Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-03-08
Senate Lines
UP FOR Fight
over 4-POn'E;R
PACIFIC PACT
Lodge win Deliver an Ad-
dress Today Challenging
Opponents to Mring Their
Case to the Floor.
lRRECONCILABLES TO
TO TAKE OTHER SIDE
3Orah and Some of the
Friends of Wilson Hold a
Long Consultation; Many
Prepare Addresses.


Washington, March AFTER a
preliminary luu, the senate fight
over the four-power Pacific
treaty is about to break in full
fury,
Under an announced program
of aggressive action to bring the
treaty actively under discussion
and to expedite a vote upon IT'S
ratification, Senator Lodge OF
Massachusetts, the republican
leader, will address the senate to-
morrow and will challenge OPP
ponents of the pact to bring their
case openly to the senate floor,
Irrcconcilables Organize.
That an organized group of ir-
reconcilables will range them.
selves on the other side was as
sured today when it became
known that a definite plan of ac-
ton had been agreed upon after
long consultation by Senator
Borah, republican, of Idaho, and
some of the friends of former
President Wilson.
How far-reachlng may be
the understanding thus eG-
feCtcd by the 'irrecOnCil-
ablcs' leader, or to what eX-
tent IL may involve the per.
sonal sentiments of Mr.. Will
son himself, is not revealed.
Senator Borah and the for
mer president are said not TO
have conferred directly, al
though their friends say they
have been in consultation by
letter regarding the four
power pact.
Senator Lodges determination
to take the offensive in the treaty
debate followed complete sus-
pension of the discussion today.
and was coupled with private
suggestions from administration
senators that the treaty oppon-
ents were seeking to delay con-
sideration. At the conclusion OF
a prepared address by Senator
Kellogg, republican of Minnesota,
urging acceptance of the treaty
without qualification, the subject
disappeared entirely from the
surface of senate proceedings and
Mr.. Lodge announced that unless
senators were ready to speak by
tomorrow he would ask for vote
ON ratification.
Forcing the Issue.
Many are preparing addresses
both for and against ratification,
however, and no one accepted the
party leaders announcement as
forecasting early action. 1t was
taken rather as merely a means
of forcing the issue and bringing
to an end the unexplained lull
into which the debate has been
verging from the very beginning.
In the main, the treaty oppon-
ents have indicated a desire to
reserve their fire, at least until
they have heard from Senator
Lodge and from Senator Under
wood of Alabama, the democratio
leader. both of whom were MEM
bers Of the American arms dele
cation.
Senator Borah's understanding
regarding the plan of campaign
against the treaty is said to have
followed a series of conferences
and an exchange of letters be-
tween him and several men in
and out of the senate and close
to Mr.. Wilson.
In these exchanges Mr.. Borah
Is said TO have received Informal
tion which convinced him that
Mr.. Wilson and he. despite their
differences over the league of ma
tions, are in complete sympathy
on many points involved in the
four-power treaty discussions. 1t
is declared. however, that there
has been no effort to extend the
exchanges to others of the arms
treaties.
Borah Consults Democrats.
The Idaho senator also has been
in constant conference with the
democratic senator's who are re-
garded as followers of the former
president, and they in turn have
with various of their
democratic colleagues who have
been inclined to follow the lead
OF Senator Underwood and sup
port all the treaties. The result
is situation largely nebulous SO
far as any reckoning of relative
numerical strength is concerned,
but nevertheless including ele-
ments conceded generally to fore
cast a stubborn fight before the
senate Is ready to vote finally on