New Britain herald., 1919-07-24
LODGE DEMANDS FRENCH TREATY:
 BRANDEGEE SCORES PRESIDENT
Connecticut Senator Assails Wilson For Calling Individ- ual Senators Into Confer ence on Peace Pact.

Washington, Juy 24.--A resolution
 requesting President Wilson to submit
 10 the senate the treaty by which the Onlted States would promise to aid trance in the event of an unprovoked
 attack oy Germany was offered in the
 senate today by Chairman Lodge of
 the foreign relations committee. Unan-
 lmous consent for it's immediate con-
 sideration was refused by Senator
 Robinson, democrat Arkansas.
 senator Lodge offered the measure
 after debate during which repuhli-
 can spokesmen declared that the terms of the treaty required that if he submitted to the senate for ratification at the same time as the treaty with Germany.
 Brandegee Makes Inquiry.
 Inquiring why the treaty with France proposing that the United States aid that country in event of an unprovoked attack by Germany
 has not been submitted to tho seante Senator Brandegee, republican, Con- necticut, read into the record a mag az1ne article quoting the text of the document as requiring that it be sub
 mitted for ratification "at the same
 time as the treaty win Germany. While he Connecticut senator was reading the article a White House messenger entered with a messaee from the president.
 Maybe that's the authenticated text of the treaty." said Senator Brandegee
 Vice President Marshall examined
 the notation on the official envelope and then replied:
 "I will say to the senator that tt is.'
 When MT. Marshall had opened the envelope, however, he found that in stead 1t was a proposed extension of the Br1t1Sh-American waterways con- Ventlon, first adopted in 1923, and he agaln interrupted Senator Brandegee to change his announcement. Assails Wilson's Policies. Charging the president with not submitting information requested by
 the senate and the foreign relations committee, Senator Brandegee, re- tered to the senates seeming inability to get the draft of the American plan for the League of Nations Senator Brandegee also assailed the president for calling individual sena-
 tors to the White House for discussion of the treaty.
 Having tried this case before the jury the senate, Senator Brandegee declared, now he sends for the indi- vidual jurymen and argues with each one of them. If there is any infor-
 nation the senate ought to have, he ought to come before the senate at least advise the committee. I think the committee Is entitled to this in formation; the people too are entitled to it, entitled to something besides the
 mere ipsi dixit of the president" Senator Lodge read from Figaro of Paris the text of the treaty, containing
 provision that the two treaties be submitted to the American senate si- simultaneously. "I cannot but regret
 that the treaty was not laid before HIS at the same time as the treaty of Ver sailles as this signed agreement re- quired,' he said
 Reads Text of Paper. senator Brandegee read a similar text rom the London Times of July 4 All the world knows about this treaty except we who are to be bound by II, said the Connecticut senator. Replying to Senator Rrandeeee- senator Hitchcock said the sudden 1 tContinued on Eleventh Page)