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Show CLASH IN mm IS HOT ONE WASHINGTON, D. C, Oct. 14. With Senator Lodge uttering a warning warn-ing against helping to aggrandize Ji pan. the Prussia of the Orient, into a igrcat. formidable power which . . n i or latei will clash with the United States, and with Senator McCuntbr defending the award of Shantung to Japan, debate on the peaec treaty amendment to return the province dl rectly to China came to a head in the senate this afternoon Asserting that Japan had broken faith repeatedly in the past, Senator Lodge advised the senate to place no reliance on the promise of Tokio to restore Shantung to china, the acquisition ac-quisition of this promise constituting an important link in Japanese plans for the absorption of China and the domination of the Far Easi Heated debate broke out following Senator Lodge's speech. There wm redhot tilts between Senator Reed, of Missouri. Iiemocrat: Senator Mri'imi. ber, of North Dakota. Republican and Senator Hitchcock, the administration administra-tion leader. Senator Reed inquired of Senaior Lodge whether efforts had been made by the foreign relations committee to obtain from the president complete information about the Shantung settlement. set-tlement. Senator Lodge replied that many efforts had been made, but thai in practically every case they had been met by blunt refusal of the prt Bi dent to furnish the information neci sarj to an Intelligent consideration of j the award. 1 Then." said Senator Reed. "I think j consideration of the treaty ought to be laid aside absolutely until the executive execu-tive plact b the senate In possession of the papers. They hae eben withheld without precedent or Justification. To expert the senate to pass upon an Important Im-portant document without knowing the facts Is to expect the senary to submit at being made a fool I a in tired of dealing with the case without the- papers, and I think the senate ought to take that attitude." Senator McCumber rose to the de-Cense de-Cense of the shantung settlement urged the senate to place entire Jauh in Japan's promises to gie Shantung back to China. Senator McCormick of Illinois, asked the senator how he could ex Dee t ihe senate to take noh an attitude, in view of Japan's br"k. 3 pledges to Korea Senator BfcCumber I insisted the cases were not parallel I Tho North Dakota senator then I launched such a vehement Urrde j against the senators supporting the amendment that Senator Reed demanded de-manded he be called to order. Senator McCumber declared some senators opposing the treaty scenierl to have suddenly crown "most BOllci-tous BOllci-tous of Germany's welfare." Senator Reed was on his feet in an instant, declaring that Senator McCumber Mc-Cumber was impugning the motives of Senator Lodge Senator McCumber Insisted that recent re-cent speeches in the senate had been filled with 'hatred for Great Britain," nnd that attempt were heme made to "prevent the adoption of the league of nations covenant by proposals that we must so guard ourselves In everj particular par-ticular that there could not be a decision de-cision against us, even if we were wrong " "This cry of pro-C.ermanism has become be-come very frequent here," retorted Senator Reed, ard he demanded Senator Sena-tor McCumber retract his statement. Senator .Mci'umbcr refused, Senator Reed thereupon made a point of order against his remarks. Senator Ball, of Delaware, then presiding ruled in Senator Reed's favor. The Missouri senator then gracefully withdrew the poiut and permitted Senator McCumber McCum-ber to proceed. A few minutes later Senator R fl clashed violently with Senator Hitch-cock. Hitch-cock. Senator Hitchcock has been asserting as-serting that one of the pale elements opposing the peace treaty was pro-Germanism. pro-Germanism. Senator Reed recalled that Senator Hitchcock, even alter the -inking of .the Lusltania introduced land urged the passage of a bill laying lay-ing an embargo on munitions to the allies. Senator Hitchcock challengi I the statement, and called upon Sen tor Reed to prove that he had intro- 4n.JI U V 111 -MM. -1 v uuuvu buhl rt uiii aiinr me iusi(unia i had been .sunk. Senator Reed promptly prompt-ly accepted the challenge and produced pro-duced proof immediately that Senator Hitchcock had introduced nn embargo bill seven months after the Lusltania had been sunk "I will never apologize for that bill." shouted Senator Hitchcock, angrily, "1 introduced it in the interest of neutrality neu-trality " "Yes," retorted Senator Reed, "the senator wanted to keep us out of war then, even though the Lusltania had gone down, and now he wants us to stay in for all time and get into all the rows and quarrels of Europe forever," for-ever," The debate today brought the Shantung Shan-tung fight close to a "show-down" Senator Lodge predicted a vote Thursday. Thurs-day. Indications are that the amendment amend-ment will be defeated by a majority of a dozen or more votes. There is i , reason to believe, howevi r, thai he senate will place its stamp of dls-, dls-, approval on the award in the form of I a reservation in the resolution of rati-i rati-i fication |