Omaha daily bee., 1921-12-14
.PacificPact
Signed by
4 Power
Plenipotentiarics of U. S.,
Great Britain, France and
japan Attach Their
Signatures.
Reservation Is Added

Washington. Dec. l5.--(By A. PD
The new iour-power Pacific treaty
was signed formally today. but the
American delegates affixed their
signatures subject to written res
ervation that the treaty should not
affect the American policy towards
mandates nor cover any controyer-
sy involving question within the
domestic jurisdiction OF any power.
In turn, the plenipotentiaries OF the
United States, Great Britain, France
and Japan placed their signatures
upon the treaty and later signed
copies both in English and French
on the American reservation.
The reservation is in two parts,
the first calculated to cover tempor-
arily the question of zap and other
inundated islands which are to be
made the subject of a special treaty.
The second clause declared that all
questions which, according to prin-
ciples of international law, lie ex-
clusivcly within the domestic jurs-
diction of the respective powers,
shall be considered outside the
scope Of the treaty"
One Copy Signed.
Only one copy of the treaty, en-
crossed OH parchment, was signed.
Authenticated duplicates will be
given to each delegation and the
official copy will be deposited in the
archives Of the State department.
Before the signing the American
reservation regarding Yap was
handed to the Japanese and agreed
to by them. As the signing pro-
ceeded translators were busy max
ing French copies for all the dele
gates.
Arrangements had been made earl.
Ter in the day not 10 have the ccre.'
mony held in privacy, State depart
lnent officials planning to permit
newspaper men to be present. Secre-
tary Hughes, however, cancelled the
arrangements just before TIE dele
gates met. i
In French and English.
When the American reservation
had been put into final form in the
two official languages of the confer
ence, 1t was signed by all the dele
gates present and was placed viii,
the. official copy Of the treaty itsei5.
which is in French and English
printed in parallel columns.
The only absentees among the dele
gates of the four powers were AM
bassador Jusserand and M. Sarraut
both of the French group. 4
Blanks were left in the signature
space Of the French group and Am
bassador Jusserand and M. Sarraut
will put their names there later. All
OF the delegates except two signed
with ordinary steel pens or with
their own fountain pens. Senator
Lodge and Elil,u Root of the Ameri-
can delegation used an eagle uuili
sent to them by Robert Underwood
Johnson, former ambassador to
Italy.
1t will be. placed by Mr.. johnson
in the American Academy Of Arts
and Letters in New York.
Lodge Confers With Harding.
After the signing, Senator Lodge
went to the White House for a con-
terence with President Harding, pre-
sunably regarding the presidents
transmission of the treaty to the SEN
ate. Any action before January was
regarded as improbable.
It is the opinion of American dele
CATION members that besides the
iour-power and the Yap treaties two
more pacts probably would come our
OF the conference, one to deal with
the agreements relating to China and
the other on armament limitation.
A meeting of the American arms
delegates was called for 2::30 o'clock
today. presumably for consideration
of the naval program.