the h agu cf nations would, in Mr. "Wb.-n-.'s .'pinion, not he ruired t' a-"k ar.'.'body's permission to bring 1:1 the d-! g.t t .s of the ir:.--h cams! iii would tn f;iv". be able t" pr-vnt the cause uf Ireland as an offv:;iI n.a'tflr on 'half of the United fcta . government. govern-ment. No Unfriendly Act. SM-h a st'M. the pr's:r"-t.t po.nfs out. wouitl. ur.d-r present ;'. b "an un-frindlv un-frindlv at." and. if iussits - a.-on,-- d 1:1 tir-.it 1 tin, ou.d ea.;:v ad T fiiction in th pa-'fi r-' a : i n.i of A meri'M and I-.'nc.an J. hut ir.Ir f hf b-ague L-over..nt lr. in ''.v pri-. Id-d that H is "t ne friendly rik'itt" of a -v. nation to brtnc up any M.:bJ---t that mU-ht pojsib!y af:'-'. t thy j.'M'-a of th .-.tI. Mr. V,':Li..n was u ni Ai bv .i,ifjr-r.i .i,ifjr-r.i 1 I 'roK re-.. I vi-s a :M on all t h .- co:ii-m;' co:ii-m;' t"-s w r a pr'-m;,', . r I'.'-pub 1; '-ar.it. no-aby saur!-h supporrers of Ji.rni John,-,n. w f ! 1 '-.v h::'i on d-n :' i .-?u , but iid d i - ,i : v. : ' h Mm on t b-ii-ue of n:M--'ris. 'h-''T H. Itf.-v.-l. who v. .is .Joh rt.-o r's a m gu rr.a r r. is oTH-x-K'-: ly fr ft. ..v.-i;.tnt of t h !ac i' o :t ..i:.-o !) by in iitmh S"rt'-d .I''"-.-"U p'-'l : ' II U'-uii'Tl "P tro e5p--.;a.iy rj luiuig up "-j the :-aarue "f t.i'.ni I - t-r .;.-' ;v of r n .r ipv;''i;j supp-rf -t S-nator J-din-.-Tt. 'b'-J.- uh--n t' i.-.tttr -" to ".iljform i h. xr iy 1" ; -!f. 'h'-n tnf' b:iu by th-: pr.w:r ? h.s pr-n-ai; v. 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