The Adair County news., 1922-02-21
SENATE IS GIVEN
SEVEN TREATIES
President Submits Pacts of Arms
Meet and Asks Prompt
Approval.
NO ENTANGLEMENTS FOR U. S,
No Alliance or involvement Which Re-
qulres America to Surrender Any
Worth While Tradition-con-
tains No War Commitment.

Washington, Feb. 13. President
Harding submitted the seven treaties
of the arms conference to the senate
and asked prompt approval Of them.
With the treaties he submitted the
report of the American delegation and
the minutes of both the plenary ses-
sions and the committee meetings of
the conference.
The President asserted there is in
the treaties mo ENHANCEMENT, alli-
| ance, or involvement which requires
the United States to surrender any
worth while tradition"
Surrender No Tradition"
II am not unmindful," he said, nor
was the conference unmindful, of the
sentiment in this chamber against old
world entanglements.
But / can bring every assurance
that nothing in these treaties COM
mits the United States, or any other
power to any kind of an alliance, en-
tanglement, or involvement. II does
not require US to surrender a worth
while tradition"
Treaties Submitted.
The treaties the President submit
ted were:
The four-powered Pacific treaty,
which replaces the Anglo-Japanese al
liance.
The supplementary treaty to this
pact, taking the japanese homeland
out of Its provisions.
The five-powered treaty that limits
the size of navies.
The tive-powered poison gas and
submarine treaty.
The nine-poRered Chinese treaty.
The nine-powered Chinese customs
treaty.
A treaty covering American rights
in inundated territories Gap treaty..
The President defended the four
powered treaty which replaces the
.Anglo-Japanese alliance and to which
already much senatorial opposition
has been manifested.
Warning to World.
1.-THE four-powered treaty contains
hO wal uc Sdlu.
"There is no commitment to armed
force, no alliance, no written or moral
obligation to join in, or arrive at,
| any agreement except in accordance
with our constitutional methods"
The treaty, he said, was a mutual
pledge on the part of the four powers
| to respect their insular possessions.
The President described the pact
as a "mOral warming to the world
that the four great powers of the
Pacific would protect the peace of
| those waters.
1t is now up to the senate he said,
as the executive branch of the gov
ernment has done its work, and much
depends on the senate's decision-if
it is against "these advanced express
sions of conscience, then it will be
futile to try again.
Borah Favors Pact.
Senator BOrah, noted "irreconcil-
able" announced within a few min
utes after President Harding finished
that he would support the five-pow-
cred naval treaty and, if he found
on closer examination that the Pres
ident was right in saying none OF
the others committed the United
States to entangling foreign alliances
he "would favor them ALL"
The senate's concern for freedom
from entanglements, the President
said, was never once forgotten by the
American delegation. He reminded
the senate that it had been consulted
even before the conference met, by the
appointment Of two of its leaders, Sen.
ator Lodge, Republican, and Senator
Underwood, Democrat, as American
negotiators.
Applause interrupted the President
before he had been speaking two min
utes.
The Presidents renewed disavowaI
of foreign entanglements" received
more applause, but this came chiefly
from the Republican side. When the
President concluded another burst OF
applause greeted him.
Immediately following the Presi
dents departure from the senate
chamber, the treaties were.referred tc
the senate foreign relations commit
tee on a motion by Senator Lodge OF
Massachusetts, its chairman:
The President said that if the sen
ate turned down the treaties "the re-
public would be diseredited, future
peace efforts rendered futile and un
likely, and encouragement would be
written where there Is now world
hope"