The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-10
HOUSE FACES CALL
TO TELL OF TREATY
Senate Inquisitors Hope He
Can Fill In Laps in Lam
sings Review.
NEW DOCUMENTS HERE
They Arrive From Paris and
Wilson Will Send Them to
Senate Monday.
Special Despatch TO TEE sun.

Special Despatch 10 TEE Sun.
WASHINGTON, Aug. e.--Col. Edward
NJ. HOUSE OF Texas. President Wilson's
principal assistant in the work of peace
working and League of Nations build-
ing in Paris. may be summoned to APP
pear before the Senate Foreign Rela-
lions Committee to supply deficiencies in
information obtained by the committee
from Secretary OF State lansing.
Following upon the non-informative
examination OF Secretary Lansing the
&c appear to endeavor to NIL In the num-
Senators seriously consider turning to
the next best possible source of exact
information. Col. Houses whereabouts
in Europe. which has remained a sort
of quasi secret. officially have been AS
certained by the Senators and It Is
highly probable that within a day or
two a cable will be sent inviting him
erous gaps in Mr.. Lansing's review of
the Paris proceedings
Lansing Knew Little.
Mr.. Lansing admitted that he knew
little about the actual framing of the
treaty. despite the Presidents intima-
ton that he would be at the disposal
obscure crevices of the three Paris docu-
ments Members OF the committee, after
turning over in their minds for u ruil
month the suggestion of asking Presi-
dent Wilson to do the calculating him.
self. have determined that 1t would be
an improperly to ask the President to
attend a session of the committee either
at the Capitol or in the White House,
and the President has displayed no dis
position to invite the committee 10 his
own Offices for a similar purpose Be-
sides, the committee would consider no
other form of Executive consultation
than one which would be official and of
which the complete record would be
Transcribed verbatim as a part Of the
committees formal report to the Senate.
In his first speech 20 the Senate upon
his return from France the President in
dicated that he would be at the dis
posal of the Senate, but this was shortly
thereafter rendered meaningless through
the telephone conversation held between
Senator Hitchcock (Neb.) and himself,
in which the President said he would
appear at any time on twenty-four hours
notice. This put the question Of sum-
moning the President up to the COM
mittee. The committee will not do this
Thus the committee is left with Col
House as about the sole resort unless
the President should accede later to the
demands of the committee for Informal
ton In the form OF copies Of the docu-
ments formal and informal, and the
record of the proceedings Of the Peace
Conference.
Resentment at President.
There is deep resentment to be dis
| cerned throughout the Senate at the
Presidents inclusion of the argument for
his League of Nations schemes in yes
| terday's address Senators feel that the
President has resorted to the very con-
duct which in the railway brotherhoods
he SO sharply criticised and so deplored
using the present crisis in the COM
mercial markets as a club with which
to force through his plans, just as the
brotherhood leaders have used the same
conditions as an excuse for striving to
force a change in the fundamentals of
American industrial relations.
WASHINGTON, Aug. e.-Documents
used by the American peace delegation
at Paris and which have been sent to
this country will be transmitted to the
Senate Monday by President Wilson in
response to requests OF the Foreign Re-
lations Committee. The President had
intended to send the pa pers to the Capt.
toll to-day. but the Senate was not in
| session