The Red Cloud chief., 1919-06-25
Senate Has a Joyous Week With
Peace Treaty, Getting Best
of Mr.. Wilson.
OBTAINS COPY OF The. PACT
Knox Starts Fight 10 Divorce II From
League Of Nations Covenant
Huns Given Five Days to Sign
Austria Going Boishevik.
BY EDWARD w. PIckARD.

, The United States senate had a gala
week. 1t put one over" on President
Wilson by obtaining a copy Of the
peace treaty for which II had vainly
asked tho chief executive; 1t investi-
gated a so-called leak OF the treaty,
to the ~vowed satisfaction Of the diff
ferent factions; and 1t started pro-
ceedkngs designed to force the separa-
ition of the league Of nations covenant
from the peace pact. So q lovely time
WINS had by all.
When a correspondent Of u Chicago
paper handed his copy Of the treaty.
which he had just brought from Eu-
rope, to the foreign relations commit
tee. Senator Borah promptly present
ed 1t to the senate with the statement
that copies were In general circula-
ton In European countries and the
request that 1t be printed In the Con-
gressional Record as a senate docu-
ment. Unanimous consent being re-
fused, the printing was ordered by a
vote of AZ to "a. There ensuesl a live
.ly debate In which Senator Hitchcock,
minority leader, accused the majority
Of playing Germany's game by making
the treaty public, since up TO then
the German government was the only
one that had taken such action and
that II did II for the purpose OF get
ting better terms. Norris, Smith,
Brandegee. Ashurst. PoindeXter and
others made indignant rejOinder. 1t
was q pretty scrap while 1t lasted,
but the administration supporters
we're beaten to y ~standstill and the
government printers were put to work
on the Job. BY the next morning
every congressman vas In possession
Of q copy of the treaty as 1t stood
when II was handed to the Germans.
The satisfaction Of the majority
may have been lessened by the nd
mitted fact that they learned little
from the fun copy which the official
summary had not already told them
In view of this, ind Of the undenied
fact that copies Of the treaty have
been plentiful In Europe for som
weeks. It is hard to see In what way
the possession Of the document b!
congress will hamper the work Of thu
peace conference or why Presiden
Wilson was SO insistent on keeping
II from America. The London press
commenting on the affair, lamente'
that parliament also had not insiste'
on having the full text Of the treaty
The foreign relations committed
Investigation Of the alleged leak" o
the treaty text into the hands Of fnaR
ciers Of New York was interesting
but brief. Elihu Root appeared vol
UNFAIRLY and said he showed to Sena
tor Lodge the copy the latter had ex
amined. II was given him by Henr,
p. Dawson Of Morgan & Co. MI
Dawson testified that 1t was given I
him by Thomas w. Lamont. also
Morgan partner now representing tn
treasury In Paris, and that he oil
tainod II because he, as chairman @
the International Red Cross leagu,
was especially interested In the finaE
ciai terms. and also because, as a
International banker, he was deepl
~copcerAed In probable plans to mobi
ize TIE financial and industrial int
ISIS of this country to put Europe O
hts feet again. J. p. Morgan an
Frank Vanderbilt said they never ha
Neen copies Of the document.
Mr.. Root was questioned at lengt
concerning the athIcs of the affai
from his point Of view. He resente
the idea that he was In possession
'stolen property" and said he though
Mr.. Dawson was entitled to have Il