The Dolores star., 1919-06-13
ORDERED PRINTED IN hECoRDS
AFTER LIVELY DEBATE
BY CONGRESS.
B0RAH PRESENTS TEXT
WILL INVESTIGATE HOW PEACE
TERMS CAME INTO HANDS OF
WALL STREET.

Western Newspaper Union News service
Washington, June 10-Out of
whlrlwlnd of developments the Senate
got copy of the peace treaty and, att
err five-hour fight, ordered 1t printed
in the public record.
At the same time 1t got underway
the investigation of how copies have
reached private hands in New York by
summoning to testify half dozen OF
the country's leading financiers.
The copy which went into the rec
ord was brought to this country by
newspaper man and was presented by
Senator Borah, Republican, 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 histOrymak.
ing developments was to clear the air
on the much-debated subject of pub
licity for the treaty text, to widen the
breach between the President and the
Senate majority, and to forecast SEN
sntional turn for the inquiry into the
manner by which copies Of the dOcu.
ment have become available to unau-
thorized persons.
Starting its investigation with an I'M
expected vigor, the foreign relations
committee, within half hour after it
convened, voted to call before it ]. p.
Morgan, II. p. Dawson 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. Vanderllp, former president
of the National City bank. 1t then eX-
amined Frank l.. Polk, acting secretory
of state, about the official copies in the
State Department vaults.
When the Senate met it listened In
silence to President Wilson'S cable
gram, which was taken as forecasting
"A refusal TO comply with the request
for the treaty text embodied in reso-
luton 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 AZ to "a.
Later, however, there was a motion
to reconsider and parliamentary
tangle developed which endangered
publication of the treaty. To circum
vent such a possibility the Idaho SEN
ntor in the late afternoon began read
ing the 1OO,OO0wOrd document and
continued for an hour despite many
protests from the Presidents sup
porters.
Then the effort to prevent publica-
ton collapsed, the motion to recon-
slider was voted down, and the fight
which had developed many bitter
charges of broken faith and in some
respects had written new chapter in
Senate history, was over
The first of the series of surprises
came when the foreign relations COM
mittee, whose meetings in years past
have been surrounded by the closest
secrecy, threw open its doors to the
public.
Senator Borah was called first to
amplify his statements in the Senate
about treaty copies in New York. He
said early in March he became con-
vinced the international bankers of
New York were particularly interested
in creation of the League of Nations
and that he quietly began an investi-
CATION.
Il ascertained," he told the commit
tee, that practically all the interna-
tional bankers were deeply interested
in the league and We're assisting In
promoting It's adoption by this coun-
try. l became convinced, too, that
these gentlemen were interested in
promotion of the league for private
reasons"