Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-02-28
TREATY DEBATE
WILL BEGIN IN
THE SENATE ON
NEXT THURSDAY
Democrats Claim That 'Po-
IitiCaI OPPRESSION Has
Not Been Organized
Against Ratification,
YAP PACT ASSAILED
BY JOHNSON AND REED
During the WrangIing Many
Stray Shots Are Taken at
Others of the Arms Con-
ference Agreements,

Washington, Feb. 27.-The frs,
concerted attack on the arms con-
ference treaties, characterized by
! tactics which administration lead
ers openly charged suggested a fiji
buster was launched into the senate
today just as the foreign relations
committee completed its consider
atlon Of the covenants and ordered
all OF them fayorably reported.
After several hours of wraur-
Ing a unanimous agreement was
reached to vote not later than Q d.
m Thursday on ratification of the
treaty with Japan relating to Yap
ana other inundated islands in the
Iacliic. Immediately afterward
debate is to begin on the other
treaties resulting from the confer
ence negotiations.
Using the zap treaty as the i'm.
mediate vehicle of their discussion.
but interspersing remarks on many
other subjects and frequent quorum
calls opponents Cf the conference
program carried on such a deter
mined all day assault that the senate
managers proiUnged tho session
INTO the evening in the hope Of
wearing down their assaiants.
Disclaimer From Democrats.
one incident to the series OF
pointed exchanges running through
tine debate was a complete disclairn-
er from the democratic side that
political opposition had been or
sanizcd against the treaties or had
been counseled by former President
Wilson.
The attack on the Yap treaty,
during which many stray shots
were taken at others of the arms
confidence agreements, was led by
Senators Johnson, republican, Cal
lfornia. and Reed, democrat, Mis-
souri,. The former characterized
the Yap pact as "a dismal pro-
'logue" to the confe encc series Of
covenants, and the latter openly
charged republican leaders with an
effort 10 force the treaties through
the senate before the country dls-
covered what they contain.
When 1t became known that the
foreign relations committee had
given its approval to the general
Far Eastern ana Chinese tariff
NLN1AAS tiic last lWU GL lllt GUD-
ference series remaining before it
the expected flood of proposed
reservations began to make it's ap-
pearance on the senate floor. Three
related to the four-power treaty,
two offered by Senator Robinson,
demo ocrat, Arkansas, and one by
Senator Pomerene, democrat, Ohio.
Senator King, democrat, Utah, also
drew up a reservation to the Yap
treaty providing that the control
given Japan over the inundated
Pacific islands should be regarded
only as a draft and in no sense as
carrying sovereignty with 1t.
Defends zap Treaty.
The Yap treaty was defended by
Senator Underwood, Of Alabama,
democratic leac-. and a member
of the arms conference delegation,
although he declared he was not
entirely in agreement with the
premises on which the pact was
drawn. He argued that the United
States never had an undivided
one-fifth" of sovereignty over Pa
cific islands and hence was not
giving it up under the treaty.
In his speech opposing the Yap
treaty, Senator johnson declared
its real purpose was in the article
Japan's control over the
former German islands of the Pa
cific, north of the equator, a right
which, he said. had been acquired
by the famous secret treaties be-
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