The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-29
Republicans Ready to Halt
Consideration of Peace
Compact.
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Senator Brandegee Says the
President Violated Ar
ticle ". by Delay.
"UNFAIR" TO THE NATION
Nothing Concealed, Replies
Wilson, as Unofficial Copy
Was Published. =
.lUNFAIR" TO THE NATION
Special Despatch TO THE Sun

WARRINGTON, July 2S.-Threats Of
Republican leaders in the Senate to
drop consideration Of the peace treaty
with Germany and force a Senate re-
cess IL President Wilson continued to
withhold the special defensive treaty
with France bore fruit to-day, when 1t
became known that the treaty, which
binds the United States to go to the
aid of France in the event of an un-
provoked attack by Germany, prob
ably would be submitted to the Senate
within few days.
To group Of Democratic Senators
with whom he talked at the Capitol
to-day President Wilson indicated that
the treaty would be laid before the
Senate possibly tomorrow, and cer-
tainly before the President begins his
countrywide speaking tour.
The storm Of criticism which has
greeted the Presidents action in with
holding the treaty. which Republican
Senators have declared is in plain vio-
iation of the treaty itself, reached
climax to-day when Senator Brande-
gee (Connecticut) made a speech In
which he declared that the President
had violated the treaty and had
treated the Senate unfairly. Article
". Of the treaty as made public stipu-
lates that It must be submitted to the
Senate at the same time as the treaty
of Versailles, which the Senate has
had under consideration since July 10,
1t became known, only a short time
before the announcement was made
that the President would now submit
the treaty, that the Republicans had
agreed upon a tentative plan to sus-
pend consideration of the general
peace treaty and force a recess.
Senator Brandegeo expressed this
plan when he said during his speech in
the Senate to-day:
In my opinion the President has
violated this treaty, and If 1 could
have my way should not proceed a
step further until he lays this docu-
ment before the Senate"
At the end OF last week Mr.. Brande-
gee presented TO the Senate an article
from HdrDeys Weekly containing the
purported text of this supplementary
defensive treaty, calling special atten-
ton to Article ". and pointing out
that in Withholding the document from
the Senate the agreement contained in
this article was being specifically vio-
lated.
Mr. Brandegee at that time was un-
der the impression that the special
document had not been made public
In this country. Mr.. Hitchcock (Neb.),
the Administrations spokesman in
foreign affairs, later declared that the
treaty had been printed in the evening
and morning newspapers of July 2 and
8, but Mr.. Brandegee insisted on his
position that this was no compliance
with the agreement that had been
made in Paris for submission Of the
two treaties together.
walsh Defends Treaty.
The matter came up to-day after the
speech of Senator Walsh (Mont.) in
favor OF the League of Nations cove
nant and the ratification of the peace
treaty. Mr.. Walsh, who is a member
spoke at length in favor of the treaty's
ratification. Afterward Mr. Williams
(Miss) entered upon an impromptu
speech OF general comment. He began
with his compliments to Mr.. Walsh on
the moderate, able and effective tone"
of his speech and wished that more
Senators might indulge the same mod
Grafton and reasonableness in their
discussions.
Then Mr.. Williams took up the
charge which Mr.. Brandegee had
made last week, saying that he had
supposed, when it was made, that II
was entirely impromptu rather than
the result OF deliberate plan. Later,
however, he was surprised to find in
the news print the statement that the
evening before Mr.. Braudegee pre-
sented his statement in the Senate a
conference Of Senators Lodge (Mass),
Knox (Pa). Brandegee and Borah
(Idaho) had been held and had care
fully planned the "impromptu" attack
which Mr.. Brandegee had made tho
next day.
Mr. Williams protested that rnero ~SsS
absolutely no ground for the charge that
anything had been concealed from the
Senate. He pointed out that the whole
story OF the special treaty looking to the
protection Of France had been printed
widely in this country. and had been
widely carried in the news dispatches
Of the Associated Press on July 3 and T.
He himself having been asked for his
opinion Of the special treaty had re-
pllsa
od knows what the Senate will do,
witt. t. but know what It ought to do
1t ought TO rAtify the treaty"
The treaty, presented to the Senate by
Mr.. Brandegee as II II were an original
discovery, Mr.. Williams said had in fact
been delivered to the clients Of the As
ISOLATED Press on the dates mentioned.
The Associated Press being ''the most