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Show b '- & a & & & & & & & a s& ll SENATORS MAY SOFTEN BLOW TO MEItlS. While Opposing Mandatory System of Helpful Assistance Assis-tance Is Favored . LODGE WILLING TO AID SUFFERING STATE Hitchcock "Presents Plan Whereby Bonds of Nation - Would Be Sold Here WASHINGTON, May 29. President Presi-dent "Wilson's request that congress j authorize a mandate over Armenia came under fire from both Demo- crats and Republicans today when the I resolution to deny such an authorlza-! authorlza-! tion was brought up in the senate. From tho Democratic side,' however, camo a proposal to soften the resolution resolu-tion by adding a provision extending ! American aid in the economic upbuilding up-building of the new Near Eastern republic. re-public. Tho plan was taken under adyiscmont by tho Republican leaders. lead-ers. No date was sot for a vote. y. v-a.You(l-.SeH-lJomls:- v - Under tho suggested provision, which was presented by Senator Hitchcock Hitch-cock of Nebraska, administration leaders in tho treaty fight, a joint commission of Americans and Armun-ians Armun-ians would be authorized to superviso tho sale horc of $50,000,000 in Armenian Armen-ian bonds. The proceeds would go to the purchase of railroad and agricultural agricul-tural materials and similar equipment and the establishment of an Amori-1 can banking system. Sympathy Needed." I In urging the proposal, .Senator Hitchcock said he felt that tho reso-J lution as reported by the foreign relations re-lations committee would have tho effect ef-fect of "discouraging" the Armenian people. Senator Lodge, the Republican leader, lead-er, replied that proposals to aid Armenia Ar-menia would be reefcived with mucn sympathy on his side of the chamber. There was only a brief discussion of tho merits of tho president's rc-j quost, which Senator Hitchcock said! he did not intend to support. Several other Democratic senators also indicated indi-cated their disapproval, but Senator Williams, Democrat, Mississippi, declared de-clared the United States would be un-i faithful to Its responsibility if it do- I Senator Jones of New Mexico, and 'Robinson of Arkansas, Democrats, said ! the resolution involved an important question hnd a vote should not be ; taken without giving it serious con- ' sideration. The former called atten-I atten-I tion to the fact that the committee had presented no written report. No Report Needed ! Senator Lodge replied that the matter mat-ter had been considered for months and added that tho lack of time and a belief that the reasons for refusing! a mandate were so plain, a "child could' I understand them," were responsible for the absence of a formal report. "The committee assumes." snld. Senator Junes, vthat a mandate means carrying out the elaborate proposal outlined in tho Harbord report but the covenant of tho league of nations says I specifically thnt it may be limited to lurnishing of administrative advices." Accepting of a mandate was opposed also by Senator Smith. Democrat, Georgia who suggested that congress had no constitutional authority to uso public money for such purposes. oo |