The sun., 1919-09-16
TREATY BATTLE
OPENS, SENATE
GETS NEW PACT
Austrian Agreement Re-
ceived and Ordered Print
ed i'm the "RecOrd."
HITCHCOCK PROTESTS
Many Weeks of Bitter De-
bate Certain, With League
Foes Confident.
CLAIM EIGHT DEMOCRATS
Solid Republican Majority
Against Acceptance, Lead
ers Claim.
JLAlM EIGHT DEMOCRATS
gpscial pespetcA to TIM Sun.

Special Despatch to THE Sun.
WASHINGTON, Sept 15.-The opening
day Of the formal consideration OF the
treaty of peace in "open executive
session" Of the Senate was marked by
these developmentsi
Senator Lodge (Mass.) presented
copy OF the official text Of the treaty
with Austria, which has not yet been
officially submitted to the Senate,
though IT was signed some time ago,
with the explanation that it was
brought to him by a newspaper man
just returned from Europe. 1t is, the
Senator explained, a precise duplicate
Of the official document. 1t was or
dered printed in the Record, and as
document, but not until after a vigor-
Gus protest had been made by Senator
Hitchcock (Neb.), the Democratic
leader.
Senator McCumber IN. d., the one
Republican Of the Foreign Relations
Committee who did not sign the ma
jority report on the treaty. submitted
his individual minority views.
Senator overman IN. c.. one of the
Democrats who has long been known to
be far from pleased with the treaty and
league. made speech declaring against
amendments and reservations He made
plain that he objected to them not be-
cause they might not be desirable but
because he feared they would be fol-
lowed by like notifications by other
countries and thus delay peacemaking.
Senator Jones (N. NJ spoke in favor
of the treaty and the league. The Sem
ate did not begin the reading of the
treaty, and 1t is now doubtful II that
proceeding will be inaugurated this
week.
Senator Sherman (IlL) will speak at
! length tomorrow on aspects of the
treaty situation. Report had It that he
would devote himself especially to his
views about the peacemaking expense
bill recently submitted to Congress by
the President.
Pershing to Hold Stage.
Wednesday and Thursday there Will
be no attempt to consider the treaty be-
cause these days will be devoted by
Washington to the reception and parade
in honor of Gen. Pershing and the First
Division. Friday has been claimed for
a speech by Senator Reed (Mo.). which
is forecast as one of the most bitter at
tacks yet made on treaty and league,
with special attention to President Will
son and his trip in the West.
Under these circumstances II was de-
clared by Senator Lodge to-day that
! Senator Johnson (Cal) would be able
! to complete his trip through to the Pa
clfic coast This trip is being followed with
| the most intense interest by official
I Washington because of the reports.
press and private, which come here every
day indicating that the touring Senators
are meeting bigger and far more en-
thusiastic audiences than those OF the
President Mr.. Borah (Idaho) will not
20 through TO the coast, having in
| tended to make a shorter tour than that
of Mr.. Johnson.
Senatorial opponents OF the treaty de-
clared to-day that there was substantial
unanimity among the forty-nine Repub-
! lican Senators who constitute the Senate
majority There are just two words
which stand in the way of solid forty
nine Republicans" 1t was said by a
member of the Foreign Relations Com
mittee. practically the differences are
!
possibility of some adjustments of
phraseology. In any case the adoption
| OF the reservations is assared, for there
will be as many as eight Democratic
votes with us"
Hitchcock Protests.
That Democrats are developing a bad
disposition of mind over the situation OF
the treaty fight was evidenced by the
sharp attack which Mr.. Hitchcock made
when Senator Lodge introduced his copy
of the Austrian treaty. There was some
suggestion of having this document read.
which the Nebraskan promptly assumed
meant q move for delay.
"I am amazed that the Senator IMr.
/ I,odRel should suggest having the Sem
ates time taken with this reading" Mr..
Hitchcock said. "It Ia not officially be-
fore the Senate what we have here is n
! purported copy of the document. and It
should not occupy the Senate's time. /
relied on the statement of the Senator
from Massachusetts that at o'clock to-
day he would take up the German
treaty. Assuming that course would be
followed 1 entered the chamber a min
ute or two after that hour and ind that
already the Senator had secured unani-
nous consent to the reading OF another
document, which is not even officially
before the Senate"
Mr. Lodge replied by explaining that
the document ne had presented was the
| official text OF the Austrian treaty, q
document Of the greatest interest and
Importance.
II had originally intended merely to
ask that It be printed in the Record
without reading" he said. But in view
ofs the Senator's attitude am rather
disposed to stand by the permission to
have It read in full However. / will
be quite satisfied that II be printed in
the Record and as document"
Mr.. williams (Miss.) suggested some
suspicious that the proffered text was
apocryphal and OF dubious authenticity
and Mr.. Lodge sharply replied that II
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