The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-06-14
'ROOTSEV|DENCE
. TO END PROBE
FORMER SENATOR TELLS SEN.
ATE HE SHOWED LODGE
PEACE TREATY
NO ONE ELSE SAW THE COPY
Was Brought Back From Europe By
Thomas w. Lamont, FL
nancial Advisor.
NO ONE ELSE SAW THE COPY

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i Washington, June 11-Immediate-
ly after Former Senator Elihu Root
Of New York testified before the SEN
ate foreign relations committee to-
day that it was he who showed a
copy Of the treaty of peace to SEN
atOr Lodge, Senator Hitchcock and
other committee members said it
was doubtful whether any further
investigation would be made.
Mr. Lodge received a message from
Paul M. Warburg in which Mr.. War
burg was understood to have dis
claimed any knowledge Of any copies
of the treaty in New York.
Mr.. Root appeared Unexpectedly
before the committee and testified
that he obtained the copy of the
treaty from Henry P. Dawson Of the
Morgan Banking house. Mr.. Dawson
testified that he obtained it from
Thomas W. Lamont, another party in
the Morgan house, one of the finan-
cial advisers to the American peace
mission in Paris, but asked for it not
in his capacity as a banker but as
President of the Internationl Red
Cross League, which is backed by
the covenant Of the league of ma
tions.
Mr.. Dawson also testified that he
brought but one copy of the treaty
from Europe and said that to his
knowledge that copy had been read
by no one except Mr.. Root and him
self.
He testified he sent the copy to
Senator Root because he knew Sen
ator Root "was in the confidence of
the American mission at Paris and
he'd been consulted by them"
Morgan Did Not See 1t
j. P. Morgan testified that he had
never seen copy of the treaty and
SO did Frank A. VanderIp, retiring
president of the National City Bank.
Mr.. Dawson testified he has shown
it to no one but Mr.. Root.
During an hours testimony in the
witness chair, Mr.. Root said he
thought President Wilson was within
his constitutional rights in not send
ing the treaty to the senate, but he
thought it perfectly legitimate for
the senate to ask for it, after it had t
been published by the German gov [
He gave it as his opinion
that the president was within his a
rights in not consulting the senate a
more freely on the negotiations. S
At the conclusion of Mr.. Wander v
ip's testimony; the committee ended /
he hearing for the day and went in v
executive session.
Senator Brandagee, Republican
Connecticut, asked whether Mr.. Root
hOught there was anything wrong
bout a banker taking copy of the
reaty, if he saw one in order to in !.
orm himself on the financial terms" y
~ cans see that a banker has d
more right to steal paper than any ',
me else," replied Mr.. Root. "But q
Vhen paper is public he has the o
anne right to it as anybody else" T.
Mr.. Root said he believed secrecy v
,as not imposed until after Mr.. Da- n
ison left Paris.
Not Stolen Goods o
"Then / gather" Senator Knox in So
ERECTED, chat you do not consider &c
ourself in possession of stolen goods al
btained by bribery, as has been ie
larged on the Senate foor?" q
81 repel any suggestions" Mr.. ca
cot replied, with some show Of feel
g. 81 feel sense Of strong re-
to repel such a suggestion ~
ON any source. in
~ don't understand that Pm here m,
repel any such charge and / re- co
mt deeply having to repel it," Mr..
Dot added. tn
II say Mr.. Dawson, with an un- in
fish devotion beyond all praise,
d for two years been putting at wi
e service Of the country an ability br,
d labor which it cannot be too
ateful for. And while still in Eu- me
pc after two years of that service dr.,
became his duty to become familiar
til relation to the position the Red St;
Oss was to assume to the world, at
perseding IN all likelihood, the Ge- or
va convention. was deeplv me
liRed to him because I was donblv !.