VOL. LVIII. NO. 18,326
Entered at Portland (Oron)
Postoffir? s Scnnd-lays Matter.
PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1919.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
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crirony grape growers' lot lorim r
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GRILL SPRUCE HEAD
Questions on Waste Fired
, at Colonel Stearns.
VIXEYARDISTS ARE PROSPER
ISC DESPITE PROHIBITION.
flISQUE DRAWN INTO CHARGES
Subcommittee Asks Why Rail
way Cost $112,000 a Mile.
MILLS HELD UNNECESSARY
Chairman Drear Accuses Production
Officials of Raising Wages
, Without Authority.
BT BEN Hl'R LAMPMAN.
SEATTLE, Wash.. Aug-. 20. (Spe
cial.) Colonel C. P. Stearns, chief of
the spruce division, and president of
the spruce production corporation,
faced the first grilling of the house
subcommittee today, when members of
that body, now in the Pacific north
west for the purpose of Investigating
alleged extravagant expenditures of
spruce production during the war
period, subjected him to a severe in
terrogation relative to his knowledge
of logging operations while the nation
was striving to place thousands of
planes In service against Germany.
Back from the Olympic peninsula in
Tlallam county, where the subcommit
tee scrutinised the Selms-Carey-H. 8.
Kerbaugh logging road from Joyce to
Ijike Pleasant, and the two mills con
structed by the same concern at Port
Angeles and Lake Pleasant. Represen
tative James A. Frear, of Wisconsin,
chairman of the investigation. launched
a score of scarcely veiled charges
against the sprue, corporation and It
former head, Brigadier-General Brlce
P. Disque, now In New York.
EitraTitaict Is Charged.
Other members of the committee are
Representative R. W. JUsee of New
York and Representative Clarence F.
Lea of California.
Chairman Frear sought to develop,
sy his questioning; of Co'onel Stearns,
that the Seimo-Carey-H. S. Kerbaugh
. logging road, 36 miles In length, has
;ot the government approximately H,
000.000 at an average of 1 12.000 a
mile, and that it was constructed by
;overt understanding with the Chicago,
Milwaukee 4; St. Paul railroad, to per
mit that company to acquire the line
end penetrate the heavily timbered
spruce district of Pleasant Lake, on
the Milwaukee's coveted course to
3rays Harbor.
Repeated questioning, often couched
in rather sharp terms, failed to shake
'o!onel Stearns" contention that such
tnri not been the aim: that no under
ndinK had at any time existed to
nut effect, and that the spruce road
tai built througn that district for the
ole reason that competent engineers
leclared they found insuperable ob
stacles to construction in other direc
tions.
Grilling la Look.
But Colonel Stearns endured six sul
Ty hours of questioning, before Rep
resentative Lea. democrat, came' to his
defense and took up the interrogation,
near the close of the afternoon sitting.
Under this examination. Colonel
Stearns testified that the probable en
tire expenditures of spruce production
would not exceed $50,000,000. Settle
ment has already been mat!e with Great
Britain, the witness testified, for $14,-
1)00.000 and settlement on the same
basis with France and Italy will bring
the paid spruce statement of the allies
up to $30,000,000, leaving to America
a balance of $30,000,000. Salvaged
property, he continued, will net $10.
000.000. leaving an actual expense to
America, for all spruce production op
erations, of only $10,000,000.
COBBectloa Held ladljipeasable.
The witness testified also, when
questioned by Representative Lea, that
the location of the criticised spruce
road In Clallam county was based upon
ths report of a disinterested engineer,
Roberts, of the Union Pacific system.
The connection with the Milwaukee at
Joyce, he said, was dictated by reason
of the fact that the Milwaukee was the
only transcontinental line available,
and that connection with such a source
of outlet was indispensable.
COBBecttoaa Are Criticised..
The present line of the Milwaukee
runs from Port Angeles to Deep Creek,
practically paralleling the Straits of
Juan de Fuca. Inasmuch as the con
tract of the spruce corporation with
the Seima-Carey people provides that
the logging road shall connect at one
point with tile Milwaukee Chairman
Frear wanted to know why this con
nection had not been made at Deep
Creek, the end of the line, where prac
tical connections could have been made
with the Merrill and Ring and Good
rear logging roads, thence building di
rect to Lake Pleasant by a southwest
erly course, a distance of a dozen miles.
