2.
THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1919.
MEXICANS FEAR
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INVADE COUNTRY
Newspapers Report America
Is Studying Plans for
Campaign Prepara- ,
r tory to War.
; (0atlna4 fnra Fat One.)
ico nd Mexico's anxiety to enact
legislation, especially regarding oil
claims, that will satisfy all parties.
Officials Reserved.
Although great volume of mat
ter has been printed regarding inci
dents which may affect the present
international relations, much reserve
has been shown by government offi
cials whose positions are high
enough to give their statements au
thority. President Carranza's au
thorized statement to the Associated
Press on the crossing of the frontier
recently at Juarez by American
troops, has been the only official
statement from him on the interna
tional situation.
Gen. Juan Barragan, chief of the
presidential staff, is quoted by the
Excelsior, as saying that the gov
ernment has ordered a strict investi
gation of recent incidents in the
Tampico region and the proper pun
ishment of those guilty of these of
fenses. In the story containing
this interview the newspaper adds
that foreigners have been presuming
too much on the immunity they be
lieved was due to aliens and ventur
ing into rebel territory, thereby add
ing to the difficulties of the govern
ment, and the military commanders
in the disturbed zones.
- Concerned Over Status.
An unnamed government official
arso is quoted as declaring that the
Cheyenne incident lacks importance;
that it cannot be compared with the
Dolphin incident at Tampico in
1914, during the Huerta regime,
which resulted in the landing of
American forces at Vera Cruz.
The general sentiment here as re
flected by the newspapers shows
much concern over the present
status of international relations and
also the outcome of the official con
ferences at Washington on the Mex
ican policy and the probable course
the Mexican congress will pursue
with regard to oil legislation.
Cheyenne Case.
Among the dispatches sent by
General Barragan to the Asso
ciated Press was one from General
Gonzales regarding the Cheyenne
case, in which the chief of the
Tampico garrison says:
"This was due to their (the
American sailors) imprudence, for,
without advising with Mexican
militarv headquarters where they
could have learned how far they
could have passed safely up the
river Tamesi, they ventured beyond
the last outpost into rebel territory
and were robbed of one watch, a
little money and their shoes."
General Gonzales reports that he
has called the attention of the
American consul to this fact and
also that he has given orders that
nobody shall pass the last Mexican
outposts in the future.
Hiram Hughes Killed.
The killing of Hiram Hughes, an
American, near Tampico on July 9,
occurred, according to the Gonzales
dispatch, after Hughes, while intoxi
cated, had insulted passers-by and
had been arrested. Asked if he
carried arms, Hughes is alleged to
have replied in the negative, but a
gendarme found a pistol in his
pocket. Hughes is then declared
to have shot the gendarme in the
hand' and was himself mortally
wounded in the ensuing struggle.
' The death of Peter Catron (on or
about July 7), is blamed by General
Gon2ales on Catron's neighbors,
who robbed him of cattle. The
names of the slayers are known and
Gonzales has promised their early
capture.
More Data Promised.
The statement given out by Gen
eral Barragan conclues as follows:
'Tomorrow there will be made
public various documents belonging
to the archives of the bandit, Fran
cisco Villa, which were recovered in
Juarez in the last fight in that city.
Among these documents appears a
letter addressed to Villa by Charles
F. Hunt offering Villa a visit by
Senator Fall and other persons to
confer with (Villa) for the purpose
of helping to push to success the,
campaign against the present Mexi
can government, and the reply given
vy Villa.
"These documents are very im
portant, for Senator Fall is of those
who have been working the hardest
gainst our government in the
American senate."
Wilson's Explanation of
Shantung Affair Fails to
Win Senators for League
President Tells Senators That Only Way to Pay Japan
for Ending Hun Menace in Pacific and Far East
Was to Concede Rights to Shantung to Her Says
Empire Later Will Surrender Every Right.
By JAMES R- NOURSE.
(Staff Correspondent Universal Service)
Washington, July 23. President
Wilson in conversations with re
publican senators today admitted
sole responsibility for the Shantung
settlement in - the peace treaty
whereby this great province of
China, with its millions of Chinese
inhabitants, is to be delivered to the
control of Japan.
The senators were told that Lloyd
George and Clemencrau refused to
participate in the discussions of
Japan's claim to Shantung because
of the secret treaties which England
and France had made with Japan
covering this particular item in the
Japanese demands.
Turned Over to Wilson.
Thereupon, it was stated, the en
tire matter of appeasing Japan and
satisfying her demands for territor
ial aggressions was turned over to
President Wilson. Senators were
told that the president personally
negotiated the settlement with Ja
pan's representatives and agreed to
give Shantung to the Japanese em
pire. The plan of settlement was
then submitted to the other mem
bers of the big five for approval.
