The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-10
Idaho Senator Starts to
Read Text to Force Its
Publication.
COPY IN TWO TONGUES
French and English YER
sion Appear Side by Side
in Document.
DEMOCRATS TRY TO STAY
Hitchcock Leads Fight Against
Printing Treaty Till All
Changes Are Made.
DEMOCRATS TRY TO STAY

Special Despotch TO THE SuN.
WASHINGTON, June 9.-After long
and tempestuous voyage across the
troubled oceans of senatorial conversa-
tion, over the shoals Of opposition and
through the devious channels Of par
liamentary procedure. the text of the
peace treaty, so long guarded by the
President and his associates In Paris
from publicity anywhere except in
Germany. landed late to-day safe In
the harbor Of the Congregational
Record.
Senator Borah Idaho), true TO his
promise that he would mike the
treaty public II it fell into his hands.
tired out the Senate by reading laborl-
ously from the lengthy document
when permission was first withheld
to have 1t printed in the Record
Finally the Senate consented to save
itself hours and hours of time and
permit the Senator merely to send :
the document 10 the Government
printing office and have 1t put into
the Record.
Under the Senate rules documents
offered for publication in the Record
must receive consent before they can
be included When Mr. Borah arose
soon after the opening Of the session
he held copy of the treaty in his
hands. He asked the privilege OF
printing it In the Record. and vote
was taken, the privilege being granted
by large majority of those who at
the moment were present This was
supposed 10 settle the matter. hut
later Senator Beckham (Ky.) ex-
plained that he had voted for the
motion under a misapprehension and
moved to reconsider.
Makes Publication Certain.
The parliamentary situation was
that with the motion to reconsider
pending it was at least uncertain
whether the document could be In
cluded in tomorrow mornings Rec
ord. Some of the parliamentary ex-
perts insisted that pendency of the
resolution made no difference and
that the editor Of the Record would
be expected to include It, But there
was good deal Of uncertainty on
this point in view OF the fact that the
public printing Office is under control
Of the Administration and n proper
hint might have caused the public
printer to rule against publication
while the motion to reconsider was
pending. 1t was in fact exactly what
the Republicans expected.
With this motion pending the only
way to be assured that the document
would get into the Record would be
for n Senator to get the floor and per
sonally read It, No rule can exclude
anything that is actually uttered by
a Senator on the floor. Accordingly
Mr.. BOrah obtained recognition and
proceeded with the reading. II was
well in the middle of the afternoon
before he started and he read with a
defiant deliheration which suggested
that he felt perfectly able to stay
there and continue the motion as
long as the Democrats might choose
TO stick around and watch for an Op-
portunity to get the floor away from
him. The policy Of the Administra-
tiOn Senators was to compel Mr..
Borah to read until he should become
tired ont or otherwise leave the floor
and then by injecting other business
to make It impossible TO continue the
reading.
Agreement Finally Reached.
Precisely why the Democrats were
determined TO prevent the admission
of the text TO the Record was not
made apparent. 1t was rumored on
the Republican side that they hoped
to gain time enough to get cable
message from the President insist
emily requesting that IL not be Of
ficially published. Senator Hitchcock
(Neb., the acting Democratic leader,
insisted. however, thar there WAS no
basis for this. He said he had not
been In communication with the
White House or the President on the
subject.
At any rate late in the afternoon