Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-02-04
Remaining Treaties and
Resolutions Are to Be
Formally Approved at a
Public Session Today,
HARDING TO DELIVER
VALEDICTORY MONDAY
America Is Moving to SUS-
pend Work on IS Battle
ships and Cruisers Now
Under Construction,
tBy The Associated Press,)

Washington. Feb, (by the AS
sociated Press. Except for the
formalities and frills that are TO
attend its adjournment, the Wash
ington conference on limitation OF
armament and Far Eastern ques-
tions, is over.
AT a plenary session tomorrow
the remaining treaties and resolu-
tions are to be formally approved
and the chief delegates are to say
goodbye to one another in speech
cs expressing the qualification Of
their governments over the con-
ference accomplishments. On
Monday at another public meeting
the treaties will be signed and
sealed and President Harding will
deliver the conference valedictory
in brief address.
Already the administration, look
ing upon the conference agree
ments as accomplished facts, is
moving to suspend work on the
thirteen battleships and battle
cruisers now under construction
but destined for the scrap heap for
the naval treaty. The president
does not plan actually to begin the
scrapBing process until the treaty
has been ratified by all the pow
crs but he has asked the navy de-
partment for information on which
an order suspending construction
soon is to he issued,
Two Far Eastern PaCts.
In their final roundup of the Far
Eastern situation, the conference
leaders decided today 10 put their
conclusions into two Far Eastern
treaties and a number Of supple
mentary resolutions. one of the
treaties will deal with revision Of
the China tariff and the other will
embody the Root -four points
and the "open door" policy. Both
will have as signatories all nine of
the powers represented here.
Actual negotiation on the Far
Eastern problems came to an end
today with statements delivered in
the FIR ECstagu corsT1ittee 9etGns
forth the position OF the American
and Chinese governments toward
the twenty demands" DR..
Wang said China viewed with sat
isfactiOn Japan's announcement
yesterday that group five
and some other clauses Of the
demands would be withdrawn.
but reserved her right to protest
the parts remaining. Secretary
Hughes asserted that the Ameri.
can government still stood on it's
rights in the matter as it had as
serted them when the demands
were laid down by Japan in 1915
and there the discussion ended
without action.
Treaties for Approval Today.
The only treaties to be formally
given conference approval at to-
morrow's plenary session are the
two relating to China but there
will be final ratification of the
supplementary resolutions that
have been adopted in the Far East
ern committee and probably an ex-
change Of notes definitely to ex-
clude the Japanese homeland from
the scope Of the four-power Pa
cific treaty signed December 13.
On Monday the delegates will
sign the naval treaty, the subma-
rine and poison gas treaty. the two
treaties relating to China and the
supplementary notes to be attach
ed to the four-power Pacific treaty.
The agreement regarding Yap. to
which the United States and Japan
alone are parties. and the six-power
settlement allocating the former
German cables in the Pacific, arc
not yet in treaty form. It is eX-
pected they will be pressed to con-
clusion in the near future through
the regular diplomatic channels.