This is the first time that this big
secret of the peace conference has
been told. It made a profound im
pression upon the senators to whom
it was revealed. They were senators
who had been summoned by the
president to the White House to lis
ten to the reasons why the peace
treaty should be promptly ratified
without alteration or amendment.
The president also gave to the sen
ators some of the reasons why Ja
pan's claims on China were agreed
to. The most important of these
was that Japan had been exceeding
ly backward about entering the war
on the side of the allies. The secret
treaties with England and France
were negotiated as an incentive to
Japan to get in and help drive the
Germans out of China. It was not
until after England and France had
agreed to support Japan's claims to
large portions of China's territory
that Japan did get in.
The president further pleaded
Japan's cause with the senators by
pointing out that the dislodgment of
the Germans from Shantung was of
vital importance to the transport of
troops from New Zealand and Aus
tralia to help the British cause in
France. With Germany in posses
sion of Kiao Chow as a fortified
naval base, it would have been pos
sible, the president said, for troops
to have been transported from these
British possessions to Europe.
Therefore, it was stated that Japan
was entitled to be fully recompensed
for this great service to England, and
the award of Shantung appeared to
be the only way to pay her.
The president expressed to the
senators that he had the fullest con
fidence that the time will come when
Japan will acknowledge to all the
world that she will surrender every
right in Shantung except the right
of Japanese subjects to exercise all
the rights of citizenship.
The president's visitors were Sen
ators Walter E. Edge of New Jer
sey; Albert B. Cummins of Iowa,
and William M. Calder of New
York. Those invited to confer with
him today are Senators Thomas
Sterling of South Dakota, George
P. McLean of Connecticut, and Car
roll S. Page of Vermont.
All of the three senators who
conferred with the president yester
dayl declared their opinions with re
gard to the necessity of attaching
reservations to the resolution of rat
ification have been unchanged as a
result of the White House visit. In
fact of all those who have been sum
moned in the president's drive to
win over votes for the treaty and
the league of nations, only one thus
far has given any assurance that he
will vote for the treay without reser
vations, this being Mr. McNary of
Oregon.
U. S. Statesmen Disturbed
Over Europe's Cries for Aid
Think Europeans Have Absorbed Notion From Ameri
can Humanitarians That United States Can Be
Made Packhorse and Hoping This Country Will
Cancel Billions Loaned to Nations Abroad.
By JUSTIN M'GRATH.
Washington, July 26. Statesmen
are becoming seriously disturbed
over increasing European demands
for American aid. They ae begin
ning to believe that European
statesmen have absorbed the notion
from American humanitarians who
have been laboring abroad in vari
ous capacities that the United States
can be made the packhorse of Eu
rope. Count von Bemstorff was quoted
in the cable dispatches Monday as
having said:
"We believe that the fight to get
into the league necessarily will take
us to America's side, because Amer
ica is the most active supporter of
the league and alone is able to
finance the world's economic prob
lems." And in the cable dispatches yes
terday Senator Edouard ITerriott,
France's former minister of national
subsistence and labor, was quoted as
declaring:
"A country which has given 1,500,
000 of its children to libeity can
command from the great rich and
generous republic means of escape
from the financial paradox with
which it is struggling. I ask it
frankly, and wish the question put
while the war spirit lasts and befoe
the merchant" has replaced the sol
dier." All Europe Pleads.
In Italy, in Roumania, Poland,
Czecho-Slovakia, Jugo-Slavia, sim
ilar expectations of generous and
bountiful American aid are cherish
ed. Furthermore there is hope, not
infrequently expressed, that t.ie
United States will see fit to cancel
the billions as already loaned to na
tions of continental Erropc. Great
Britain is America's only debtor
that has not suggested remission,
but has expressed determination to
pay to the full.
Not only is the United States be-
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ing asked to cancel loans already
made, and to advance new and even
greater credits, but it is also being
asked to take on itself responsibility
for the stabilizing of conditions in
Europe at whatever sacrifice that
may entail.
This is indeed a large contract for
a country that has added $30,000,
000,000 to its own national debt as
a result of the war, and there is
grave doubt in the minds of many
statesmen as to whether the people
are willing to assume it, struggling
as they are with the high cost of liv
ing with no prospects of relief in
sight.
Begging Europe the Dictator.
Statesmen who are of this mind
express themselves as unable to
comprehend the attiude of Presi
dent Wilson and some of -the most
ardent supporters of the league
against any reservations which may
be. deemed necessary to safeguard
t! . interests of the United States.
They can't understand why Europe,
begging for American assistance,
should dictate the terms upon which
that assistance is to be given. They
cannot believe that Europe really
has the effrontery to to demand
all that America has to give and, at
the same time be unwilling to'con
cede that America shall retain such
rights of its own as it considers
essential to its well being.
