| Show JOHNSON DEMANDS DEMAND EXPLANATION nON IN INWOOD WOOD CASE Session of pf f Senate Is Lively Borah Amendment on Treaties Voted Down By Lewis W Wood oo International News Service Staff Cor respondent WASHINGTON June Juno Jr Agreement l. late today to was as reached In tu the thc senate decide decd tomorrow whether hether to limit de debate debate de- de debate bate In that hody body in the future Final action wilt I thus bo taken on the resolution resolution tion ton submitted by Senator Underwood of ot Alabama and which Republicans charge chargo has presidential approval The Borah amendment to the the resolution resolution provided for tor consideration of ot tion which ton treaties In open session was voted down today 50 to 23 toay The vote voto 6 followed tho presentation by Senator Hitchcock of a letter leter In which the tho president said he did not mean there discussions of ot delicate deli deli- should hould bo be no private del del- cate tate matters Senator maters Underwood was quite certain tonight that his hs resolution would be suc- suc tomorrow Later It was learned that certain Democratic Dem Dem- senators from the South would when the mal make c unexpected resistance vote yote came The They said privately the they came could not forget the days das when an attempt at attempt attempt at- at tempt was made to put ov over r tho the Force bill bi and they feared that limitation of ot debate might result In some measures ohno lous to them resul being voted through I the senate enate A 1 n A 1116 ue ie I. I ULU 0 rV a tors to speak but one hour on a billand bill billand bi and twenty minutes on an amendment but but It was said sid tonight that an amendment amendment amendment amend amend- ment b by Senator Cummins of or Iowa l limits the time to one hour and a a half hal and allows a senator to expend his time as he wishes and also provides that the senate enate nate can enlarge tho the debate by a maJority maJority majority ma ma- vote ote would be substituted JOHNSON DEFENDS WOOD During the debate this afternoon Hiram Johnson of California made a vigorous speech In which ho denounced the tha hu humiliation hu- hu o of General Leonard Wood without without with with- wih- wih out a reason being given to tho the public The cruelest crudest thIn thing In all al this world he said Eald Is the humiliation of a brave If It I It Is necessary to relieve from his command a man like Leonard Wood States why not the tho tell tel leason the people of ot th the United One thing the people of or the United States have a right to know low Is why this ilus was dene dene Why h keep out out of or the tho fighting liia lliE a man so intrepid and so skilled skied Why hr keep out a soldier r who could render lender such valuable and valiant valant service In the theNo thew w WoT r No Xo government on the face of t the earth would treat a ranking general as s General Wood has been treated without an Jn n explanation I make malte no criticism of or thE act for It may have been bee dl dictated by military necessity but I do ask an ex explanation ex- ex of ot why this spirit has lias Luen humbled The fact that there has been no ex explanation ex- ex shows how far we have come The director general generl of ot railroads made madea a recent order raising freight rates 25 per cent cent This was Improvidently made It I may be corrected In some Interstate and Intrastate respects It I Is a a war measure but It has ha destroyed a generations generation's work In the state from which I com come It I has increased rates sometimes an and per cent This Is an example of the tho to peculiar autocratic power that Is being conferred And Arid so 1 I say do not limit debate If It I there Is any wa way of ot restoring the old ohI order order or or- or- or der of things and turning turing the government back to what It it was wa dont don't take It t awa away from us is the th ti n nf n chan changing senate senate rules I tI I object to the Insidious advance upon I what ma may be called caled the ultra liberties ulra o of this t ody body ody There la is a cowed press to today today to- to day and you OU know It It There Thero Is a cowed people today and you OU know It I. I There Thero Is Isa Isa Isa a coe cowed congress today and you know It This Is the last free forum And nd thank God there thero are men on this floor for toda today who will wi stand here and make a last fight for tor the return of ot liberty PRESIDENTS PRESIDENT'S LETTER The pr presidential letter Jeter which defeated the Borah resolution for open diplomacy came as a complete completo surprise It I was as written March 1 12 to Secretary Lansing after atter the rules committee first received Senator Borah's Borab's suggestion Characterizing Character Character- izing It as a conclusive answer a to Senator Senator Senator Sen Sen- ator Borah's Interpretation yesterday esterday of or the presidents president's meaning Senator Hitchcock Hitchcock Hitch Hitch- cock coc chairman of ot the foreign relations committee read the letter as s follows My I dear der Mr r Secretary I wish you OU would be kind enough to formulate a careful cretul and conclusive memorandum memorandum memorandum mem mem- for tor the use Ule of ot the committee of or to the senate with regard to the enclosed resolution I take It for tor granted that you ou feel reel as I do that this Is no time to I act as the resolution prescribes and thinly when I pronounced for tinly open diplomacy dip dip- I meant not there should be no private discussions of or delicate matters maters but that no secret agreements of any sort should be entered into and that all international relations relation s wh when en fixed al should be open above board and explicit Cordially and sincerely yours youra WOODROW WILSON VILSON amendment Republicans who ho voted for th the the Borah Baird Borah Cummins Fall Fal France ance Gronna Johnson CaL Cat Jones Jonc Wash Kellogg Kelogg Kenyon McNary l 1 New Norris Noris Sherman Smith Mich Sterling and Townsend Democrats voting for tor or the amendment wore were Chamberlain Johnson So Dak Nugent Nugent Nu Nu- gent and Vardaman The senator Intimates I 1 have llave put the president In a false fals position said Senator Senator Sena Sena- tor Borah Of Or course I did not mean to do so 50 Do not un understand that I did I J think that tha his language Is subject to misconstruction or misunderstanding I doubt I If my understanding In regard to It Is any different erent from I that of or the thc Ident pres- pres ThIs Is precisely Iv what the president i said Open covenants openly arrived at It H the A words openly arrived at af were not not used It might be different But that means every step taken In public The president Is la not Inept at all aU In the use of ot language and he is evidently very careful cretul In excluding an any possibility of or arriving at secret agreements and making the and agree agree- ments menta known after the People have bou boud bound d been An effort was made by Senator Gallinger Gallin- Gallin ger to limit the time of th the Underwood resolution to January Januar 1 1 1919 1919 but without success BUCIS Senator Owen accused the Republicans I or of filibustering on the resolution Senator Borah Borab says he will wil renew his him fIght session for tor open diplomacy lat later r on In the |
