Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-03-28
I VOTE IS UNANIMOUS
AS FINAL TEST COMES
Matters of Home Concern
Prevented From Going to
Four-Power Confab.
NAVAL LIMITATIONS
Begun Today by Rntify-
ing Tribunal.
LEY Associated Press.l

t3y Associated Press.l
WASHlN NGTON. March 21.-Th,
Senate finally untanGled its parl;a-
power treaty supplements today b.
joining the two SUpplemcntary
agreements together and then ra:i-
tyins them both by unanimous vote.
one of the supplements. itself IN
the form OF treaty. defines th"
geographical scope ot the four
power pact so as not 40 include the
Japanese homeland. The other. at
iachcd 10 tho first by today's action
in the form of a Reservation" stip-
ulates that issues which are purcl!
OF q domestic character cannot be
brought before the four-power CON
ferenccs."
Vote Is Unanimous.
The vote on the double -barreieS
ratification resolution was - TO "a.
opponents OF tho four power plan
joining in giving approval TO the
supplements because they interpreted
the two agreements as limiting and
curtailing the operation of the prin-
cipal treaty. Several attempts to at
failed when the four power treaty
Itself was under consideration We're
defeated b. the usual protrcaty and
antitreaty lineup. ri
AS soon as the vote had been CON,
plcted Senator Lodge, Of. Massao.ru-.
setts. the Republican leader, called
up the naval Limitation treaty es-
tablishing a 5-5-3 capital ship ratip
Tor the United States. Great Britain
and Japan. Debate on IL is to be-
gin tomorrow, and the administra-
ton managers expect to sec IL rati-
fed by an almost unanimous vote by
the end OF the week.
Lodge Proposes Combined Action.
The plan OF combining action on
the TWO four power treaty supple
nents was proposed by Senator
Lodge after he had decided IL was
unnecessary to present two separate
ratification resolutions. The treaty
opponents, holding that the domestic
questions supplement really was
part OF the four-power pact. pro-
tested that the method finally sell
tied upon by the Republican leader
was OUT weak and unsatisfactory"
way to solve the parliamentary prob
lem confronting the Senate, but Mr..
Lodge and other Republicans insist
ed it would be entirely effective.
BY Senator Hitchcock. OF Nebraska,
senior Democratic member OF the
Foreign Relations Committee. il was
declared that the Senate's action in
giving helated approval to the sun
piement lis an admission to Japan
that the supplements provisions are
not part OF the four power treaty"
Other Democrats also argued that
the only proper procedure was to re-
consider the vote ratifying the four
power pact so as 10 include the sun
piement In that ratification. Adop-
ton OF the domestic questions sun
piement as reservation" to the
geographical supplement-, however,
was by viva voce vote.
Seek Other Reservations.
TWO attempts were made to at
tach other reservations. Senator
Fit'man, Democrat. Nevada. present
ing the Lodge league OF nations
reservation on domestic questions.
and Senator Robinson. Democryt.
Arkansas, Introducing again his pro-
posai that outside powers be invited
10 join in Pacific conferences affect
ing their interests. The Pittn,ap
reservation was beaten, II to 20. and
tho Robinson reservation was reject
ed without; a roll call.
Senator Robinson also sou,h.
without success, 10 amend the su,-
Elementary treat% so that the Island
In nj
from the operation or the four.powsr
pian. lie argued that trouble on that
island would be almost certain IL
Russia would attack Japan, but hi,
amendment was voted down. 90 In at.
senator Underwood. OF Alabama. tn.
Democratic leader, led the sa,,t
against it. saying that 1t Nigh; lend
I" rejection OF the whole FOUR power
arrangement by Japan.
\ suggestion by senator Under
wood that Russia probably wopId
rcfrain from aggression aEains:
Japan II she knew that She would
h"d heTself involved with three
other powers" led To a long col.
!oquy between the Democratic Lad.
er and Senator Johnson, OF Califor
MA one OF the Republican irrecon.
Senator johnson asked In
what way the three other powers"
would he involved. and when Mr.. Uu-
derwood replied that entirely aside
from the element OF force. nati6ns
must have money and suppliesI ~
make war. the California Senator q.
sisted that the statement constituent
an admission that tho four. pow3r
pact really bound the United states
To. boycott nations making war 30
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