THE PEACE TREATY

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 302, 17 September 1919, Page 7

THE PEACE TREATY

PETITION TO UNITED STATES SENATE

FOR RATIFICATION AS IT STANDS

By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright New York, September 15. The New York "Times" correspondent at Washington state tliat 250 leading Americans have addressed a plea to tho Senate, urging the ratification of tho Peace- Treaty without amendment, and without de'itiv. Among tho (signatories to tho plea aro Mr. Samuel Gouipers (president of the American Federation of Labour), Mr. AV. 11. Taft (ex-President, Republican), and Mr. Jacob Sohift" (a great Jowish banker).—A us.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

ATTACK ON SENATE MAJORITY REPORT "SELFISH, IMMORAL. AND DISHONOURABLE." Washington, September 15. In an attack oh the Majority Report of the Senate on tho Peace Treaty, Senator M'Cumb?r (Republican) characcer.s;d it as selfish, immoral, and dishonourable, and as seeking to isolate tho Unittd States and cause her to desert the Allies. The reservations were voiced defiantly and discourteously, and expressed a'jingoistic spirit, which ought to be eliminated from the American spirit. The Majority Report failed to explain tho aims and purposes of the League of Nations. Regarding tho British Dominions, he said that they wero almost independent. Their votes, ■ however, would not affect tho UuitlbStates.as it was necessary to have a unanimous vote before the Council could act, Tho United States was, therefore, . untrammelled— Cable Assn.

[The Majority Report of tho ' Senate opposed ralilication of tho Treaty as it stands, and proposed a' large number of reservations and amendments. A .Minority Report ur.tred the immediate acceptance- of the Treaty, and expressed the opinion that refusal and delay would be highly injurious to the United States.]

(Rec.. September IG, 7.40 p.m.)

Washington, September 15. Senator Jones,( in the Senate,' said that if'. the reservations were adopted the Treaty; would fail, and consequently the hope of preventing future wars would fail also. The League of Nations was the sole authority able to.restore order out of the anarchical conditions now pre-va^ing—Aus.-N.Z. Gable Assn.

(Rec. Sopteniber.'lG, 8.45 p.m.) Washington, September 15. The Senate has begun consideration of tje Peace Treaty.—Aus.-N.Z. CabT.e Assn.