THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1919.
TREATY WITH
FRANCE DRAWS
SENATES FIRE
Wilson Attacked for Failing
'to Present Agreement
j With Peace Treaty,
1 as Provided.
(CmtlaMd from ,Fae On.)
White House were suspended dur
ing the day tnd it ws said Thursday
' ;hat no further invitations had been
ssued.
Previous intimations at the White
rfouse. however, have Indicated that
-.ooner of later the president would
isle virtually every republican mem
ber of the treaty-ratifying body to
:onfer with him.
It was said that President Wilson
htad known of Mr. Taft's interpre
tation plan for severl days and it
also developed that the former presi-
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dent had opened correspondence on
the subject with the democratic side
of the senate. It remained conjectural
how far these negotiations might go
toward bringing some democrats
and some republicans together on
the middle ground on interpretative
reservations, but the republicans
who favor the league idea seemed
more confident than ever that in the
end Mr. Wilson himself would be
found committed to such a course.
Hays and Lodge Talk,
Publication of Mr. Taft's letters
to Will H. Hays, the republican
national chairman, was-followed by
telephone conversation .between Mr.
Hays, who is in Indiana, and Sena
tor Lodge. Mr. Lodge declined to
discuss his talk with the Chairman,
but it is understood the latter called
up in regard to the letters which he
said had not reached him.
While Senator Lodge declined to
go into his views on the Taft pro
posal, other senators who have stood
close to him in the treaty fight in
dicated they considered the develop
ment as a break in the ranks of
league supporters which eventually
would widen to permit radical
amendment of the covenant or even
rejection of the entire treaty. They
pointed out that the former presi
dent heretofore had stood consist
ently for unreserved ratification, and
declared that his letters to Mr. Hays
and to senators showed that the
president had lost one of the most
valuable exponents of his cause.
In administration circles, however,
it was pointed out Mr. Taft had
written that he still believed the
treaty should be ratified without
reservation. ,
Discuss Shantung Phase.
Katsuji Debuchi, Japanese cliat
d'affaires, visited the state depart
ment Thursday and discussed with
various officials the Shantung set
tlement provision of the peace
treaty. In this connection it was
learned the Japanese government
had been advised fully of the
strength of sentiment developed in
the senate favoring the restoration
of Shantung to China and also that
the government was aware ot tht
understanding conveyed in Wednes
day's White House statement that
it speedily would clarity tne situa
tion by some declaration or its pur
pose regarding Shantung.
While so far as known the Japa
nese government has not authorized
. . . .t A
any statement on me ananiung
question, it is suggested by officials
the reason might be found in Arti
cle 158, Section VIII, of the peace
treaty.
Must Hand Over Documents.
This article requires Germany to
hand over to Japan within three
months of the coming into force of
the treaty the archives, registers,
plans, title deeds and documents of
every kind relating to the territory
of Kiaochow, including all of the
treaties bearing on the subject. It
is said that until these are had the
Japanese government itself is not
able to make any pledges of re
linquishments because it does not
exactly know the extent of its own
holdings in Kiaochow and Shan
tung, nor, unless Germany should
anticipate the treaty provisions on
this point will Japan be in position
to transfer title not only before"
BEAT PRISONERS
OR BE BEATEN
CHOICE GIVEN
Former Sergeant, Now Im
prisoned for Cruelty to Sol
diers in France, Says Su
perior Ordered Action.
Washington, July 24. Efforts' to
fix responsibility of superior officers
for the maltreatment of American
military prisoners in detention
camps and jails in and near Paris
will be made by a house war in
vestigating committee next week.
Chairman Johnson announced to
night that former Sergt. Clarence
Ball, who is serving a six months'
sentence at Fort Jay, N. Y. for mis
treating prisoners while he was a
guard at one of the camps, would
appear before the committee Mon
day. "Beat the prisoners or be beaten
yourself," is the choice that Ball
says was given him by superior of
ficers, according to a letter written
by Ball to Representative Dallinger,
Massachusetts, who turned it over
to the committee. At prison farm
Number 2, where Ball was an "as
sistant" of Lieut "Hard Boiled"
Smith, who also is in prison for
mistreatment of soldiers, Ball's, let
ter asserts that he and other guards
did their "best not to misuse the
prisoners, and it did not suit Smith."
Admits Prisoner Hit.
"I admit that I hit prisoners,"
wrote Ball, but the orders came
from higher than any sergeant."
Ball's letter mentioned only one
Lieutenant Smith, but the former
sergeant said, "I could tell you a
lot more if I could only talk with
you."
