Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-03-30
JAP AME NDMENT
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 of Validity of Treaty.

washington arms conference to take
Inc 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 a reservation
OF ratification.
The agreement was ratified unani-
mously, 73 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 %
Democrats were present.
Lodge Agrees to Plan.
ratification came swiftly after
wrangle all afternoon as to whether
the declaration was a part Of tn"
treaty.
Senator Lodge finally decided to
offer it 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
middle 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-
ration be disposed of as a reservation
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 - it were kept separate
from the treaty.
! Warning by Hitchcock.
! eff we treat it as a separate docu-
ment and ratify it, we leave it in the
ratify it." he said. Japan then will
be able to ratify the four-power treaty
(which we are supposed to have rati-
fed 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 have a real controversy
) overe Immigration is Japan. 1t is the
+, one big thing we have had trouble
with Japan over.
; Lie pldu I6SpcCIluS Immigration
was at the demand of the American
! delegation to the arms conference and
it is the one thing concerning the four
power treaty which really gives pro-
/ lection to the United States.
Senators say there mas been great
danger of trouble between the United
States and Japan in the Pacific.
What was it over? It 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
tempt to amend it, to further lessen
any perils of war to the United States.
By a vote of So to 20 it rejected an
amendment offered by Senator Robert
son Dem.) of Arkansas to strike out
of the agreement of protection the
name of Kara Futo, the southern por-
ton Of Sakahalin, off the Siberian
coast, which was coded to Japan by
Russia under the treaty of Ports
month in 1903