Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-03-23
TREATY FOES TRY
To RECOMM|T It

WASHINGTON, March 21.-Pres-
entation in the senate today of a
letter from Secretary Hughes deny
ing fatty that any secret agreement
exists for future British-American
cooperation, led today to another
effort by opponents of the four-pow-
er treaty to- send it back to commit
tee. The effort brought on a warm
debate.
The secretary's letter, character
iZing suggestions of such an agree
ment as absolutely false" was laid
before the senate by Senator Lodge,
the Republican leader and a men,
Der of the arms delegation who, at
the same time put into the record a
telegram from Paul D. Cravath, the
New York attorney, denying the ac-
curacy of a statement on the same
subject attributed to him by Sen
ator Borah, Republican Ida1o.
Reiterating a denial made in q
former communication that any Sc
cret agreements existed with other
powers in connection with IT, arms
conference, Mr.. Hughes wrote in to-
days letter that he hoped to see no
further aspersions upon the veraCi-
I
gates.
Mr.. Cravath's telegram embodied
the statement Issued by him last
night in New York, in which he de-
clared that the words attributed to
him in the statement read by Sen
ator Borah in the senate yesterday,
were either inaccurately quoted, or
did not correctly convey his mean
n of 70 ~
which Mr.. Borah quoted him as say
ing he had been told of the under
standings" by every member of the
American delegation, Mr.. Cravath
said he had in fact never talked with
any delegate on any subject ere
motely resembling" the alleged in
ternational agreement.
Wn~t ~ E,n'+
The text of Secretary Hughes let.
ter, when W,t., addressed to Senator
Lodge, follows:
MY dear Senator:
81 notice that the latest charge
in the course of the debate over the
four power treaty is that there is
a secret agreement or understand
ing between this government and
Great Britain with respect to Pacific
matters. Any such statement is alb
solutely false. We have no secret
understanding or agreements with
Great Britain in relation to the four
power treaty or any other matter.
'In my letter to Senator Under
wood on March II, in relation to the
four-poWer treaty, 1 said:
There are no secret notes or I'M
derstandings.'
Permit me to express the hope
that the American delegates will
be saved further aspersions upon
their veracity and honor"
After the Cravath telegram had
been read, Senator Borah reread it
to the senate and declared that "if
that kind of a plea had been made
in court, the court, of course, would
have assessed a judgment of
! guilty against the man that made
1t" He laid particular stress upon
statement in the telegram, say
ing that Mr.. Cravath has revised
his remarks and that the printed,
corrected version circulated later
presented his real views.
Then, reading from a printed
pamphlet issued by the council of
foreign relations in New York, en-
bodylng discussion among its
members taking place on February
L., Senator Borah put into the rec
ord once more the exact quotation
from Mr.. CraVath that he had pre-
sented yesterday.
"This, it must be remembered, is
Mr.. Cravath's revised, corrected YER
sion," continued the Idaho senator.
and did not get this document
by stealing it. 1t was given to me
by a gentleman who is a member of
this corporation, who was present
when the discussion took place and
who says this is what was said.
Mr.. Cravath refers in his tele-
gram to u charge of q British.
American understanding made by
me. l do not know what he means