The New York herald., 1922-03-01
FIRST TREATY Vote
is short in SENATE
Test on 'Yap Shows 30 for
Ratification, With 64
Necessary.
AMENDMENTS KILLED
Adoption Would Send Pact
Back to Harding for Re-
negotiation.
FOES SHOW STRENGTH
Only Four Democrats Join
Republicans in Two Minor I
Changes.
FOES SHOW STRENGTH
Special Disf 'tch to TIE NEW YORK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau,
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Specidl Disr stcn to TIE NEW YORK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau
Washington. ID. C., Feb. %.
The frs. test vote on the treaty
wNh Japan concerning the island OF
Yap. negotiated during the progress
of the Conference for the Limitation
OF Armament. came to-day in the Sem
ate, resulting in a relative showing
of so votes for the treaty and SO
againstit
Only four Democrats--Underwo
tAla), Williams CMiss), Myers (Mont.)
and Pomerene (Ohio)--voted with the
Republicans.
While the vote scored by the friends
Of the treaty fell short of the two
thirds that will be required for ratifi-
cation, amounting to sixty-four votes.
it also demonstrated a degree of
strength among the opposition which
had not been expected.
The test vote was on an amendment
offered by Senator Pittman tNev.)
which extended the guarantees already
contained in the treaty TO American
nationals. 1t was unimportant,- but the
effect of the adoption Of the amend
ment would have been to send the treaty
back to the President for renegotia-
tion.
Seeks to Bar Liquor.
The failure of the treaty opponents
to obtain adoption Of the Pittmnn
reservation was followed by an amend
mont offered by Senator France (Md)
whose purpose was to protect the. ma
tives of Yap, from the drink evil. Sem
ator Frances amendment provided that
no liquor should be dispensed to natives
of islands over which a mandate had
been granted to the Emperor of Japan.
Senator France was in the midst of a
plea for the backward people of zap
threatened with the liquor habit when
Senator Lodge caustcsily called his at
tention to the fact that the treaty al
ready contained provision which
pledges the Japanese Government to
withhold Intoxicating liquor from the
natives.
Senator France subsidized when Sen
ator Reed lMo) came tc his rescue and
proposed as an amendment to the
amendment that the expectation and
importation OF liquor into zap should
be prohibited.
4 Senator France eagerly accepted this
amendment which offered way out
and it was promptly voted down by a
record vote Of 50 to IL.
Democrats Are Undecided.
While this humorous feature of the
debate enlivened the proceedings it
added nothing to the situation except
an opportunity to demonstrate that
Senator Lodge has the Republican
majority well in hand with four ex-
ceptions and that the Democrats ap-
parently have not made up their minds
az TO n party policy relative to their
course on the treaties. The fact that
Senator Hitchcock (Neb.) voted for
the pittman amendment which would
have sent the zap treaty back to the
President was noted with surprise.
Senator Borah Idaho) explained the
reasons for his opposition to the Yap
treaty in a brief speech. He charged
that the seizure OF the Philippines had
embarked this Government on a course
Of Imperialism which necessitated resors
to all of the tactics OF imperialistic gov.
ernments. He objected to features OF
the treaty. one OF them requiring the
japanese Government 70 submit o copy
OF its report on administration to the
United states as well as to the League
of Nations. He saw in this provision
recognition of the league. He objected
TO participation by this Government in
the task of overseeing Japan's admins
tration of the islands. because. he said,
the two Governments never could agree