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brought Senator New tInd.) forward
with insistenco that this hearing be
granted and II was 30 voted.
Senator McCumber suggested a gem
eral resolution for mass meeting TO
hear all comers. Then something was
said about arranging hearings that
could only delay matters, and Il brought
Senator Lodge into action. He roundly
asserted that there had been no delays
| save those caused by the Administrn-
tion's inexcusable and unacoountable
failure and refusal to submit to the COM
mittee and Senate documents and in
formation to which IL was entitled as an
absolute right. He enumerated a list
OF the documents for which there had
been demands, the treaty with Poiand, a
convention concerning the administration
OF the Rhine provinces, n protocol re-
latlng to the reparatiors arrangements
and various Others all OF them COM
plete and none of them officially before
the Senate as they should be.
without any action by the commit
tee II might be wise for members of the
Administration party to suggest to the
president that much embarrassment
would be avoided II he would forward
these documents to u.s." intimated Sem
ator Harding (Ohio).
Il object to this committee attempting
| to suggest to the President what II
thinks 10 his duty" interposed Mr.. Moses.
The President knows his duty and is
performing it," hotly replied Mr.. Pom
creme (Ohio).
Senator williams (Miss.) proposed
that the chairman be directed to write
to the President asking for the docu-
ments that were desired, and It was
agreed to.
Egyptians Also to Appear.
Senator Johnson (Cal) moved to ad-
Journ till Monday. when Joseph w. Folk,
representing the Egyptian self-determi-
nation committee, is to be heard.
Tn consideration OF n name whose
origin justifes me in n very special
sympathy for the cause OF the down.
trodden Egyptians 1 beg to, express the
hope that there will be on this occasion
full meeting of the committee" inter-
posed Mr. Moses. And the committee
broke up with laugh.
After the adjournment Senator Lodge
said:
The committee has worked as hard
and steadily as any committee I ever
saw. and have been on number Of
them, but mas been hampered at every
stage by lack Of information Time has
been consumed In trying to get informa-
ton here and there that should have
been in our hands weeks ago. 1t is of
the utmost Importance that we get the
other four treaties, or at, least some
knowledge of their contents, to assist us
in an intelligent consideration of the
German treaty. \ They are all inter-
twined. we know, but we do not know
the provisions as to territory and other
things which may be in them"
Speaking OF the committees Shantung
vote, Mr.. Brandegee tConn. said: at
ought not TO be forgotten that members
of the American peace delegation In
Paris admitted that the decision was
wrong, but voted for It, The Senate
committee voted for what they thought
was right"
"CIean Cut, Moral issue"
Senator johnson (Cal) said: zone
OF the outstanding inlquities OF the
treaty, neither excused nor justified, ex-
cept upon the Prussian philosophy, was
the Shantung decision. Every American
commissioner. including the President,
has condemned II, and every witness
before the Foreign Relations Committee
has denounced Il. II presented, with
none of the prejudices in dealing with
an enemy. a clean cut moral issue. The
nembefs Of the Foreign Relations Com
mittee had to decide whether a friend
ana an ally should be despoiled upon
the sole ground OF expediency and fear,
and they have decided for the right
"All we could do was to disapprove