The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-26
Secretary Hughes to Appear Be-
fore Senate Committee.
Republicans Fear Demand for
Revision of Pact.
SEN. BORAH LEADS REBELS
IrreeOnciIabIes Fight for Re-
written FOur-POwer Treaty.
Democrats Refuse to Announce
How They VIII Line Up.

washington. Dec. 26.-The possible
danger of the four-power Pacific
treaty being tied up indefinitely, re-
written or having reservations attached
to it in the senate foreign relations
committee, was already engaging the
attention Of Republican leaders of the
senate today.
A combination of the 'irreconcil-
ables' and the Wilson senators on the
committee would take the control of
the situation out of the hands of
Senator Lodge, the committee chair
man it was pointed out
Want Inside Facts.
Senator Lodge. Republican, of
Idaho, leader of the ''irreconcilables,'
is one of the most active Of the COM
mfttee members. He and Senator
Lodge will meet face to face across
the committee table and BOrah mas
announced his intention of question
ing Lodge closely, not only with re-
gard TO the four-power pact but re-
garding everything else that has trans
pired at the secret sessions of the
armament conference.
It is understood that BOrah will
also seek to have the sessions of the
foreign relations committee made pub
lie when it is considering the four
power and other treaties negotiated
at the armament conference
When the Versailles treaty was be-
fore the committee, il held a series
of open sessions a which Secretary
of State Lansing and other American
delegates at the Versailles conference
revealed much that had taken place at
its secret sessions.
It is also recalled that the full for
eign relations committee visited the
White House to interrogate President
Wilson regarding the Versailles pact
and that what took place between him
and the committee members was sub
sequently made public.
Hughes Ready to Tell.
Secretary Hughes is understood to
have expressed a Willingness to appear
before the committee and 1t is also
expected that President Harding will
receive the committee at the White
House after the four-power and the
other conference treaties are sub
mitted to the senate and formally re-
ferred to the committee.
The lineup in the committee IS eX-
pected to foreahadow the lineup in
The senate on the decisions of the con-
ference. the committee being repre-
sentative of the divergence of the
opinion. which has developed among
senators of both parties regarding the
four-power and other treaties.
There are seventeen members of the
committee thru whose hands all of
the treaties must pass before they can
be ratified by the senate.
Democrats NOncommittaI.
The Republican members number
eight besides Lodge and Borah-Mc-
Cumber. of North Dakota; Brandegee,
of Connecticut; Johnson, of Califor-
mia; New, of Indiana; Moses, of New
Hampshire; Kellogg, Minnesota; Nc
COrmick, of Illinois, and Wadsworth,
OF New York. The six Democratic
members are Hitchcock, of Nebraska;
Williams. of Mississippi; Swanson, of
Virginia; Pomerene. of Ohio; Pitts
man. of Nevada, and Shields, of Ten
nessee.
Shields has declared he will vote
against the four-power treaty. He
was an "irreconcilable' in the League
of Nations fight, lining up with
Borah, Johnson, Moses and McCor-
mick. McCumber and kellogg were
mild 'reservationists." All OF the
Democratic committee members are
poncommittal regarding the new
treaty except Shields