Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 224, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1919 — GERMAN TREATY WITH LEAGUE BEFORE SOLONS. [ARTICLE]

GERMAN TREATY WITH LEAGUE BEFORE SOLONS.

Washington, Sept. 15.——The German peace treaty with its league of nations covenant was called up to-1 day in the senate, but plans of the’ senate and individual senators were considered as precluding any actual work on. the pact until next week. While the treaty was put before the senate to ibe considered in open session continuously until ratified or rejected, there apparently was no disposition to speed it along until after the interruption of business by the Pershing ceremonies Wednesday and Thursday. The reading of the treaty, section by section, hardly is expected, therefore, to begin until Monday. The lieague covenant comes first and right at the beginning almost is the amendment by Senator Johnson, republican, California, which would give the United States the same voting power as Great Britain. After Chairman Lodge had formally called up the Tfeaty today he presented a printed text ■of the treaty with Austria, supplied him by a Chicago newspaper, and obtained unanimous consent to have it read word for word. To have that treaty read, with a dozen senators listening, would be flying in the face of public demand for speed, 'Senator Hitchcock said in appealing to Senator Lodge to have the document printed and let it go at that. This Senator Lodge agreed to do.