The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-03-15

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Bob's life. He
goes In for WILLIAM HARD
whites and blacks. He sees the
the treaty black, very black; and he
is working hard to drum up two or
three more Republican votes against
II.
Senator Underwood's Democrats
who vote with the Republicans were
really seven in number in the voting
on the Robinson amendment to the
treaty yesterday. There were fcur
If them who said Nay" to the
amendment and three Of them who
would have said Nay" II they had
voted. I'VE are Seven will perhaps
be the motto of the Underwood
Democrats. These seven seem 70
have enlisted on the Republican side
for the duration OF the treaty war.
A Republican yesterday welcomed
them with the nickname The For
eign Legion.
Overheard in the press gallery:
First correspondent: II these re-
bellions in Egypt and South Africa
keep up, the British Empire will
soon consist of England Scotland.
Wales and Senator Kellogg.
Second correspondent: I'm not so
sure Of Wales.
Senator Kellogg is really the most
tenderly devoted lover that the
treaty has. He and Senator Cum.
minis and a few others are determin-
ed to find out if they can pass II
through the Senate without even the
White House reservation attached
to it, They like 1t Just as il came
from the hands of the diplomats IN
the Washington conference. They
have been known TO claim that they
have enough votes In agreement WITH
them to kin the White House reser.
Walton otherwise called the Bran
degee reservation) and so give this
country the four-power treaty really
pure and unadulerated.
Senator King of Utah, after long
study, seems to be against tho
treaty flat. King is one Of the
studious Senators. He can be found
at his books in his office In the Sen.
ate Office building almost any night
till midnight. He is against tn /.
treaty now for the reason which
several times in these dispatches
has been laid down as the final com.
polling reason why in the end there
will be few Democrats voting for tn
treaty. This reason is expressed by
Senator King as follows:
II am against the fourpower
treaty because II sets up a little ri.
val league in the Far East. IL we
have a little rival league there, why
then pretty soon we shall have "A
little league in Africa and a little
league in eastern Europe and so on
You may say for me that am
against these bush leagues. a,
ways have been. and now am, in
favor OF one big major league"
Senator Johnson. in a burst Of in,
dignation, yesterday proposed to get
some more votes for the peace OF the
world by bringing in an amendment
to the four-power treaty promoting
friendship between Japan and the
United States by ceding TO Japa- the
States of Oregon. Washington and
California. Senator johnson claimed
that in this way great cause of con
troversy between Japan and the
United States regarding the land laws
of California would be removed and
Japan would be put into a better
humor, and thus the chances of war
would be greatly diminished.
I notice that the diplomatic gallery
overlooking the Senate-the gallery
in which the representatives OF
foreign powers may sit to listen TO
the Senate debates--is usually quite
empty. There are seldom more than
four or five people in IL. Sometimes
these are no people in II at all.
Foreign diplomats in Washington
study America almost exclusively in
diplomatic State Department society.
They do not mix as much as they
might in Senatorial or Congressional
society either in the evening or in
the day time. II they sat oftener in
the diplomatic gallery overlooking
the Senate they would improve their
information about this country. For
Instance:
In the Senate the other day they
would have heard the English
statesman, whose name Is Grey,
become the subject of a very elab.
crate senatorial discussion as to
what he did or did not do in 1914.
In the course of that discussion
and in reference to his behavior in
1914, he was called Lord Grey, Sir
Grey, Sir Grey. Mr. Grey,
Viscount Grey and even Sir Wis.
count Grey.
This would teach the foreign dip.
lomats something they never learn
about America in Washington State
Society.
While Senator Watson yesterday
was detailing long line OF atroci-
ties alleged to have been committed
In Korea by the Japanese, there
was one listeHer In the diplomatic
who listened with a more
intense interest than anybody else
In any gallery. He bent over and
fixed his eyes on Watson and let