The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-12-21
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 Yap Agree
ment Be Ratified BY Japan
At Once

| WashIngton-The new quadruple
treaty 10 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 plenipotentaries, their secretary
and udviseres.
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 II o'clock
The approval of the United States
was given, however, subject to Il writ
ten understanding with the japanese
providing that the American-Japanese
treaty regarding zap must be consum.
mated before the four-power arrange.
ment in binding.
Except for this arrangement, which
Is expected to be erased within a few
days by the signature of the YaL
treaty, the new Pacific agreement now
requires only parliamentary ratifica.
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 II II 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
Ut IL ~ y ClUCk.
The signing was wholly without GER
emory and devoid of historic setting
except for the protraits of a score of
former secretaries of state which look.
ell down from the four walls of the
anteroOm.
The long table which usally occu-
pies the center of the room had been
removed and smaller one put in it's
place.
The American delegates first took
lhelr places at the table and signed
-helr names while the other delegates
STOOD about informally chatting. There
vas a hum of conversation throughout
"hen the Americans were through
hey gave up their places to the Brit
Sh ana then the French and Japanese
olloWed in order. At the shoulder Of
'dch as he signed stood Eddie SAVOY
ne Mctureque negro doorkeeper Of
ne secretary's office, with blotter in
land for use on the newly made sig.
lature
Inc business of affixing the Official
eals mad been performed beforehand
ho each delegate as he signed merely
ooched the crest of scaling wax be-
loe MS name to formally signify that
rs seal had been officially executed
ne american reservation attached
''e 1ouf-power treaty when It was
lShed Tuesday contained a provision
MT domestic questions of the various
overs are not to be considered with
lhe scope of the treaty.
Inc reservation is in two parts, the
ISL or which declares that the treaty
'''''' IN no way be binding as regards
lie policy of the United States toward
lie inundated islands of the Pacific