Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-23
TWO-EDGED ATTACK
ON NAVAL TREATY
SEEN IN CONGRESS
Chairmen of Senate and
House Committees Make
Plans for Investigation.
BORAH LIKEWISE WANTS
TO ASK SOME QUESTIONS
Britten Plans to Summon Secre-
tary Adams and Admirals Who
Acted as Advisers.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A two-edged attack on the London
naval treaty was forecast today in
Congress.
With the new international agree
ment scarcely "a hours old, the chair
men of both Senate and House naval
committees made plans to investigate.
Falling in with the proposal of Chair
man Hale of the Senate committee that
the naval experts who were in London
with the delegation be questioned,
Chairman Britten of the House COM
mittee announced that his committee
also would ask Navy officers why some
features of American naval policy were
abandoned" in London.
Chairman Borah of the Senate for
eign relations committee likewise wants
to ask some questions, although he has
indicated that he probably will favor
ratification.
Britten TO Summon Delegates.
Britten said he would summon Sec
rotary Adams of the Navy Department,
one of the American delegates, and four
admirals who acted as advisers at Lon
don. He would like to hear, he said,
why the United States agreed to build
fewer s-inch cruisers and more 6-inch
cruisers than had been favored by the
Navy general board.
His hearing he said, would take place
in May, shortly after the return OF
the delegation.
While the Senate alone is required
to ratify treaties, the House has had an
equal part in the shaping OF Navy
building plans, and Britten hopes that
whatever is developed in the House
hearings will have its effect at the other
end of the Capitol.
Hale Studies Text Of Pact.
Meanwhile the leaders of the Senate
continued the reticence that has cf1arac-
terized their course with regard to the
new pact since the announcement that
an agreement had been reached. Hale
was engaged in a close study OF the
text of the pact and in the preparation
Of an address, which he said he would
make shortly"
The naval committee chairman has
strongly indicated that the treaty does
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as embodying a departure from the
American policy of building up its feet
of large cruisers of wide steaming
radius.
Borah Holds Strategic Post.
Senator Borah of Idaho has given the
treaty his conditional Endorsement. AS
chairman of the foreign relations COM
mittee, he holds a position Of great
strategic importance in the coming de-
bate. The treaty will be referred to his
committee, which must pass upon 1t
before the Senate takes it up for rat1-
fication or rejection. President Hoover
has decided to transmit the pact to the
Senate as soon as the certified copy Is
received from London, and Borah has
announced that every effort will be
made to expedite it in committee.
AS yet there has been little indica-
ton of a definite voting lineup for or
against the treaty. A two-thirds vote
is necessary for ratification. Those in
close touch with the situation believe
that the support of Reed, Robinson and
Borah will prove an important influence
in the coming discussion.
Senator Reed said yesterday In a
radio address from London that the
members of the American delegation
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