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saying he agreed with Mr. Root about
this.
So far were the Senators from crit
leising the "leak," once it was laid bare
by Senator Root, that Mr. Hitchcock,
author of the investigation resolution
and ranking Democrat on the commit?
tee, began apoiogizing to Mr. Root,
pointing out the charges that Senator
Borah had uttered on the floor. Mr.
Hitchcock was questioned extensively
by Senators Brandegee and Knox as to
his intimation that the copy had been
obtained by "bribery."
Points Made in Hearing
Some of the high lights of to-day's
hearing were:
"|?Mr. Root declared that when the
Germans published the treaty,
which he said they had a perfect
right to do, all injunctions of secrecy
were off, and every one had a per
feet right to it.
O?Mr. .Root, who has not hitherto
come out against the league of
nations, declared in answer to ques?
tions that he opposed the United
States raeddling witn every European
quarrel. ?
Q?"Absolutely not," was the reply
of Mr. Davison to a question as
to whetbir the President's cable
was "justifiable" with respect to his
possession of the treaty. The Presi?
dent in his cable said: "Anyone
who has possession of the official
English text has what he is clearly
not entitled to have or to com
municate."
*?Mr. Davison said the American
peoplo could not sleep if they
realized what conditions were in Eu
repe to-day.
g?Mr. VanderUp declared there was
an increasing sentiment ln Great
Britain and France that the United
8tatea should never ask repayment
ef the ^9,500,000,000 lent those two
countries during the war, on tho
theory that this country, coming into
the war late, should make up for it
tn this way to those countries which
had borne the brunt.
*:?The rchabtlitation of Europe
should be financed, Mr. Vanderlip
said, hy private cepital taking a tirst
lien on the customs duties of thoso
countries.
^??Mr. Vanderlip asserted he was
against guaranteeing tho politieal
and territorial integrity of smaller
mattons.
?>?'The cure for Europe, Mr. Van?
derlip sa'.d, is a chance for every
?me to go to work. They will do so
if given the opportunity. he declared,
hat this must he furnlshed in the
way of machinrry an 1 raw materials.
O?This eure does not apply to Rus?
sia, Mr. Vanderlip declared, be
eaase "capital has no point of con
*aet with a Bolshevik government."
JQ?Thomas W. Lamont, th? source
of the only copy of the treaty
whtoh the Senate has so far disco'v
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INDIGESTION
ered to be in New York, will br
brought before the committee later,
if possible, providing any further
hearings are held.
1 1?Senator Borah, who caused the
subpcenaing of all to-day's wit?
nesses except Mr. Vanderlip, Baid
afterward he wae well aatiefied with
to-day's results; that it was shown
clearly why Big Business was for the
league of nations, seeing the won?
derful opportunities for trade ex
pansion and profit which lay in that
direction.
When the committee met, Senator
Lodge read telegrams from Jacob A.
Schiff aakfc&g to be excueed from testi
fying becaaae of his age and ill health
and stating that he had never had or
seen a eopy of the treaty and had no
knowledg. directly or indirectly bear?
ing on the committee's investigation.
Senator Lodge announeed that Mr.
Root wiahed to testify.
"I have a witness not called," Senator
Lodge continued, "but who has volun
teered to testify and who desires to
testify at once beeause it is very im?
portant that he should return imme?
diately to New York. I will ask Sena?
tor Root to take the stand."
Root Says Davison Gave Him
Treaty; Denies Any Impropriety
"The publication of the purpose of<?
the committee to inciuirc into the pos?
session of copies of the draft treaty
with Germany," eaid Senator Root, "l?ad
me to feol that it was proper, if not a
duty, for me to come here and give the
committoe certain knowledge upon that
subject whtch I have.
"I have a eopy of the so-called treaty,
and have had it for several weeks. It
was sent to me by Henry P. Davison,
chairman of the War Council of the
American Red Croes and for several
years past and now the chairman of the
International Red CrosB League, al?
though I believe that is not the exact
tltlo. lt was sent to me a couple of
wooks ago. I etand upon my right to
have lt. I deny that anybody can prop
crly question that right. I aseert the
entire proprlety of my having it and of
his giving it to me, Ho had it beeause
of his legltimate interest in the Red
Cross, which is involved in the treaty.
"As I understand it, Mr. Davison had
the eopy of the treaty in Pari3 while
ho waa thera in consultation upon the
affairs of the Red Crosa and tho rela?
tion of those affairs to the interna?
tional adjustment which was going on.
