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Show BORAH BEGINS FIGHT MSniEITIES Declares They Will Be Beaten if Considered in Open Senate. "WASHINGTON, July 6. Senator Borah of Idaho today began a fight in the senate to force consideration of the Colombian and Nicaraguan treaties in open session. Ho presented a resolution also calling for the publication of all investigations by the roreign relations committee. It was put over until to- i morrow under the rules. "If I cannot get the consent of the senate to have this Nicaraguau' treaty considered in the open," said Senator Borah, "I will be forced to disregard the rules of the, senate. I have not attended at-tended a single session of the committee commit-tee Bince the present hearings began because I did not propose to submit the results of my investigation to the clamp of secrecy m executive session. If the Xicaraguan treaty is brought out into the open it will die, as it ought to die. 1 believe it is the outgrowth of decep-; decep-; tion, misrepresentation, fraud, tyranny and corruption, and I am prepared to I show it. 5 J Senator Borah declared the treaty 1 was not being negotiated "with the i people of Nicaragua or the officers they nave set up and elected, but with puppets pup-pets we ourselves have set up in their government. ' ' Under the rules the resolution went over until tomorrow. A resolution to investigate how the secret doings of the committee get into the newspapers was adopted. |