HOUGHTON INCIDENT

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 70, 23 March 1926, Page 8

HOUGHTON INCIDENT

DISCUSSED IN U.S. SENATE

BORAH AND AMBASSADOR

NEWSPAPER.REPORTS MATERIALLY CORRECT.

(United Press Association.—Copyright.) (Australian-New Zealand Cable Assn.) (Received 23rd March, 2 p.m.) WASHINGTON, 22nd March. The Houghton incident to-day became £io subject of debate in the Senate, and a flurry between Senators Borah and Glass revealed the probable manner in which the report was circulated concerning the Ambassador's views of Europe. Senator Borah declared that indisputable evidence was conained in the League meeting at Geneva recently that European statesmen were returning to the practice of secret agreements and the old balance of power. "There, can be no disarmament," he said, "so long as these practices continue." Senator Glass: "But what right has our Ambassador to come over here and attempt to disrupt things?" Senator Borah: "We cannot contribute to peace by concealing facts. I suspect Mr. Houghton told the facts as ho understood them, and, if he erred, it was an error of judgment." Senator Borah said that he had talked with Mr. Houghton and tho newspaper Teports did not differ materially from those he had received from the Ambasador. Senator Glass: "I demand that if Mr. Houghton failed to express the views of President Coolidge, he be recalled to show all the world how the Washington Government stands." Many other Senators then spoke, several asking for information as to whether there had been developments nullifying the Locarno Agreement, and others questioning whether President Coolidge intended to call his own Armament Conference.