The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-03-30
JAP AMENDMENT
PASSES SENATE
Lodges Motion to Bar Homeland
Unanimously Ratified.
WAY OUT OF SNARL BLAZED
Republican Leaders Move Construed
by Democrats as Victory for Sen
ator Hitchcock and Support
ers over Validity of Treaty.


Washington, March 2S.-The supple
mental agreement negotiated by the
Washington arms conference to take
the Japanese homeland out of the
four-power Pacific treaty was ratified
by the United States senate.
A supplementary resolution involv-
ing the domestic issues and manda-
tory rights reservation, accepted at
the arms conference but not voted on
when the main treaty was ratified
Friday, was attached as reservation
of ratification.
The agreement was ratified unani-
mously, 20 to o. the Democrats con-
STRUNG Senator Lodges move in in
cooperating the declaration in the
resolution of ratification as a victory
for Senator Hitchcock and his sup
porters who had attacked the validity
of the treaty itself because the agree
ment was not recognized as a part OF
it. Forty-six Republicans and TWEEN
ty-fve Democrats were present.
Lodge Agrees to Plan.
Ratification came swiftly after a
wrangle all afternoon as to whether
the declaration was part of the
treaty.
Senator Lodge finally decided to
offer ii as a reservation Of the Japa-
nese homeland agreement and to in
corporate both in the same resolution
of ratification.
During the day Senator Lodge had
made three separate proposals in an
effort to straighten out the senate
muddle over the declaration involving
domestic questions and mandatory
rights
He first proposed joint ratification
of it and supplementary agreement
taking the Japanese homeland out of
the pact
He then discarded this plan after
comforting with other administration
spokesman and suggested separate
ratification of the declaration and the
agreement.
He finally proposed that the decla-
to the agreement and that both be in
corporated in the same resolution of
ratification, and this action was taken.
In forcing the incorporation of the
domestic issues reservation in the
ratification of the main treaty Sena-
tor Hitchcock warned that Japan
might not ratify the declaration in
volving domestic issues like Japanese
immigration If it were kept separate
from the treaty.
IF we treat it as separate docu-
ment and ratify ii, we leave it i'm the
power of Japan to say she will not
ratify it" he said. Japan then will
be able to ratify the four-power treaty
which we are supposed to have rati-
fled Friday, and shake her fingers at
us as far as the plan covering immi-
grafton is concerned, because Japan
will no longer have any interest in
the declaration when she sees that we
refuse to consider it as a binding part
of the treaty itself.
"The only nation in the world with
WHICH we nave real controversy
over immigration is Japan. 1t is the
one big thing we have had trouble
with Japan over.
THE plan respecting immigration
was at the demand of the American
delegation to the arms conference and
1t is the one thing concerning the four
power treaty which really gives pro-
lection to the United States
Senators say there has been great
danger of trouble between the United
States and Japan in the Pacific.
What was 1t over? 1t was over the
immigration question. That has been
the burning cause of trouble. We
have had weeks of negotiation with
Japan over that question. 1t is the
one thing Japan has chung to and In
sisted on in her controversies with
the United States"
Attempt Defeated
Before the vote on the SUPPLEMENTAL
agreement the senate defeated an at