Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1921-12-29
BORkH TO BARE
PACT SENATE
Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee Lineup a Bogey
to Lodge.
WANTS MEETINGS IN OPEN
idaho Senator Seeks to Have the Ses-
sions of the Foreign Relations
Committee Made Public
Forecast of Lineup.

Washington, Dec. 27.-Danger Of
the Horsepower Pacific treaty being
tied up indefinitely. rewritten or hav-
ing reservations attached to Ii In the
senate foreign relations committee Is
engaging the attention of Republican
leaders ;iere.
A combination OF "irrecOncilables"
and Wilson senators would take con-
troll out of the hands Of Senator Lodge,
The committee chairman.
Senator Borah, leader OF the cir
reconciIables," Is one OF the most ac-
tive committee members. He and
senator Lodge will meet face to face
across the committee table and
Borah says he will question Lodge
closely, not only with regard to the
four-power pact, but regarding every
thing that has TRANSFERRED at the secret
sessions.
Wants Committee Open.
II is understood that Borah will also
seek to have the sessions of the for
eign relations committee made public
when II is considering the four-power
and other treaties negotiated at the
armament conference.
When the Versailles treaty was be-
fore the committee, Ii held series Of
open sessions at which Secretary OF
State Lansing and other American
delegates at Versailles revealed much
that had taken place at secret ses-
sions
II Is 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.
Secretary Hughes Is understood to
have expressed willingness to APP
pear before the committee when II
takes up the decisions Of the confer
ence and II is also expected that Pres
ident Harding viii receive the commit
Tee at the White House after the four
power and other conference treaties
are submitted TO the senate and for
TtItTTtU III lilt
Lineup Is Forecast.
The lineup in the committee Is ex-
pected TO foreshadow the lineup in the
senate on the decision of the confer.
ence, the committee being representa-
tive OF the divergence of opinion
which has developed among senators
or both parties regarding the four
power and other treaties.
There are l6 members Of the com
mittee through whose hands all of
the treaties must pass before they can
he ratified by the senate II is re-
called that the Versailles treaty
emerged from the committee In form
much altered from that In which Mr..
Wilson submitted Il to the senate,
The Republican members plumber
eight besides Lodge and Borah-JAIc-
Cumber, North Dakota: Brandegee,
Connecticut; Johnson, California
New. Indiana: Moses. New Hamp-
shire; Kellogg, Minnesota. McCor-
mick. Illinois, and Wadsworth, New
York.
The six Democratic members are:
Hitchcock. Nehraska Williams, Mis-
sissippi; Swanson, Virginia.: Pomer-
enc. Ohio; Pittman. Nevada, aud
Shields. Tennessee.
Shields has said he will vote
against the four-power treaty. He
wis an "irreconcllnble" In the League
of Nations fight, lining up with
Borah, Johnson. Moses and McCor-
mick.
McCumber and Kellogg are mild
reservations" All of the Democratic
committee members are non-commit-
tai regarding the new treaty except
Shields.