The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-05
The Parts Unpublished May
Cause New Sensation
in Senate
DENIED U. S. SENATE
Copies from Wilson's agents" Said
to be Sent to Aid in the Financial
Readjustment

A scandal more sensational CIidi
the administration "leak investiga-
ton" may follow the disclosure by
Senator Lodke that the German peace
treaty is in the possession of certain
New York business and banking in
terests while it is still denied to the
United States Senate.
The state department following the
Lodge disclosure endeavored to
spread oil on the waters by announc-
ing that it was essential that certain
financial sections of the treaty be
transmitted to New York bankers fol
their use in connection with finanial
readjustments effected by the treaty
Doubt was expressed that the entire
treaty was in the possession of any
one in New York.
When this statement was conveyed
to Senator Lodge by a newspaper
representative who had ate uded the
usual press conference held daily by
Acting Secretary of State Polk, Sen
ator Lodge Immediately commmnicat-
ed with Mr.. Polk and corrected with
considerable emphasis the secretary's
misrepresentation.
"The treaty is in New York." Sen
ator Lodg told his colleagues Of the
Senate. 81 had copy of it in my
hands yesterday and l heard of s'ev-
n1ol ntha1. 7 IF n
copy to bring on here and show to
my colleagues. 1 said that no copy
should come into my hands without
being made public. Therefore it was
not given to me but it is there in
New York.
II heard of four copies in existence
there in New York. How many more
there may be in the country l do not
know, but so far as l can make out
the only place where it is not allowed
to come is the Senate of the United
States"
Senator Lodge, who was in New
York to attend the funeral of Robert
Bacon, said that he had had opportu-
nifty to give the treaty only the most
casual inspection. at is obviously
impossible" he said, "to study a doc
ument 208 pages long in an hou and
a half"
"Those who have studied the docu-
ment," he continued, "and l may say
some of them are recognized auth ORR
ties in international law, inform me
that some of its features thus far ien-
tirely unknown to the people of the
United States will create a sensation
when made public here"
The section of the treaty which has
created the most pronounced stir Il
New York circles, according to Sena-
tor Lodges informants, is the So
called labor addendum, which is de-
scribed as being quite as long as the
covenant of the league of nations.
This feature of the document, it is
predicted, will create a sensation in
both labor and employer circles.
1t is described as virtually scheme
to internationalize labor. 1t provides
for a permanent labor conference
composed of four delegates from each
of the signatory nations. Two of
these delegates are to be government
representatives, one a labor represen-
tative and one representative of the
public. Under this arrangement the
United States will have four dele
gates to Great Britain's "a.
AS the labor clauses of the treaty
are being interpreted in New York it
creates a virtual super-goy ,ernment
with wide powers to regulate labor
conditions the world over. Under it's
terms the permanent labor conference
es created in the treaty hass authority
to investigate, for examples, the treat
ment of Negro labor in thes South, the
administration of child lal >or laws, or
any other question of labor conditions
in the United States. TT lie labor con-
ference then would have power to en-
force a remedy. Undo. r the provi-
sions of the labor sect ions of the
covenant it is believed the permanent
conference would have cit least quasi
jurisdiction over the immigration reg
ulations of the United States or any
signatory nation.