The Benson signal., 1919-06-14
SENATE GETS
COPY OF TREATY
ORDERED PRINTED I'M RECORDS
AFTER LIVELY DEBATE
BY CONGRESS.
.BORAH PRESENTS TEXT
WILL INVESTIGATE HOW PEACE
TERMS CAME INTO HANDS OF
WALL STREET.
Western Newspaper Union News Service

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington, June 1O.-Out Of a
whirlwind of developments the Senate
got copy of the peace treaty and, aft
er five-hour fight, ordered it printed
in the public record.
At the same time it got underway
the investigation of how copies have
reached private hands in New York by
summoning to testify half dozen OF
the country's leading financiers.
The copy which went into the rec
ord was brought to this country by a
newspaper man and was presented by
Senator BOrah, Republican, of IdahO
just after the reading of cablegram
from President Wilson, saying he could
not, without breaking faith, send to the
Senate the text of the treaty.
The effect of the days history-mak
ing developments was to clear the air
licity for the treaty text, to widen the
breach between the President and the
Senate majority, and to forecast SEN
sAtional turn for the inquiry into the
manner by which copies Of the dOcu-
ment have become available to unau-
thOrized persons.
Starting it's investigation with an un-
expected vigOr, the foreign relations
committee, within a half hour after it
convened, voted to call before it J. p.
Lamont, all of the Morgan banking
house; Jacob Schiff of Kuhn, Loeb &
Co., and Paul Warburg, formerly con-
nected with the same concern, and
Frank A. Vanderlip, former president
of the National City bank. 1t then ex-
amined Frank L. Polk, acting secretory
of state, about the official copies in the
State Department vaults.
When the Senate met it listened in
silence to President Wilson's cable
gram, which was taken as forecasting
a refusal to comply with the request
for the treaty text embodied in reso-
luton adopted Friday. The reading of
this message concluded, Senator BOrah
Immediately presented his copy of the
treaty, which was ordered printed by
a vote of AZ to "a.
Later, however, there was motion
to reconsider and a parliamentary
tangle developed which endangered
publication of the treaty. To circum-
vent such a possibility the Idaho SEN
atOr in the late afternoon began read
ing the 1OO,OOO-word document and
continued for an hour despite many
protests from the Presidents sup
pOrters.
Then the effort to prevent publica-
ton collapsed, the motion to recon-
slider was voted down, and the fight
which had developed many bitter
charges of broken faith and in some
respects had written new chapter in
Senate history, was over.
The first of the series of surprises
came when the foreign relations COM
mittee, whose meetings in years past
have been surrounded by the closest
secrecy, threw open it's doors to the.
public.
Senator BOrah was called first to
amplify his statements in the Senate
about treaty copies in New York. He
said early in March he became con-
vinced the international bankers Of
New York were particularly interested
in creation of the League of Nations
and that he quietly began an investi-
cation.
II ascertained," he told the commit
tee, "that practically all the interna-
tional bankers were deeply interested
in the league and were assisting in
promoting it's adoption by this cOun-
try. I became convinced, too, that
these gentlemen were interested in
promotion of the league for private
roo SOncO