Arizona republican., 1919-06-06
CHARGES MADE BY
 LODGE DEBATED
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Says President Involved

SSOntinOeo rom Page One) Says Pfvsident Involved
 In calling up his resolution today | Senator Hitchcock declared Senators | Lodge and Borah had 'insinuated broadly" that President Wilson had al- | lowed copies of the treaty to go to New York financial interests. The two sen- atcrB, he continued, would have, them selves, asked an investigation, had they | really made the charge in the public 1 interest Senator Lodge denied that he had ! made any mention of financial irAer- ests and said the copy he saw was l shown him in confidence by a friend, who is connected with no interests"
 He said he has no information as to how the copy reached this country and could not divulge the name of his in- formant without committing a gross impropffety. Senator Borah denied that he had ever suggested President | Wilson was responsible for the copies reaching New York.
 We know from publications-from the Associated Press, our only source of information from the rendezvous of open covenants openly arrived at that the treaties are being circulated in Germany, Norway, Sweden and oth- l CT countries throughout the world. the senator added.
 Believes Taft Has Text
 He said he was led to believe from MT. Tafts speeches throughout the country, that the former president must know what is in the treaty.
 There is a conduit" asserted the Idaho senator, between the League to Enforce Peace and those who possess the information with regard to what is in the treaty.
 When the gentleman starts his in-
 vestigatfcn, suggest that he call some of the most prominent members of the
 League to Enforce Peace. In my opin-
 ion he will not only find some of the
 documents, but he will find who Is
 paying for the special car that is go-
 ing over the country. advising the peo-
 pie how to save themselves"
 MT. Borah went on to a discussion
 of the league of nations, which he as-
 serted was a "treacherous scheme to
 betray the American people" He said the democrats had made the league a
 party issue and urged that the repub- licans accept it as such.
 If the democrats endorse the league , in 1920." he continued, "and the re- ! publicans keep silent, there will be a , party that will spring up to stand for American ideals I am not speaking
 my individual views alone. I have been , through the country and know how ! strong the sentiment is."
 , Tn that connection" interrupted Senator Reed of Missouri, democratic , opponent of the league" let me call at . tentton to the fact that the chairman
 of the democratic national committee
 accompanied by the secretary to the
 president, now are touring the country
 under the claim of calling together the
 state committees with reference to party welfare, but that in each in- s stance the busneiss is the league of na- tons, and an effort Is made in eacr case to ratify the league of nations" Senator Borah put into the record z s statement by Lord Robert Cecil callinf upon this country to make any neces o sary sacrifice" to secure the league 1T This, he said, was fair somple of tn, q foreign propaganda flooding tn, e Britain.
 # We heard great deal in this coun Is try" continued the Idaho senator. "be le fore we went to Versailles about tn
 freedom of the seas," but We hav ,- heard nothing about it since
 n Great Britain notified the various a gentlemen from other countries tha B the freedom of the seas was not a sub |, ject to come propertly before the peac 10 conference. Why? With her superio If navy and freedom of the seas in he
 control. she is in complete domination a of the league of nations.
 tf h India, Why Not States? nj And she has gained a new advan Q tage- Underneath the league of nation .r IS tho same old balance of power, no, 'r in the form of an alliance betwee {. Great Britain, France and the Unite 10 States. For what reasons do Indi ' and New Zealand have votes in tb n assembly of the league and not tn . state of Minnesota? Are not the for :. e1gn relations of India and New Zea 2. ~ land as completely controlled by Grea A' Britain as are the foreign affairs C
 Minnesota controlled by the Unite
 Statcs?"
 MT. Borah told inquirers that th
 copy of the treaty had not arrived. as Ine statement of Senator Lodg 1t which drew denial from MT. Polk. wa r. maoe Tn reply to a series of question S. oy senator Hitchcock Asked abo, 1t, the source of the New York con;as ' M t. Lodge replied:
 to T only know they are here in in so country. and on the authority of n s. staIe department that they are in tf m hands of financial interests
 he Lodge Tells of Talk
 Later in the day Senator Hitehcoc r. toId the senate he had talked with M te, Poik over the telephone and that tf
 latter aptly had been done an injustic on oy the Massachusetts senator's stat, in ment To this Senator Lodge replie of that two days ago he had been told I en newspaper man that the state denar
 ment had made a statement on the s,,, !sct. He immeditely called MT. Po
 ny telephone, he said, and continuef
 ne said that all he had sa
 vas that he thought what had be-
 referred to might be portions of f,
 treaty relating to financial matte
 which had fallen into the hands
 New York bankers or business me
 whoever they were"
 The statement Issued by MT. Polk f,
 night follows: o'A e' My attention has been called to
 statement that appeared in the new,
 papers the morning of Wednesda
 June (, and quoted bv Coc,tn,