He brought lt away with hira when he
carao, there being at that time no in?
junction against the persons having
poBBeBsion of the document bringing it
to tho United States. I understand that
such an injunction or prohibition haa
been issued alnce Mr. Davison left
Parjg, but I know that only through tho
press.
Document Only Quasl-Secret
"A3 I understand it, however, there
was none at the time he came away
from Paris, brlnging with him the
document which he rightfully had. It
was not a secret document in the strlct
sense ef the word. It had been ln eub
stance published by our own govern?
ment, The league of nations part had
been published ln fulh I have n eopy
of that as it was distributed to the
labor organiea.lo.iB in this eountry
bearing date April 39 laBt,
"The German peace terms, which
made up the retit oi the treaty, had
been made public through tt Bummary
or reeume, which I understand and be?
lieve to have been a correc. presenla
tion of the centents, but that is not all,
The paper \va_t preBented to the Ger?
man delegates early ln May, and they
almost immediately made it public in
full, in detail, and it thereuiien became
public property-.
"There are always two or more parties
to a diplomatie negotlation, nnd either
party has the right. to make the docu?
ment public. If either party does make
it public iit the exereise ef his right,
it is public, and ne longer can any
diplomatic secreey attach to it. The
German government having full right
to make this paper publfc, made it
publle and it is publiC; 1 should be a
little inelined to resent tbe suggestion
of anybody that I am net entitled to
have it and to use it as t see flt, as
I prepese te de.
foarisen Entitled to Treaty
l'I think that about Covers what I
want te^say except to add that I have
long be$t interested and famlHar with
the affaijrs ef the Red Cross, long held
nn ofnela? pesition in connection with
it, have beeil long famlliar with the
werhings ;of the international eonven
tiens bj whieh the Red Cross was
created, and I feel eempetent to say to
tbe eemmtttee that the relations of the
Red CrosS to the revision of the in?
ternational relations among the civil- i
ixed nations through this treaty mak- '
ing were such that Mr-. Davison's pea
sessien of that paper was no matter '
of Idle curiesity; but was a matter of <
effleial du*-y ot. the part of the man, ;
whe, abandpning tys great business
and glxing iiis great powers with ab- '
selute derotleti to the organization
?and the expeuMei. of tlie treat Red i
Crosa aetlrities of America during the
war, has eenfeired an inestlmable ben -
eftt both tipeil ali of the Allies with
whom we fought am\ upon the good
namej fend feredit of the American !
peopie;"
"I gatWj" asked Se.nator Knox; "that j
you deslre then to be miderstood that;
you are not ln posHcssion of sloien ;
property, probably obtained by brlbery, :
as has been charged upon the floor of i
the Senate against those who had pos- !
session of tlie treaty?"
''I ri-pet any aueh suggestion," de- |
elnmi Senator Root, "but. 1 feel a sense
bt strong resentment at being required |
td repel such h suggestion; Nothing j
eould be more baseless than such a eug- I
gestlon. 01 eourse it is possible that {
papers, any papor, jnay cohm int? hands i
not entitled to jt, but I da not, feol that ;
1 am here tn plead to a charge pf that ;
kind, and I know that you, Senator
Knox, do not mean to imply that,. am." ?
Senate-Suggestion Reserwlcd
ui mean Bimply to ^uggeflt," replied
Sanator Knox, 'that cha^go w?b mwlc ,
?n tho floor of the Se*aUs, and I under- ?
Btand you indignantly t? moei it."
"I do," aaid Mr. Root, "and I wish to
todieata th* i>o??oajiion of such kiiowt
edgo' of tho cireuiusti-nofa, aueh a fara
iliarity with the aubjoct. with the faots* '
thHt 1 atato, a* will xepe-1 it. I say
that Mr. Ijavipon, with nn unnelUHii
dorotion that ia !>eyond all praiso, had
for two youra been putting at the norv
ioo of tho country un ability and labor
that w? pann*t be too grateful for, a?d I
that wbile utili in Kurnpo after two
y?ara of that serrtce it b?<can.o his
duty, hi* otftctal duty, to ke-ap track of,
and tu becomn familiar with, tho new
relationj which tho R?d Cro?? waa to
aiumrae toward the world in this treaty
inaking, whieh would suporseda in all
prohability or iu a measure, which he
wug bound to know, tha Genc-va i-onven
tiona omt of which tbe Red Croaa grow.
