Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-03-30
SENATE PASSES
JAP AMENDMENT
Body Unanimously Ratifies
Lodges Motion to Bar Iapa-
nese Homeland.
BLAHS WAY OUT OF sNARL
Democrats construe Senator Lodges
Move as Victory for Senator Hitch
cock and His Supporters Who
Questioned Validity Of Treaty.

Washington, March 2S.- The supple
mental agreement negotiated by the
Washington arms conference to take
the 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 reservation
of ratification.
The agreement was ratified unani-
mously, 70 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 part of
1t. Forty-six Republicans and TWEEN
ty-fye Democrats were present.
Lodge Agrees to Plan.
Ratification came swiftly after
wrangle all afternoon as to whether
the declaration was part of the
treaty
Senator Lodge finally decided to
offer il as a reservation of the .Iapa-
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
muddle over the declaration involving
domestic questions and mandatory
rights.
He first proposed ioiHt ratification
of 1t 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 rs reservation
To the agreement and that both be in
DVt1itu III tilt SuIfle resolution Oh
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 If it We're kept separate
from the treaty
III we treat 1t as Il separate docu-
ment and ratify ii, we leave it in the
power of Japan to say she will not
ratify it," he said. Japan then will
be able TO mtify the Horsepower treaty
which we are supposed to have rati-
fed Friday, and shake her fingers nj
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 10 consider ii as a binding part
of the treaty itself.
The only nation in the world with
which we have a real controversy
over immigration is Japan. II. is the
one big thing we have had trouble
with Japan over.
The plan respecting immigration
was at the demand of the American
delegation TO the arms conference and
IL is the one thing concerning the four
power treaty which really gives pro-
lection To the United States.
Senators say there has been great
danger of trouble between the United
States and Japan in the Pacific.
What was IL over? Ii was over the
immigration question. That has been
the burning cause of trouble. We
have had weeks of negotiation with
Japan over that question. II is the
one thing Japan has clung 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 M.
tempt to amend il. TO further lessen
any perlls of war TO the United States
BY vote of 80 to 20 il rejected nm
amendment offered by Senator Robert.
son nem) of Arkansas To strike ont
of the agreement of protection the
name OF Kara Futo, the southern nor.
tion of Sakahalln, or the Siberian
coast, which was ceded 10 .Tanon nv