The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-19
LAW IS
 CHARGED LEAGUE
 ID ENFORCE PEACE
Confidential Letters of Many Prominent Men Introduced at Sensational Session of
 Senate Committee
By Associated pre.s

sk which Wf1iam9 Howard Init is
 presideat, were introduced into the
 record of the seaafe eemm3ttee fn-
 veotigatfne campaign expenAftgyes
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 heT s8 DrsnfDen4 New Ysrk hank .ers were naeatioAeA h tie esrre-
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 D. H. Hunt s<eernsy for tho com- mittee who investigated the aettvtties of the league, reported that in my e. tinato officials of the league have violated the Logan act, passed January 50. 17ss, which prohibits American cit ixens carrying on negotiations with foreign governments or their agents re- garding disputes or controversies with out the permission of the United States. The act carries a penalty upon convic- tion of fines not more than $5.eoo and imprisonment of from six months to three years.
 The senate committee sent Hunt ts New York several days ago to inves- tigate the activities of the league to enforce peace.
 Hunt conducted an inquiry for five days in the leagues offices there; read all the correspondence in its files ana examined employees and officers of the organization.
 His report, . voluminous document embracing copies of all letters which he thought had a bearing on the cam paign expenditures investigation, was presented today.
 The Senate committee met here to- I,x kA yAA- .r- pre-ccnvention campaign in Missouri, : and adjourned to meet again some time after the election. Before adjourning telegrams were dispatched to the chair men of the republican and democratic national senatorial and congressional committees directing them to file com- plete statements of their receipts, ex- penditures and pledges at Chicago on Thursday, October 3S. The reports will be made public at that time.
 SENSATION OF DAY
 The report of MT. Hunts investiga- ton of the League to Enforce Peace proved the sensation of the day Doz- ems of confidential letters between MT. Taft. George W. Wickersham. Theodore Marburg and others were given.
 In his summary MT. Hunt says that Herbert s. Houston testified before the committee that he had talked with
 
 ert Cecil and David Lloyd George in re- gard to the United States entering the League of Nations. and that Edward A. Filene of Boston. who has been abroad on similar mission, is now fin Ger many on a mission to get Germany into the league"
 ssThe correspondence and data
 which follow bear out the charge which I am about to make," Mr.
 Inn
 xanisation has. through it's off,
 cfala. by cOrresp0nAence and con- ferences, talked with various of-
 fieials of foreign Governments
 about getting this and other coun-
 tries into the League of Nations
 reaee treaty. all of which. in my
 estimation. is in violation of the
 Logan aet.@
 Mr. Hunt also charges William H. Short, secretary of the league, took from the files certain letters between Mir. Short and George w. Wickersham in which Mir. Short proposed campaign 4 in the interest of Governor Cox and Mir Wickersham agreed in part"
 REFUSES TO GIVE UP LETTERS Mir. Short refused to give up these let ters, the report states, on the ground that they were personal.
 A letter from Mir. Wickersham to Mir Short, dated July %. 1S3o, says:
 T thank you, My Dear Mir. Short, for Arthur Sweetzers memo. It is very logical and sound. How much better was Governor Coolidges speech of accept ance than that of Senator Harding
 Other correspondence shows that MT. Taft threatened to resign from the pres idency of the league if it took a partisan part in politics and reiterated his belief that Senator Harding will be elected and that tho one hope of securing the leasu with the Lodge reservations is through the republican candidate"
 The Hunt report says the League to Enforce Peace spent $2,500 to finance a letter sent by Samuel Gompers to 5,U0 local unions asking the union members to bring pressure to bear on senators to have them vote for the League of Nations.
 for publication of advertisements in A cities throughout the country and two bills, one of $24.5S3S and the other of slo,5s4-zz from the Western Newspaper Union.
 A letter from Theodore Marburg of Boston. to Secretary short dated August 12, 1aop, says that the most direct road to ratification (of the treaty. is the complete defeat of the political party which has suffered the conscienceless senate band to ride it's neck
 Another letter from Mir. Marburg to MT. Short, written at Baltimore on April @, 1920 discussed an article on the League of Nations written by Hamilton Holt, and adds:
 T strongly urge that the article in question be reprinted in the type and style of a newspaper clipping-that from the Times, preferably-and sent to every, delegate to- the democratic and republican conventions before the meetings of the conventions"
 TAFT STANDS STEADFAST
 The correspondence shows that Pres ident Taft has steadfastly opposed any anticipation of the League to En- force Peace in the present political campaign. A letter to MT. Taft from Mir. Short says:
 T am opposed even to series of questions propounded by the League to Enforce Peace to presidential candi- dates. Such questions cannot but take cn a partisan attitude"
 A carbon copy of an unsigned letter from MT. Shorts files, addressed to MT. Taft under rhe date of August 1s said: Personally \ find myself fcrces and am under the impression myself. have hitherto been republican, are likely to take the same course. Many others will support Harding . considerable reason to believe that canvass goes forward, but his vaciIla- ton and lack of principle do not coni- < mand him to me-"
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