The course taken is from Joyce via
Lake Crescent, a Si-mile route through
difficult country tj Lake Pleasant and
the spruce belt. It was also asserted
by Chairman Frear that this course, ac
cording to the spruce division's own
maps, runs Its length through a coun
try almost entirely devoid of' spruce,
while the shorter route would have
tapped the airplane stock at Its be
ginning. ',
- KaewlVdse of Rail Plaas Admitted.
Colonel Stearns was asked if he was
aware that the Milwaukee road had
c ntemplated extending Its lines in the
I
I Fruit in Some Cases Is Selling at
Higher Prices Than Year Ago,
Says Sacramento Man.
SAN" FRANCISCO. Aug. -20. (Spe
cial.) C. B. Bills, president of the Pio
neer Fruit exchange, Sacramento, said
at the Palace hotel today that vine
yardlsts are not experiencing the finan
cial ruin predicted in pre-prohibition
times, and added:
"Wine growers are selling their
grapes for the same prices and in some
instances higher prices than they re
ceived in past years. The fruit is
shipped east for grapejulce purposes
and non-alcoholic wines."
Mr. Bills asserted that the Armours
are buying large quantities of grape
indicating a jound basis for the grape
industry. Fruit crops this year are
larger than those of last year, accord
lng to Mr. Bills. Touching labor costs
he said:
"The high cost of labor, supplies and
operation of orchards and canneries
will mean higher prices for canned
fruit. Peaches, for example, may pos
sibly retail for as high as 60 cents thi
winter."
1
ON ALIENS ASKED
Immigration'
Drastic oV .ory.
SLACKERS TO BE SENT OUT
It A vXwb
BOOK WRITTEN IN EXILE
Hood River Man Tells of Presence
of Ludendorff In Sweden.
HOOD RIVER. Or., Aug. 20. (Spe
cial.) General Ludendorff. of the Ger
man high command, whose personal
history of the Prussian trial at arms
will soon appear serially in The Ore
gonian. wrote a good portion of his
memoirs while In Sweden.
Axel N. Rahm. who has Just returned
to resume his residence here after llv
Ir.g for ten years at Helsinborg, Swe
den, says the German leader fled to a
farm near Helsinborg at the time the
kaiser escaped to Holland.
"For several weeks," says Mr. Rahm,
"the world did not know what had be-
come of Ludendorff. but news of his
exile at the Swedish farm soon became
public Then Sweden, to preserve her
neutrality, had to take cognizance of
his presence. The general, however,
appealed for - permission to remain a
month and write his memoirs."
FIGHT MAY PROVE FATAL
Chehalis Man Gets Serious Knife
Wounds in Back.
CHEHALIS. Wash., Aug. 20. (Spe
cial.) Orville Barnett, member of a
pioneer Chehalis family. Is at his home
suffering from what physicians say
probably will prove fatal wounds in
flicted last night by an assailant, who
stabbed him twice in the back during
an altercation in a soft-drink resort
Barnett was playing solitaire when
his assailant, whose name it was im
possible to learn, entered and chal
lenged him to play poker. Barnett
declined, saying he did not know poker,
but offered to play another game. Hot
words followed, and a fight ensued.
The knife blade, it is said, pene
trated Barnett's kidneys and he is
bleeding internally. He is a cook by
occupation and is married.
STRIKERS FIGHT TROOPS
Labor Trouble in Upper Silesia Looks
Like Revolt.
WARSAW. Aug. 20. The strike
movement In Upper Silesia, which is
said to have been developed largely by
spartaclde propaganda, now is reported
to have assumed somewhat the char
acter of a genuine Insurrection.
Engagements are said to have been
fought between the insurgents and Ger
man troops, resulting In the proclama
tion of martial law by the Germans.
Poles are said to have obtained con
trol of a number of places, including
Kattowitz, Bolskow, Edlin and Cichow.
Admission at End of Closed
Period to Be Restricted.
JAPANESE COOLIES BARRED
"Gentlemen's Agreement" With To-
kio Would Be Literally Fulfilled
Under Johnson Measure.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 20. A bill
stop all immigration for two years and
to deport all aliens who with
draw their first papers in order to es
cape military service during the war
was introduced today by Chairman
Johnson of the house Immigration com
mlttee.
