Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1919 — JAPANESE ASK LEAGUE EQUALITY [ARTICLE]

JAPANESE ASK LEAGUE EQUALITY

Amendment of Peace Treaty Will Be Submitted Jo Supreme Council. READY TO HEAR NEUTRALS Will Submit Suggestions on Constitution to Meeting Presided Over by lx>r<l Robert Cecil. Paris, March 21.-A Japanese amendment to the covenant of tn_ league of nations providing that tho contracting purties ahull agree. to» grant “equal and Just treatment to all aliens within their borders who nro nationals of states that are members of the league will be submitted to the supreme council, It is learned by Reuj ter’s from Japanese sources. Tie standpoint of the Japanese is that »H, citisens of nations deemed sufficiently, advanced to become members of th* Irague should have equal rights who traveling or living in foreign counj tries, it is said. While the Japanese! delegates do not accept the view that: treatment of foreigners and dlscnmj inating Immigration laws are purely; matters of domestic policy, they say! they are content to ask from tna Irague only a recognition of the claim of their people now living In foreign countries to equal rights with othert aliens.

To Hear Neutrals on League. ' Neutral countries of Europe, Asia; and central and South America hnvej opportunity to express their viewsand, riopose amendments to the league oD rations plan. Nenrby neutrals, sucN as Holland and Swltaerland, have sent delegates in response to the invitation of the supreme council, whlid t-iore distant countries will be reprej n-nted by ambassadors and ministers residing In Paris. Lord Robert Cecil of Great Britain will be chairman and Premier Venlj reloe of Greece, Dr. M. Vesnlch of Serbia, Paul Hymans of Belgium, Col. E. M. House of the United States and Eton Bourgeois pf France will sltJ no members of the sub-commission. Wilson Chairman of League Meet. President Wilson will act as chiilrman at the meeting of the league of notions commission that will be held nt ten o’clock Saturday morning, when all proposed amendments and change* will be considered and the plan put. Into definite form. This will be the first meeting of the commission since the covenant was adopted the day. before Mr. Wilson departed for AmerJ ice and It will consider proposals subj mitted at the hearing of neutrals today and also any other suggestion* that have taken definite form. Lord Robert Cecil and Thomas Wu Gregory, former United States attor* ney general, are among those wh* have sought to draft a proviso relative to the Monroe doctrine in such form that It will meet the approval of legal experts. The American delegation, it is saldj plans to accept a limited number of amendments to the league of nation* covenant. League In Preliminary Treaty. The Temps says an agreement ha* been reached by the allied ments to include the league of nation* in the preliminary treaty with Ger* many.