Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-10-08
TREATY WAITS
 WHILE: E: SENATE:
 LEADERS ARCUE:
Pass Bill To Make Crowder Lieutenant-G General in
 Interim.
REACH SECTION ON
 SHANTUNG; ADJOURN
On This Point Next Fight Will Be Made-PrOpaganda of League To Enforce Peace is
 Discussed.

Washington, Oct 7.--The treaty was sidetracked for three hours to- day while the senate debated and passed a bill to bestow upon Judge Advocate General Crowder, on his retirement from the army, the per manent rank of lieutenant general.
 Then the pact was called up for thirty minutes. A reading clerk struggled laboriously with the printed text until he reached the section re- lating to Shantung, on which the next fight will be made. At that point the senate quit work for the night.
 There was no announcement re- garding any decision to take up other matters in place of the treaty, and at 2 o'clock Senator Lodge, chairman of the foreign relations committee, walked into the chamber, while Sen- ator Chamberlain, democrat, of Ore gon, was speaking on the Crowder bill, looked around, and learning that an agreement had been made to dis pose of the measure, returned to the cloak room to wrestle with republi- can groups over reservations.
 Senator Lodge told members later that the agreement on the promotion measure was made by Senator Knox, republican, of Pennsylvania, who in- troduced it, and Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, in charge of the demo- cratic forces. Senator Chamberlain in opposing it spoke for two hours and there was much other debate be- fore a vote was reached
 During the morning hour" the two hour period beginning at noon, in which everything on and off the cal endar is discussed, there was sharp | wrangle over the league, due to | charges that the League to Enforce Peace and other organizations were putting out propaganda in an effort to force the senate to ratify the treaty unamended.
 Senator Brandegee, republican, Ot | Connecticut, who recently announced | that he would vote for all amend ments and reservations and then vote | against ratification, started the clash by presenting telegrams and letters l sent by the League to Enforce Peace to one of his constituents at New ! Haven. Senator Poindexter, repub- lican, of Washington, added word in | denunciation of the league propagan- da practice and attacked Senator Hitchcock, who previously had charg- ed that many opponents of the league were bolshevists and pro-Germans. Hitchcock Answers.
 Reference by Senator Poindexter to Senator Hitchcock's war record drew fire from the latter, while the charge by the Nebraska senator that
 "all the lawless elements" in this country and abroad had organized to defeat the league of nations, and that "all the high class, Intellectual and vital elements" stood, firmly fol it, brought forth debate".' '
 No definite program; had been agreed upon tonight for vote or the Shantung amendments, proposed by the foreign relations committee and which would restore the province to China instead of Japan, to which
 it was allotted by the peace con. ference. Members of the committee | Investigating the steel strike may try to obtain unanimous consent fo, a vote Friday, as they are anxious to proceed that night to the Pitts
 burgh district to continue the in. l quiry.