"Ho that ha waa entitled to hwvo that
treaty, nnd aa a matter of no tdlo curi
osity or ulterior purpoee, and whtn tj>e
treaty bocamc publio proparty hy it*
unreatricted publication p.y one party
|o tbe msgotlationa, h? waa entitled
fo ahow it to ma, an3 i waa *ery
much obllged td htm, becruse I am
de??ply <nter?st*d lrt some <jue?tlon?
which Jt wau f/toJ-a fconvtmient to study
with the prlr-tlit. eopy than .< is with
tho rnagh newspaper ffxtbUcnhom, ai
tnouth there was nothfftr 1 recall hi ttia
copfof tho treaty that he garre mo tKai
f had not alao ffeott ln sahsttnee and
adeqi.ateiy ln varioua newspaper pyblU [
Zuhu&oot, '?Z%&1&%2&
cations, but which I am getting too old
to read easily."
Fall Questions Hitchcock
"I want to ask a question to clear
the record," said Senator Fall. "I
want to know what the Senator from
Nebraska means by 'legitimate' and
'illegitimate' interests having possess?
ion of this treaty or considering it?
What are illegitimate interests? I
would like to know what the Senator
from Nebraska means by his ques?
tion."
Senator Hitchcock?I would consider
the interest of the Red Cross a per
fectly legitimate interest.
Senator Branclegec?I want to ask
the Senator if he thinks there is any?
thing wrong, or any scandal about a
banker taking a copy of the treaty
if he saw one, or if he was in a posi?
tion to procure one, in order to in
form himself about what probably
would be the financial terms of the
treaty. ls there anything treasonable
3r scandalous or corrupt about that?
Mr. Root?A banker has no more
or less right to steal a paper than any
body else, but when a paper has be?
come public property a banker has no
less right than anybody else. Of
course this treaty deals with vast
ly important and difficult financial
questions. Right, at the fore is
the question between Germany,
who says she cannot live if the finan?
cial requirements of the treaty are im
poscd, and France, who says she can?
not live unless they are imposed, and
th? whole financial movement of Eu?
rope upon which depends all American
foreign trade and the markets for
American productions is involved in
the terms of this treaty, and nobody
but a lunatic would undertake to make
a treaty without calling in experts who
are familiar with the finances of the
wojld; and they have there as experts
Mr. Lamont, representing the Treasury
Department of the United States; they
have Mr. Baruch, and they have a lot
of others. Perhaps these are the best
known, but they have great numr>ers of
them. They have Professor Shotwell,
the leading economist of thi3 country,
who is engaged there fur the United
States, with a big corps of people under
him, soleTy upon these financial ques?
tions. And it is imposible that the
people who are called in in that way
should not bc people who are going to
continue for years to come to carry on
the business which has qualified them
as expert advisers. Would you go and
get a farmer or a manufacturer to ad
vise ou such a subject? You have got
to get a banker, you havo got to get a
man who knows fbout that particular
business, and when this is over he is
going on with his banking, of course.
Now you may find that you can infer
some suspicions about sucn men, that
they may have private ideas in their
minds, but what a misfortune it would
bc if our country is to be denled the
benefit of thc experienco and the abil?
ity of the men who are familiar with
tha? business of tho world, because
every time a man answers the call of
his country to render a service to it he
is going to be subject to suspicion
without proof!
Rights of Senate Upheld
Senator New?Would you regard it
as equally legitimate for the Foreign
Relations Committee of the United
States Senate to have had a copy of
the treaty?
Mr. Root?I should. .
Senator Brandegee - Did you say you
would regard it as legitimate for us to
have had a copy?
Mr. Root?Undoubtedly.
Senator Borah?That is the precise
question involved here. Nobody was
objecting to these gentleraen in New
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we were objecrting upon the theory that
the Senate wa3 equally entitled to share
this privilege with them. Does not the
Senator think that was a correct posi?
tion to take?
Mr. Root?He does.
Senator Johnson?And broadening
the inquiry, if a few had the treaty?
legitimately, of course?all of our peo?
ple were entitled to the treaty as well,
were they not?
Mr. Root?Undoubtedly, undoubtedly.
I think every citizen of the United
States was entitled to see the paper
which had been made public propcrly
by the German government.
Senator Johnson?That is exactly the
suggestion that has been made and ex?
actly the debate that has been oc
curring in the Senate.
United States Alone Unfcttered
Sena'.or Fall, by questioning Mr.
