uly 10.
Following an extensive debate the Senate adopted the McKellar Resolution in amended form by a vote of 53 to 4.
The emendment, which was pass. Jed by 2 98 to 17 vote at the end Jof the debate, was proposed by Senator Joseph T.
Robinson andum caused the Senate to request fla] President to submit to it "such documents as are compatible with the public interest' in connection ith the treaty.
In its original form, the resolu tion had asked for all documents in this connection, Senator Hiram Johnson of Call fornia declared that the Senate lucked the courage to obtain secret documents to. which it was}
Jentitied in considering this treaty, "Lam not interested," he suid Jconnection with rumours that thy Withholding by President Hoover was to guard indiscreet remarks by the Ambassador, Gen. Charles} Dawes in London, "in the expression lof our reply to our Ambassador to JGveat Britain regarding his per-Jsonal opinions of men, but there is those papers a written record of] the American proposals, "There are also the British and Japanese replies, in writing." he President Declines Tuly 11, President Hoover has replied to the Senate declining to allow the publication of the so-alled secret documents relating to the Naval Pact on the ground of public policy.
President Hoover points out that one of his duties is to maintain Tribute (o Tapan Senior Claude A. Swanson of Virginia today seconde President Hoover's request for early ratifican of the London Naval Limita. tion Treaty, when the Senate sembled for its second day of special He added that to reject the treaty would te interpreted in London and Tokyo as indicating that the United States had embarked upon an imperialistic career, anil Was seeking to dominate their <e-amicable relations with other nati and he cannot, therefore, allow himself to become guilty of a breach of trust by the betrayal of confidences.
He emphasizes that the documents! axe open for the Senators" confident tial perusal,
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