The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-10
CONGRESS GASPS AS BORAH PRODUCES PEACE TREATY TEXT AND SUCCEEDS
 IN HAVING " PRINTED LN THE RECORD
Half a Dozen of COuntry's Leading Financiers Sum- moned to Testify Before Committee Investigating How Copies Reached Private Hands
RY AssocIated Press

w dSlllnS GOu, ullC 0No VI a whirlwind of developments the Senate today got a copy of the peace treaty and after q five-hour fight ordered it printed in the public Record.
 At the same time 1t got under way the investigation of how copies have reached private hands in New York by summoning to testify a half dozen of the country's leading finnnciers.
 The copy which went into the
 record was brought to this coun-
 try by newspaper man and was
 presented by Senator Borah, re-
 publican, of Idaho, just after the
 reading of cablegram from
 President Wilson saying he could
 not, without breaking faith. send
 to the Senate the text of the
 treaty.
 The effect of the days history making developments was to clear the air on the much debated subject of publicity for the treaty text, to widen the breach between the President ard the Senate majority and to forecast a sensational turn for the inquiry into the maner by which copies of the document have become available to unauthorized persons.
 Starting its investigation with an unexpected vigor, the foreign relations committee, within half hour after it " a1 fn col hnf Morgan, H. P Davison and Thomas F, Lamont, all of the Morgan banking house; Jacob Schiff of Kuhn. Loeb & Co.,, and Paul Warburg, formerly con- nected with the same concern, and Frank A. Vanderlip, former president of the National City bank. It then examined Frank L. Polk, acting sec- retary of state, about the official copies in the State Department vaults.
 Statements also were made to the committee by Senator Lodge, repub- lican, of Massachusetts, and Senator Borah, similar to. their declarations Tn the Senate that they knew of copies in New York hut could not divuige the names of their informants.
 BORAH PRESENTS TEXT
 When the Senate met it listened iu silence to President Wilson's cable gram, which was taken as forecasting refusal to comply with the request for the treaty text embodied in a resc- lution adopted Friday. The reading of this message concluded, Senator Borah immediately presented his copy of the treaty which was ordered printed by a vote of 47 to 24.
 Later, however. there was n mo
 ton to reconsider nnd a' parlia-
 mentnry tangIe developed which
 endangered publication of the
 N<. <<s- II
 sibiIity, the Idaho Senator. in the
 late afternoon, began reading the
 hundred thOusand-wOrd document
 and continued for an hour, despite
 many protests from the Presi-
 dents supporters.
 Then the effort to prevent publica- tion collapsed, the motion to recou- sider was voted down and the fight, which had developed many bitter charges of broken faith. and in some respects had written a new chapter in Senate history, was over.
 The first of the day's series of
 surprises came when the foreign
 relations committee. whose meet
 ings in years past bnve been sur-
 rounded by the closest secrecy,
 threw open its doors to the public.
 It developed then that instead of
 pursuing the usual method of ap-
 pointing n subcommittee to make
 the inquiry the full body proposed
 to participate and to begin forth
 with.
 Senator Borah was called upon first to amplify his statements in the Sem ate about treaty copies in New York. He said that early in March he became convinced the international bankers or New York were particularly inter- ested in creation of the league of na- tions and that he quietly began an in- vestigation.
 BANKERS MUCH INTERESTED
 q ascertained." he told the com mittee, that practically all the inter- national bankers were deeply inter- ested in the league and were assist ing in promoting it's adoption by this country. 1 became convinced to- that these gentlemen were interested in promotion of the league for private reasons"
 Under questioning. the Idaho sem ator added he had secured this iu- formation. together with the knowi- edge that copy of the treaty was ia New York, from sources which ne could not reveal He then suggested the calling of Messrs. Morgan, Davi- son, Lamont Warburg and Schiff, say ing he connected them with the exist ence of treaty copies in New York "by combination of circumstances only'
 The name of Mir. Vanderlip was added to the list on suggestion of Sen ator Williams, democrat, of Missia- sippi, and the subpoenas were orderad unanimously on the motion of Senator. Hitchcock of Nebraska. senior demo- crat of the committee who introduced the resolution authorizing the inquiry On the motion of Senator Fall. repuA- lcan. of New Mexico, the committed. hv unanimous vote. also invited Mfr. Polk to appear before 1t.
 Senator Lodge next made state ment, saying that he. too, had derived his information about treaty copies from sources he could not reveal He
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