New-York tribune., 1919-06-10

think is right" He then promised
to SMACK the face" of any man whs
impugned his motives outside thu
Senate chamber.
Beckham Delays Proceedings
Another of the stragglers, however
Mr.. Beckham, of Kentucky, proved
more docile. 1t was he who paved the
way for the Democratic filibuster by
moving to reconsider the vote. This
motion had the effect of staying, unit
it has been decided, the printing o.
the treaty, and the Democrats started
to talk against time. SO that the treaty
could not be put into the "Congressiona
Record" for at least another day.
During this debate, however, Mr.
Borah obtained the floor and began the
reading of the treaty into the record
Every possible parliamentary trick was
attempted, but Mr.. Borah could not
be shaken off, and those who favored
the printing Of the treaty had com
Portable majority whenever any ques.
tion was put to vote.
Finally, the Republicans, at the sug-
gestion of Senator Knute Nelson, OF
Minnesota, surrendered, permitting q
rollcall on Senator Beckham's move to
reconsider. Besides Mr.. Beckham two
Democratic Senators, Culberson and
Kendrick, returned to the Administra-
tion fold on this vote. Senators
Ashurst and Myers, of the stragglers
on the first vote, were absent, but Sen
ators Pomerene, Reed. Chamberlain
and Walsh, of Massachusetts, stuck.
Reason for Resolution
"Originally I offered the resolution" ,"
said Senator Johnson, "asking the
Secretary of State to furnish the
Senate a copy of this treaty, and be-
cause I originally presented the resolu-
ton, and I have had little opportunity
before to state my reasons for it, lust
for an instant I beg you to bear
with me.
THE resolution was offered, not upon
any theory of interfering with any
negotiations in Paris, not for the pur-
pose of embarrassing any Of the repre-
sentatives of the United States. not
from any partisan viewpoint at all; but
it was offered upon the theory of gov
ernment that | ever have had and that
ever shall have while l am in public
office. 1t was also because when a
part of the people, a very small part of
the people of the United States. had
TINS treaty in their possession, all the
people of the United States We're en-
titled to have this treaty in their pos
session as we'll.
Wae chCnLoJ r,o.
was astonlshed when l found any op-
position to this very simple resolu-
tion. The infamy in this matter is not
IN asking that all our peopla should
have what Wall Street has, but the in
fanny in it is endeavoring to keep secret
from all the people of the United
States what Wall Street has.
Denies Intent to Hinder
II am sick and tired, for one. of
hearing statements about the German
propaganda, throwing monkey wrenches
into the machinery and the like. 1
have always known that the most re-
cent convert is always the most vocif-
erous, and when it is stated on the
floor of the Senate that there was anv
design on the pa1. of any man, so far
as l am aware, to throw monkey
wrenches into the machinery at Paris
or to interfere in any respect with what
was transpiring in the peace congress.
such statement is utterly without
foundation, known when made by the
man who made it to be utterly without
foundation and made with pretense
and hypocrisy only and IN no fashion
and for no other reason at all.
All People Should Know
"It is simply an obligation, the OBJ
legation in its last analysis to the
people of the United States, that we
give to all of the people of the United
States what few Of them have OBJ
tanned in one manner or another, l
care not what, but which they have
obtained and which is in their pos
session to-day.
"When this Administration gave out
to the people synopsis, the Admins-
tration committed all the heinous sins
that have been described by the gentle
men on the other side of the chamber.
If they gave us an honest synopsis
there can be no harm in seeing the
document itself. If they gave US dis
honest synopsis, then we, as men rep
resenting here the American people,
ought to get the document itself and
learn exactly what it is"
Compares Senate to Germany
Senator Hitchcock said that the "only
virtue" in Senator Johnson's argument
lies in the suggestion that what Wall
Street has, the rest of the country
should have" He declared that treaty
would be published and is being pub
lished by the newspapers. "The charge
that l make" he said, els that the
Senate of the United States is Off
cially proposing to do exactly what
the German government has done.
LAS matter CT fact, we know that
1t is not the treaty. We know that it
was the copy originally agreed upon
by the nations as a demand and pre-
sented to Germany. We know that for
several weeks the German representa-
tives have been resisting that demand,
and that already they have secured
of that demand-modif-
cations which have been agreed to.
And yet the Senate of the United States
proposes by an official publication to
give out to the world what Germany has
given out and what Germany wants to
give out.
"The reason for keeping the tenta-
tive treaty secret at the time Ger
many had acted was for the purpose