Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1920 — LEAGUE OF NATIONS URGED BY CONGRESS [ARTICLE]

LEAGUE OF NATIONS URGED BY CONGRESS

Before the Republican readers imade the league of nations a partisan issue the American people as «, whole favored a league of nations. Congress favored it. In the naval appropriation bill, approved August, 1916, which was passed in the U. S. senate by a vote of 71 to 8 and in the house, 283 to 51, Senators Borah, Brandegee, Harding, Lodge and Penrose voting for it, a paragraph was inserted declaring it to be the policy of the United States to settle national disputes through mediation and arbitration, that armaments should be decreased, and authorizing and requesting the president to invite, not later than the close of the war in Europe, all the great governments of the world to send representatives to a conference to formulate a plan for a court or other, tribunal to which disputed questions between nations should be referred. The bill appropriated money for this object and provided for a reduction in our naval expenditures in the event of the success of the .plan proposed.