Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-03-02
YAP TREATY ADOPTED ,
BY VOTE OF 81 T022
Three Republicans Oppose and
~ Democrats Support
Ratific alton.

Washington. Mar. 2.-The Senate.
by vote OF 81 10 %. ratified yesterday
afternoon tho treaty with japan re-
latinG to the Island OF zap.
The vote came about twenty-four
hours ahead OF time, a. by unanimous
agreement the Senate had fixed
o'clock today for final action. The
fact that ratification was obtained
with seven votes In excess OF the re-
auircd two-thirds majority has greatly
encouraged the friends OF the treaties
directly resulting from tho conference
for the limitation OF armament. who
believe that the ratification OF those
treaties In now assured.
All efforts TO amend or attach
reservations TO tho Yap treaty were
voted down by large margins On the
inal vote twelve Democrats voted
with Senator Underwood for ratifica-
ton. and II was announced that three
ot the absentees from the minority
sidc-Senators Stanley, Owen and
Trammell--would also have voted for
ratification had they been present.
Senator Shields who favored rejection,
was paired with owen and Trammen.
Immediately after the rathcation or
the Ysp treaty. Senator Lodge an
nounced that the debate on the treaty
OF the United States, Great Britain,
France and Japan. relating 10 the IN
sular possessions and dominions OF
these nations in the Pacific Ocean,
would begin today. He added that the
treaty would be kept continuously be-
fore the Senate until disposed Of. IL
* Against the ratification of this
treaty that the remnant OF the IRE
conc,laolc group" will direct their
heaviest guns. The fight IS certain
10 be spirited. and may be long drawn
out.
IL was pointed out last night that
if tho sixty-sevon Senator's who voted
20 ratify the zap Treaty should stand
solidly for tho approval OF the Sin
treaties and agreements resulting
from the conference FOR limitation OF
srmamcntr. Il would mean the ap-
prevail OF those compacts, by vote
az - 10 20, eight more than the two
thirds ma ajority necessary 20 ratify
This figure is arrived at by addins
the absentee votes. five in favor OF
and two against ratification.
Opponents of the treaties maintain
that not all OF the Senators who voted
20 approve the Yap agreement vii
vote for the Four Power Treaty. \
least two Of the Democrats who sup
ported the zap Treaty. they say, ar,
against the FoursPower Treaty. whit
one and possibly two Republicans have
rq- committed themselves 10 the sup
port OF the Administration leaders
Should those defections msteriahze. 4
would reduce the margin for tbs
treaties 10 four votes.
IL was also observed that clever
q; the fifteen Democratic Senators
who last October supported Senato'
Underwood and voted 10 ratify tn
separate treaties ot peace with Ger
many. Austria and Hungary, rall!e'
20 his support today. -Four who sup
ported Underwood then-Walsh o
Massachusetts, .Ashurst. Gerry an
shields---were against the Yap Treaty
while four who voted 20 reject tn
peace treaties-williams. Jones {
New Mexico. Stanley and Walsh {
Montana-are now aligned with IN
majority in support OF the Washingto
conference treaties.
The preamble to the treaty and Az
ticlee ~. and V. were adopted withou
division. but there was a roll-ca
on Article Ill. which relates TO radi
Geographic and cable rights on the IL
land. The vote by which this artic
Was approved was Sc TO 81. Articles
and IL. were approved Tuesday.
The roll-car on the Yap sTreemer
follows:
For ratification:
Republicans-Ball. Brapdegee. Blu
sum. Calder, Cameron. Capper, Col
Cummins. Curtis, Dillingham;. Edg
Elkins. Ernst. Frelinghuysen. Goo
ing. Hale. Herreld. Jones. OF Washin
ton: Kellogg. Keys. Ladd, LenroC
Lodge. Mccormick. Mccumber. NJ
Kinley. Mclean. McNary. Moses. Ne
son, New, Newberry, Nicholson. No
beck. Norris, Oddie. Page. Pepps
Ph,pps, Poindexter. Rawson. Shor
ridge, Smoot. Spencer, Stanfiel
southerlan1. Townsend. wadswort
Warren, Watson. OF Indiana: Well
and willis-54.
Democrsts-Broussa Dial. Fletc
er. Hitchcock, Jones. OF New Mexic
kendrick. Meyers. Pomerene. Ran
dell. sWfh. Underwood. Walsh.
Montana, and Willlams-13.
Total for ratification. 81.
Against ratification:
Republicans France a.
Johnson.
Democrsts-Ashurs,. Careway. CI
berson. Gerry. Glass. Harris. Harriso
Hefiin. King. McKellar. Overman. r.
man. Reed. Robinson. sheppard, Sir
mons. Swanson, Walsh. OF Mass
y chusetts and Watson. Of Georgia.
Total against ratification, 22.
The only pair announced was Sc
s,ors Trammell and owen for ratific
tion and Senator Shields against
Two of the three Republicans W
were absent and not paired. Senate
Crow and du Pont. were sold by II
publican leaders to favor ratiflcatic
while the third. Senator LaFollet
opposed A. Only one Democrat. Sc
stor Stanley. was absent and =
paired, and his party leaders said
would have voted IN the affirmative
Leading the attack for tho irr'
oncilinblss" Senator Watson, Dem
crat, Georgia. declared the Senate h
no constitutional authority TO rat
the treaty and thus mako the Unit
States "Nn accessory after the fact
Japsns spollstion i'm the Pacific" T
-. ,.,tatp.g "a dayaf, No.