After the end of the two-year sus
pension period, aliens would be entitled
to admission to the United States only
under a passport or on their written
declaration to become an American
citizen. They would be required to reg
ister annually until citizenship was con
ferred. Fraudulent entry would be pun
Ishable by five years' imprisonment and
$1000 fine, to be followed by deporta
tion.
Exceptions Permitted Few.
Few exceptions to the prohibition of
immigration for two years are permit
ted by the bill. Alien residents of the
United States might send for their par
ents, grandparents, unmarried or wid
owed daughters, or sons under 16 years
old, unless these relatives had been
alien enemies, for whom special au
thorization for admission would be re
quired. Alien labor also might be im
ported under existing law and foreign
officials, tourists, students and profes
sional men might come into the country
emporarily under passports.
.The bill ist regarded as the most
rastje. measure of the kind ever pre
sented to congress.
Adoption of the bill would mean, its
ramers say, liberal fulfillment of the
to-called "gentlemen's agreement" be
tween the United States and Japan
with respect to immigration and would
eep out Japanese coolies.
Agreement Held Violated.
Under the Root-Takahira agreement
Japan is obligated to send no coolies
to this country, but it is charged that
the records disclose that they arrive
by the thousands, with passports as
merchants, students and the Hke. Once
ere, it is alleged, they remain, send
for "picture brides," raise families, aud
their children become citizens of the
nited States by right of birth.
Representative Johnson, in charge of
the preparation of the bill, said the re-
G F. E R A L Ll'DENDORFF'S
STORY OK WAR TO BE;I.
I. THE OHF.fiOMAS
. SEPTEMBER. 7.
The story of the
great war, told by
General Luden
dorff, the man who
dictated Germany's
military moves
during the long
struesrle, will begin
in The Oreg-onian
Sunday, September
7. It is a confes- '
sion nf the most
Sj colossal failure of
migni s 5 i ii o .
right In the
world's history.
It is not a defense
or justification of
Germany's crimes,
but a remarkable
narrative of the
principal actors of
the central powers
in the drama that
the globe and tumbled
MEXICAN SEEKS
0. S. HIT
1
L
General
Ladendorfi
rocked
thrones.
Of the allied side of the war we
know- much, but Germany's trou
bles have been shrouded in mys
tery. But Ludendorff discloses
Germany's real condition just be
fore and during the war.
His story will be complete. It
is without parallel in the history
of the press and will be pre
sented in The Oregonian begin
ning Sunday, September 7.
COURT UPHOLDS DRY ACT
Emergency Still Exisst in View of
Federal Judge.
NEW YORK, Aug. 20. Holding that
the war emergency still exists. Federal
Judge Augustus N. Hand, in an opinion
handed down today, refused to grant a
temporary order sought by Scatena,
Lawson & Perelli, owners of vineyards
in California, with a place of business
in this city, to restrain federal authori
ties here from enforcing provisions of
the war-time prohibition act.
In asking for the order the wine
manufacturers alleged that the law was
unconstitutional for the reason that no
war emergency now exists. In his de
cision Judge Hand said:
It is plain from the terms of the act
that among its objects is the regula
tion of the liquor traffic during the
period of demobilization. That is a
critical period,- more critical in some
respects than that of actual hostilities."
Consul Urges Action
His Ambassador.
by
GAYALRY STILL ON HOT TRAIL
THEATERS CLOSED BY
SYMPATHETIC STRIKE
SIX CHICAGO HOUSES "DARK";
MONEY REFUNDED.
Walkout Is Threatened Also
Vaudeville .and Burlesque
Establishments.
in
Punitive Expedition Enjoying
Better Conditions.
62 TANKS SENT TO BORDER
Three Thousand Rifles Forwarded;
Significance of Shipments
Is Xot Explained.
0RM0SA CITY WRECKED
Storm Does Heavy Damage Also on
Japanese Island of Kiushiu.
SAW FRANCISCO, Aug. 20. A storm
on the Island of Formosa, on tne
Chinese .coast, has destroyed the city
of Talto, one of the principal points on
the island,, according to a caKegram
received here today by the New Yorld,
Japanese daily paper.
Storms also did considerable damage
on Kiushiu Island in tne Japanese
group, the cablegram said. No further
details were given.
