Bisbee daily review., 1922-02-23
PASSAGE OF 4 POWER TREATY
 AGAIN DELAYED
Administration Acceptance of Blanket Reservation Is
 Withheld at Session
COP. LEADERS CONFER
President Advice Sought on Reservation; No Reservation
 Necessary Harding Held

WASHINGON, Feb. 22.-The pro- gress of the four power Pacific treaty in the senate again was interrupted today while administration leaders conferred among themselves and pre- pared to seek the advice of President Harding whether to accept the blank ct reservation proposed by those who are opposing unreserved ratification.
 Contrary to tho expectation of sen ators who had sponsored the reserva- tion administration acceptance of it was withheld at today's session of the foreign relations committee, and Sen ator Lodge of Massachusetts, the Re- publican leader and committee chair man, arranged to confer tomorrow morning with the president.
 At the White House, Lodge is ex- pected to decribe in detail the situ- ation in the committee, a majority of whose members are said to have in dicated they would Support the res eryation regardless of the stand taken by the administration. What the sen ate leaders own opinion may be re- Garding the proposal has not been definitely revealed, but Republican committee members supporting it still predicted tonight that both Lodge and Harding eventually would decide i
 to interpose serious opposition.
 Heretofore, officials close to the president have declared he held strongly to tho opinion that no reser- Yatiors wee necessary, although q, the same time it has tce1 said that ne dii not desire to become stickler CT senate acceptance Of the treaty with out the dotting of an 'i'' or the cros- sing of a "t". His decision is cx- pected to hinge on whether the pro posed reservation, which provides that every adjustment reached under the treaty should be subject to the review of congress, inpairs or embar- rasses the purposes of the four power arrangement.
 It is not considered unlikely that the wkole senate situation also wi be taken into consideration by Presi- dent Harding and Senator Lodge be- fore they adopt 9 course of action. With administration acceptance of tn blanket reservation assured, it is cCn- ceded that the committee will be in a position to vote promptly ana @lmoss unanimously a favorable report on the
 
 ance withheld, it is the apparent pur- pose of the reSerVation;sts to attempt to put through the committee a serie of more specific qualifications leading to considerable debate and lcng deiay
 One of these supplemental reserva- tions is being led by Senator Kello3g, Republican, Minnesota, who predict ed tonight that niether the president nor Senator Lodge ev erwould consent to the Brandegee proposal. Senators New, Indiana and McCumber, North Dakota, Republicans and Williams, Democrat, Mississippi. were said to share the views of Senator Kellogg, while Senator Lodge reserved judge ment and all the other II Republican and Democratic members gave indica- tions that they were favorably dis posed toward the blanket reservation. While the committee continued its deliberations on the four power Paci- | fife pact today, the senate began de- bate on the serarte treaty between the United States and Japan relating to Yap and other former German is- lands of the Pacific Lodge explain e dthe treaty at length, characterizine (Continued on Page Two)