The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-07-25
LANSING HASN'T
Been CALLED BY
SENATE BODY
Secretary Has No Plans For
Committee Session.

WASHINGTON, July p -Secre-
tary Lansing today gave his first au-
dience to ncwSpapermcn since hrs re-
turn from France. The secretary
said he had not made any arrange
men,s 10 appear before the senate
foreign affairs committee lie eN-
poets to be in Washington for some
time and the senate committee can
call on him if it secs fit to do So
The senate has asked the state de
bar,mcnt Tor the protest which 1t un-
6erstands Secretary Lansing, Mr..
White and General Bliss made agams,
the Shantung award Mr. Lansing
was asked today 1t he would state
the nature OF that protest lie de.
elined TO do SO
Dangerous Assumption.
The sccrc'arys attention was called
% the statement from the White
House Yesterday relative p Shanunp
in which il was said 'hc president
"cxerted all the influence he was at
liberty TO exercise IN the circum
stances to obtan modification.
He was asked ii It WAS fair TO assume
thl, the Argument which he and Mr..
White and General Bliss made fol
lowed the line ot argument made by
the president His rcNIy was:
"Tha, would be a dangerous. as
sumption
Mr.. Lansing was told Of the de
bate in the senate over the French
treaty. He assumed that the text ot
the treaty already had been presented
to the senate and when told that II
had not been expressed surprise. II
was explained to ,him that the crltl-
cism oi the republican senators was
that under article ! OF the treaty II
was provided that the treaty should
be submitted to the senate at the same
time as the treaty Of peace.
Refuses Information.
SLOW do YOU know that il the
treaty has not yet been presented ~
he asked
He was told what purportcd to he a
true copy OF the treaty had been teal
10 the senate BY Senator Brandegcc
and was asked ii he would confirm
the allegation that the treaty actually
did provide that II was 10 be given To
the senate coincidcntly with the peace
treaty Tie refused 10 confirm It, II
would be improper, he said, TO make
known any part OF the treaty until the
full text had been pire' TO the senate
But" it was suggested the tul'
text OF the treaty has been printed III
the Paris Figaro and the London
Times and the complaint is that II
should be published abroad before II,
is published here"
Different Problems
at makes no matter whether or no.
Il has been published abroad, they
have no senate to deal with there as
/ part OF the ratification power and
we have" he replied.
"But because IT must he party To
ratification is the very reason why the
senate complains that Europe gets
the text OF the treaty before they are
given to the senate was further sug
Rested
To this Secretary Lansing made the
Interesting reply: The complaint is
that the treaties are not made puhlii
by the state department II they
were made public by the state depart
ment before it was possible TO SEND
them to the senate there would be
even greater complaint Then we would
he accused Of propaganda We would
be accused OF making the documen
public in order to form public sen'i
n,ent in its favor before II was gwen
10 the senate. know quite likely
Aha, would be my contention IN those
circumstances if were senator.
Difference Not Real.
Secretary Lansing was asked II II
were true ,ha, there was a difference
IN the texts of the French-Amefican
0nd the French. British treaties lie
Declared that the difference was only
in phraseology. Both Great Britain
and the United States, he asserted
would be obligated to nm tlual extent
lie admitted that a ,lt out IRON
Paris. the language .i the French
British treaty meant ,omethlng very
different from the language OF the
Jrenth-Amcr,au treaty hut he de
c,ared that the quotation, given in
ahe Paris Dispatches were rpt cor
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