Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-06-13
us. SENATE VOTES
TO PRINT TREATY
Borah Leads Fight to Make Text
of Pact Public.
IS READ INTO THE RECORD
President in Message to Hitchcock
Urges Congress to Push Investiga-
ton to Learn How Copies
Reached N. Y. Financiers.

Washington, June 10.-Senator Bo-
rah and his supporters, after a five
hour fight, forced a copy of the peace
treaty into the public record of the
senate after many attempts to prevent
its publication had been beaten On
record votes.
After Senator Borah had proceeded
half way through the league covenant,
unanimous consent was obtained to
vote on a motion Of Senator Beckham
DENY of Kentucky, to reconsider Sen
ator Borah's motion for printing the
treaty in the record, and the recOnsid-
Grafton proposal was beaten. Al to 26.
Try to Defeat the Plan.
After voting to print the document,
opponents of the plan by a motion to
reconsider the senate's action, sought
to defeat the publication by keeping the
reconsideration motion before the sen
ate until adjournment. Senator Bo-
rah met the challenge by beginning to
read the 1O0,OOO-word volume. After
he had read for an hour, opponents of
the publication c~apitulated by permit
ting a vote on their motion to econ
slider. which was beaten. The treaty
then went on for printing.
AS soon as the senate had thus af-
frmed its order to print the document
in the record, Senator Borah dfscon-
tinued the reading and sent the treaty
to the desk. That apparently conclud-
ed the senate's consideration of the
treaty for the day, other business be-
ing taken up for the first time.
Bankers for League, Says Borah.
Senator Borah earlier in the day
told the foreign relations committee
he had found the international bank
erS to be practically all interested in
the league of nations and assisting in
promoting its adoption. In answer to
q question, he said assistance in It's
favor was being given in contributions,
in speeches and press statements by
the bankers and by other methods,
which he did not enumerate. He said
the evidence he had been able to get
from unnamed sources Indicated that
provisions of the treaty of interest to
the bankers were being discussed by
them frequently and that he believed
that they had e e the treaty or had
copies of it and that their curiosity
concerning its contents was not based
patriotic but on selfish reasons He
then asked that the bankers be sub
poenaed.
ooord;rr 10 HE ;nforpoofion Son.
ator Borah said he had reason to be-
lieve the bankers had knowledgeaof the
treaty contents for at least ten days
past.
Senator Ashurst (Dem.) Of Arizona
said he voted for the Borah motion be-
cause Wall street already had the
treaty and was specializing ito the
tune of millions" on the information.
what Wall street is entitled to-"
he continued, "the American people are
entitled to. That is my a for vot-
ing for this motion. And I would slap
the face of any man outside the senate
Il he challenged mr. for that vote"
Wilson Wants Probe Pushed.
Washington, June 10.-President Will
son in a cablegram received by Senator
(Dem.) of Nebraska said he
hoped the investigation by the senate
foreign relations. committee of how
copies of the peace treaty reached
private interests in New York would
be most thoroughly prosecuted.
The president said he had felt it
'was highly undesirable officially to
communicate the text Of a document
which is still in negotiation and SUBJ
ject to change" and that anyone who
had possession of the official English
text 'shas what he is clearly not n
titled to have or to communicate"