SENATE AND TREATY.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 221, 17 September 1919, Page 7

SENATE AND TREATY.

SUPPORT FOR THE LEAGUE. EFFECT OF THE RESERVATIONS ANTI-LEAGUE PROPAGANDA. Csy Cable. —I'cess Association.—Copj-vglit.) WASHIXGTON, September 16. The Senate has begun the consideration of the Versailles Treaty. Speaking in the Senate, Mr. Jones said that if the reservations proposed in the majority report of the Foreign Relations Committee were adopted, the treaty would fail, and consequently the hope of preventing future wars would fail also. The League of Xations was the sole authority able to restore order from the anarchical conditions now prevailing in Mexico. Speaking at Portland, Oregon, Mr. Wilson said that the idea of the League of Nations was not his. It was the result of the deliberations of wise men during many years. Some of the opponents of the league appeared to be trying to obtain for the United States special benefits from the league. He opposed this. He believed in equal benefits for all members. He said that Germany was beginning to hope, and was even expecting that the United States would not join the league. Already German propaganda in the United States was becoming active in order to defeat the league.—(A. and X.Z. Cable.)

NO ADVANTAGE TO ITALY. ROME, September If,. The Socialist minority in the Italian I'arliament lias issued a statement urging Italy to annul the Treaty of Versailles, r.s Italy has received no advantage from it.—(A. and X.Z. Cable.)