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Show i 1 r W Dillllil 1 Hu I Republican Senators Favoring Fa-voring "Mild" Reservations Reserva-tions to Fight Resolution Resolu-tion of Committee. Leaders of Both Sides to Center Action on Article X, Now the Sole Decisive Question. : WASHIXGTO.V, .Sept. 6. With the return today of .Senator KclloRg, Min-ii' Min-ii' sota, L'ei-ubliean senators favoring " niihl" reservations to tiio pcaeo treaty eoni'erred anil, it was said, decided to upjiose the committee resolution of ratification. rati-fication. Senators attending the conference frnid opposition would ho based principally princi-pally against the reservation on article X of the league of nations covenant. 1'h in committee rcser atiou, ono of the Conferees said, is regarded as involving "'scuttling of the whole league." Senators attending the conference expressed ex-pressed confidence- that with anticipated mppnrt of the Democrats they would secure adoption at least of a modified reservation to article X. SENATE 'RADICALS' FORESEE VICTORY. On the other hand, Republican senators sen-ators leading the fight for the committee commit-tee reservations said after numerous cloak room conferences, that prospects lor adoption of tho committee resolution were brighter. Among thoso private conferences were meetings between Republican Re-publican Leader Lodge and Senators Smith, Georgia, and Smith, South Carolina, Caro-lina, Democrats. -'.Republicans favoring the committee reservations said considerable Democratic Demo-cratic support was regarded as assured. One Republican leader declared at least eight Democratic votes were counted unon. V Loaders on both sides in tho reservation reserva-tion controversy said privately that virtually vir-tually the solo decisive question was over t li g reservation to article X. LEADERS PREPARE OPPOSING REPORTS. - With the hearings by the foreign rein re-in tions committee on tho peace treaty closed, attention turned today to efforts ef-forts of the so-called "mild" and "drastic" reservation advocates to reai h a a agreement on tho form the proposed reservation clauses aud amendments amend-ments should take. in the meantime Chairman Lodge and Senator Hitchcock, leader of the Democratic Demo-cratic ratification forces, were at work I'verariiur the majority and minority re ports, respectively, which thejr hope to nave ready next week. Republican leaders of the factions opposed op-posed to unreserved ratification qf the treaty will begin a campaign of speech-making speech-making in reply to the president Ved-nesday. Ved-nesday. Senators Johnson, Borah and McCormiek will address a mass meeting in Chicago on that date and Senator Johnson plans to speak at Indianapolis Thursday, St. Louis, Friday, and Kansas City Saturday. Senator Keed will deliver de-liver an address at Akron, Ohio, Sunday and next week Senator Wadsworth will speak at Salem, N. Y. Senator Poin-dexter Poin-dexter plans an address for Dunkirk, Is". Y.. Thursday, and later will speak at Pittsburg and Xew York City. Prefacing a prepared address on the league of nations, Senator Norris, Be- publican of Nebraska, declared in the senate today that President Wilson's statement in his St. Louis speech to the effect that Great Britain and the other allies had promised Japan German's rights in China in order to get Japan into the war was "erroneous." "The president represented our government gov-ernment at the peace conference," said Senator Norris, "and he knows what was presented there and the facts are it is a matter of history that Great Britain and the other allies did not make that secret agreement with Japan until 1917. At the time that agreement was made all of Germany's possessions in China had been captured and there was not a German ship on the Pacific so the president has not got his history on straight. I challenge tho president to produce evidence to substantiate what he said in St. Louis." Senator Norris said the president would not tell the facts regarding the disposition of that province "because if would cast some reflection on the peace conference.'" Supporters of the administration, he said, " dare not because it would incur the displeasure of their great leader," so the senator announced he would relate re-late the story of "the troubled community." com-munity." In narrative form that usually begins "Once upon a time," Senator Norris told tho story of Shantung. Throughout Through-out his speech, nations were referred to as individuals, Germany being styled Bill Kaiser; Janan, Mr. Jap; Great Britain, France and Italy as John Bull, Mr. French and Mr. Italiano, respectively, respective-ly, while the United States was named Miss Columbia. Bill Kaiser, pictured as a husky fellow fel-low who trained himself in the use of firearms with the idea of despoiling his neighbors, the senator said, forcibly took the "Shantung farm" from John Chinaman and told how, later, when the other members of the community were engaged in punishing Bill Kaiser, Mr. Jap, taking advantage of Bill . Kaiser 's preoccupation in other fields, seized the property. The senator's story of the sittings of tho peace conference included a satirical account of the journeys and methods of Miss Columbia, one who "possessed a beautiful voice and had a wonderful command of language." adding that "she surpassed by far the greatest of her sex in her ability to talk." Senator Norris declared that China I had greater cause for complaint against I the United States than any of the other judges. |
