Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-08-12
Holds Some Documents COnfi- dential Because of Other
 Nations Concerned. FIRST COVENANT AND
 LAST DIFFER WIDELY President Declares Much of MemOr- anda Left in Paris--Other
 Parts of "COnfiden-
 tial Nature"

Wilson sent to the foreign relations committee today a copy of the ori- ginal draft of league of nations covenant but declined to furnish oth- CT papers relating to the peace nego- tiations asked for in senate resolu- tions.
 In reply to committee request for "all data" used in preparation of the treaty, the president wrote that most of the documents and memoran- da were left in Paris and that many were of a confidential nature so that lon grounds of public policy" it would be unwise to make use of them outside the conference" He sent only the American covenant draft and copy of the covenant as agreed to before his first return from Flu rope.
 To. another resolution asking for a copy of the letter written by Gen eral Blass regarding the Shantung problem, MT. Wilson replied that he regarded the letter as confidential since it contained certain references to other governments. He said the communication. in which Secretary Lansing and Henry White concurred, "took very strong ground" against the proposed settlement of the question but could not properly be described as protest against the final Shantung decision"
 Another development in the treaty controversy today was the state ment before the foreign relations committee by Secretary Lansing that Viscount Ishii, the Japanese ambas- sador to the United States, had "con- cealed" the existence of the secret treaty between Japan and Great Britain regarding the Shantung pen insula, while the Lansing-Ish agreement was being negotiated.
 The American plan for league of nations reached the capitol just as Secretary Lansing was concluding his testimony and just after he had laid before the committee copy of the resolution embodying league principles presented by him at the peace conference. The resolution, which never was acted on formally, followed in general the American covenant draft.
 At the end of his testimony the secretary was asked to send before the committee tomorrow, David Hun. ter Miller, state department off cial who acted as adviser to the league of nations commission at Versailles.
 Criticizes Wilson.
 Washington, Aug. 11.-Criticizing President Wilson today in the senate for his negotiation at Paris. Senator Poindexter, republican of Washing ton, declared that by general phras- es" the president had "aroused as- pirations which he is incapable of satisfying"
 Quoting from his propagana," said Senator Poindevter, "the com- munsts demand, under threat of revo- luton, that the railroads be given, at public expense, into possession and management of the operative and employees.
 "It is as though the president has received the world as toy and pro- ceeded to take it apart in order to reconstruct it on new plan. He has declared the end of the old ord- CT, and substitutes for it the new dis order"
 It is expected Mir. Miller will be asked in detail about the American draft and it's relation to the final covenant.
 President Wilson also notified the senate today in response to requests sent to the white house that he had no Knowledge of any attempts by Japanese to intimidate the Chinese delegates at Versailles and that he had no information about reported secret Japanese-German treaty, ne- gOtiated during the war.