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Show KENYON ASKS FOR RESERVATIONS TO PEACE COVENANT WASHINGTON, Sept. 10. If the league of nations had not been Intertwined in the peace treaty "the Shantung proposition proposi-tion and the overpreponderance of the voting power of Great Britain" would have been practically the only thing to have seriously delayed ratification, Senator Sen-ator Kenyon, Republican, Iowa, declared today in an address in which he demanded de-manded strong reservations to the league covenant. Declaring the American people had had no opportunity to vote on the treaty question, Senator Kenyon insisted they wanted no politics In the adjustment of it; that they want peace, but demand that the league covenant be "Americanized." "American-ized." During a side debate on the league of nations today Senator Norris, Republican Republi-can of Nebraska, charged that President Wilson "spent money like a drunken sailor" in Kurope and "cavorting around with the representatives of foreign monarchies." mon-archies." In reply to a question as to what he would have done, Senator Norris replied: re-plied: "I would not have taken 15O0 people to advise me unless I expected to take their advice. I would not have had a ship go In advance of me to receive me when I arrived. I would not have taken the chefs and cooks from the Biitmore hotel." Assailing the administration for not reducing the cost of living, Senator Norris charged that President Wilson had failed to enforce the law prohibiting hoarding of food. "Nobody has been prosecuted under these provisions which have been in effect ef-fect all during the war," said Senator Norris. "We cannot legislate wisdom into the minds of the president's appointees." "The administration," he said, "held back millions of pounds of food while the people were suffering, preferring that the people should suffer rather than break the market." |