Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-03-31
SENATE ADOPTS
LAST0F SEVEN
arms TREATIES
Ratifies Nine-POWer Agree
ment and the Chinese
Customs Pact
INTEREST LAGS
Five Weeks of Debate Devoted to
Labors of COnference-Finish is
Without Interest

Washington. March 3l.-The Sell
ate late yesterday ratified the last of
the seven treaties IF the Conference
on the Limitation Of Armament and
Far Eastern Questions, and today will
90 back to discussion of such domes-
tic things rs coal strikes. tariff, the
soldier bonus and appropriation bills.
By almost unanimous vote two trea-
ties, both elatimg to China, were ratl-
fled. The vote on the rire-power
treaty for the territorial integrity of
China was ratified 10y a vote of % to
o. Only few minutes later. since the
body showed litttc inclination to pro-
long debate. the treaty covering an
increase in Chinese customs duties
was ratified. IS to /.
Senator King. Democrat, Of Utah,
stood in lonely opposition against The
Chinese customs treaty. He maintain
ed that other nations had nothing to
do with The customs duties Of China,
either AT the time they originally were
prescribed or at the present. there
fore he rather Goggedly shouted his
solitary mo" wh"n his name was call
ed.
Both Senator Lodge and Senator
Underwood, Of the American delega-
tjon 10 the Arms Conference, were
smiling az the final ro.! calls were
begun. ii was apparent they were re-
l;cvcd as the burden of ratification re-
sponsibiIity was lifted from their
shoulders.
A Senator who did not know what
the roll call was about hastened into
the chamber and asked Senator Under
wood.
at is n vote on the last Of the
pacts," said Senator Underwood in q
voice audible in the gallery. and he
smiled broadly and stretched bis arms.
The Senate spent hut five weeks in
the consideration of the seven treat
les of the Arms Conference and dur
ing this time the treaty debate has
not been continuous. Discussion on ap-
propriation bills or other measures
was some times sandwiched in for an
hour or so day. The treaty concern
ing The Island Of zap was read to the
Senate February y and 1t was the
first ratified. The vote came March
and was 81 to -.
Then followed three weeks of de-
bate on the four power treaty, when
was finally ratified by a vote OF b.
10 p. the ratification forces having
four more votes than were necessary.
This ended the principal contest over
the ACCOMPLISHMENTS Of the Arms Con-
ference.
The remaining five votes were un-
animous. or nearly so, as the following
resume shows:
"Trcatv on submarine and poison
gases and their use in warfare, unani-
nous.
Naval limitation o. armament
treaty, vote unanimous except 1or
Senator France Of Maryland, against.
Chinese customs treaty, vote unan-
imnus except for Senator King, OF
Utah, against.
Treaty covering the territorial IN
tcgrity of China and other Chinese
questions, unanimous.
Supplement to the four-power
treaty, which excluded the mainland
of .Tapan from the fourpower pact,
unanimous.
Except for the speeches of Senator
Underwood and Senator Borah, the
closing treaty debate was rather de-
sultory. In fact interest had so dim
inished that the vote on the first of the
Chinese treaties came so Unexpected
" that only eight Senators were IN
the chamber as the roll ca! began.