Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1919 — ENVOYS DRAFT PEACE TREATY [ARTICLE]

ENVOYS DRAFT PEACE TREATY

Virions Commissions' Reports Ordered Made In Form ol Inserts to Pact. GUILT FOR WAR DECIDED It Is Understood That the Responsibility of the Authors of the Conflict Has Been Determined by • Committee.

Paris, March 7.—A ptep toward the formation of a treaty of peace wae taken hy the supreme council when it adopted the prosopal of the American delegation to have the various commissions present to the council their reports and conclusions in the form of articles to be inserted in the peace preliminaries. The council also discussed the military, naval and aerial conditions to be imposed on the enemy. War Guilt Decided. The report of the peace conference commission to determine the responsibility of the authors of the war, It la understood, was completed and will be presented to an early meeting of the supreme council. Robert Lansing, American secretary of state, Is chairman of the committee. The work of none of the peace conference commissions has been guarded so closely as that of the commission on responsibility. The commission’s report, it is understood, while fixing moral responsibility, falls to find legal responsibility because there is no precedent or no law governing the case or no court existing to try the accused if legal guilt were found to be evident. The pence conference commission on reparation of damages examined questions raised by subcommittees concerning reparation and the method of payment of damages by enemy states. The second subcommittee of the in-ter-allied commission on ports, waterways and railways completed its study of the question of the application of international regime to porta Small Nations’ Plea Falls. The supreme council, after hearing, a statement by Jules Cambon, decided unanimously to reject the demands of the minor powers with ests for greater representation ou the financial and economic commissions which are about to be formed. The minor powers, especially those from South America, followed Brazil in demanding earlier in the week that the minor powers have the same number of members in the commissions as the great powers. After two days of futile unofficial conferences, M. Cambon laid the matter before the supretpe council. Brazil was supported by Belgium, while Greece and Serbia took the opposite view in the discussions. The supreme council asked the minor powers to name their five representatives on the commissions. The great powers will have ten representatives.