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Show ALTEFTPROVIsiON AS TO SHANTUNG SENATE COMMITTEE VOTES TO AMEND TREATY TO RESTORE PROVINCE TO CHINA. First Direct Action Taken on Peace Treaty, One Republican Voting With Democrats Against Proposed Change. Washington The Shantung decision of the Paris peace conference was reversed re-versed by the senate foreign relations committee on August 23. By a vote of 9 to 8, the committee decided to amend the treaty to provide for the restoration of Shantung to China. The change made was extremely simple ; it merely strikes out the word "Japan" and substitutes the word "China" in the section which disposes of Germany's former rights in the Shantung peninsula. penin-sula. Senator McCumber, North Dakota, Republican, voted with the Democrats ugainst the Shantung amendment. Otherwise, the vote was of a strict party nature. Action Presages Further Delay. The effect of the committe's action; If sustained by the senate, will be to send the peace treaty back to the other principal allied powers. As Japan, Ja-pan, according to Prsideut Wilson, refused re-fused to sign the treaty unless given Shantung, and as France, Great Britain Brit-ain and Italy are bound by their secret sec-ret treaties to support the Japanese claims to Shantung, it is considered extremely probable that the amendment, amend-ment, if sustained in the senate, would create a deadlock among the powers. Says Senate Will Reverse Action. Senator Pomerene of Ohio, Democratic Demo-cratic member of the foreign relations committee, declared the committee's action had no significance and predicted predict-ed the senate would reverse It. Senator Johnson of California, Republican, Re-publican, praised the action of the committee in wiping out the proposal to "guarantee the infamy of the Shantung Shan-tung settlement by our treasury and by aur blood." |