The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1922-04-07
4-POWER TREATY
RATIFIED 81 TO II
Pacific Agreement Finally Passes
With Four Votes More Than
Necessary TWo-Thirds.
twelve DEMOCRATS FOR 1T
No-AIIiance Reservation Wins, 90-2.
Every Attempt of Foes to Effect
Notifications in Pact Is
Defeated.

Washington.-The four-power treaty
was ratified by the senate by vote of
81 to q. four in excess of the two
thirds majority required by the Con
stitution.
Twelve Democrats and fifty-two Re-
publicans voted to ratify, while twen-
ty-three Democrats and four Repub-
licans voted to reject. Senator Jones,
Democrat, of New Mexico, who had
been listed as against the treaty, tele-
graphed from his home state that bad
he been present he would have voted
for ratification.
The final action followed four hours
Of roll-calls, during which thirty-one
amendments ard reservations were vot-
ed upon. All but one-the Brandegee
reservation-were rejected by large
majoritieS. In addition to the roll
calls on amendments and reservations
there were two quorum calls, the votes
coming at intervals Of eight every hour
or one every seven and half minutes.
There was no debate, according to
agreement, and only now and then did
a senator rise to make parliamentary
inquiry.
The Brandegee reservation was
adopted by 80 to 2, the two senators
who stood to the end in favor of rati-
fication without the dOtting of an Il
or the crossing of It being Spencer,
Republican, of Missouri, and Williams,
Democrat, of Mississippi. All the 9th
er senator's who had been arguing for
weeks in favor of approving the treaty
in the exact form in which it came
from the Washington conference voted
for the reservation.
The instrument of ratification, the
second and final paragraph in which
is the Brandegee reservation, as adopt
ed by the senate, reads:
Resolved (two-thirds of the sena
tors present concurring therein), That
the senate advise and consent to the
ratification of the Executive N, Sixty
seventh Congress, second session,
treaty between the United States, the
British Empire, France and Japan re-
lating to their insular possessions and
inSular dOminiOns in the Pacific ocean,
concluded at Washington December Ii,
1921, subject to the following reserva-
ton and understanding, which is here
by made part and condition Of this
resolution of ratification:
"The United States understands that
under the statement in the preamble
CIR under the terms of this treaty there
is no commitment to armed force, no
alliance, no obligation to join in any
defense"
An hour before the senate convened
at noon the galleries were packed to
capacity. In the executive gallery
were Mrs. Harding, Mrs. Coolidge, the
wives of cabinet officers and senators
and many other persons prominent in
official and private life.
At no time during the balloting was
there demonstration from any of the
galleries. The only time the Vice Pres
ident was called upon to rap for order
was at the end of the roll-call on the
Brandegee reservation, when the clerk
announced that Messrs. Spencer and
Williams had voted mo-"
The diplomatic gallery was the one
place in the chamber that was not
crowded. Among those in that gallery
were the Chinese Minister and Mime.
SEE and the Princess Bibesco, wife Of
the Rumanian minister. The British,
French and japanese embassies were
not represented.
An amendment proposed by Senator
Johnson Of California, which stipulat-
ed that in the event that the rights of
the signatory powers were threatened
by the aggressive action of any ether
power, they should communicate
fully and frankly with one another in
order to arrive at an understanding
as to the most efficient pacific meas
ures'' to be taken to meet the situa-
ton, was rejected, &c to 26. The trea-
ty, as ratified, provides that the most
efficient measures to meet the exigen-
cies shall be considered in the event Of
aggression such as is covered by Arti-
Gle H.