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Show SNA TE BEGINS LONG EXPECTED TREA TY DEB A TE: ' fl 1 j Johnson Asks for Copy vj of Text of Treaty; Re- ! j quest Condemned by 1 1 Hitchcock of Nebraska, i j Lodge and Thomas Join I; m Colloquy; Resolu- ij : tion Resisted by Ad- ! ministration Members. ; ' 'il; WASHINGTON', May L'J. First debato 1 in connection with the peace treaty at j; the extraordinary session of congress be- ' 'j '! , gan today in the senate with the calling: j '; up by Senator Johnson, Tic publican, uf j ; California, of his resolution asUtng (no : j ' i state department to furnish the senate : ,j ; with a copy of the text of the treaty. j Senator Johnson said tho treaty has j been made public in Germany and, turn- j1 ing to the Democratic side of the chain- 1 ! ber, declared the only reason for nut " giving it out here "is that ,vouvo some- u: tiling to conceal." Senator .1-1 Itch cock, , ! 1 Democrat, of Nebraska, retiring chair- j man of the foreign relations eoinniiiioo, said the resolution violated senate pro- J cedure and urged that it bo referred to ! : ! committee. : Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts, thu 1 '! Republican leader, declared there could ' 'j j be no impropriety in asking for the text ,' ! ; of tho treaty, which, ho said, was now ' I i being road by "every German store- ' t keeper." AN'hen adjournment was taken j ' Senator Johnson's resolut ion was made ,' j the unfinished business of tho senate uo , j I that it will come up again Monday. ' li HITCHCOCK DENIES V JOHNSON'S ARGUMENT. ; !; Senator Johnson declared it should be , j "obvious and axiomatic" that the Ameri- can senate and people were entitled to : .' , : , full information about .so important a t matter. He pointed out that portions of ' ! tho treaty had been published in Ger- ; , ; many. ' j :- Senator Hitchcock, of Nebraska, infr- ' ; ! rupted to ask if there wcro not an agre e- meut against publication among all thu ' j peace delegates. Semator Johnson replied: ; "1 do not know and I do not care," adding that such an agreement would ' ( : have been unfair to the American pub-' ' ' lie "Tho only reason on earth for not g;v- . : Ing out the text is that you've- something ,j : to conceal," cont in ucd Sena lor Johuton. ' Sutiatur Ititjhcoek argued tlmt the re - . j ! , olution violated prucednrc l.y caMim; , fl , upon (lie f?(;itt! dcparlincnt instead of tho ' president for the text. 1 HAS POWER TO TEAK ! TREATY TO PIECES. D:scuslng the president's cons! 1 1 utlon - , i al power to negotiate ti'Cjti'.s, Senator intchcock bald the senate never in I'd years had a.ked for a treaty befnro il ; was completed. "The president Iiaa the po'.vcr to tear . . it to piece:;." baid Mr. II!t:hcccK, refer- ' ' I ring to the present trcat.v. "and ndver i , send it to the senate:." Senaior Jlit.h-: cock declared it wmld be: ";it.;'ului civ in- . 1 decent" for the seiuiie to p;i.-;:: miI-Ii a . resolution at ibis t ime. " , f:o,,i e-;-ti come of it." be dee';; n d. " J r wouiiJ I n '. regarded as an hidieat ijii thai the- m u a t.y want h to ren'i.-r muce rJif ficul t tho : settlemetit f t f pf;icc." . ' Gharactcri7,irur SlmihIuj- I 111 i'Ih''h'1;'m guinrnt as "lh" '.eriesL t"ii 1 1 n re i ,' ' f-.r-n;( -tor JiMinvm d.'c':i'fd: "It 'A-mld be Jii : very e.yiie.j of njv. : id lei.- lo be ;ir''-;tiJ ij a::k for that to kirh ue are entitled." THOMAS MOVES TO AMEND RESOLUTION. Scn;itrr Tnonias. I 'eit"iei-:it . r-f Goto-VJieJf. Goto-VJieJf. Himlher UK niber ,,f tin- fere'n ic-lijiiourt ic-lijiiourt emtimiiif . mow d to em'-i-d t V. o re-Lolulioii :.ej il would -a l',r 'be (i-'-aiy l I e I on U i I" "publie:i t ion s e.jiM m t - ible ui,)i tin- pljbiie inl-n-e l." lie ;.!) it ' . never b;td h'.'-n t b-- pi ;)! ii ' Ut : - neJ the :''-n;.f .jr in;.ke publi' ! u--h int-rnH-tlon;il d-M-innen i s uu'il ilj.-v b;d b'-eii ac-cete-l ,y 1 h- it:ilion ; 1 1 1 r - s I ' - d . Senu'ur , Kepubl i'-; 1 1 b-Jider. m;i :d 1 (liere v. us no in;l'reri.'l y in ( he. M'ii;i'o res..hl( in p. hi ;i.J.j. fj IlKll e. n il' thu ' serial e p;.i';f-d il l.iie: president v.ould m-L ' ' ' gjvi.- l-1f 1 Im; t f. t . "Then v.r-'rr- v.:"-th,p time.'' Senator ' Th"-Mii!' inlcrj. elefi. Hie K.-puhh.-.-ni I'.-mI-t' r-plied, :,rnilr.'. "v ec .-,(iii!ig f 1 1 - m on iu t'in ' ' he v. l.:,.; lM.lfj fJf ij,.-n cMcnuni1- of pe;,.;j op'eil;,- am ed ;i I .' " "If I hr. ;i rt vl uMrr In cj., v, f ( 1 the i ; . I.rr;,ty," Mr. Lodge udde-j, nor d"'t 'be polley f.T e-pen ,(,- ( 1 , ;j. , , ; of '. pr-H'-e- "jw -nix ;,j-rived ;.t, lieeiu:.c it b;.;) pr. :- fnlefj i he hii,;i s....----t allium;, I , , (Continued on Page (J, Cohiuui U-) , ;' dlFOII STARTS SENATE BAIL ROLLING (Continued from PasoOnoO thiit history can ronU. T shall ask (ho! twinte I" treat It with plain even pitiless piti-less publicity. v SEES NO IMPROPRIETY IN ASKING FOR PACT. in'hf '"Tni-oprioty is there in our hav-"5 hav-"5 t,' ''?' "f 'IT Mr. LoUbo com;.,- d,-nft )',wnKnS ,hat '" of nations a aft had been made public, then amended amend-ed and made worse than ft was, and then apain made public. 1 'N!m', ,th.ey ily" he coneludod, "that wo shouldn t have the text or the treatv iiift fday" 0erma" storekeeper is read- T-ri'.T,1"3 ,?en,a,r" mistaken." Senator Hitchcock Interjected "I don't beiieve It. that I'm mistaken " benator Lodge replied, and added- Ky what authority does the senator mako the statement?" "By the best authority now in Washington, Wash-ington, Senator Hitchcock replied "That authority is worth no more than we have here," Senator Lodge responded Spectators in the gallery laughed. Lodge's Denial. A charge by Senator Robinson, Democrat, Demo-crat, of Arkansas, that the Republicans had attempted to make a partisan issue of the league drew a. denial from several Republican senators. The subject never was discussed at any conference of senate sen-ate Republicans, declared Senator Lodge in replying to a request for information about his .telegram asking Republican senators not to discuss the treaty until there had been a meeting. I Senator Robinson said Mr. Lodge's telegram tel-egram had been "accepted bv the press of the entire nation as an attempt to make the league a party question, " i adding: "And I think that was a logical conclusion." |