New-York tribune., 1922-03-24
Senate Expected to Ratify
4-Power Pact To-day;
Democrats Fight for
Amendments TO Last
Peace Guaranty Is
Seen by Supporters
Little Chance That Anv
important Changes VIII
Be Made by Republicans

FROM fF Ir1orhe'S Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, March ga final
poll of the Senate by the Republican
leaders to-day showed sixty-seven Sen
ators for the four-power treaty and
twenty-ninc against it. This assures
the twothirds necessary for rati-
| fcation when the vote is taken to-mor-
| TOW. The struggle over the treaty
practically ended tonight with another
protracted debate which lasted through
a long afternoon and evening session.
Under the agreement already made the
voting will begin at noon tomorrow.
The poll shows not only that the
treaty will be ratified but that the
modified Brandegec reservation as re
ported out of the Foreign Relations
Committee will be adopted. This
observation is intended to exclude the
United States from commitment to the
use Of force and to an alliance.
The actual vote on the treaty is ex-
pected by Senator Lodge to be 65 to
rs. This allows for one pair. Senator
Crow, Of Pennsylvania, who is i'll, and
probably Senator Fernald, both Of
whom arc for the treaty, will be paired
against Senator Jones, of New Mexico.
who is against it. Senator TrammeU.
of Florida, who has been absent be-
cause of the death of his wife, is ex
pected back for the voting. If he should
not return he will be paired in the
place of Senator Fernald. Pairs in the
case OF vote on treaty are arranged
on the basis Of two to one, to CORE
spond to the two-t thirds vote REQUIRED
for ratification.
Democrats Make Last Stand
Democrats opposed to the treaty
made last-minute effort to-day to
muster enough votes for the Robinson
reservation to dictate terms to Senator
Lodge and force him to accept it. The
Robinson reservation is intended to
bind the four powers to refrain from
aggressive action against other nations
and to require that all nations con-
cerned in any controversy affecting the
Pacific shall be called into a confer
ence under the treaty.
While the opposition continued to-
night to confer with three Democratic
Senators and two Republicans in the
hope Of making conversions, they have
no real hope of success. Senator In
derwood Informed Senator Lodge that
eleven Democrats now against the
treaty would support it if the Robin
son amendment were accepted. SEN
ator Underwood did not urge it, how
ever, and Senator Lodge gave no indica-
tion that he would accept it.
report went the rounds that SEN
ator Underwood had released Dem
ocratic Senator'S from their personal
pledges to him to support the treaty.
Senator Underwood denied this and ex-
planned he had never asked any such
pledges
So far as the Brandegee reservation
is concerned, the only Republican
among those for the treaty who is
holding out against it is Senator Spen-
Ger, of Missouri.
Senator Walsh, of Montana, tonight
introduced an amendment, similar to
the Robinson proposal, providing that
all nations interested should be in
vited into conferences on controversies
in which they are concerned.
La Toilette Has Six Amendments
Senator La Toilette introduced Sc
ries of six amendments and reserva-
tions. One provides that any Of the
contracting powers may terminate the
treaty on one years notice and one
year thereafter; another would prevent
any of the powers to the treaty with out
consent of the others entering into
separate arrangeme regarding the
Pacific region or the Asiatic mainland; :;
another provides for termination of the
treaty if one of the contracting powers
enters into an arrangement to which
the others object. The others look to
the independence of the Philippines
one in ten years and the other in three
years, apd their naturalization.
A feature of the discussion to-day
was a speech by Senator Carter Glass,
Of Virginia, bitterly assailing the
treaty as a GROUP alliance" and re
hecting on the leadership of Senator
Underwood. Senator, Glass's views
we're regarded as in line with the views
of former President Wilson.
Among the other speakers to-day
we're Senator'S Colt, Lenroot, Phipps
and Kellogg for the treaty and Sen
ators Caraway, Borah, Robinson, Reed
and Harris against it. Chauncey NJ
Depew, of New York. was in the gallery
| through part of the debate.
| Senator Colt, Of Rhode Island, opened
| to-day's discussion with an argument
"The purpose Of the four-powcr
treaty. he said, 'is to secure peace
in the Pacific by the joint action OF
the United States, Great Britain
France and Japan. And in this con.
nection can it not be truthfully saio
that the future peace of the world, fo1
the next generation at least, rests
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