Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-12-13
Four-POWer Treaty
Signed at Capital

ss,,inued from Page One
,.,.sation and the official copy will be
s,ros,ted in the archives of the State
Department
psfore the signing began the. Amer
~ reservation regarding zap was
..dod TO the Japanese in English
.sa agreed to by them. As the sign =
,as E proceeded translators were busy
mstins n French copy of 1t and the
s.iseates were kept together in the
u.,, usor, for completion of the process, so
rv iy.s the reservation would be available
.s" avery one in both the official Ian =
%.ses of the Arms Conference before
tbey separated
arrangements had been made earlier
4. the day not to have the ceremony
ia in privacy. State Department off :
Sois Manning to permit newspaper men
~ no present. Secretary Hughes, how
.,sr cancelled the arrangements just be-
nre the delegates met.
When the American reservation had
ham mt into final form in the two Ian
srares It was signed hy all OF the dele
sstss present and was placed with the
sascial copy Of the treaty itself, which
!. In French and English printed in
nsralel columns.
The only absentees among the dele
sst,s OF the four Powers were Ambas-
ssdor Jusserand and NJ. Sarraut, both
Al the French group.
blanks we're left in the signature
mace of .hc French group and Ambas-
mt their names there later.
Americans Use Eagle Quill
All of the delegates except two signed
r,tb ordinary steel pens or with their
avn fountain pens. Senator Lodge and
EIibu Root, of the American delegation,
used an eagle quill sent to them by
Robert Underwood Johnson. former
Ambassador to Italy. 1t will be placed
nv Mr., Johnson In the American Acad-
amy of Arts and Letters in New York
After the signing Senator Lodge went
10 the White House for a conference
with President Harding, presumably re-
garding the Presidents transmission of
the treaty TO the Senate.
Republican leaders, while not in
formed as to when the pact would be
submitted to the Senate, said moth
ing would be done with the treaty
until after the holiday recess. 1t was
pointed out that both Senator Lodge
and Senator Underwood probably would
be engaged as Conference delegates until
about the first of the year, and Senator
Lodge is chairman of the Foreign Rela :
tons Committee, to which the treaty
will be referred. and any action before
January was regarded as improbable.
Il is the opinion of American delega
ton members that, besides the four
Power and the zap treaties, two more
psctS probably would come out of the
Conference. one to deal with the agree =
ments relating to China. and the other
on armament limitation.
A meeting of the American Arms
delegates wns called for 2 80 clock to-
day, presumably for consideration of the
naval program.
Appointment of the new naval sub
committee of fifteen, including both
plenary delegates and civil and naval
experts Of the five Powers, in place Of
the former subcommittee, composed ex-
cusiyely OF experts. was regarded today
is step placing the entire naval pro-
gram of the Conference in process to-
ward final and definite working out of
its remaining problems.
Endowment of this committee with
direct plenary powers to make recon-
mendationS to the Conference through
membership Of the five delegations
heads will greatly expedite final action
not only on the ratio question rs apply
ing TO Japan, but also in fixing the
ratios for the French and Italian
Navies under the prospective agree
ment
Possible modification of the proposed
navel holiday and the question of sub
marine strength are other points to be
settled by the new committee.