Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-09
SENATE ROW RACES
OVER SECRECY OF
NAVAL DOCUMENTS
Vote Expected to Be Close on
Request to Hoover for
All Data.
WORRIES OF LEADERS
ABOUT QUORUM INCREASE
Departure of Two Members for Eu-
rope Cuts Margin to
Danger Point.
BY the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
Advocates of the Mcclellan resolu-
ton calling on President Hoover for
the international correspondence lead
ing up to negotiation of the London
naval treaty renewed their arguments
ut the opening of the Senate today
while administration leaders pressed for
an early vote.
After bare quorum of 40 Senators
answered the roll call, Senator Black,
Democrat, Alabama, called for adop-
ton of the resolution on the ground
that it involved a right of the Senate
and was not a question of publicity.
Treaty proponents were not so much
concerned over the document resolution
as they were over the delay it might
cause in reaching vote on the treaty
itself.
Hale Ready TO Speak.
Senator Hale, Republican, of Maine,
chairman of the Naval Committee, was
waiting for a vote on the Mcclellan pro-
posal with 10,000-word speech against
the treaty. He hoped to make the adj
dress before the day was over.
This question of the informal nego-
tiationS transcends in Importance the
question of the treaty itself, Black said.
Il voted for a favorable report on the
treaty in committee. l expect to vote
for it in the Senate. shall vote, how
ever, if motion is made to that effect,
to postpone a vote until the rights of
the Senate have been recognized and
respected"
The Alabaman contended the Presi-
of 4Ln
files in the State Department and that
the Secretary of State was responsible
to Congress and not to the Chief
Executive.
Senator Mcclellan, Democrat, Ten
nessee, author of the document resolu-
ton and an opponent of the treaty,
placed in the record a letter from Mrs.
William Cumming Story. former presi-
dent of the Daughters of the American
Revolution, comphmenting his opposi-
ton to the pact. She wrote she was
delay in ratification.
Not Expected to Yield.
There was no expectation in the
Senate that Mr. Hoover would comply
with the request in the event of
Mcclellan said the matter would be
ended if the President again declines
to give over the documents
Mr. Hoover has given the Foreign
Relations Committee some of the docu-
ments, but others he withheld. These
are messages exchanged between the
State Department and Ambassador
Dawes at London. There have been
limitations they were not given to
the committee because of the picturesque
Language used by the outspoken Am
bassador.
Senator Reed, Republican. Pennsyl-
vania, a member of the delegation to
the London Conference, has offered to
show the opponents of the treaty the
messages in question in confidence,
but they have refused this offer, MAIN
tanning they are entitled to the docu-
ments for such use as they see fit to
make of them.
Worry About Quorum.
Sponsors of the treaty we're given
added worries over the problem of
keeping a quorum of the Senate present
today by the departure of two Demo-
cratic members, Barley of Kentucky
and Connally of Texas, for Europe.
Two quorum calls yesterday each re-
vealed so members one over the neces-
sary 40, to be present. The attend
ance Is constantly shifting, however
and administration leaders were conf
dent other Senators would be present
today and in the future to offset the
departure of Barley and Connally.