The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-10

delivered to the Japanese consul gen. eral in New York
 The committee adjourned it's meet | ing only a few minutes before the Senate assembled at noon and Presi- dent Wilson's cablegram brought in by Senator Hitchcock at once brought up the subject in the Senate chamber No sooner had the message been read into the record than Senator Borah was on his feet
 T now have in my possession copy of the treaty" said he. q am permit ted to make this public by those who gave it to me. This particular copy was brought to this country by a stan cor respondent of the Chicago Tribune, Mir. Frazier Hunt. I ask unanimous con sent that it be printed in the record"
 The request electrified the cham
 Der, senators both sides sensing
 climax to the fight over pubIfca-
 ton of the treaty. The Presidents
 supporters promptly refused unan-
 Imous consent and Mir. Borah then
 made his motion to print it. That
 quickly was put to a vote and the
 document was ordered printed, 47
 to 24.
 As soon as the roll call wa sover, many senators were on their feet asking an opportunity to explain their vote and the speech making proceeded to resolve itself into debate on the propriety to making the treaty public and on the merits of the league of nations.
 PROCEDURE PRONOUNCED
 Senator Hitchcock denounced the pro- cedure as beneath the dignity of the Sen ate and as step cooperating with the German government" Senator Swanson of Virginia, another democratic member of the foreign relations committee, de- clared it showed "a most remarkable dis respect of the President"
 Senator Johnson replied that the only infamy in the matter was in ''endeavoring to keep secret from all the people what Wall street has,, and Senator Poindexter, republican of Washington, asserted that the senators objecting most strenuously were those who were slowest to support active war measures against Germany.
 So heated did the exchanges become that Vice President Marshal called halt while he read the rules governing Ian guage to be used in debate, and said he was going to exercise his authority If necessary to prevent a row
 After more than an hour, Senator Beck ham, democrat of Kentucky, said he had voted for the Borah motion under a mis- apprehension and moved to reconsider the action by which the treaty was or dered printed. A reconsideration vote was prevented, however, by the arrival of clock, when the wire repeal bill came automatically before the Senate. With the reconsideration motion pending, It would have been impossibel to print the treaty in todays record, and the Presi- dent S supporters utilized the opportunity to endeavor to have a vote postponed until tomorrow.
 Senator Hitchcock, who had the floor, yielded tito Senator Williams, who spoke for an hour and a half in what opposi- tion leaders charged was filibuster. lie declared Senators Lodge and Borah were ''nagging'' the President by means of "a partisan majority, aided by few men on this side who are seeking reelection.
 Senator Borah, continued MT. Williams, had become "a Prussian junl1er," believ- ing in sovereignty unlimited.
 "The Senator from Idaho,' he shouted, wants no limitation put on our national government. He wants the United States government free to do what it pleases. That's all the German Emperor wanted. That's all Nero wanted
 Shortly before o'clock Senator Will Hams concluded and Senator Borah, ob- taining the floor, remarked that the au- thenticity of his, treaty copy had been questioned and that he would prove it by reading the document. Thereupon he be- gan leisurely with the preamble of the treaty, the reading of which would proD- ably have taken b hours.
 Immediately parliamentary objections, a storm of denunciation of the Idaho Sem ators course, came from the democratic side. The Presidents supporters objected | that MT. Borah was reading a confiden- | tial document against the Senates rules, I that he was breaking both precedents and rules by presenting a treaty at an open session, and that he was exceeding his right by speaking too often on the same subject during the same debate. These efforts to cut off the reading failed, and for an hour Mir, Borah, standing at his 1 desk near the center of the chamber, read through the cumbersome preamble with | it's long list of foreign signatories and into