They can see no good reason why
the United States, having done so
much having really saved the situa
tion for the allied nations should
not say: These are the additional
things we are willing to do and these
are the things we are not willing
to do.
It is this feeling which is the real
strength of the opposition which has
grown up in the senate to the league
of nations covenant. The repeated
declarations of the president that
the covenant must not be changed
has served to promote antagonism
rather than quite opposition. In the
minds of many of the senators the
covenant has now come to stand
for coercion.
Principal Shirley
Accepts Position
in Sioux City School
Principal W. S. Shirley of the
High school will leave Council
Bluffs to go into the High school
at Sioux City. He had been re
elected by the school board at a
salary of $300 a month but an
nounced at the time that he was
considering a better offer from
Sioux City. The decision was really
reached a month ago but the official
announcement was not made until
yesterday. He is at Columbia
university doing summer school
work with Superintendent Saam and
former Principal J. E. Marshall.
Professor Shirley has been princi
pal of the Bluffs high school for the
last three years.
Japanese Deny Shantung
Gift Given as Bribe
Paris, July 23. The Japanese del
egation to the peace conference to
day issued a denial of assertions
that the Shantung settlement in the
German peace treaty was in ex
change for the withdrawal of the
Japanese contention regarding the
racial clause in the league of nations
, covenant.
TAFT SUGGESTS
TO SENATE NEW
COVENANT PLAN
Former President Hopes to
Unite All Elements and
Reach Common
Understanding.
(Continued from Pat One.)
mitted by Mr. Wilson. The partisan
character of his administration dur
ing the war, together with his ap
peal to his countrymen to elect a
democratic congress in November,
1918, created a condition of personal
and political antagonism toward
him among republican leaders which
was shared by a majority of the
American people. This was shown
in the results of the election. Not
withstanding this, Mr. Wilson per
sisted in continuing the same parti
san exclusion of republicans in
dealing with the highly important
matter of settling the results of the
war. He selected a commission in
which the republicans had no rep
resentation and in which there were
no prominent Americans of any
real experience and leadership of
public opinion. With such a com
mission his unusual course in going
abroad himself, as president greatly
emphasized the personal element in
the framing of the treaty and inten
sified the general tendency to op
pose anything that he might bring
home, because of his apparent wish
to dictate the policy of the world
and to monopolize the credit for it.
Defects Due to Wilson.
"I feel that some of the defects
of the league of nations are due to
him. I am confident that he pre
vented the adoption of the plan of
the league to enforce peace in re
spect to an international court and
the settlement of justiciable ques
tions. "This was, as I am advised in the
English plan, but was studiously
omitted from the very satisfactory
American plan.' His prejudice
against courts is well known.
Article X, I think, is due to him
primarily, because it is merely the
embodiment of the last of his 14
points. While it came from his
suggestion however, it suited the
demands of the French so far as it
went and I believe it to be now
the heart of the league in tending
to unite the forces of the world in
police duty to suppress wars of
conquest.
"The power of amendment, con
tained within the terms of the
league, offers full opportunity to
remedy the defects of the league
with reference to the international
court and in other respects. The
great point which supporters of the
league of nations should now seek
is the establishment of a basis upon
which through amendments the
league can be perfected. It is abso
lutely necessary to retain article 10.
in order to stabilize the world. The
fluid condition of the region of the
war threatens the stability of the
world, and it needs the united forces
of the world to restore a normal
condition of self-maintenance. In
my judgment, therefore, it would be
most unfortunate if the cautionary
influence of article 10 may not be
retained in the crucial decade
through which the world is to pass.
Hostility Causes Criticism.
"The attitude of hostility toward
the president has aroused criticism
and opposition which might have
been avoided had he taken with him
such a man as Mr. Root and two
representatives of the foreign rela
tions committee in the senate. The
criticisms thus aroused have stirred
the conscience of a number of re
publican senators and have endan
gered the ratification of the league
by two-thirds of the senate.
"Mr. Wilson's influence with his
democratic supporters in the senate
will secure perhaps 45 votes. Nine
teen republican votes are needed
and the question is how can they be
secured. I don't think they can be
secured except by relieving their
consciences through reassuring in
terpretations of the league, of such
a character that they are likely to
be accepted without further negotia
tion and conference and delay by the
other nations who dictated the
peace. After consideration of the
arguments made on the subject, I
have formulated these interpreta
tions and reservations with the hope
that they will suggest a basis of
agreement between the democrats
and sufficient republicans to ratify
the treaty ana secure us the ines
timable benefit of a league of
nations which, with growth will de
velop into a new era in our inter-
tional relations.
