The St. Johns herald., 1922-03-30
 DEFEATED, 55-3O SENATORS DIVIDE ON PARTY LINES EXCEPT FOUR OF
 EACH.
NOT CONSIDERED INDEX
LEADERS OF FoUR-PoWER TREA- TY DISCUSS PROGRAM IN
 STORMY DEBATE.
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Washington.-After another storms debate in which possible political con- sequences of the administration treaty program were discussed from several angles, the Senate rejected by dI0l- sion almost on party lines, the first two of the proposed amendments to the four-power Pacific pact.
 At the peak of their strength with eleven short of the full membership present and voting, the opposition to the treaty marshaled twenty-six Demo- cratic and four Republican votes, with in two of a third of the full Senate membership, but three less than enough to upset the twO-thirds needed for final ratification if all senators participated in this vote.
 Leaders on both sidts conceded, however, that at best the division was but a poor index to Senate sentiment on the question of ratification itself.
 The first of the two amendments acted upon was offered by Senator Robinson, Democrat, Arkansas, and provided that the four powers should refrain from aggression against nOn- signatOry as we'll as SignatOry nations, and that all interested nations, wheth- CT signatOries to the treaty or not, should be invited to any conference over a Pacific controversy. The pro- posal was lost, 30 to B. After a similar amendment in different form was presented by Senator Walsh, Democrat, Montana, and was voted down, 2 to 50.
 On both roll calls four Republicans, BOrah of Idaho, Johnson of CalifOr- mia, France of Maryland and La Fol lette of Wisconsin, voted in the af- firmatiye, while an equal number of Democrats, POmerene of Ohio, Rans- dell of Louisiana, Underwood of Ala bama and Williams of Mississippi, joined the opposition.
 In the debate preceding the first vote nearly all the issues of the treaty fight were revived and both Democrats and Republicans indulged in prophecies of what might happen if the arms conference treaties be- came an issue between the Republi- can and Democratic parties. Senator LenrOOt, Republican, WinscOnsin, warned the Democratic side of the chamber that should the fOur-pOwer pact be defeated President Harding might withdraw the other treaties from the Senate and ask the country for a verdict at the polls in November.
 By Senator McCumber, Republican, North Dakota, also a supporter of the treaty, the President was invited to say whOt had become of the Repub- lican campaign pledge for 1920 for an association of natiOns," which should embrace all the principal powers of the world. Senator McCumber said a smaller association" had been formed by the four power treaty, but argued that Germany and Austria, among Oth- CTS, should be brought into a similar compact, because and incomplete com bination "Only would be a trouble breeder" He put into the record a plan of his own for such world ''as- SiciatiOn."
 Politics on both sides of the cham Der, during both the Versailles treaty fight and the present contest, was charged by Senator Williams, Demo crate, Mississippi, who also declared that if Great Britain were not party to the treaty 'Irish-American and Ger man-American opposition would have disappeared long ago."