The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-09
Morgan, Vanderlip, Others Must
Appear Before Committee.
Correspondence Relating to the
Peace Treaty Is Requested.
BORAH MAKES MORE CHARGES
Declares Bankers Have Had
Treaty for Ten Days.
Says They Are Supporting the
League for Private Reasons.

Washington. June 9.-The senate
foreign relations committee today sub
poenaed ]. p. Morgan. Frank A VAN
derlip and other big New York bank
ers as witnesses in the investigation
of the treaty Leak
others Subpocnncd
The entire list of those subpoenaed
follows;
! Jacob Schiff. Henry p. Dawson.
! Thomas Lamont Paul Warburg. Nor
gan and Vanderlip. The committee
! instructed Lamont to bring with him
all correspondence between Morgan
| & Co. and its Paris and London agents
with relation to the peace treaty and
the league of nations particularly the
letters written to Dawson while he
was abroad as head of the American
Red Cross.
The committees action closely fol-
lowed presentation by Senator Hitch
cock of cablegram to him from
President Wilson in which the presi-
dent seconded Hitchcock's demand for
investigation of the charges of Sena-
tors Borah and Lodge that the text OF
the treaty is in the hands of New
York persons
Hitchcock presented the cablegram
as soon as the committee met, in pub
lie session to lay plans for the leak
investigation as authorized by the SEN
ate last week. under the Hitchcock
resolution.
Borah Gives Evidence.
Following presentation of the presi-
dents cablegram Senator Borah was
1 asked to state to the committee what
information he could give that would
be helpful in learning who has the
treaty and how they got it.
"On March g. said Borah, II be-
gan an investigation TO find out what
league of nations. the great interna-
tional bankers of New York had I
lenrned that all were deeply inter-
ested in the league and were working
: for its adoption in this country They
were assisting. I found. in various
/ ways. by contributions, public
speeches. interviews and other
methods.
"Tor Private Reasons"
Il became convinced they were
supporting the league, not thru any
: ultra patriotic motives, but for private
, reasons.
! II do not intend to give the source
of my Information, which came to me
in various ways. but l will give the
|. committee the results of It. l now ask
: that the committee subpoena the fol-
= lowing men"
) Borah then submitted the list
. above. except Nanderlip, and on mo-
q ton of Senator Hitchcock they were
ordered to appear with the documents
= mentioned.
Would you mind adding the name
of Frank A. Vanderbilt" asked Sena-
4 tor Williams. Mississippi.
Z The committee acquiesced in this
suggestion.
Continuing his statement. Dorah
: said:
Had Treaty for Ten Days.
- "I think by questioning these gem
a tlemen the committee will learn that
e their interest IN the league has been
t constant and active. and second that
n they have had copies of the treaty for
n the past ten days.
/ There will be no difficulty about
II establishing the facts concerning their
" possession OF the treaty. The diff
Guilty will be in showing their interest
in it. But l want to lay a foundation
d for developing that"
,e Borah then announced that he has
a copy of the treaty text and that he
plans to read it into the record at to-
days session of the senate.
-, Former President Taft, who is being
20 mentioned here as one of the promi-
:. nent witnesses in the senate investiga-
~ y tion, stated to close advisers today that
y, ~ he is anxious to appear before the
40 committee. Taft today refused TO COM
y ment on the charges he had secret in
'e formation as to the contents of the
:. treaty.
le Lamont an Adviser?
- lieved Lamont had been officially at
tached to the American peace delega.
& tion a financial adviser.
a., "In that case he has n right to .
M knowledge of the treaty" said Hitch.
cock
Hitchcock said he believed the COM
1n mittee should respect the desire Of
President Wilson to ilold the treaty
as confidential for the present and
al agree not to make 1t public in case Q
&c copy is obtained in the committee in
es vestigation.
OF Borah objected to the proposal
Moses said he objected to making
ms any copy public excepting one from
h. President Wilson himself.
o. The committee then heard Lodge.
to Lodge Withholds Names.
Lodge declined TO give the commit
tee the names of persons in New York
a a who showed him copies. He said that
er the persons with whom he had been Ia
touch were not financiers and had
- only a general interest in the treaty.
''I have heard nothing of copies
being in the hands of financial inter.
ests," said Lodge, but was told there
IL were four copies in New York.
Il knew directly of only two. I dc
U'nntinned IhRe Two,