New-York tribune., 1919-08-03
Foreign Committee Will
Question Him on u. S.
Envoys' Reported Pro-
test Over Shantung
Treaty Secrets
Also Are Sought
Lamont and Davis Like.
wise Will Be Inter-
rogated on Preparations
Ne,o York Tribune
WGshin0tor Bureau

" VUSHtHVtOu bureau
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.-The For
eign Relations Committee of the SEN
ate to-day completed questioning Ber-
nard M. Baruch, one of the financial
advisers of the American peace dele.
cation at Paris, on the peace treaty
and expects next week to hear Secre.
tary Of State Lansing, Thomas W. La
mont, another of the American delega-
tons financial advisers, and Norman
Davis, an expert attached to the com.
mission.
Mr.. Lansing will be questioned
about his reported protest, in company
with Henry White and General Bliss
against the Shantung settlement.
The Secretary will also be asked as
to the various other treaties signed by
the President, such as the. Polish
treaty, which was read into the record
for the first time yesterday by Senator
Lodge, of which the President had
given no word to the Senate, although,
they have been laid before the House
of Commons by Lloyd George, and BE-
fore the French Chamber of Deputies
by Premier Clemenceau.
League Foes Hopefuf
Opponents of the league Of nations
covenant asserted tonight that the
number of Senators who are flatly
against the league is growing They
hoped to gain such strength, if the
ratification of the treaty is long de-
layed, that President Wilson would be
put on the defensive and become will
ing to accept any set of reservations
to save the treaty.
On the other hand, seven Republican
Senators who framed compromise res
ervations this week will confer Mon
day with other Republican Senators in
the hope Of winning league opponents
over to the proposed reservations. The
Senators seeking a compromise say
that if they can get as many as twenty
Senators to support the reservations
they can lay the programme before the
Administration with the assurance
that, aided by forty-hve Senators who
seek unreserved ratification, the treaty
can be ratified without radically affect
ing the league principles. The vote re-
quired for ratification is sixty-four.
Republican leaders asserted to-day
that the ratification of the Franco
American treaty would not be permit
ted unless the section connecting it
with the league covenant was elimi-
mated.
eve do not want to have to ask
permission of the league council to go
to the aid of France if she is threat
ened by Germany" said a Republican
member of the Foreign Relations Com
mittee. This Senator believes the
French treaty has small chance Of be-
ing ratified by the Senate unless there
is some clearing up of the situation.
Another Senator said to-day he
doubted if a majority vote could be
mustered in the Senate for the French
treaty in its present form and with
Borah Especially Bitter
So far from pleasing the "Borah ir-
reconcilables," the four reservations
drafted by the mild reservationists," }"
or GROUP of seven," seems to have en-
couraged the foes Of the league to
a more determined effort to kill it.
Senator Borah was especially bitter
in his criticism of the reservation in
tended to prevent the United States
from being bound to send troops to
engage in foreign wars. He character
lied it as intellectually dishonest"
and asserted that it would not accom-
plish the purpose at which it professed
to aim.
"There is only one way to deal with
Article X" said Senator Borah, "and
that is to take it out of the league cove
nant."
AS al indication Of the growth of
strength of the "Borah irreconcilables,
as the faction desiring that the league
of nations be postponed if not killed is
called. those definitely in that class on
the Foreign Relations Committee alone
include Senators Knox, Brandegee
Hiram Johnson. Moses, Fall and Borah
Senator New almost qualities, and the
spirit of Senator Harding is declayed
to be willing.
This leaves, Of the Republican mem
bership Of the COMMITTEES, only Sena.
tor McCumber, who 70 frankly PRO.
league, and Chairman Lodge.