The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-02-06
HARDING TO ADDRESS
ARMS PARLEYTO-DAY
IN WORLD MESSAGE
Will Present Americas At
titude After Signing Of
Five Treaties.
CLOSE OF CONFERENCE
President to Confer With
Lodge Before Sending
Pacts to Senate.
EARLY ACTION is SOUGHT
Steering Committee Will Have
Task of Expediting Ratifi-
cation of Documents.
Special Dispatch to THE NEW York HnRALp.
New York Herald bureau.
Washington. ID. c.. Feb. x.

SpecfuI Dlspotch 70 THE NEW YORK HERALD
New York Herald bureau.
Washington, ID. C., Feb. 3.
President Harding will be the doni-
mating figure at TIE final plenary ses-
sion Of the armament conference,
which will meet at 10 O'Clock to-mor-
row morning in Continental Hall for
the purpose of affixing the signatures
OF the delegates to the treaties which
lave resulted from the conference.
President Harding, who called the
conference and who welcomed the
delegates at their first session, viii
express his satisfaction over tho
achievements and express the Ame-i-
can viewpoint of what has been done.
Wien the delegates meet for the
purpose of signing, five treaties VIII
be before them. The four Power
treaty, designed to provide general
peace in the Pacific region, was signed
December 13. Those to be signed to-
morrow are:
The naval limitation treaty.
The submarine and poison gas
treaty.
The supplementary treaty de-
signed to clarity what is meant in
the four Power Pacific treaty by
reference to insular possessions and
dominiops. L-s-.a
The general Chinese treaty.
The Chinese customs treaty.
These documents register In gem
eral way what the conference has ace
complished, but do npt include every
thing. Upon the records are spread the
pledged word OF Japan to withdraw
from Siberia and various declarations
and resolutions dealing with China
and the open door.
Harding to Confer with Lodge.
The moment signatures to the treaty
are attached and the conference has
been adjourned sine die by Secretary
Hughes. interest in what has been acc
comriisbed will center on the United
States Senate. to which body Presden.
Harding intends to submit the completed
treaties for immediate consideration
This interest viii be worldwide. bee
cause 1t is understood the other na>
tions of the world will withhold action
pending the decision of the United
States Senate.
Republican leaders said to-day they
expected the treaties to be sent to ths
Senate for ratification within tho nexa
few days. President Harding. after cons
felring with Senator Lodge (arsss,s
one of the american delegates to tha
conference and Republican leader of thu
Serste. will decide just when to submit
them. Nff
After the treaties reach the Capitol
there will he n meeting OF the Repub-
lican steering committee TO decide when
TO bring them before the Senate fer
action. The irreconcilables are under
tho impression that only the naval
treaty will be taken up in the near
future. Quick action Is desired on that
because its disposal will have a vital
effect upon tho naval appropriations
bill now pending.
With the exception or the four Power
Pacific treaty II IL not likely that any
of the compacts will provoke much dis
cussion. Considerable discussion or the
taken place in the Senate and tho line
up Is pretty well understood
The Republicans with the possible
exception Of Senators Borah Tdahc).
La Toilette (Wis.). Johnson (Cal), Nc
Nary (Ore) and Norris (Neb) viii
support the four Power treaty. while
the Democrats are split about fifty
fifty at present
II Is believed many more Democrats
fe4s
Underwood the minority leader and
a delegate to the arms conference. aa-
swers on the floor of the Senate soma
OF their objections to that agreement.
Little or no crcdence Is given TO tio
report that the Wilson Democrats ars
lined up in opposition 10 the treaty.
Hns Been In Close Touch.
President Harding's participation IN
the final meeting will be In keeping
with his policy during the conference.
Tho President has held himself aloof
from the proceedings of the gathering.
allowing the American plenipotentiares
10 look after the interests of the United
states. In spite Of this aloofncss. tho
President has been an close touch with
every variation of the conference prd-
ceedinRs His influence has been quietly
but directly fclt. especially in the tense
moments which preceded the scttl@-
ment Of the Shantung question be-
tween China and japan. untu tho
President had injected his diplomacy
into this question 1t was feared thii
important settlement might fail.
The rev bill OF rights which has been
written for China makes II possible Tor
the first time for this nation OF four
hundred millions to work out its own
destiny. All the settlements reached
depend largely upon the willingness and
ability of the Chinese people TO har-
n,onlzc their differences and organize
a stabilized government which viii rcn-
der further aggressions against China
unnecessary and unwise.
The policy adopted by Japan and rep
resented In the practical abrogation OF
thr erffit ~ the twenty -onc demands