Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-02-24
AMENDMENT
is APPROVED
BY PRESIDENT
Harding and Senator
Brandegee Work
Out Problem.
CLASH is SETTLED
Z. S. Relieved of Bind
ing Clauses by
Provision.

WASHINGTON, Feb. "a. - A
compromise reservation to the four
power Pacific treaty was agreed
upon today by President Harding
and Senator Brandegee of Con.
necticut, Republican +irreconsiI-
able" member OF the Senate Foreign
! Relations Committee.
The new reservation intended as
substitute for the one offered orig
inally by Senator Brandegee to which
President Harding objected, was
worked out at a conference between
the President and the Senator at the
White House prior to a meeting OF
the Foreign Relations Committee.
The text OF the compromise reservaS
ton accepted by Harding follows:
AMENDMENT
RELIEVES L. g
THE United States underestimate
under the statement of the preamble
and under the terms Of this treaty
there is no commitment to armed
force. no alliance and no obligatiou to
Join In any defense"
rms contains part OF Brandegee'S orfzt-
nal reservation and part OF the one Hard
ing yesterday suggested to the COMMITTEES
through Senator Lodge. II omits that
portion OF the Harding reservation which
provided there was obligation that con-
nicted with the Constitution.
The compromise reservation said moth
ing about congressional sanction for ad.
Justments reached under the treaty. This
constituted g victory for Harding, who
contended an expression OF that sort
would constitute an assertion by the Sen
ate OF too much authority with respect
70 the making OF treaties.
After but haf-an-hOur session, the
committee reached an agreement TO vote
finally tomorrow on the Pacific pact. and
on nn reservations, or amendments,
offered thereto.
AGREE TO VOTE
on IT TOMORROW.
It was first proposed the fnsI action
on the treaty should be taken today, but
Senator Johnson Of California, one of
the Republican 'irreconciIabIes," urged
that it be deferred.
Senator Pomerene (Dem.), Ohio, than
made a formal motion that a final vots
on the treaty and all matters pertaining
to It be taken tomorrow.
Pomerene's motion was unanimously
agreed to.
The compromise reservation was -
garded by Administration Senator'S as
promising an early settlement Of the cons
troversy ever the Pacific pact.
It was pointed out by them that the
reservation merely expressed what the
President and Administration spokes-
men had contended all along, that the
treaty does not commit the United
States to employ armed force. or to allli-.
ance, or to an obligation to Join in the
defense OF Pacific possessions not It's
own.
BY Republican '1rreconliables- the res
ervation was considered an admission By
treaty supporters that the United States
was not properly safeguarded against
such Z commitment by the treaty St.
self.
Senator johnson. who led the fight
against the Harding Lodge reservation,
strenuously opposed the proposed Hsr-
ding Brandegee compromise.
When Brandegee suggested withdrawal
Of his original reservation and the sub
stituting for It Of the one agreed upon
by President Harding and himself, john
son served notice that he would offer ths
original If Brandegee abandoned 1t, and
insist upon its being voted up or voted
down"
Johnson also declared he would fight
the Harding Brandegee reservation Just
as vigorously as he had the Harding
Lodge reservation.
Senator Williams, Democrat, Of Adssis4
sippi. also was understood 20 have de.
nOunced the resolution as mot ringing
true" and as being insincere.