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Show SENATORS WRANGLE OVER TREATY 'LEAK' FINANCIERS ASKED TO EXPLAIN HOW COPIES REACHED PRIVATE HANDS IN NEW YORK. Text of Document Brought to This Country by Reporter Ordered Into the Congressional Record After a Warm Debate. Washington. Out of a whirlwind of developments the senate today gut a i.'loimi'iit.s the senate on June 0 got a ropy of the peace treaty; and, after a five-hour fight, ordered It printed In the public record. At the same time it got under way the Investigation of , how copies have reached private hands In New York by summoning to testify a half-dozen of the country's leading financiers. The copy, which went Into the record, rec-ord, was brought to this country by a newspaper man, and was presented by Senator Borah, Republican, of Idaho, Just after the reading of u cablegram from I'resldent Wilson saying he could not, without breaking faith, send to the senate the text of the treaty. The effect of the day's history-making developments was to clear the air on the much-debated subject of publicity pub-licity for the treaty text, to widen the breach between the president and the senate majority, and to forecast a sensational sen-sational turn for the Inquiry Into the manner by which copies of the document docu-ment have become available to unauthorized unau-thorized persons. Starting In Its Investigation with nn unexpected vigor, the foreign relations committee, within a half hour after It convened, voted to call before it J. P. Morgan, II. P. Davison and Thomas F. Lamont, all of the Morgan banking house ; Jacob Schiff, of Kuhn, Loeb & company ; and Paul Warburg, formerly connected with the same concern, and Frank A. Vanderllp, former president of the National City bank. It then examined ex-amined Frank L. Polk, acting secretary of state, about the official copies in the state department vaults. Statements also were made to the committee by Senator Lodge, Republican, Republi-can, of Massachusetts, and Senator Borah similar Jo their declarations in the senate that they knew of copies in New York, but could not divulge the names of their informants. When the senate met it listened in silence to President Wilson's cablegram, cable-gram, which was taken as forecasting a refusal to comply with the request for the treaty text embodied In a resolution reso-lution adopted Friday. The reading of this message concluded, Senator Borah immediately presented his copy of the treaty, -which was ordered printed by a vote of 47 to 24. Wilson Urges Probe of Leak. President Wilson in a cablegram received re-ceived by Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, Ne-braska, Democrat, said he hoped the investigation by the senate foreign relations re-lations committee of how copies of the peace treaty reached private interests in New York would be "most thoroughly thorough-ly prosecuted." The president said he had felt it "was highly undesirable officially to communicate the text of a document which is still in negotiation and subject sub-ject to change," and that anyone who had possession of the official English text "has what he is clearly not en-titled en-titled to have or to communicate." |