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Show SECY. LANSING HAD GOLD CHILLS WASHINGTON, Sept. 12. -Tho assertion as-sertion that Secretnry Lansing opposed oppos-ed ratification of tho peaco treaty and league of ant Ions covenant, although ho was a member of the American peaco commission that drafted It, was flung today boforo the senate foreign lelatlons commlttco by Win. C. liulltt of Philadelphia, formerly eployed by the mission at Paris in a confidential capacity. Near the closp of a three hour hearing, however, 'Chairman Lodge asked how tho treaty and its covenant coven-ant was regarded at Paris. Secretary Secre-tary Lansing, Henry White and Gen-oral Gen-oral Bliss, nil members of the American Amer-ican commission, "expressed vigorous vigor-ous opinions," Bulltt said, adding, In reply to nn Inquiry by tho chairman thut these opinions were not enthusiastic. enthu-siastic. The most sensational statement attributed at-tributed by tho witness to the secretary secre-tary of stato was that "If tho senate and tho American peoplo knew what tho treat- meant It would be defeated." defeat-ed." Senator Knox really would understand un-derstand the treaty, Mr. Lansing said, according to the witness and "Mr. Lodge would, but Mr. Lodge's position would become purely political." politi-cal." Bulllt, formerly a newspaper correspondent, cor-respondent, went to Paris with Prcsl-(Contlnued Prcsl-(Contlnued on Page Four) SECY. LANSING HAD COLD CHILLS (Costlnued from Page One) ' dent Wilson's party and was attached attach-ed to the mission. He was summoned summon-ed to testify before tho committee, but was In the Maine woods on a camping trip and the notice did not reach him until a. few days ago. This was explained by Chairman Lodge to show why tho hearing apparently had been reopened. , "Mr. Lansing told mo the day I resigned," the witness said, "that he was opposed to that part bf tho league covenant relating to a mandate man-date for Armenia. He tsaid ho considered con-sidered the Shantung award and the leaguo of nations bad that the league would be entirely useless; that tho nations had arranged the world to suit themselves and that England and France got what they wanted. "After saying that he believed the senate would defeat the treaty if it realized its meaning, Mr. Lansing expressed ex-pressed tho opinion that Senator Knox really would understand the treaty, that Mr. Lodge would, but that Mr. Lodge's position 'would become be-come purely political.' " The committee senators burst Into a round of laughter and Bullit said he begged to bo excused from reading read-ing any more from the memorandum of his. conversations. '' ' It'was near the c'lo'ie of an extended extend-ed examination during whlctT!Bullitt explained that he had been sent to Russia to Investigate conditions and had later resigned from the mission because he was out of sympathy' with the treaty aud the league covenant fiat he was asked by Senator Lodge baw the American delegates stood. Secretary Lansing, Henry White and Beneral Bliss all expressed vigorous vig-orous opinions regarding the treaty, he said. Senator Lodge asked If the opinions wero enthusiastic: "I regret to say they were not," said Bullit. It was no secret in Paris, he said that Lansing, White and Bliss objected ob-jected vigorously to numerous pro-. visions of the treaty. j When Senator Lodge said he thought tho secretary's opinion onj Shantung was known. Bullit added: "I think Secrotay Lansing was not at all enthusiastic about the league of nations.' Bullitt's report on conditions in Russia was never presented to the pence conference. When he reached' I Pertograd fh February, terror had ceased, tho destructive phase of tho j revolution, Bullitt said, was over and executions were extremely rare. Ho gave a hopeful account, generally, saying tho "soviet government seems to have done more for the education of the Russian people In a year and i a half than czardom did in fifty ! years. Tho soviet was firmly established, he declared and fchlle It lends Itself to gross abuse and tyranny, It meets tile demands or the moment In Russia. Rus-sia. "Lenlne seized upon the opportutt- i Ity pre:nted by my trip of lnvcstl-4 gallon," Bullit said, to, make a definite def-inite statement of the position of tho soviet government. He was opposed by Trotzky and the generals, but, without much dIUlculty, got the support sup-port of the majority of the executive council, and the statement of tho position of the soviet government, , which was handed me was finally t adopted unanimously." - . Senator Harding, Republican, Ohio wanted to know why the soviet peace '. proposal was dropped. . SAYS SCKKAM WENT UP "It was becauso of the scream that ' went up in Paris, after Admiral Kol-chak's Kol-chak's 100-mlle advance that his forces would be in Moscow in two weeks. Naturally everybody got luko warm. l( Explaining how he Yiad discussed - ' his report with Lloyd Oiorgo at brek-fast. brek-fast. Bullit accused the premier of "the most egregious case of misleading mislead-ing the public' when the latter said In parliament that there was no Vs. peace proposal from the soviet. There was serious discussion of conditions in Russia and 'the question of withdrawing' troops, Bullit testified, testi-fied, and it because -of this that be was directed to proceed to Pertograd. From Hellingfors Bullit sent confidential con-fidential telegrams io the president. Secretary Lansing and Colonel Houso explaining conditions as he found them and saying. Lenlno and others associated with him realized the need of peace. They were ready, ho said, to pay their foreign debts. Asked how this information was received by the American mission, Bullit said: "Colonel House wrote me a telegram tele-gram of congratulations, but becauso It was signed 'Housa and Mission,' It wns not sent. The colonel gave. It to me when ho got back to Paris." During the three hours Bullit was before the committee no Democratic senator was in attendance. |