Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-03-31
Four-PoWer Pacific Treaty Is
Ratified by Senate After
Bitter Debate.
HOUSE PASSES BONUS BILL
President Orders American Army
Home From Rhine and Hughes
Notifies Allies They Must
Pay Expense Bill Mos
lem Unrest.
By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN

THE four-power Pacific treaty was
l. ratified by the United States
senate Friday, March "a.
By agreement made ten days in
advance the vote had been set for
that date. 1t came as the climax to a
week of strenuous oratory. The bit
terest debate was precipitated Mon
day when Senator Borah Republican
of Idaho) read into the record a steno-
graphic report of a statement attrib-
uted to Paul D. Cravath, "the repre-
sentative of the Morgans and the
RyanS," to the effect that the United
States had entered into a secret agree
ment to cooperate with Great Britain
against Japan in the Pacific. Senators
Lodge and Underwood, Republican and
Democratic floor leaders and American
delegates to the conference with Secre-
tary of State Hughes and Elihu Root,
denied the alleged Cravath statement.
Senator Robinson Of Arkansas, lead
ing the Democratic opposition to the
treaty, demanded a senatorial investi-
cation and asked that Secretary
Hughes and Mr.. Root be called before
the foreign relations committee. At
this point Senator Lodge said:
"This debate is proceeding upon the
theory that the four American dele
gates were not only ignorant and in
competent but that they were prepared
to betray their country. 1t is an i'm
plication against the honesty and pa
triotism of the President. l believe
that they are as patriotic and as de-
sirous of protecting the interests of
their country as those who are SANDER
ing them by implication and insinua-
lions. I will trust the people of the
United States to stand by the Presi-
dent and the four delegates in this
great conference"
Later NJ. Cravath emphatically de-
MED the statement attributed to him
Secretary Hughes wrote a letter in
which he said:
'In my letter to Senator Under
wood on March 18th, in relation to
the four-power treaty, l said:
"'There are no secret notes or I'm.
derstandings.'
"Permit me to express the hope
that the American delegates will be
saved further aspersions upon theil
~veracity and honor"
To the Man in the Street the as.
tonishing part of this is the fact thai
anyone-United States senator or any
n else-should expect to get across
with charges, direct or indirect
against either the honor, the efficiency
the veracity or the patriotism of the
four American delegates.
DASSAGE of the -four billion dol
L lar" bonus bill was accomplished
by the house Thursday, March %, by
a vote of 333 to 70, four voting present
A two-thirds majority was necessary
to pass the bills under a suspension
Of the rules.
The bonus bill was put through III
accordance with a program announced
the preceding Tuesday. Chairman
Campbell Of the rules committee sub
mitted a resolution providing for sus
pension of the rules. Chairman Ford
ney of the ways and means committe,
was recognized by the speaker fol
the offering of a motion to suspend
the rules and pass the bill. Foul
hours Of debate followed, with tim,
divided.
Any forecast Of the treatment O
the bill by the senate is largely guess
work. Certain Republican senators
have expressed opposition to the bill
as reported to the house by the way
and NEAR committee. 1t Is common
report that any bill passed by tn,
senate will contain a provision set
ting forth the necessary taxation pla