The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-08
PREMIERS NOT
WILLING TO LET
PACT BE KNOWN
Senate's Demand Cabled to
Paris, but Belief Is Will
son Can't Comply.
LEAK INQUIRY WIDENED
SubpGnas to Be Issued for n.
Y. Financiers Who May
Have Seen Copy.


WASHINGTON. June Z - President
Wilson, according to officials of the
Administration, will be forced to re-
fuse the Senate's request for the text
Of the peace treaty. The resolution
Of the Senate calling for the text Of
the treaty was cabled to President
Wilson to-day.
The point is emphasized by the State
Department that the present relation
ship of the United States with the
Allied Governments makes 1t mani
festly impossible for the President to
pass upon American issues which have
become international in character. and
that therefore Premier Clemenceau ani
Premier Lloyd George must give their
permission before the request of the
American people for information can
be entertained. There is nothing to
indicate that the President will even
broach the matter to the allied Pre-
miers.
Several courses are open to the
President in case he declines, officials
explained. He may reply simply that
1t is mot compatible with the public
interest" to make the treaty text pub
tic at this time. Or he may reply that
ss soon as the treaty Is completed he
will communicate 1t to the Senate. Or
he may simply ignore the Senate's re-
quest until the ban of secrecy is re-
moved by the foreign Premiers' de-
cree.
Private Copies Limited.
Meanwhile the so-called treaty scan
dal is gripping official and diplomatic
Washington more and more. Since
Senator Borah Odaho) announced that
big business" in Wall Street had the
! treaty 1t seems to have become fash
ionable for every big fnancier banker
or broker to boast that he could have
had the text if he desired, or that he
knows where copies of the treaty now
are.
But in these reports reaching Wash
| ington II is found necessary to sep
arate Wall Street gossip from state
| ments based on authoritative informa-
| ton, and indications are that the ac-
tual number OF copies Of the treaty
which have reached the New York
financial district is limited and that
| great care is being taken to prevent
the text from becoming available to
the American people.
| Possible complications face the Senate
| committee II an attempt is made to in
vestigate the charge Of Senator Hitch
| cock (Neb.) that the treaty may havS
been stolen. 1t is known that the frs,
copies OF the treaty to reach New York
were brought over by Henry =. Dawson
and were in sealed package addressed
to the Minister for Foreign Affairs oi
Japan. The package was turned over by
Mr.. Dawson to the Japanese Embassy
here, and special precautions at once
were taken by the japanese to guard
the package on its way to the Pacific
coast.
| treaty Arrived May Z2.
A thorough and complete investigation
OK possible theft would imply ascertain.
ing whether the package sent by the
Embassy had been tampered with on it.
way to the Pacific. and this would neces
state taking the matter UP formally
with the Japanese Government as the
matter OF diplomatic pouches would be
involved. Other embassies did not finC
1t necessary to send copies OF the treaty
via the United States.
As Mr.. Dawson, in his capacity of of
fetal courier. mad the first copies printed
in Paris, his arrival here May 22 serve.
as an indication OF when other treat'e.
nigh have reached New York. In Other
words any steamship reaching ther,
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