SHOES ADVANCE $3 SOON
Dealers Predict Rise Before Deliv
eries Are Made in September.
SPOKANE. Wash., Aug. 20. An ad-
ance of from $3 to $5 a pair on all
grades of men's and women's shoes will
go into effect after the September de
liveries of shoes are made, according
to shoe merchants of this city.
The advance Is said to be due to a
shortage of hides in this country and
broad.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20. Mexican
Ambassador Bonillas has been urged by
the Mexican consul at Presidio, Texas,
to obtain from the war department an
order for withdrawal of the American
forces now in Mexico. The consul's
telegram, made public at the embassy
tonight, said that since Mexican fed
eral troops were in pursuit of the ban
dits which held two American aviators
for ransom, withdrawal of the Ameri
can troops would "avoid difficulties.'
MARFA, Tex.. Aug. 20. After 36
hours of campaigning in Mexico below
the Big Bend border following "hot
trails" of theMexican bands who held
Lieutenant Peterson and Lieutenant
Davis for ransom, American cavalry
troops went into camp in the mountains
tonight for the second time during the
punitive expedition after Jesus Ren
teria's band.
Since the troops crossed the Rio
Grande early Monday morning they
have been riding constantly during
daylight hours in pursuit of bandits..
The only contact with the bandits
reported resulted in the killing of one
of three Mexicans who fired on an
American airplane yesterday. Accord
ing to the aviator's report upon return
from the field the ,f ight lasted 20 min
utes. The aviators were unharmed.. v.;
Country Too Rough for Planes.
CHICAGO. Aug. 20. Six theaters were
"dark" here tonight as a result of the
strike of musicians and stage me
chanics. Only burlesque, vaudeville
and moving picture theaters were able
to . give performances. Matinees ad
vertised for this afternoon were not
given and the managers spent the day
refunding money to persons who 'had
purchased tickets in advance.
J. F. Winkler, president of the Chi
cago Federation of Musicians, and Dick
Green, president of the Chicago Fed
eration of Stage Mechanics, stated that
their members would remain on the
"sympathetic" strike until the actors
and managers came to an agreement
in the present controversy. They, said
more than 300 members of the two
unions walked out.
A walkout in burlesque and vaude
ville houses has been threatened, but
so far nothing official has been done
about calling a strike.
Hazel Dawn of the "Up in Mabel's
Room" company at Wood's theater
was questioned today, when Mas
ter in Chancery Zeisler resumed
hearing of testimony in in
junction suits brought ly Chicago
theater managers against the Equity
Association of Actors and . Artists to
prevent closing of additional play
houses by an extension of the strike-
Asked what causes had led her to go
on a strike with other members of the
company last Saturday night, which re
sulted in the closing of Woods' thea
ter, Miss Dawn declined to answer on
the ground that her replies might in
criminate her when the contempt of
court charges are heard, August 26.
C1PH1SE
LEAGUE' OFFERED
Administration Overture
Has No Success.
PITTMAN FRAMES RESOLUTION
Four Reservations Excluded
From Ratification Act.
M'NARY GROUP HOLDS OU'i.
Provisions on Withdrawal, Use a.
Force, Monroe Doctrine, Domes
tic Issues Interpreted.
PROHIBITION HITS HORSES
Saloon Troughs Empty and Beasts
of Burden Suffer.
SAN FRANCISCO; Aug. 20. (Spe
cial.) Poor old Dobbin, tongue hang
ing out with thirst, is the latest to be
affected by prohibition, according to
the annual report of the San Francisco
Society for the Prevention of CrueHy to
Animals. Since. July 1 many saloons
have quit business, and as a result the
water troughs in'frbnt of them have
ceased to spout refreshing drink fort
the horses. 1-
To relieve this condition the society
plans to . erect several additional
troiie-h tn the 4(1 vurar. maintainor n i.
Reports from the field are meager. , eaid secretary Matthew McCurrle today
after the annual election. - , -
As a result- of the broken , country
south of the border the troopers have
been forced to scatter and follow such
trails as they can pick up. The coun
try is too rough, for airplanes to effect
a landing below the border without
great danger.
A cryptic message "Still following
trail" brought to the border by air
plane today was the only definite word
from the expedition. No officers com
manding troops in the field have yet
returned to the field bases on. the river.
