The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-03-16
4-P0WER PACT
ATIFICATI0N
HELD CERTAIN
Administration Leaders Regard
Unanimous Agreement For
Vote Settling Matter
AMENDMENTS PROPOSED
New Proposals Dumped Into
Senate Hopper Before Vote
Agreement is Reached
AMENDMENTS PROPOSED

Washington, March 16. - Despite
acqulescence in the senate agreement
to vote finally on the four-power treaty
on March "a, the irreconcilables op-
posing ratification gave evidence today
that they had no intention of aban.
doning their war against the arms con-
ference agreement.
Administration leaders persisted in.
their declaration that agreement ON
the vote marked the collapse of all
hope for defeat OF any of the confer
ence treaties, but Senator Reed, Dem
ocrat, Missouri, went on the floor with
the irreconcilaIble onslaught charging
that the whole conference program
"had been misrepresented to the pub
lic."
He presented figures to prove that
the naval and four-power treaties TAX
en- together would place the United
States in the greater danger.
Washington, March 16. - Admins
tration leaders today regarded ratifi-
cation of the four-power Pacific treaty
in the senate as placed beyond the pale
of all doubt by developments resulting
in the unanimous consent agreement
to limit debate and take final vote
Friday, March\ "a.
The agreement was proposed on the
senate floor after a series Of confer
ences among the various senate ele-
ments, and was accepted virtually
without debate.
1t provides that no further reserva-
tions or amendments shall be voted
until next Tuesday, that speeches on
the treaty shall be limited to one hour
and those on reservations to 80 min
utes each, beginning on Wednesday,
and that final vote shall be taken
without debate as soon as the senate
convenes on the following Friday.
More Amendments Offered.
A new crop of reservations and
amendments was thrown into the SEN
ate hopper late yesterday. One was
the original reservation prepared by
Senator Brandegee, Republican, Of
Connecticut, and discussed in the for
eign relations committee before SEN
ator Brandegee conferred with Presi-
dent Harding. It was presented hy
Senator Johnson, Republican, Of Cali
fornia, who thus described it:
4 "I offer this reservation for the rea-
son that it represents the concentrat-
ed wisdom of a majority Of the Re-
publican members Of the foreign re-
lations committee, or rather, it did
that concentrated wisdom
at one time."
i A reservation introduced by Sena-
tor Shields, Democrat, Tennessee,
would declare that the United States
enters, the four power arrangement
solely for the purpose Of avoiding
friction in the Pacific, and without
any intention Of departing from
American traditions against involve
ment in foreign quarrels.
Would Pledge Powers
A new amendment to pledge the
four powers against entering into any
secret treaty or understanding was
put in by Senator Robinson, Demo-
crat, Arkansas.
General debate on the treaty was
resumed by Senator Ransdell, Demo-
crae, Louisiana, W tn speech urging
ratification. He said he could not sup
port one q: the arms conference
treaties and oppose others because he
considered they must stand or fall
together"
The foreign relations committees
"no alliance" reservation, he charac-
terized as neither adding to nor TAX
ing from the treaty"