The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-06-12
us. SENATE VOTES
TO PRINT TREATY
Borah Leads Fight to Make Text
of Pact Public.
is READ INTO THE RECORD
President in Message to Hitchcock
Urges Congress to Push Investiea-
ton to Learn How Copies
Reached NJ. Y. Financiers.

Washington, June 10-Senator Bo-
rall and his supporters, after a five
hour fight, forced a copy of the peace
treaty into the public record of the
senate after many attempts to prevent
its publication had been beaten on
record votes.
After Senator Borah had proceeded
half way through the league covenant,
unanimous consent was obtained to
vote on motion of Senator Beckham
(Dem.) of Kentucky, to reconsider SEN
ator BOrah's motion for printing the
treaty in the record, and the reconsid-
Grafton proposal was beaten, Al to 26.
Try to Defeat the Plan.
After voting TO print the document,
opponents of the plan by motion TO
reconsider the senate's action, sought
to defeat the publication by keeping the
reconsideration motion before the SEN
ate until adjournment. Senator Bo-
raj met the challenge by beginning TO
read the 100000-wOrd volume. After
he had read for an hour, opponents Of
the publication capitulated by permit
ting vote on their motion to recon
slider, which was beaten. The treaty
then went on for printing.
As soon as the senate had thus af-
firmed its order to print the document
in the record Senator Borah discon-
tinued the reading and sent the treaty
to the desk. That apparently conclud-
oI ct n a N
treaty for the day, other business be-
ing taken up for the first time.
Bankers for League, Says Borah.
Senator Borah earlier in the day
told the foreign relations nittee
he had found the internatio INK
ers to be practically all interested in
the league of nations and assisting in
promoting its adoption. In answer to
a question, he said assistance in its
favor was being given in contributions,
in speeches and press statements by
the bankers and by other methods,
which he did not enumerate. He said
the evidence he had been able to get
from unnamed sources indicated that
provisions of the treaty of interest to
the bankers were being discussed by
them frequently and that he believed
that they had seen the treaty or had
copies of it and that their curiosity
concerning its contents was not based
on patriotic but on selfish reasons. He
then asked that the bankers be sub
poenaed.
According to his information Sen
ator Borah said he had reason TO be
lieve the bankers had knowledge Of the
treaty contents for at least ten days
past.
Senator Ashurst (Dem.) Of Arizona
said he voted for the Borah motion be-
cause Wall street already had the
treaty and was specializing ito the
tune of millions" on the information.
'What Wall street is entitled to-"
he continued, 'the American people are
entitled to. That is my reason for vot
ing for this motion. And | would slap
the face of any man outside the senate
t. he challenged m for that vote"
Wilson Wants Probe Pushed.
Washington, June 10.-President VIII
son in cablegram received by Senator
Hitchcock Dem.) of Nebraska said he
hoped the investigation by the senate
foreign relations committee of how
copies of the peace treaty reached
private interests in New York would
be most thoroughly prosecuted
The president said he had felt it
''was highly undesirable officially TO
communicate the text of a document
which is still in negotiation and sub
ject to change" and that anyone who
had possession Of the official English
text has what he is clearly not en-.
titled to have or to communicate"