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TEFINOSWAY
OUT OF ITS TANCLE.
Ratities Pacific Supplementary
Treaty With Reservations
APPROVAL IS UNANIMOUS
Opponents as Well as Friends OF the
Four-Power Pact Vote in the AttT
NATIVE.

Washington. March 2S.-The tour
power supplementary treaty, eNclud
ing the mainland of Japan from iht
scone of the four-poWer arrangement
was ratified by the senate.
Included in the resolution OF ran
fcotion. which received the supp0ri
of both friends and opponents OF the
four-power pact itself, was the addl
tional supplementary agreement ne
cIaring that domestic issues shal
not come up for discussion at four
power conferences.
The vote on the treaty was unani
nous, 10 to &.
Previously, without a roll-call, the
senate had adopted the declaration
excluding domestic questions as s
reservation to the supplemental treaty
No new amendments to the supple
mentary treaty were offered and wher
the vice president declared reserva
tons were in order Senator Lodge, OF
Massachusetts, the Republican leader
presented as a reservation the Origina
domestic issues" declaration signeC
by the arms delegates at the same
time that they approved the four
power pact itself.
During discussion Of the proposal
Senator Pittman, Democrat, Nevada
moved to add to the declaration as
presented by Senator Lodge the "eSer
walton regarding domestic issues which
Mr.. Lodge drafted and introduced IL
the senate during the Versailles treaty
fight. This reservation would declare
that the United States reserve eXclu
sively the right to decide what are
domestic issues under the treaty. Sen
ator Pittman's motion was defeated
p to 40, the supporters of the four
power pact voting solidly against il
When the four-pOwer treaty tangle
came up again in the senate, Lodge
proposed as q way out of it that there
be included in the resolution ratify
ing the formal supplementary agree
ment resolution restating the infor
NAL declaration" signed cOincident
ally with the treaty. 1t was because
Of the senate failure to act specifically
on this informal supplement that the
treaty opponents had challenged the
validity of Fridays ratification of the
pact itself.
Senators simmons, Democrat, NOrtf
Carolina, and Walsh, Democrat, Mon
Jana. among others, expressed doubt
whether the latest administration plaI
would be effectual. Senator SimmOn,
declared the informal declaration wa:
not an interpretation which cOulC
be expressed in the form of Il reSer
walton, but an understanding" having
the character of treaty and requir
ing direct ratification. BY Senator
Walsh it was suggested that should
Senator Lodges plan be adopted anC
Japan fail to ratify the formal sup
plement, the informal declaration at
tached to it would fail likewise, ani
the four power pact would stand ap
proved without any of the qualifica
tions which the American delegates
had deemed essential.
Senator Robinson attacked what he
termed as 'extraOrdinary" procedure
in the making, he said, of three sep
arate treaties relating to only one
subject.
IF it had been known that domestic
questions were not excluded" said
Robinson, senators would not have
dared vote fer ratification of the quad
ripple treaty"
Citing the speech of Senator Short
ridge, Republican, California, in sup
port of the four-power measure and
his argument that domestic questions
like immigration, were excluded, Sen.
ator Robinson recalled that former
Secretary Bryans appeal to the Cal;
fornia legislature against the anti
japanese land bill had been over
whelmingly overridden."