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Show SMOOT SUPPORTS LEAGUE WITH RESERVATIONS PillOiflS First Direct Action Taken Tak-en on Pact; McCum-ber McCum-ber Votes With Democrats Demo-crats Against Change. Demand for Full Data to Be Pressed; Action Presages Further Delay De-lay in Final Voting. (Chicago Tribune Special Sorvioe.) WASHINGTON, Au. 23. Th Shantung Shan-tung decision ol the Paris peace conference confer-ence was reversed by the senate foreign relations committee today. TU a vote of 9 to 8, the commit tee decided to amend the treaty to provide for the restoration of Shantung to China. The change made was extremely simple; it merely strikes out the word "Japan'' and substitutes tlw word "China" in the section which disposes of Germany's former righls in the Shantung peninsula. penin-sula. Senator MeCumbov, North "Dakota, Tu'publionn, voted with tho Democrats against the Shantung amendment. Otherwise, Oth-erwise, 11 kg vote was of a strict party nature. The effect of the commit tun's action, if sustained by the senate, will be to send the peace treaty back to tlv ojier principal allied powers. As Japan, according ac-cording to President "Wilson, refused to sign the treaty unless given Shantung, and as France, Great. Uritain and 'Italy are bound by their secret treaties to support the Japanese claims to Shantung, Shan-tung, it, is considered extremely probable prob-able thai the amendment, if sustained in the .senate, would create a deadlock aiming the powers. ACTION CRITICIZED BY VIRGINIA SOLON. "It is an npen declaration of war to .defeat the whole treaty, M declared Senator Sen-ator Swa nsoii of V i rgi n ia, ad mi n isl ra jlion spokesman in t lw absence of Senator Sen-ator Hi telic nek. "In view of the secret t rea 1 iey of G rea t Uritain, 1 1 aly and Prance, they certainly will rejeel the amendment, and the Pnited States will I1 forced to malic a t-epnrafc treaty with Germany. ' ' Senator Pomerene of Ohio, Pemo erat ic member of the foreign re I a I ions commitlee, declared the coin in i 1 1 ee 's action ac-tion had no sign itica nee and pnrd id ud the senate would reverse U. "I ant cnulidejit that, a majority of lhe senate will see that the adoption lit" the amendment would be most u n -wise," said J--nator I 'ouierene ; "it. not, only would not aid China, but would poi t i ely injur1 her r ha ncch to get back Shantung by bringing her grievances griev-ances bef ore the league of lia I ion s ill rase J a pa ii iI'hk not li eep jr r prom i' to remove it," JOHNSON APPROVES COMMITTEE ACTION. Senator Joh it son of f a 1 i f orn ia, Republican, Re-publican, praise. 1 llie action of the committee com-mittee in wiping mj t 1 lie propoa I to "uuaranlef. the jnl'amv of (he Slum-1un Slum-1un illerncat by our treasury and by our blond. ' 'Ml Mav lie true, as asj.erte'j by our fi ipon e a t l, ' ' ; a i he, ''that we c;i n not fiiu'il v the wrong-,; at least, w o ft re nt pa rt i'--- to it.' "It fMighl iw. t to be forgotten," corn inented ;-natnr Itrand. gee of ( onn-cti crj. ', pi) bi i ! n , ''that rn'inl,ers of the rnerK-an p'a-e . j ) , -a i o n at Pari-- ad ;n i t f efj na I the i) 1 . i on -.a - fori g, but vot-d for it. The - Mate eotn,nit U-t-1ns voir -1 for v. I. at il ! hinl.-. i r l-M. ' ' ,- M-on as the ote op the - h a U 1 M e g aoi'-ndie. ot , ;d b'eu talwn, Senator Knox of Vn.(--'Pan::i. b'e 1,1 ,,-a 11 . of. end a Tli ol i on to Mi - pe i d f il rt 1 , r con- ra'i-.n f the fr a t v uM'l l'M-u)en i I -o, ..r nds to t ,r ; ena ' I t re;,t iM, u 'na. Ilnniar;-, P.ulg;.ria fnd Tun''-.'. ' senator point J out tiiai tv... - r i d en t had -u i d tin- tr.rHv with i TOir.r.v i- tl,e V.t-y to f lie oth-r I'm atieK and Ti'-'Oe! t'.,,. ..ii:ite oi).'), rt cf,ri- (ConUnucd oa Page ?; Column 3.) SHANTUNG PROVISION I ALTERED BY SDUWS (Continued From Page One.) sider them in their relation to each other. Thiy was the only intelligent metliod of irocedure, he declared. PROTEST MADE BY DEMOCRATIC SENATORS. Administration senators raised a vehement protest against the morion. The committee finally decided to postpone post-pone action on the motion until Monday. Mon-day. The administration leaders then served notice thit if the motion were adopted they would promptly retaliate by moving in tlw senate to take the treaty out of the hands of the foreign relations committee. They predicted rhat with the aid of several Republican votes they could bring about the adoption adop-tion of such a motion. Senator Williams of Mississippi, Democrat, proposed a compromise by moving to instruct Senator Lodge, chairman, to write President Wilson, requesting re-questing him to furnish the committee with all possible information on the Austrian, Hungarian, Bulgarian and Turkish treaties. This motion was carried, car-ried, and Senator Lodge at once wrote the president of the' action. In this connection. Senator Lodge issued is-sued tho following statement: SENATOR LODGE ISSUES STATEMENT. "The committee has worked as hard and steadily as any committee I have ever seen, and I have been on a number of them, but it has been hampered at every stage by lack of information. Time has been consumed in trying to get information here and there that should have been in our hands weeks ago. It is of the utmost important that wo get tho other four treaties, or at least some knowledge of their eon-tents, eon-tents, to assist us in an intelligent consideration con-sideration of the German treaty. They are all intertwined, we know, but we do not know the provisions as to territory ter-ritory and other tilings which may be in them. " Senator Lodge flatly denied he had said the treaty would be reported by the committee within a week, and in the face of such reports the committee commit-tee decided today to conduct further hearings. It was besieged by new demands de-mands from subject peop'es for "a day in court'' to protest against the violation of the principle of self-determination. Scot Asks for Hearing. To the surprise of the committee, one of these demands came from Scotland. The following telegram was received from George Bruce in New York: "The Scottish national committee, consisting of leaders of organizations representing majority of constituents of Scotland, prepared a national memorial and protest against Scotland being excluded ex-cluded from peace and league of nations conference. ' ' This was presented to Clemeneeau and members of the conference, and was extensively and favorably noticed by lhe European press. Memorial having been ignored at Paris, we respectfully ask your committee to hear our plea for Scotland's right to self-determination. I, one of the signers of the memorial, me-morial, and member of the Scottish national committee, having arrived here, desire to appear before your committee com-mittee in this behalf." The committee took tho position that, as the appeal came from an alien, it could not be complied with except upon presentation by the state department. Negroes to Be Heard. The committee agreed to grant a hearing to representatives of various negro societies in the L'liited States, who want to present views as to the disposition of the former German colonies colo-nies in Africa. Thej- will be heard Friday. Hearings were also granted to representatives repre-sentatives of Austro-IIungarian-Anieri-can organizations. Much of next week will be taken up in hearings. The Egyptians, through ex-Governor Folk of Missouri, will present pre-sent their plea for self-determination Monday. The Irish will have their day in court Saturday, and, if possible, the Greeks, who are protesting against the Thracian settlement, will be heard the same day. Between times the committee commit-tee will .work on reservations and amendments. It is regarded as possible that the committee may be ready to report the treaty within two or three weeks. |