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Show (SHOPMEN BEING HEARD BEHIND CLOSED DOORS I SENATE I AMENDS TREATY Committee Adopts Changes Eliminating U. S. Powers. MOTE IS 7 TO 9 Terms Are Agreed Upon I With Democrats I I Opposing. I M siUN I 1 'V Vi- nol b i Htaendmeni to the pace tr Padopied today by tin roreigo r-iations committee, which -t l 9 to 7 to ellm- Ins'" ill'- l nil' I M.ii. ir.un no mU- i blpon the International commission Kwhlch will ii' i' inline (he boundary be- tween Ceruianv mnl r.ek-ium f The amendment was onr of a series of firuil.ir nuivn-. presented bj Sena br Fall, New Mexico, proposing ciini Bpution of American representation on Kich commissions The committee Koieri along parts lines, all Ihi Demo-.i Herat s voting ;n the negative, excep I Knator McCumbcr, Republican, North I Dakota who v oted with the Demot rat i against the Shantung amendment Saturday Sat-urday was not present. luThc rhans.-'- would alU-ci about t Core "I ("limn- urns ; i n t J would Cham I In- l.niL-u..-f "I lh ir. -a lv in Bore than f.f' pla I ' The ( omiiii it .Ii v i'l'-'l .iIhiil- mi. : pariv hn - All l.oiu h i he ..niiini ( Beted Bpecificallj .n onlj tour ol the treaty pi" i -... i in iu' . i mil there I Bb an agreement that the Quet I on th s. i. : .m "-. i-lnns would be I only perfunctory. Kt Tho amendment has no affect on R jirovi-mn- iik. ii..ii "i the Sa n- where Bth commission is to be app inted by the l iue Burden of Next War, L WASHINGTON. Aug 2'. Should Mbe t-ena'i- tail i ratifj the p. ace treaty and ih 1- - u" "i na' i"tis ''Die Aborning" upon thai body would real the- bnr.i' n "i lb-- 1 v...i. Senator Hgent, Idaho, declared today in the Klfhaif . Tho league operating under the cov- enant as now wfitten should proved J far entirely, he said, but If it do. w not the world will be no worse off than I before. Hpieplying to arguments that by Uniterm Un-iterm g the league, tho United stated would yield a measure ..1 sov. reign y, he said 111 all in all. .- and Ini.-i na'iou-U na'iou-U law nations recoL-ni" the necessit; I Of (on going in some degree then-BTlght" then-BTlght" of arbiii.iry a. 1 ion lot th sal e of inierDatmn.il .. mitj He declared, however, Mia. 1 no . on 1 ' u'ii mal i"iw.-: 'of congressional waa contravened by tho covenant ; The Monroe doctrine is reinforced E by the league covenant, he continuodi t because U U accorded official recog- altlon "by any European or Asiatic I government for 1I1. iirsl lime" The contention thai th( door ol I revolution is lo-eo to unsatisfied iiiin-lorhie- of ..1,1. hy Article Ton is, 1 refuted. 1 1), -. naioi lid b 1 he 1 ' rin -t Of the art I- I" b winch 1. aeii" inem- her- undertake 10 preserve the integ-I integ-I rtty of a atate against "external ag V gression only." Replying to criticism of opponents I of the league that under Its pros Isioni Mhe L"nii., stales would ha .. 1 I P'y troops I., pohci I urope", -. uator Nugnt s.mi preferred a thousand I times over to send fifty thousand I American- to I-Juropf 10 pre n- peace than to bo compelled to s.-nd l millions over th. r- to lipht. another I War. 1 on |