While Ball is before one commit
tee, Homer S. Cummings, demo
cratic national chairman, is expected
to appear before another that
headed by Representative Frear,
Wisconsin, charged with inquiry
into aviation expenditnres. Mr.
Cummings is to be asked about
publicity said to have been issued
by the democratic committee, in
which the proposed visit of the
Frear committee to the northwest
for investigation of spruce produc
tion was referred to as a joy
junket" and intimated, according to
republican committeemen, that the
whole inquiry was for partisan pur
poses. N-
the final ratification of the peace
treaty but for three months there
after. Parliamentary approval is not re
quired in the case of this treaty in
Japan but it is said, nevertheless,
there are mechanical and routine
differences to be surmounted that
will necessarily consume much time
probably several weeks before
the document can be ratified.
Airplane Starts on
8,000-Mile Flight
to Circle Lountry
Washington, July in. An army
bombing plane carrying a crew of
five, commanded by Lieut. Col. R,
S. Hartz, left the ground here at
10 a. m. on the first leg of a flight
of nearly 8,000 miles around the rim
of the country.
The flight is the longest ever at
tempted by the army air service and
will carry the machine through 31
states, over 95 cities and cover long
stretches of the Atlantic, Pacific and
gulf coasts as well as the Canadian
border.
The general line to be followed
will carry the machine in order to
Duluth, Minn., Seattle, Wash., San
Diego, Cat., San Antonio, Texas,
Miami, Fla., and back to Washing
ton. The actual measured distance
of the route is 7,805 miles.
Mineola, N. Y., July 24. Lieut.
Col. R. S. Harts, who arrived here
at 12:45 p. m. Thursday from Wash
ington, is scheduled to leave Friday
for Augusta. Me., the next stopping
point on the 8,000-mile round-the-
rim-of-the-country flight he is mak
ing in an army bombing plane. It
is expected the start will be made
at 8 a. m. and that Colonel Harts
and his crew of four will reach Au
gusta shortly after noon.
Palmer Renews Fight
for His Confirmation
(Continued from Page One.)
and answered by Mr. Palmer, who
presented an affidavit from Mr.
Kennard repudiating his previous
statement.
Mr. Palmer also stated that Mr.
Kennard, after making his repudiat
ing affidavit before officers of the
property custodoian, had promised
to appear before the committee but
could not be located.
Answering Mr. Remington's state
ment that the attorney general must
pass on claims of owners and cred
itors of enemy property seized by
the alien property custodian, Mr.
Palmer argued that justice of the
claims could not be decided by the
attorney general, but must be deter
mined by the federal courts in regu
larly instituted legal proceedings.
In reply to Mr. Remington's asser
tion that Mr. Palmer's construction
of the custodian's powers were er
roneous, the attorney general re
plied that these powers had been up
held in every federal court in which
they had been tested.
Mr. Palmer declared there was
nothing inconsistent in his jurisdic-;
tion of claims for property made
against the alien property custodian.
Declaring that he never had passed
personally on a single claim, as such
matters were handled by subordi
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Members of National Com
mittee Spend Day in City;
Chairman Cummings
: ' Defends Wilson.
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realized that something should be
done to revive interest. The result
of the congressional campaign in
1918 had a depressing effect upon
members of the democratic orean
ization and we passed what might
be termed a period of political
gloom. We were cheated out of a
victory rightfully ours, by the petti-
togging tactics ot the opposition
We had a feelinsr of treoidation
when we started on this trip, but
now we have a feeling of confi
dence."
lhe republican party bases its
hopes of success on a cahipaign of
criticism, wnue tne democrats base
their hopes on a record of achieve
ments. ,It would take IS years to
teip tne whole story of what the
democrats have done i" the last six
years. The mere recital of what
the democratic party has done in
the last six years is the greatest
story ot what any nation has done,
and I don't care what any partisan
critic may say. The last six years
will be written as the golden years
of American history."
Referring to the republican mem
bers in the present congress, he
said: I believe that these reoub
licans at Washington are jealous of
wooarow Wilson.
Cummings Defends President.
The foreword of Chairman Cum
mings' address in the evening at the
Athletic club function was a defense
of the president and administration
policies and measures.
During the oroeress of the arreat
war from which we are just emerg
ing," he said. "President Wilson,
more clearly than anv other states
man, defined the purposes of the
conflict and gave to our cause a
spiritual power that made our ma
terial forces irresistible. And when
the end drew near, the oeonle of all
lands looked to the American presi
dent to formulate the terms upon
which hostilities were to cease. It
is his purpose to garner the results
of the war and to make certain that
the sacrifices of America and of the
world have not been made in vain.
