Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1922-04-05
JAP AMENDMENT
PASSES SENATE
Lc6ge's Motion to Bar Homeland
Unanimously Ratified.
WAY OUT or SNARL BLAzED
Republican Leaders Move Construed
81 Democrats as Victory for Sen
at0r Hitchcock and Support
srs Of Validity Of Treaty.


Washington. March 2S.-The supple
mental agreement negotiated by the
Washington arms conference 20 take
the japanese homeland out ~ the
fourpowsr Pacific treaty was ratified
b. tile United States senate
a supplementary resolution involv-
Ir- 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 - a reservation
~ ratification.
The agreement was ratified unani-
mrus-y. - Co q. the Democrats con-
STRUNG senator Lodges move In in
cooperating the declaration In the
resolution ~ ratification as a victory
Tor senator HItcbcock aud his sup
parters. who had attacked the validity
oT the treaty itself because the agree
meur was not recuEuized as a part ~
lt. F0rty-<.x Republicans and -
uewpcrBts were present.
ledge Agrees 20 Plan.
Ratification came swiftly after a
wuuEle au afternoon as 90 whether
the declaration was q part % the
trrafy.
senator Lodge finally decided 20
offer &c as q reservation Of the Japa-
uese homeland agreement and % In
curpUrute both In the same resolution
Of ratification.
During The dav Senator Lodge had
made three separate proposals In an
effort Co sfruIEhten out the senate
muddle over the declaration involving
domestic questions and mandatory
rights
He first proposed Joint ratification
a. "a and supplementary agreement
taking the Japanese homeland cut OF
the pact
lie then discarded this plan. after
c0uferr u- with ether administration
spukesmen. aud suggested separate
ratification ~ the declaration and the
agreement.
He finally proposed that the decla-
ration De- disposed ~ as a reservation
O. tire agreement aud that both be In
cUrruruteI in the same resolution 81
ratification. anil this action was taken.
In forcing the Incorporation ~ the
domestic ISSUES reservation On the
ratification uf the main treaty. Seua-
tor ulfchtuck warned that Japan
might uUt rtify the declaration IN
vulyIne domestic issues like japanese
Immigration 81 60 were kept separate
from the treaty.
Warning By Hitchcock.
~ we treat r as a separate docu-
mgut and utify H. We leave ia In the
power ~ Japan Co say she will not
rtlfy it." De said Japan then will
o. able To rltify tle fuur-power treaty
which We are Supposed O. have rati-
fed Friday. and shake her fingers az
rs as Tar MS the plan covering immi-
grafton is concerned. because Japan
viii no lonEer have any Interest In
the declaration when she sees that we
refuse o. consider q as a binding part
20 the tucaty itself
The only nation On the world with
which We have n real controversy
over immigration j. Japan. IL is the
one big thing We have had trouble
with Japan over.
The plan respecting immigration
was 81 the demand ~ the American
delegation 90 the arms conference and
Il 8 the one thing concerning the four
power treaty which really gives pro
lection Ca the United States.
senators say there has been great
danger II trouble between the United
states and Japan in the Pacific.
What was Il Over7 II was over the
immigration question That has been
the burning cause a. trouble. We
have had weeks az negotiation with
japan over that question. II Is the
sue thing japan has chung 90 and In
sisted On Go her controversies with
the United States
Before the vote on the supplemental
agreement the senate defeated an at
teuug e. amend g. 90 further lessen
any periis IL war % the United States.
BY a vute % 5S O. - L rejected an
amendment offered by senator Robert
son lucu-1 % Arkansas 90 strike out
~ the agreement 81 protection the
name q. nara Futo. the southern por-
ton ~ Saknhuiln. OF the siberian
coast. which was cedei 20 Japan By
Russia under the treaty 81 Ports
mouth ln 1905