Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-02-07
GOES tn NICHE
Of HISTORY To
AWAIT FUTURE
Plenipotentiar. ! e 8 Of
Powers Affix Names
to Treaties Framed
United States Is First in
Signing and Portu-
guese Delegates Last

Washington, Feb. 6.-(By The As
sociated Press) THE history making
conference on the limitation of arma-
ments and far eastern questions came
to its end Monday morning with the
signing of treaties and a farewell ad-
dress by President Harding. Ajourn-
ment was taken at 11:13 o'clock.
With its work characterized by Mr..
Harding as "the first deliberate and
effective expression of great powers IN
the consciousness of peace, OF war
utter futilty," the great conference
went to it's niche Of history to await
the judgments and developments OF the
future.
In the great assembly hall OF the
Daughters of the American Revolution
where all it's open sessions have peen
held. the delegates of the nine nations
assembled, marched in turn to space
at the great green baize table and at
fixed their signatures to the treatles
and agreements which are all parts OF
the structure built to lift from war
worn world the burden of excessive
naval ornaments; to promote the
peace of the Pacific, to give new bill
Of rights to China and to remove from
the far east, particularly, the clouds
of war. and as each delegation affixed
signatures as plenipotentiaries pledg-
inr the honor of their respective ma
tions to the good faith Of the settle
ments agreed upon, the great audience
expressed the hopes of the world in
its loud and prolonged applause.
The final session of the conference
was called to order just after ~
o'clock. ,,,
"The treaties will now be signed"
announced Secretary Hughes and the
American delegation filed around to
the foot Of the big green topped table
of the secretary generals desk inside
The enclosure and began signing.
Secretary Hughes completed his sig
nature at 1902 o'clock. ~
The signing was in this, order: The
United States, Belgium, Great Britain,
France, Italy. Japan, The Netherlands,
China and Portugal.
At the conclusion of the ceremony
of signing, President Harding delivered
his address formally closing the con-
ference as ho formally had opened 1t
q little more than IL weeks ago.
The president, as he read slowly
from his manuscript, frequently was
halted ~ bursts Of applause. AT the
conclusion of the address the Rev.
Abernathy stepped forward and pro-
nounced the benediction.
"May it be the heart Of every nation
and every man." he beseeched, to
hasten the bringing of the era of good
will"
The prayer ended, Secretary Hughes
raped with his gaTel and announced:
1.-THE conference is adjourned sine
die"
As the concluding act of their II
weeks Of labor, the American delegates
will unite within few days in re-
port to the president. formally placing
in his hands the five treaties ready for
senate ratification and q record of the
negotiations. -, ;.
Il is expected they will be submit
ted to the senate all at one time, and
they may be taken to the capitol by
Mr.. Harding in person before the end
Of the week.
Viewing the conference in retrospect,
all delegations renewed, their express
sions of qualification over the results.
The burden of their comment gave
precedence to the naval limitations
agreements, and the readjustments af-
fecting China as constituting the crown
ing achievements Of the negotiations.
The plenipotentiaries of Japan, who
alone among the nine nations came into
the conference with reservations and
with apparent popular apprehension as
to the outcome, Joined in the general
manifestations of satisfaction.