No man and no party intention
ally placing obstacles in the way of
a league of nations will survive long
enough to outlive the memory of
ouch an offense against humanity
and civilization.
"The covenant of the league of
nations has become one of the facts
of history. Senatorial critics cannot
longer find a comfortable hiding
place under the protest that they
favor a league of nations but are op
posed to the suggested form of a
league of nations. The issue is
clear and unmistakable. They are
assert that the league would not
only embroil us in the affairs of
Europe, but would force America
into future wars. It is extraordinary
that men should waste time and vex
our patience by suggesting the fact
that we may be forced into future
wars, while forgetting entirely that
America was forced into this war.
No league of nations was in exis
tence when this war began.
Women Will Elects
Next U. S. President,
Says Mrs. Geo. Bass
"Nothing doing," said McAdoo,
and the panic which Wall street
threatened to plunge the country
into early in Wilson s second ad
ministration was averted, declared
Mrs. Antoinette Funk, national
democratic chairman of education,
addressing a gathering, of about 75
fied" women at Hotel Fontenelle
Thursday afternoon. A few women
from outside the city attended,
notably the presiding officer, who is
Nebraskas representative on the
woman's national committee, Mrs.
A. C. Shallenberger of Alma, and
Mrs. T. T. Dovle of Lincoln.
Mrs. Funk, supplied with catch
ohrases and versed in oratorical
standards, entertained her hearers
with a review of her sundry and
divers political affiliations, leading
uo to her present, and final as yet
conversion to the democratic faith,
after campaigning, as she expressed
it, "three long weeks" for Hughes
ii. 1916. She convinced her audi
ence that no party can be judged
bv its past "any more than you can
be judged by an autopsy performed
on your grandfather," and then pro
ceeded to a detailed review of past
history in the two parties, referring
several times to the republicans as
"the Penrose organization.
To Flood Country.
This chairman of education ex
pects to flood the country with edu
cational literature, guaranteed to be
honest information not propaganda
but warranted, at the same time,
to make democrats of its readers.
Her first step toward this "plan"
was education of the party leaders,
who evidently succumbed to her
plea, which, according to her own
statement, was made in the follow
ing classical language:
"Lay your cards on the table. Not
just a few hands, but the whole deck.
We may not make a grand slam,
but we will take some tricks."
The organization of democratic
women under Mrs. George Bass, is
far more complete than tne similar
renublican trrouo under the leader
ship of Mrs. Medill McCormick, ac
cording to Mrs. Funk.
Cummings Addresses Meeting.
Homer S. Cummings of Connecti
cut, chairman ot tne oemocratic na
tional committee, spoke briefly, say
ing he was addressing a very at
tractive meetine and that he had
been waiting outside hoping for an
invitation to participate. "I am a
democrat," he said, "but would not
be interested in the democratic
party unless I believed that in this
particular period of the history of
the world that party was Desi. cal
culated to serve humanity and the
either in favor of this particular i best interests of society. Woodrow
league or they are opposed to any
league at all.
Sentiment Will Prevail.
"The American people will not
permit senatorial animosity or parti
san prejudice to wreck the greatest
project in behalf of humanity which
the world has ever known. Ameri
can sentiment will make itself
known from every quarter of the
country and the dwindling opposi
tion to the league will, in any ef
fective sense, disappear entirely.
The fundamental fallacy of much of
the criticism consists in regarding
Article 10 of the proposed league
as an agreement to make war and
not a covenant to preserve peace.
"It is said that the proposed cov
enant of peace is too vague. It is
one of the chief merits that it does
not pretend to pass upon every con
ceivable question, but provides with
in itself a certain degree of flexibility
so that new adjusments may be
made as new conditions develop,
and sc; that readjustments may be
made where errors have crept in.
"There are some who solemnly i
Wilson is the greatest figure in the
life of modern civilization. More
people today look to that one man
as the hope of humanity than to any
other who trods the face of God's
green earth. They have become tied
up in the leadership of this great
spiritual leader of the world."
"It is known all over the United
States that women will elect the
next president," declared Mrs.
George Bass, chairman of the wom
an's section of the democratic na
tional committee. "They elected
Wilson in 1916. The women of this
country have wanted suffrage; they
are going to use it. This great, new
civic possession, the ballot, is going
to be held as a sacred trust by
them to be used in the election of
the next president of the United
States."
Manley in Washington.
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