Not Attitude of Majority.
'The attempt of such men as Sen
ator Borah, Senator Johnson, Sena
tor Sherman and others to defeat
the treaty, and the deliberate exag
geration of the Shantung feature of
the treaty, do not, I think, indicate
the attitude of the majority-of the
republican party in the senate and l
do not think that any attention
should be paid to the suggestion
that the treaty be amended in its
provisions with reference to the re
arrangement of the map of the re
gion of the war.
"To repeat, I am strongly in favor
of ratifying the treaty as it is.
Where I in the senate, I would not
hesitate to vote for it, but the sit
uation may require concessions to se
cure ratification and I suggest what
I have already sent to you, a copy
of which I enclose, as something
that will secure a useful league of
nations, which may be improved and
which at the same time may satisfy
the genuine objections of the repub
lican friends of the league in the
senate.
"Coming now to specific interpre
tations, it seems to me that the first
achieves all that the draftsmen of
the withdrawal clause intended, and
as thus interpreted relieves that
clause from a possible construction
by which the actual withdrawal on
two years' notice might be greatly
hindered through the claims of the
other members of the league.
Colonies in League.
"The second interpretation has to
do with the presence in the league,
as members, of self-governing do
minions or colonies of a home gov
ernment, also a member. Certainly
in a small body like that of the coun
cil, it would be unfair to have a
home government represented and
also one of its dominions or colo
nies, and I cannot think it was the
intention of the framers of the cove
nant that this might happen. Yet
I am bound to say that such a re
sult is not excluded by the present
language of the covenant in Article
X, and Article IV: nor does the lan
guage of article XV necessarily ex
clude from the tribunal to recom
mend a settlement of a dispute to a
home government where one of its
dominions or colonies is a party,
nor does it necessarily exclude a
dominion or colony from such tri
bunal where the home government
may be a party.
Both Exclusions Intended.
"I have no doubt that both of
these exclusions were intended by
the framers of the covenant. Nor
is there any express description of
the function to be performed by the
council or the assembly under Ar
ticle XV, so as to require that it
should act judicially and according
to international law or equity and
justice. I have no doubt that it
was intended that the language of
the preamble should characterize the
function of the duties of the council
or assembly under Article XV and
therefore that the language I have
ntroduced in the second interpreta
tion is merely giving expression to
that which ought to be inferred as
the intention of the framers of the
covenant. I may say that it sup
plies that which Mr. Root forcibly
represented as a defect of the cove
nant. "The third interpretation is an
exact legal construction of the ef
fect of Article X, and I do not see
how any of the signatory powers
can object to it. The conclusions
in respect to the function of con
gress under this article is the neces
sary result of the determination of
power under our constitution to
which none of the associated mem
bers of the league can object.
Statement of Law.
The fourth interpretation is a
mere statement of international law
and the proper construction of the
seventh paragraph of Article XVI
which is only inserted to satisfy
criticism of that paragraph based on
the unfounded assumption that
some tribunal of the league will be
found which will declare in respect
to immigration or the tariff to be
something other than a question of
domestic policy. If, as all authori
ties show, immigration and tariff
unaffected by treaties are purely
domestic questions, Ihen it cannot
injure the league to say that which
is undoubtedly a maxim of inter
national law.
"The fifth interpretation defines
the Monroe doctrine. As the ex
pression "Monroe doctrine" is used
in Article XXI. and as the United
States is the author of the doctrine
and has maintained it for 96 years
it is within the limit of an interpre
tation for it to state what the doc
trine has been made to be in the
history of its development to the
present day. As the time has come
for its world recognition, the time
has also come for its definition and
I believe the language used cor
rectly states what we have a right
to claim it to be and all that we
have the right to claim it to be.
All Criticism Answered.
"These interpretations, it seems
to me, reasonably answer all the
reasonable or sincere criticisms
made against the league except as
they are met by the single reserva
tion as to Article X. Mr. Root, in
his letter to you, proposed the
operation of Article X, be limited
to five years, when the settlements
of the war should be re-examined,
with the view to the further opera
tion of the article after resettle
ment. Influenced by acme -direct
information that I have as to the
attitude of France in respect to
Article X, I am confident the per
iod of five years is not long enough
for this stabilization and does not
offer the security which France
seeks. I think, therefore, that the
cautionary influence of the league
would be greatly strengthened by
lengthening this period from five to
ten years."
A Little Fish Story.
Vancouver, B. C. Residents of
Kitsilano have complained to the
health department against the odor
coming from scores of cases of
salmon eggs dumped into the
harbor and subsequently washed
onto the beach. The eggs were con
signed to Japan, but apparently be
came too high for shipment.
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