Root, brought out the idea that every
nation except the United States at the'
peace conference was represented by j
men who were responsible to their'
parliuments.
Senator Brandegee?I judge from the |
question that Senator Fall asked that I
he had in his mind this state of facts,
that while those gentlemcn in Europe I
are making this treaty openly, and !
openly arriving at it by the proccss j
of pitiles3 publicity?behind closed
doors- while they are sitting there in
Paris within three hours of London j
by airship, and are doing it through ?
the heads of their governments who :
have nccess to their legislative bodies i
and appear eve*y few days on thc floor j
ar.d tell their legislative bedies what
they are doing and proposing to do,
we are sitting 3,000 miles away, with j
our Prime Ministei?I believe that is I
the title he prefers now, until he be- |
comes the President of the World
sitting over there declining te give us j
any information whatever; and under
our Constitution he knows and you
know and they know that what he
proposes is mere piffle until two-thirds
of the United States Senate ratify
what he submits. That is a different
situation from what any other gov?
ernment is in.
Brandegee Wants Full Record
Senator Williams?Does the Senator
from Connecticut want all that to go
into the Record?
Senator Brandegee ?- Every word
of it.
Senator Williams?About the presi
dtncy of the world and about piffle?
Senator Brandegee?Yes, every word
of it.
Senator Pittman?Do you think the
injunction against the distribution of
this incomplete' treaty was advisable
or r.ol?
Mr. Root- -I think it was quite rea
sonable. Yes, I do not mean by that
to say that, I do not think it would
linve been a wise and appropriate
course to keep .he Senate advised from
time to time about the whole negotia
tijn that was being conducted.
Senator Williams- 1 understood you
to say that it was probably a mistake
upon the part of the President not to
keep in totich with the Senate from
time to time.
Mr. Root?I did not quite say it was
a mistake.
Senator Williams?You said it waa
a pity.
Mr. Root- No, I said I think it would
have been wiser.
WHness Clarifies Statement
Senator Williams- I perhaps may
agree with ybu about that, but what I
want lo ask you* is ?this! You do not
mean hy that that it is> a' part of his
duty?you merely mean that would
have been better tact and management?
Mr. Root -1 think it would ' have
facilitated the conduct of public busi?
ness. I think it would have made prog?
ress towurd the solution of the ques?
tions. I think it would have led to
the ultimate making and ratirication of
tho treaty and have been satisfactory
to the peopie of tiie United States.
Senator Harding -[ suppose, Mr.
Root, you remember a public pledge
to do that very thing?
Mr. Root?I think I shall take refuge
in the natural forgetfulness of a wit
nesa upon that subject.
Davison Explains How Treaty
Came Into His Possession
Mr. Davison was then called to the<3
stand and turned over by Chairman
Lodgo to Senator Borah for exam
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ination, Mr. Borah having suggested
that Mr. Davison be called.
"In the first place," said Mr. Davison,
"I would like to say that I brought to
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thir country a copy of ths proposed
treaty. That, copy has never been read
in America by any man, except myself
and Senator Root, so far as I know. I
would like now to tell thc way in which
I became possesscd of that, and the
reasons for it.
"Senator Root has referred to my
connection with the American Red
Cross, of which I was chairman of the
war council from May 10, 1917, up to
March 1 of thi3 year, when the war
council went out of existence. Dur?
ing those twenty-two months part of
my time was spent in this country and
part in Europe. The American people
gave us $400,000,000 and a bit more,
and it was my business to administer
that fund. That took me through
Europe along the lines from tho Chan
nel to the Piave, and I was therefore
familiar with the situation in Europe,
particularly in connection with the war
and the suffering from the war.
"I think I will not bo misunderstood
when I say that J was perhaps more
familiar with that situation than any
other man, because my responsibilitles
in connectlon with that suffering back
of the line was greater than that of
any other man.
Coordination Plan Coneetved
"When the armistice was signed I
came home, and on my way home on
the boat in November, thinking over
tha situation, I realized the dlstress then
existing in Europe, and I realized that
that distrees must necessarily Increase,
as it always does after a war. I con
ceived the plan of coordinating the
Red Cross organizations of* the world
Into one organization in order that it
might go to those fields and alleviate
as far as possible that distress. I pre?
sented that suggestion to the Presi?
dent.
