The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-12-23
TREATY IS READY;
HAS RESERVATIONS
TREATY TO PRESERVE PEACE IN
THE PACIFIC is FORMALLY
SIGNED BY REPRESENTATIVES
Signature of United States Appendix
With Reservation That zap Agree
ment Be Ratified BY Japan
At Once

Washington-The new quadruple
treaty TO preserve peace in the Pacific
was formally signed Tuesday by the
plenipotentiaries of the United States
Great Britain, France and Japan.
The signatures were affixed in the
anteroom of the office of the secretary
of state. There was no formal cere-
mony and no one was present except
the plenipotentiaries, their secretary
and adviseres.
The American delegates, the first to
sign under an alphabetical arrange
ment of the powers, put their names
to the document an affixed their seals
a few minutes after IL O'Clock.
The approval of the United States
was given, however, subject to a writ
ten understanding with the japanese
providing that the Acknowledgements
treaty regarding zap must be consum
mated before the Horsepower arrange
ment in binding.
Except for this arrangement, which
is expected to be erased within a few
days by the signature of the Yap
treaty, the new Pacific agreement now
requires only parliamentary rati6ca.
ton by the various governments to
make it effective.
The American Official copy of the
docment now goes to the White House
for transmission by President Harding
to the senate. The new pact, it was
generally believed Tuesday, would be
forwarded to the senate with in a very
short time.
The American delegation began sign.
Ing at liza a. m. At II :16 the British
followed, Arthur j. Balfour signing
twice. once for the British empire and
once for the Union of South Africa
which has no delegate here.
The French followed the British, and
the Japanese, the last to sign, COM
pleted formal approval of the treaty
at IL 20 O'Clock.
The signing was wholly without GER
emory and devoid of historic setting
except for the protraits of a score of
secretaries of state which look
ed down from tile four walls Of the
anteroom.
The long table which usally occu-
pies the center of the room had been
removed and a smaller one put in its
place.
The American delegates first took
their places at the table and signed
their lanes while the other delegates
about informally chatting. There /
vas a hum of conversation throughout.
When the Americans were through +
hey gave up their places to the Brit T
and then the French and japanese =
in order. AT the shoulder of 1
zach as he signed stood Eddie Savoy,
he pictureque negro doorkeeper of
secretary's office, with blotter In n
iand for use on the newly made sig II
+,
The business of a~ffixing the Official p
had been performed beforehand b
each delegate as he signed merely T
noched the crest of sealing wax be- u
lde his name to formally signify that a
is seal had been officially executed.
The American reservation attached
the four-power treaty when IL was n
igned Tuesday contained a provision o.,
mt domestic questions of the various p,
overs are not to be considered with "
the scope of the treaty. IL
The reservation is in two parts, the fl
rst of which declares that the treaty =,
lall in nc way be binding as regards
ie policy of the United States toward
Ie inundated islands of the Pacific. \,