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Show ant Him n I I rl U S Illinois Senator Enters Resolution Seeking the Separation of Peace Treaty From Pact. President Is Criticized Bitterly in Speech Declaring De-claring Sovereignty of the U. S. at Stake. WASlll.V:TuX. May -3. A resolution de hiring it the sense of the senate that i he covenant of the league of nations is .-,rp;u atrd from tit--; peace treaty when it is submitted let ratification, was introduced intro-duced in the senate today by Senator Sherman, Tit' publican, of Illinois. At tiic senator's request action on the resolution was deferred. Ho plans to cad the resolution up later and to discuss tho i bveuunt a t length. Senator Sherman's resolution follows: "Itesolwd, That it is tho sense of the fi nale that it is desirable that tho treaty terminal tug the condition of war between t lit; Fn i ted States- and the German government gov-ernment bo separated from the covenant of the league of nations, so that each uui pc a- ted upon by tho senate severally i ii the. procedure leading to their final disposition, and a vote thereon ratifying or i ejecting the same." 1 luring Senator Sherman's criticism of the president for alleged failure to conduit with tlio senate, his colleague, Senator MdCormick, Uepuliican, of Illinois, handed hand-ed him a quotation from a lecture by Mr. Wilson m ll'Oi-' at Columbia university, in wlveh the present executive advocated dose co-op-iva lion with senators. SHERMAN QUOTES WILSON ADDRESS. The. quotation submitted by iLr. McCor-mick McCor-mick and read by Senator Sherman, follows; fol-lows; "Hut thorp is another course which the president may follow, and which one or no presidents of unusual political sagacity saga-city have followed, with the satisfactory results that weie let. have been expected. He may himself be less stiff and offish, muv himself act in the true spirit of the constitution and establish intimate rela-i rela-i ions of conference with the senato on Ins own initiative, not carrying his plans :o completion, and then laving them in final form before the senate, to ho ac- Ce tf-d or If ji i but k'-epil; himself 111 cot'fbb nrial cmnmunt-'iLtlon with tile leaders) lead-ers) of the S'UiMf) while his plans ar in coin's-;'-, whML th'-ir advice v.'id be uf service serv-ice to him an'1, ids Information of the irre-i t -t. service to them, in order that ih'-re may ii; variable counsel and a real .-ii 'mm mod.-it; on of h-v. s nist e.-id or' a fin:. I eh;ii;.;im'e and contest. The poliey which has -radr- rivals of the president rind serial-- h-is shown itself in the pf-si--lent as oft en as in the senate, and if trie const i t in Ion did irtend that, the sen-Me sen-Me should in such matters be an eve. u-tive u-tive ouricd, it is not only the privilege of the president to treat It Mich, it is also his best, policy and his plain duty." FORESEES DOOM OF AMERICA'S LIBERTY. The attack on the league of nations began in the senate today with an address by Senator .Sherman, bitterly criticising I'l-enldent Wilson for his conduct of the pe;L-o netrotiationa and debouncing t he le;uo proposal iui a revolutionary attempt at-tempt to set up a "parliament of nations controlled by an oligarchy." .National sovereignty would disappear inid'--r tlie league, trie Illinois senator declared, de-clared, and libci ties" won in centuries of Mn-ggle would be lost forever. Doomed with "the curse of broken fabh and shameless perfidy from lis inception and birth," the league, lie predicted, would become a "gigantic firebrand for a world con f lagratinn." j He charged President Wlhion had broken faith with Chirm. Poland and Italy; had "yielded to Grat Britain"; had endeavored to "subvert tho fundamental funda-mental laws of the republic," and had ! promised to embark tho Cnited States on j policies that would require her to send a million soldiers abroad. In revising the original covenant, said Mr. Sherman, tho delegates at Paris had Improved only its fframmatlcal texture. "Altruism never before roso no far above human nature and common .sense nor Idealism so deluded :ts visionary worshipers," declared the senator. "Tho misguided imagination of intellectual per-! per-! verts h:us wrought more evil than the distorted dis-torted . images of the insane. Tho man who writes a book to portray a new and perfect government, lie assures us he has invented, Is morn dangerous to his country coun-try than the anarchist. "Colonel House foreshadowed the destruction de-struction of constitutional government in : the Cnited Stales in his work of fiction 'published In HH!. This novel exhibits his ! disregard of law arid his belief in revolution. revolu-tion. George. 1 . Ilerron. lately the president's presi-dent's ' envoy to the Bolshevist government govern-ment in Hussia, says of the president In ly 1 7 : 'He Is n revolutionary beyond any-i any-i thing his words reveal. Klve members of tho president's cabinet . fire tain tod with socialism. A vast swarm of his appointees ap-pointees are known to be open and avowed Socialists. Tho administration of Wood-row Wood-row Wilson, oven under constitutional forms of government, is a hybrid between a French revolution and an oriental despotism. des-potism. History could forget the reign of Caligula In the excesses and follies of the American government operated under the league of nations interpreted by President Wilson and Colonel Kouso. , Sees Sovereignty Gone, j "The sovereignty of this nation passed i from the territorial limits of our country to a foreign capital. Congress cannot legislate, it cannot pasa appropriation bills nor collect revenues; it cannot enact labor legislation, nor exercise the usual police power belonging to an independent state until the decrees or the latest orders of tho Geneva council shall have been studied. War cannot be declared nor j peace concluded, armies raised and supported, sup-ported, navies provided and maintained, J nor the national guard of the several states mustered and equipped. "Article 16 declares if any member of the league resort to war in disregard of its covenants, it shall of itself be deemed Hit act of war against oil other members. This creates a condition of war without a declaration by congress. We arc at once subject to invasion and our merchant mer-chant shipping exposed to a hostile navy whenever found. "The lei gue fixes in unchangeable limits the present boundaries of every member nation. Its frontiers are final. When "France joined with the American colonies in the revolution, it this league had existed, ex-isted, it would have forbidden tho sword of Jafayette to be drawn with "Washington's, "Wash-ington's, and would have crushed tho in-fn in-fn nt republic beneath tho artnlos of tleorge JIT. It announces, In substance to mankind, that the period of successful revolution has drawn to a close in thf, world's history. "We are made parties not only to war and threats of war, but to every complaint com-plaint made by member nations. The call for S000 men to serve in Siberia and tboso now in northern Russia, .are the first levies to empty American homes and embark us on the Wilson ideals." In spite of those ideals, said Senator 1 Sherman, 40,000,00') Chinese in tShantung are denied the right of self -determination nnd delivered to Japan under the treaty, while Poland is given a mere approach ap-proach and fasement of shipping with tho access to it "through an alley flanked 1 with Gorman bayonets." |