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Show . SENATE INQUIRY. rrosUont YVilsun lias sent word to Sonat.or llito'.K-ook of Nebraska, saying thai, l-.o hopes that the investigation by the senate foreign relations committee of how copies of the peaeo treaty reached private interests in New York would be thoroughly prosecuted. The "resident, takes the ground that it is 'hUhly undesirable officially to com-nir.p.Kate com-nir.p.Kate the text cf a document which is si ill in negotiation and subject to change."' He concludes that anyone who has possession of tho official Eivl s'.i text ''has what ho is clearly not entitled to have or to communicate."' communi-cate."' Copies of the official l'nglish text, however, have appeared in this country, and the senate has possession of cue' which is to appear in tho Con-cressienal Con-cressienal Keeord. How theso copies were obtained will probably develop at the in .Lie-. racier Hunt, correspondent correspon-dent o" the Chicago Tribune, who secured se-cured a copv of tho treaty in Paris, savs t'.iev are comparatively easy to obtain, prcbab'.y through unofficial chautn'l. PriaVir Borah's charge that the o-calie.l o-calie.l 'interests" in w York had been firuished with copies of the treat r ,v';1 receive prompt attention, the foreign rei.iiions committee having sul Den ied Jaccb Schiff, Thomas F. La-71.0:1-, il. T- Davison, Paul Warburg, ,T. P. M.-.r-.'an and Frank A. Vandcrlip to q p -a- and tutify. Mr. Lament was reri- -:ed to bring with him any corre-ppoadnp'e corre-ppoadnp'e which passed between J. P. M.-.r':t:t i ( oaipaay . and its Paris and l.f!-t:'.n r.grr.-s rcg;irding the treaty, and i s r i ' u 1 a r ! v anv con.m nieations on t!... Mib;e-t between the banking ho-.se ., i ?:r. Iiavi.-on while the latter was abro ;!. This would seem to indicate r. i-i-j.i-;i,r that Mr. Divi-rn, head of the Ararh an 1:. 1 Cross, tvji devoting at. l-'.i-t jart of his time to looking af-er the financial ir.terntj of the Mor-r,.n Mor-r,.n et a-.ranv. Mr. Vandcrlip was until r,- :. tie yr-V: lent o' the National C-.ty I cf New York, lie has been cn f 1 in war work ever since the Vri.t :d .S-a-es cn'ered the struggle, and r-i his hank pos'rion upon his return re-turn from Europe hut week. If it is P-,? -t, obtain copies of th; trv.Vy, as i'r:'-l-ir Hunt bays it is, it would not h.'-irv for J. P. Morgan & rrr.-rnrv rrr.-rnrv ; nd the N.vimnl ity Hank of N v York to en:p'oy Mi. Davison and lip in the capai.i'.y inlicaied br -h-- coairi.ittre. subi.T.-i. However, it" w.il ir, no harm to place them on the v. i- r.-: fcl and. It is n-.t pr..i. .-.bio that the president wiil i-oT.piv with tho request made in -t'u- J..'.r.-nn senate resolution that an o:T:.-i:.l co-.y of tho treaty be nnt to the foreign relations) cot mil tee, tinm tj. rtftr.'.-rs of the conference have pic1 g. "1 t h'-n. selves not to communicate ti.e t.-i, of the treaty until the final (!i.,i'.g. s find alterations have been made and the document signed. Mr. Wilson wo.il le guii'y of breach of faith si.'. i. 1 h" comply with the senate's re-,;,.,. re-,;,.,. J'.nt ti.e faet remains that there arc copies of the treaty in the United S'af-.s, and that a copy has come, into thr; p.i-ic si'.n of the s.na'e. Now that ti.e ir.v. Igation has r,-n ordered, it is be hope.l that the whole matter v.-i!! be :!eroughly ventilated, rcgardlens e.,c-c. itn.'i i. It has been hinted 1 1. a', ,- mvnihftr of tho American d"le-ga' d"le-ga' on :. I't.ris has bc'r.iycd confirlcnce in-'h 1 hii'l.W important matter. If so, it. ,j,.,ni'l not be a difficult matter to rp'r u him. T'n- rply of tin allied and nssoci-;;t- I g.,ve,-n.f.ents to the Gorman counter-,.; ot -c.ahi will bo d-.livcred next Fri-itv. Fri-itv. Th" Hans will then have five t,,v'i in which to accept or reject the !r"a'y. As it is generally b'dieved they v.l;l '.ign v.i'i.r.i.t, further ado the of-f.i:,! of-f.i:,! c.pv olio.il-l be in 'lie hands of '!,. a n.-.te for rejec'ion nr ratilieation l.v !! , fir;', of July. Until it arrives !;. f'ir'-i;.ri r'l;; t ioii'i committee, hav-in-, ;:', '.-: to do, will ).rol.nbly con- ti,,,;e tl,.- i I . " " t'i-'flti'.H. |