The Washington herald., 1922-03-25
HAS 81 ROLL CALLS
Decisive Majorities Cast
Against Numerous
Amendments.
CLEARS WAY FOR
PENDING TREATIES
Underwood Wins Twelve
Democrats to Aid of
Pacific Pact.

BY a vote Of 81 TO % the four
power Pacific treaty. foundation of
the accomplishments OF the interna-
tioaal conference on the limitation
Of ornaments. was ratified by the
| Senate yesterday.
There were four votes more then
the necessary two-thirds Of the Sem
ators present for this quadrupie
agreement stsbiiizinE peace i'm the
Pacific and terminating the Anglo
/ Japanese allis nee an agreement
which taken together with the navy
| reduction and other treaties. con-
| stitutes a historic achievement Of the
| Harding administration.
4 Adds Brsndegee Reservation.
Had the four-pOwer pact failed OF
| ratification the work OF the arms
conference would have been destroyed.
Approval OF the key treaty paves the
( way for ratification OF the other
agreements by The Senate and Of all
the treaties by the other great
powers. BY a vote Of 30 to 2. the
Senate attached 70 the resolution OF
ratification the so-caIIed Branderee
reservation declaring that the United
States understands that under the
statement in the preamble or under
the terms Of this treaty there is no
commitment to armed forces, no
alliance, no obligation to join in any
| defense"
President Harding will accept this
reservation, and ratification will be
exchanged with the other signatory
powers Of the pact-Great Britain.
France and Japan-at the earliest
possible date.
81 Roll Calls Taken.
An other reservations were voted
down by decisive majorities. In the
course Of four hours thirty-one roll
calls were taken. Amendment after
amendment was attempted by the op-
position. but the Republican. orEanizs--
ton swept them down in order.
Numerous reservations met tho
same fate.
Senator Underwood. Democratic
leader. one of the American dele
gates who helped negotiate the
the treaty, made good his promise
to the administration and delivered
twelve Democratic votes in favor
of ratification. without his assist
ance. the treaty probably would
have been rejected, because four
Republicans broke away from their
party lines and voted against the
pact.
Four Republicans voted against
ratification and twelve Democrats
in favor OF raehcation.
Fifty-fve Republicans voted in
favor OF ratification and twenty
three Democrats against il
Result of Roll Call.
Here Is the offcial roll call:
Republicans for-55.
Cameron. Capper. Colt. ClImmins.
Curtis, Dillingham;. Dupont, Edge.
Elkins. Ernst, Fernald. Frel.nghuy-
son, Gooding. Hale. Harreld, Jones
(Wash.). Kellogg. Keyes. Ladd. Len
root. Lodge, Mccormick. McCumber.
Mckinley. Mclean. McNary. Moses.
Nelson. New, Newberry, Nicholson.
Sorbeck, Norris. Oddie. Page, Pep
per. Phipps, Poindexter, Rawson,
Shortridge. Smoot. Spencer. STAN
, field. Sterling, Sutherland. Town
send. Wadsworth. Warren, Watson
Und). Weller and willis.
Democrats for-12.
Broussard. Dial. Fletcher, Ken
drick, McEeller. Myers. owen,
Pomerene, RansdeIl. Trammell. Tn
6erwood and Williams =
Republicans against.
Borah. France, Ii Toilette and
johnson CCalD.
Democrats agsinst-2s.
Ashurst, Carroway, CulbersOn.
Gerry. Glass. Harris. Harrison.
Hefiin, Hitchcock. King. Over
man, Pittman. Reed, Robinson,
sheppard, Shields. Simmons, Smith.
Stanley, Swanson. Walsh Mass \,
walsh (Mont), and watson CGa-l.
Only two Senator'S were absent
They were Crow OF Pennsylvania
Republican, and Jones Of New Mex
leo, Democrat. Both would have
voted for ratification IL they had
been present, it was announced.
Began Voting at Noon.
when the Senate met at noon. It
began voting on amendments at
once. by previous agreement all
talk was out Of order. Unusually
large crowds. which thronEed the
galleries. grew restive in the
monotony of roII-call after roll-caIl.
unbroken by debate. but there were
always plenty OF people waiting in
the corridors 70 hll the places OF
those who left.
The opposition mustered its maxi
/
signed to convert the four power
pact into a sort OF league OF ma
tions. Senator Walsh, OF Mon
tana, and Senator Robinson. Of Ar
kansas, Democrats. presented a
series Of such reservations, pro-
viding for the calling Of general
conferences whenever the peace OF
the world is menaced. One OF SEN
ator Walsh's reservations mustered
the hiEh-water mark Of the opposi-
tion, but was beaten. IS to 36.
Senator LaFollette. Of Wisconsin
presented a series Of six reserva-
tions and forced roil-calls on all ot
them. One OF them would have re-
quired the British and JRparese to
abroGate their 1913 agreement. An
other would have conferred iEle-
pendence on the philippinC~. Al
were beaten by large rIai' - -
Senator johnson Cf Caiif,rnia sp-
peRred next with lis reservations.
His FIRST one declared thst the