The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-06
ON PEACE
 CONFERENCE AGAIN OCCUPIES SENATE
Resolution Providing for Senate Committee to Re- port on Peace Meeting
 Before Senators Today

Washington, December 5, Resolutions and debate on sub jects connected with the peace conference again occupied part of the time of the Senate today and tomorrow's session prob ably will be taken up largely in discussion of, the resolution of Senator Cummins of Iowa, pro- viding for appointment of a special, Senate committee to go to Paris to report oil the peace meeting.
 The Senate foreign relations commit
 tee voted unanimously today to report the Cummins resolution adversely, but its author plans to make a vigorous speech in support of 1t. In anticipation of this
 address, Senator Pittman of Nevada,
 democrat, member of the committed
 submitted a separate report to the Sem
 ate late today explaining his obtec-
 tions to the resolution, M
 JOHNSON STARTS DEBATE
 Senator Johnson of California, republi- can, started debate today by informing the Senate that there were reports that Edgar Sissons of the committee on pub lie information was to be in charge of ar-
 engagements for ''rationing" cable space for the transmission of press reports on the peace conference. Senator Johnson said he hoped that George Creel, chair
 man of the committee, would not censor the reports.s Senators Watson and New, of Indiana, and Sherman of Illinois, joined III the criticism of MT. Creel.
 In the course of his address. Senator sherman vigorously attacked Represent ative Mann of Illinois, the republican
 leader in the House, as the result of MT. Mann's recent statement saying that the country was not i'll sympathy with, crit icism of the President while the chief executive is at the peace conference Snator Sherman did not name MT. Mann, but he said the author of the state- ment spoke for no one but Hyde Park
 and the Southside of Chicago.
 During the session today Senator Borah of Idaho republican,, introduced resolution proposing reaffirmation by the Senate of policies enunciated py Washington and Jefferson warning | against entangling alliances with Euro peans nations The Senate adopted | resolution by Senator Jones of Washing ton, republican, calling upon the state department for information designed as the basis for legislation to insure prefer ential treatment for American shipping and commerce.
 Senator Pittman. in submitting his re- port explaining the action on the cum l mins resolution, said the proposed com mittee could perform no constitutional function imposed upon the Senate with relation to treaties and that It would | have no legal status in connection With the negotiations or making of the treaty. WOULD BE UNRELIABLE
 "Its method of obtaining information, l said the report, would, in the nature 1 of the circumstances. be vagrant, un- | certain and unreliable. The report or such a committee to the Senate would pc l based chiefly upon hearsay and would ! constitute only the individual conclu-
 sions of the members Of the committee and would have little force ana erect
 with the Senate"
 Senator Pittman also said that the pres. l ence of the committee at Paris mlght 1 embarrass and interfere with Presiuen' I Wilson in the performance of his consl- ]. tutional duties in the making or 'he l treaty.