The Washington herald., 1919-06-10
Separate Peace
Hnted in Senate:
Print Treaty Text
Secrecy Over Negotiation
Ended In Dramatic Man.
ner by Motion of Senator
Borah = Document as
Presented VIII Appear.


! The Senate's defiance of Pres;-
dent Wilson's policy of suppress
ing the treaty of peace came TO a
dramatic climax, when upon mo-
ton of Senator Borah, of Idaho.
the full text of the treaty as pne-
sented to Germany was ordered
printed in the Congressional Rec
ord
1t will be printed also as a pub
lie document and distributed
broadcast to the people of the
United States
Secret negotiations nj EnA
In this manner secrecy over ths
peace negotiations comes TO an end.
Not only the Senate, but the Amer,-
can people will be enabled 70 know
all the treaty conditions ana to di,-
Germ for themselves the meaning Of
such commitments as have been
made by the peace commission az
Paris to bind the United stater
Never before in the historx =,
the United States has tae senat.
felt called upon to act in such man
ner respecting treaty negotiation,
between this country and ano.b.r
power. Tradition and precedent
have required that the President
alono should know the terms OF q
treaty until after it had been sir-n,d
Never before has this precedent been
violatcc.
But the deep resentment Of tn.
Senate over the discovery that oopies
or the treaty are in possession OF
Wall Street hnanciers promptea ft
TO act boldly in the matter. to shat.
ter the precedents governing SEN
ate action on a treaty ana deter
mine upon q course which will at
ford full publicity to- all that has
been agreed upon by the peace
commissioners.
Senator Borah obtained his COPY
/ OF the treaty from a Chicago news
paper correspondent who recently
/ returned from abroad. The text Is
I IN French and English and is not
one OF the copies which were is
: sued by the German government
1t is said to have been obtained in
Paris.
when the Senator offered II to
the Senate for publiotion he started
controversy which ragged for nve
hours to the exclusion Of all other
senate business Democratic SEN
ators tried in vain to prevent the
treaty from gaining publication.
They resorted to every parliament
tary trick that could be devised,
but were unable TO head of the Re-
publican majority. which had the
support Of eight Of the Democratic
| Senators.
Motion Carried AZ 10 ~.
| Senator Borah's motion TO have the
/ treaty published carried by the vote
| of a to "a A motion by Senator
| Beckham OF Kentucky TO reconsider
this vote was defeated, Al to S.
In the interim between the making
I Of the motion by Senator Beckham
and the calling OF the roll on the mo-
| ton, Senator Borah began TO read
J the treaty. At that time il appeared
! that the Democrats would not permit
J the motion to reconsider to come TO a
vote and this would have prevented
the publication of the treaty in to-
morrow's Record. So Senator Borah
got the floor and began 10 read the
I treaty text. He started at 4 50 and
after he had proceeded for fifteen
minutes, the Democrats stopped their
opposition and allowed Senator Beck
hams motion TO be put to roll call.
The debate on the motion TO print
the treaty was exceedingly bitter and
was marked by frequent exchanges Of
F, a bitterly personal character Ad-
! ministration men in their eacerness
to defend the President insinuated
that those who favored publication Of
the treaty were actuated by pro-Ger-
man sentiments
This charge was vigorously resent
ed by Republican Senators and bv
one Democratic Senator-Chamber-
lain. Of Oregon. who upon more than
one previous occasion has assumed
to declare his inpendence of admins
I tration dictation.
Earlier in the day the Senate had
learned that the President had ca
bled from Paris TO the effect that
the treaty was withheld by agree
ment with France and England. This
! information had no effect upon the
Senate's action. however on the
contrary, although Republican Sen
I ators were warned that the publica-
ton of the treaty would be disre-
4 spectful to the President and a repu-
! diation OF his leadership as the Com
J rnander-in-chief of the nation. they
went ahead just the same and car
ried the motion ordering the treaty
given full publicity to all the people
of America.
Six Financiers Summoned.
With the summoning OF a half dozen
, of Americas leading fnanciers yes
terday, the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee took up the first steps
toward finding out how copies OF the
: peace treaty with Germany got into
J; the hands Of Wall Street. The men
subpocnae1 TO appear before the CON-
mittee are:
Jacob H. schir. Thomas F. Lamont.
II Paul Warburg. Henry p. Dawson, J.
, Pierpont Morgan and Frank A VAN
derlip.
The first hve were ordered sub
} poenaed upon the request of Senator
Borah. who suggested that one or
more of their number might be able
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