Major-General Joseph T. Dlckman,
commander of the southern department.
is expected to reach here tomorrow
morning on an inspection of posts
and camps along the border between
San Antonio and Marfa.
While his visit here at this time is
DAYLIGHT SAVING BEATEN
Senate Stands With House in Voting
Down Veto of Repeal.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 20. Repeal of
the daylight savmg act was accom
plished today, when the senate voted
to sustain the house in passing the re
peal measure over President Wilson's
veto. The vi-j was 57 to 19.
The repeal of the law becomes effec
tlve after the clocks are turned back
to normal in October. It is one of
the very few measures which have
twice been vetoed by a president and
have become laws In spite of the veto.
PRINCESS OF SULU ARRIVES
Saltan's Child to Study in Chicago.
Miss Aguinaldo Also Here.
VICTORIA, B. C Aug. 20. Princess
Klram. 18-year-old daughter of the
sultan of Zulu, arrived here today on
her way to Chicago, where she is to
enter school.
One of her companions on her Jour
ney across the Pacific on the Japanese
liner Katorl Maru was Miss S. A.
Aguinaldo, 17-year-old daughter of
Emilio Agulnaldp, former Filipino
rebel chief.
iCiailutl.d od iVf 3, Columa 3.
SAWMILL NEAR BEND AFIRE
Little Hope Felt of Saving- Plant
Valued at 75,00O.
BEND. Or, Aug. 20 (Special)
Fire, from a cause as yet not ascer
tained, started tonight at the Pine
Tree Lumber- company's mill, seven
miles from Bend. The city fire engine
was rushed to the scene, but with little
hope of avlngr the mill, which la valued
at approximately $75,000.
The lumber yard, insured for $33,000.
may be saved.
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LANDON'S . BODY COMING
Remains of Murdered Portland Sol
dier Positively Identified. ,l
NEW YORK, Aug. 20. The body of
the soldier found murdered in the Mc
Alpin hotel last week was positively
identified at a special inquest in the
morgue today as .that of Cecil E. Lan
don of Portland, Or., who recently re
turned from overseas. Sergeant Alfred
Voss, 647 West 158th street,' a friend,
assisted in making the identification.'
The special inquest was held by Dr.
Charles Norrls, chief medical examiner,
so the body might be released from the
jurisdiction of the police. An under
taker took it in charge in behalf of the
Oregon welcoming committee, who rep
resent the father of the dead soldier.
It will be shipped to Portland.
CHURCH PLATE IS ROBBED
Yakima Thief Steals $30 From
Sunday Night Collection.
YAKIMA,' Wash., Aug. 20. (Special.) I
A sneak thief stole $30 from the I
collection plate of the First Christian
church Sunday evening while the at
tention of the church secretary, Miss
Viola Rockett, was taken elsewhere.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature,
S
degrees; minimum, 59 degrees.
TODAY'S Fair, continued warm; moder
ate westerly winds.
Domestic.
Troopers In Mexico ftde hard on hot trail.
Page 1.
Chicago theaters closed by sympathetic
striae, page 1.
Secretary Daniels announces he will visit
. Portland with part of fleet. Page 0.
Steel ' workers favor national walkout.
Page a. . ,
War-time prohibition act upheld by federal
court.' Page 1.
Convalescent Oregon soldiers land. Page 3.
American cotton eagerly sought by German
manufacturers- Page 2. -.
National.
Bill in house would shut off alt immigra
tion for -two years, page l.
Plan for control of railroads is outlined to
house Interstate commerce commission.
Page 1.
Senator . McNary said to hold key to treaty
ratification. Page 2.
Pacific Northwest.
Idaho will have to fight fruit freight-rate
battle alone. Page i.
Public service commission reduces Burleson
rates for state phone companies. Page 7.
Astoria veterans fight Finnish . papers.
Page 7.
Commercial and Marine.
Advance in coffee prices due in fall. Page 23.
Chicago corn closes firm after rapid price
changes. Page 24.
Sharp decline in Wall-street stocks in final
hour. Page 23.
Uniform dock wage on coast held near.
Page 22.
Sports.
Golden Gate fight fans take liking to Bill
Larue. Page 14.