"Thd conditions in the world to-day
are very serious, eo serious that if they
were understood in America, the people
of America could not sleep. The
distress, the dastitution, the iack of
employment throughout Europe are ap
palling. I wanted to get those organi?
zations so lined,up that we could go
as ono into those fields and fight
typhus, and fight smallpox, and give to
those people the diet, foods and medi?
cines and surgical instruments, or
whatever they need. There js no other
power in the world that can do that
except the League of Red Cross Socie
ties, and there is a plan on foot for the
Supreme Economic Council in Paria to
turn over the mobilized articles, sur?
gical instruments, medical supplies and
foodstuffs to the League of Red Cross
Societies throughout the world, to ad
minister that relief.
Relations Governed by Pact
"So it is not as chairman of the
American Red Cross that I became in?
terested in this matter; it is as chair?
man of the Board of Governors of the
League of Red Cross Societies. Our
organization is incorporated' in the
covenant of the league of nations, and
our relations with the various gov?
ernments of the world or with the
various Red Cross organizations are
governed by the relations that are
Set forth in the treaty with the Ger?
mans.
"That is the reason that I became
possessed, the primary reason that I
became posesssed, of a copy of the
treaty. But I do not want to let it
rest there. There is another reason,
and that is this. I, as a member of
the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co., had
to do with the financial situation of
some of the Allies at the outset of tht
wai-, and during the war, up to the
time that we went into the war.
"I was asked by representatives of
the various governments regarding
financing of the countries of Europe.
It became obvious that all of Europe
would be coming here to getcredits. It
became so obvious that I myself made
the statement td representatives of the
American peace mission, as well as to
members of other peace missions in
Paris, that in my opinion the situation
could not be handled unless it was
handled not by one house, not by one
aggregation, but by the financial in?
terests of America from the North, the
East, the South and the W'eat, and that
in order to give relief to Europe and
in order to nromote the trade of Amer?
ica and keen our position which we
then held, first, the demands of Europe
must be coordinated, and, second, the
supplies on this side must be co
ordinated; that there should be co
ordinated not only the financial inter?
ests of America and throughout the
whole country, but the industries of
America should also be coordinated.
Therefore, I say as an international
banker, which I am now, that the im?
portance of knowledge in connection
with this treaty is very great.
Views Submitted to U. S.
"When I arrivecf here I submitted my
views to tho representatives of the
Treasury of the United States. I found
them in accord as to the general prin?
ciples, and they asked me to go on and
develop them. We called together the
bankers of New York and submitted it
on general lines.
"They expressed themselves in ac?
cord. I have an appointment with
bankers of Chicago and with the in?
dustrial interests of Chicago, on "Fri?
day night, to submit the same plan.
I believe the Liberty bond organiza?
tion should be put into employment
to carry this on.
"It was as the chairman of the
League of Red Cross Societies that I
asked Mr. Lamont if he would give
me a copy of the peace treaty, and
he said he would, and he said further:
'I will be very glad to havo you Bee
if you can find anything in here which
will help in this large plan we are
working through the Treasury for a
comprehensive financing operation in
America.' When I asked for the peace
treaty I did not think I was asking
for anything more than I would if I
had been asking for a copy of the
fourteen points. The summary was
published. Everybody in Paris knew
what was going on."
Germans Had Treaty First
Senator Pomerene?Mr. Davison,
could you give us the date when you
obtained that?
Mr. Davison?I think it was the 9th
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of May. The treaty was given to the
Germans on the 7th of May.
Senator Williams?Do you remember
when the Germans published it?
Mr. Davison?I do not, but I had no
more doubt but that it was published
to the world when I received it than
I had when the fourteen points were
published. It has never occurred to
me? that it was not public property.
When I arrived in America I was told
that copies were not circulated here.
Therefore I merely took it to my office
and kept it there. t showed it to no
one until I sent it to Senator Root.
The reason I sent it to him was
this, that I knew that Senator Root had
beon asked for his opinions relatlve to
certain parts in connection with the
treaty. I knew that his opinion was
highly respected. I knew that his opin?
ion was sought in Paris. I knew thatlie
was in touch with things. I supposed,
of course, that he had a eopy, and it
was not until I had made the inquiry
as to whether he had one and learned
that ho had not that I sent it to hiio.
No memher of my firm, nohody el.e,
has ever seen that eopy so far aa I
know, except as I handed it to Senator
Root. That is the story.
Senator Borah?You received it from
one of your partners?
Mr. Davison: I received it from Mr.
Lamont, one of my partners.
Senator Borah: Who are the part
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