The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-11
u. 5. 'HOGTIED'
BY SEA PACT,
Senate TOLD
Great Britain HamStrung Us
on Terms, Says Naval
Affairs Chief.

On CHtttU fFeHS
WASHINGTON, July 11.-Presi-
dent Hoover refused today to sub
NIT to the senate secret documents
in connection with negotiation of
the London naval treaty, declaring
that their publication would on
Stitute "a betrayal of trust" on
the part of the United States"
BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, July 11.-Great
Britain hamstrung and hogtied the
United States by terms of the Lon
don naval treaty, Chairman Hale
of the naval affairs committee told
the senate today in a plea for re-
lection of the pact.
Hale said Secretary of State
Stimson was actuated into signing
the treaty by blind belief and conf
dence there would not be another
war. He criticised Stimson for the
latter'S rebuke to naval officers for
opposition to the treaty and said
they should be commended for
their honest statements of opinions.
THE United States navy" Hale
said, "the first line of defense of the
country, its guarantee of continued
national life, has become little more
than a trading asset, armed with
which a secretary of state rode forth
to win his Spurs. A treaty he must
bring home. If to get that treaty
a sacrifice of national security is
necessary, that is a trivial matter.
The sacrifice must be made-the
spurs must be won."
Understood Needs
"They understood" Hale said Of
naval officers, "the problems of war
and they realize that what the &C.
rotary of state calls the preventive
measures OF international relations,
which are intended to make war
less likely, may or may not operate
successfully"
The senator said the British state
ment of their absolute naval mini
mum comprised the exact figures
subsequently incorporated in the
London treaty.
81 am getting very tired Hale
continued, "of having this country
of ours dragged into conferences on
limitations of ornaments that have
not been prepared for properly, and
then being told that unless We re-
cede from some contention vital to
our interests the conference must
t1I. Why can not We put the onuS
of failure upon some other shoul-
ders than our own?" AS a matter
Of fact, at London we were the only
people willing actually to make sac
r~ifces."
Lists Three Points
Hale listed three major points
dpon which objections to the treaty
were based:
/. The safeguard clause permit
ting Great Britain to exceed treaty
levels at any time to meet French
building.
:. Reduction of the number of
1%0,000-ton, eight-inch gun cruisers
requested by the board and aban-
Comment of the prior policy of de-
voting all cruisers tonnage to that
type of vessel.
8. Increase in the Japanese ra-
ito.
Hale said Japan had increased her
ratio FROM 60 to 70 per cent at Lon
don and probably would want parity
at the next conference.
Barely Raise Quorum
The senate almost failed to pro-
duce a quorum when it met at 11:30
a. m, but after two roll calls and
Just as Majority Leader Watson
rose to propose that the sergeant
alarms be instructed to corral alb
sent senators. the forty-ninth men,
Der appeared in the person of SEN
ator Howell (Rep., Neb.).
1t was indicated today that
President Hoover would refuse the
senate any of the secret documents
in negotiation Of the treaty, in re-
Spouse to the Mcclellan resolution
passed Thursday, which asked for
any of the papers whose publica-
ton would not be incompatible
with the public interest.
The President is expected to reply
formally in a statement later.