Pacific Coast league results; Vernon Hfi,
Portland 2; Los Angeles 2, Sacramento 1;
Oakland 7, Seattle 2; Salt Lake 9, San
Francisco 1. Page 14.
Hugo Bexdek ill with "athletic heart."
Page 14. , . .
, Portland and Vicinity.
Women prepare to fight alleged public mar
ket evils. Page 10.
City council maps- out extensive improve
ment programme. Page 16.
Highway Commissioner Benson to continue
road route fight. Page 12.
Oregon prunes to demand bigger market, say
fruit men. Fage 16.
City planning commission hopes to eliminate
dangerous grade crossings, page id.
Johnson bcom 'a launched in Oregon. Page 8.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 20. The firs
open move for a compromise In the
league of nations fight came fronr
administration quarters today, embracei.
in a proposal that the senate adopf
interpretative resrvatlons, but that thej
be kept apart from the actual ratifi
cation of the treaty.
The overture met with no immediate
success on the republican side of th
chamber, senators of the republican,
reservation group declaring they could
not recede from their position that to
be effective the reservations must go
into the ratification itself.
Senator Plttman of Nevada, a demo
cratic member of the foreign relations
committee, presented the compromise
proposal in the form of a resolution
embodying in effect the four 'reserva- -tions
agreed on by seven republican
senators and declaring them to consti
tute the senate's understanding on dis
puted points in the covenant.
Republicans Stand Firm.
In the republican draft, however, it
is expressly provided that the reserva-
tions "be made a party of the treaty
by the instrument of ratification" pro- ;
viso which Senator McNary of Oregon
and others of the group of seven re
publicans said they considered abso
lutely necessary if .enough republican
votes are to be gained to secure rati
fication, of the treaty
To overcome this objection. Senator
Pittman proposed in a speech in the
senate that the resolution be adopted
at once and submitted to the other
powers who will be represented on the
league council. A general debate de-1
veloped, during which Senator Borah,
republican, Idaho, and others took ex- .
ception to President Wilson's dlstinc- '
tion. between moral and legal obliga
tions under the covenant as expressed
in yesterday's White House conference
between- the presidnt and th forign r- '
lations committee.
Democratic Support Expected.
Leaders of the McNary group, never
theless, insisted they had information
that in the end their plan would have
democratic support. '
An attack on the Shantung provision
of the treaty was made in the senate .
by Senator McCormick, republican, Il
linois, who asserted that by accepting
the provision the United States would .
become a party to one of the most out
rageous exhibitions of "hypocrisy and
violence" in the world's history.
The Shantung provision also was
under consideration before the foreign
relations. committee, which was told by .
1 Dr. J. C. Ferguson, adviser to the Chi
nese president, that China regarded-
j American acceptance of the settlement
Ias a deviation from the traditional
policy of American friendship to the
Chinese government and people.
Questions by Senator Borah turned
the debate to a discussion of the moral
and legal obligations assumed under
article 10 of the covenant, by which
the members agree to preserve one an
other's territorial integrity against ex
ternal aggression.
Not Contract, Says Plttman.
The article, Mr. Pittman asserted,
had no legal force because It "does
not carry the essentials of a contract." -
"You could not take It into a court
of law," hft sair, "and find any means
by which it could be enforced except
by the conscience of the parties , af
fected." "But when Germany actually In
vaded France," replied Senator Borah,
"it seems to me that under article 10
we would have been obligated to go
at once to- aid - France."
"The matter would have been laid
before congress," said Senator Pitt- - '
man, "and congress would have had to 4
decide whether " we would act . In
my judgment congress would have de
cided we should act and it would have '
been a godsend."
"I agre with that, but still con
gress would have had no real discre
tion. It would have been compelled
to act if it were going to carry out
its contract," returned Mr. Borah.
Senator Pittman said the reserva
tions had not been submitted to the
president. They are similar to those
proposed by a group of seven repub
lican senators and deal with the right
of withdrawal from the league, article
10, domestic questions and the Monroe
doctrine.
Text of Resolutions.
The resolution follows:
"That when the senate of the United
States shall advise and consent to the
ratification of the -treaty of peace with
Germany, signed at Paris on the 28th
day of June, 1919, now pending in the
senate, it be done with and in consid
eration of the following understanding
as to the present and future construc
tion and interpretation to be given
to the treaty:
First That whenever the two years'
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