Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-15
FOUR POWER PACT
FOR PACIFIC PEACE
FORMALLY SIGNED
Document to Go Quickly to
Sehate-'Big Three Meet
for Further Discussion of
Naval Ratios

Tor q 5-J-0 naVdk Nn1ltaClOU mas DeeIl
communicated to the American and
British delegates, and it was said
that an agreement might be expected
late this week.
In agreeing to accept the proposed
naval ratio, it was said in American
quarters, Japan coupled with it a
renewed request that she be allow
ed to retain the new battleshir
Mutsu in place of one of her old
line ships which would have been
retained.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.-By the
Associated Press.)-The new quad
ripple 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
ante-room of the Office OF the secre-
tary of state. There was no formal
ceremony and no one was present
except the plenipotentiaries, their
secretaries and advisers.
The American delegates, the first
to sign under an alphabetical ar
rangement of the powers, put their
names to the document and affixed
their seals a few minutes after II
o'clock.
The APPROVAL of the United States
was given, however, subject to a
written understanding with the JAP
anese providing that the American
Japanese treaty regarding zap must
be consummated before the four.
power arrangement is binding.
Except for this reservation, which
Is expected to be erased within p
few days by signature of the zap
treaty, the new Pacific agreement
now requires only parliamentary
ratification by the various govern
ments to make it effective.
Going to Senate
The American official copy of the
document now goes to the White
House for transmission by Presi
dent Harding to the senate. The
new pact, it was generally believed
today, would be forwarded to the
senate within a very short time.
The American delegation began
81 gning~ at IA a. IA. At-44.46 the
British followed. \Arthur j. Balfour
signing twice, once for the British
empire and once for the Union of
South Africa, which has no delegates
here.
Thes French followed the British,
and the japanese, the last to sigh,
completed formal approval of the
treaty at11:2O o'clock.
The sia hg was wholly without
ceremony ind devoid of historic set
ting excat for the portraits of a
score of former secretaries of state
which looked down from the four
walls of the ante-room.
The long table which usually oc,
scupies the center of the room had
been removed and a smaller one put
in it's place. The American dele
gates first took their places at the
table and signed their names, while
the other delegates stood about in
formally chatting. There was a
hum of conversation throughout.
When the Americans were through
they gave up their places to the Brit.
iSh, and then the French and Japa-
nese followed in order. At the
shoulder of each as he signed, stood
Eddie Savoy, the picturesque negro
doorkeeper Of the secretary's office,
with a blotter in hand for use on
the newly-mades signatures.
The business of aff1Xing the official
seals had been performed before
hand, and each delegate as ne signed
merely touched the crest of sealing
wax beside his name to formally sig
Nifty that his seal had been officially
executed.
LaFollette Opposes Pact
The American reservation attach
ed to the treaty when it was signed
contained provision that domestic
questions of the various powers are
not to be considered within the scope
Of the treaty.
The reservation is in two parts,
the first of which declares that the
treaty shall in no way be binding
as regards the policy of the United
of the Pacific.
Declaring that the treaty had call
of the iniquities of the League of
Nations with none Nof the virtues
claimed for that document" Senator
LaFpllette, Republican of Wisconsin,
today announced in a formal state
ment that he was prepared to do "alI
in my power to prevent its ratifica
ton"
The text of the American reserva
tons follows:
''In signing the treaty this day
between the United States of Amer
lea, the British empire, France an6
Japan, it is declared to DC the un
derstanding and intent Of the sigma
tory powers:
81. That the treaty shall Lpply tc
the inundated islands in the Pacific
ocean; provided, however, that the
making of the treaty shall not be
deemed to be an assent on the part
of the United States of America tt
the mandates and shall not preclude
agreements between the JAR e6
States of America and the manda
tory powers respectively in relation
to the inundated islands.
"2. That the controversies t(
which the second paragraph Of artl
Gle 1 refers shall not be taken to EN-
brace questions which, according tc
principles Of international law lie ex
clusively within the domestic Jurls
diction of the respective powers.