Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-03-21
SENATE IN ROW OVER
ANGL0-U. s. TREATY
TO RULE PACIFIC
Senator Borah ExpIodes Bomb;
Lodge and Underwood Make
Hot Denials.
REPORT CALLED FICTION
galtiuore Sun.

Raltimore sun.
Washington. March 2o.-There was
read 20 the Senate today that Great
Britain and the United States have
reached secret sympathetic under
standing" for domination OF Japan by
an Anglo American feet in the Pacific"
preclpitated an angry debate over the
pending four-power treaty.
pcmoCratic and Republican Sena-
tors. irrespective OF partisan align
ments- INDUCED In verbal melee,
euch as is seldom Witnessed In either
branch uf Congress. Thinly veiled
personalities were hurled. Senators
were accused by their colleague of
Ignorance" and opponents of the
foW-pcwer Pacific pact We're charged
with attempting TO defeat Il by "elan1
der and innuendo."
Borah Expiodcs First Bomb.
II Was Senator William Il. Borah OF
Idaho. irrcconcilahle Republican oppo-
nent Of the Pacific treaty. who ex-
pioded the first bomb by reading to
the Senate what purported 10 be a
stcnogrsphic copy OF the report on
the Washington Armament Confer
cnce made by Paul c. Cravath of New
York. an attorney with an inter-
national reputation. 20 the council for
foreign relations of the New York
Bankers Association.
According to the Cravath statement,
ae rsescntcd to the Senate by Senator
Borah, ne had bcCn told by every
member OF the American delegation
that the result OF the Washington
Conference has been an understanding
between Great Britain and the United
States. 81 that IN all future cmergen-
cics they can count on having the
closest cooperation"
Lodge and Underwood Reply.
Two Of the four American delegates
20 the Washington Conference. Sena-
tore Lodge Of Massachusetts,, Republi-
can floor leader, and Underwood O;
Alahama. Democratic floor leader, i'm
mediately arose 20 brand the state
mcnts as untrue.
Senator Underwood said he did not
recall over having met Mr. Cravatf
and Senator Lodge declared he never
talked with him on the sIbje-rt. Both
assorted positively and directly that
so far as they know. no such under.
standing existed or ever had been dis
cus~ei Senator Lodge became e.
wrought up that Il was with difficulty
ne spoke. He cascaded sentences.
Robinson at the top of his voice. his
face fery red. swinging his arm round
and round like a pitcher warming up
for a ball game. The Arkansan con
tinued:
Would Send For Bafour.
III he knows no more about thi,
treaty and what led us TO 1t than th'
Senators from Massachusetts and Ala
hama. tho attempt 10 get Information
from him would be useless. Send fo
Mr.. Rsifour. Somewhere, someSod,
knowss
Secret treaties" replied Senatu
Lodge when Senator Robinson ha'
ceased pounding his desk and ha'
taken his seat, are impossible unde
cur form OF Government. Nothin,
has been concealed with reference Z
this or any OF the other Washington
pacts.
Confer With Harding.
The exchange between Senator
Lodge and Robinson took place shor,
other prominent figures IN his part
organization had canvassed the whol
treaty situation AT n White Hous
conference with President HARDIN
Besides MIR. Lodge those who wei
present included Chairman John
Adams. OF the Republican Nations
Committee; Senator Mccormick,
Illinois. chairman OF the party's Ser
Rtorial campaign committee. and Ser
Gior Curtis OF Kansas, Republica
whip Of the Senate.
Despite the brands OF untrue" al
piled 70 the alleged Cravath statemen
Senator Borah asked that II be printe
IN the Congressional Record. He laude
Mr.. Cravath as leader OF the Amer
can bar and said he was obliged
believe in his "credibility," adding th'
he must know what he is tallxin
about" The Idaho Senator assertt
that "in international politics we ca
never be sure what we are being let
for or what is actually IN the back
the heads OF men who sign the.
treaties"
Amazed at His Request.
j am amazed, SAID senator nde
wood. that after half the America
delegation states on the floor OF IN
body that the statements are witho'
foundation. the Senator should ask
have them printed in the Record.
! were not on the floor OF this Sena
] would use a stronger word in cha
acterizing the statements as untrue
Senator Robinson, of Arkansas.
Democratic irreconcilable in the fou
power pact, insisted that the Crava
report had spread a new cloud
doubt" over the negotiations which r
suited in the pact and asked wheth
there are any more secret unde
standings" OF which the Scnat
from Massachusetts and the Senat
from Alabama are ignorant?"