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Show RECALLS SENATE LEAGUE INQUtRy i Montana Senator Says Scheme Does Not Conflict With Constitution CHICAGO, Sapl 22 In a stnte-J stnte-J nient Issued today In reply to the con- tenflon of Senator Harding, Republi-? Republi-? can candidate for president, that , t!;ere n un Irreconcilable conflict between be-tween the constitution of the United 1 Slates and tin -e-if.-u if nations cov-, cov-, , ii Senator Thomas .). Walsh, of Montana Pemocrat, uid that Repub- , i. cans are "attempting to obscure the ,.(rt that their Opposition to the league Is purely partisan In character." Declaring that Senator Harding's ' i pinion ' is borrowed," Senator Walsh j sue! that "to PUt It forth at this time ' Lrgues either that r e has not follow -' c i attentively the debate on the league ' in the senate or that his memory is ! short." .Moed ' surfs'.-aloes made.' the 1 , it( uujnt continued, 'the senate di-' di-' niied its committer en judiciary to Inquire a-s lo whether there ire con-Btliuttonal con-Btliuttonal objections to tho tieaty It reported that there are not. The re-pori re-pori was not unanimous but no msm-'jber msm-'jber of the commitiee dissented some 1 mom Iters simply withholding their clulm thai the constitution forbids our ' government entering into obligations 'such as the covenant proposes though 1 three expressed some doubt " oo |