The daily banner., 1919-07-25
ATTACK WILSON
OAFRENCHTREATY
Resolution in Senate Asking
For Information.
ALL BUT AMERICA GET IT.
Senators Charge the President With
held Pact in Defiance of Terms OF
| Submission


Submission
Washington, July 25. - A reso-
luton requesting President Wilson TO
submit to the senate the treaty Dy
which the United States would prom
ise to aid France in the event OF an
unprovoked attack by Germany was
offered in the senate today by Sena-
tor Lodge, Republican, Massachuh-
setts. chairman of the foreign rela-
tions commmittee Unanimous con-
sent for the immediate consideration
was refused by Senator Robinson,
Democrat, Arkansas.
Senator Lodge offered the measure
after a sharp debate, during Whicn
Republican spokesmen declared that
the terms of the treaty required that
it be submitted TO the senate Ior
ratification at the same time as the
treaty with Germany.
Charging the president with not
submitting information requested py
the senate and foreign relations COM
mittee, Senator Brandegee, Repub-
lican, Connecticut, referred to the
senate's seeming inability to get the
draft of the American plan for the
league of nations.
Senator Brandegeee also assailed the
president for r~calling Individual sena-
tors to the White House for discussion
of the treaty.
Having tried this case before the
iury-the senate" said Senator Bran
degee, "now he sends for the 1ndlVld-
ual jurymen and argues with each one
of them. If there is any information
the senate ought to have he ougnt TO
come before the senate or at least ad-
wise the committee. I think the COM
mittee is entitled to this information !;
the people, too, are entitled to IT. en-
titled to something besides the mere
ipsf dixit of the president"
Senator Lodge read from Figaro, OF
Paris, the text of the, treaty, contain
ing a provision that the two treaties:
be submitted to the American sensteI
simultaneously.
81 cannot but regret that the, treaty,
was not laid before us at the same
time as the treaty OF Versailles as this
signed agreement required" !" said he. .
Senator Brandegee read a similar
text from the London Times ofrJuly T..
"All the world knows about this
treaty except we who are to be bound
by It." he said.
Replying, to Senator Brandegee,
Senator. Hitchcock, Democrat, Ne
braska, said the sudden discovery OF
something which has been in print
for weeks" looks like tempest in a.
teapot"
s'I think some protest ought to be
made here" said Senator Hitchcock.
Ito what seems to be the settled pur-
pose of few. senators to criticise and
discredit the president of the United
States on all occasions What are the
facts? When the president came here
to lay before us the great treaty which
will occupy the time and attention OF
the senate for weeks he made no con-
cealment of the facts. He stated in
few words that he would lay the
French reaty before us presently.
Article. " provides, unless the
texts I have. read are false, that he
lay the treaties before US at the same
time. Did he do it," demanded Sena-
tor Brandegee.
"One would think" continued Sena-,
tor Hitchcock, "that it was disgrace
full thing for the president to talk with
senator's. Hasn't he done it on other
occasions? Those self-same senators
who are criticising the president now
criticised him before, stating that he
failed and neglected to consult the
senate and kept senators in the dark" :"
"The criticism is," Senator Brande-
gee interrupted, "that he has kept the
country and the senate in the dark
not senator's