The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-04
REMAINING FACTS
 ID BE SIGNED BY
 DELEGATES TODAY
Administration Is Moving to Suspend Work on Thirteen BattIeShipS Now Under
 Construction
By Associated Press

Washington, February 3.-Except for the formalities and frills that are to attend its adjournment, the Wash ington conference on limitation of armament and far eastern questions is over.
 At a plenary session tomorrow the remaining treaties and resolutions are to be formally approved and the chief delegates are to say good-by to one another in speeches express ing the qualification of their govern ments at the conference accomplish ments. On Monday at another pub ed and sealed, and President Harding will delive rthe conference valedie- tory in a brief address.
 Already the administration, looking upon the conference agreements as accomplished facts, is moving to sus- pend work on the Is battleships and battle cruisers now under constroc- ton but destined for the scrap heap under the naval treaty. The Pres ident does not plan to actually begin the scrapping process until the treaty has been ratified by all the powers, but he has asked the navy depart ment for information on which an order suspending construction soon is to be issued.
 Two Far East Treaties
 In thier final roundup of the far eastern situation. the conference leaders decided today to put their conclusions into two far eastern treaties and a number of supplement tary resolutions. One of the treaties will deal with revision of the Chinese tariff and the other will embody the Root four points" and the "open door" policy. Both will have as sig natories all nine of the powers rep resented here.
 Actual negotiations on tho far eastern problems came to an end to- day with statement delivered in the far eastern committee setting forth the position of the American and Chinese governments toward the ''twenty-one demands" Speaking for China. Dr. Wang said his govern ment viewed with satisfaction Ja- pans announcement yesterday that a group of five and some other clauses of the demands" would be withdrawn, but reserved her right to protest the parts remaining. Sec retary Hughes asserted that the American government still stood on it's rights in the mater as it had asserted them when the demands" were laid down by Japan in 1915, and there the discussion ended with out action.
 Final Ratification Today
 The only treaties to be formally given conference approval at tomor- rows session are the two relating to China, but at the same time there will be final ratification of the sup plementary resolutions that have been adopted in the far eastern com mttee and probably 'an exchange of notes to definitely exclude the Jap anese homeland from the scope of the four-power Pacific treaty signed December 13. The session will begin at 10:30 a. m, a half-hour earlier than the customary meeting time of the conference and its committees in anticipation of the several hours of farewell OratOry.
 On Monday, the delegates will sign the naval treaty, the submarine and poison gas treaty, the two treaties relating to China and the supplement tary notes to be attached to the four power Pacific treaty. The agreement regarding Yap, to which the United States and Japan alone are parties, and the six-power settlement, allo- eating the former German cables in the Pacific, are not yet in treaty form. but they are considered as hay ing only incidental connection with the conference and will not delay the departure of the delegates for home It is expected they will be pressed to conclusion in the near fu- ture through diplomatic channels.
 Japan and China May Sign
 It is also possible that the treaty between Japan and China, embodying the Shantung settlement may be signed at the conference table at Mondays meeting. This question, like that of Tap and the Pacific ca bles, is classified by the delegates as standing outside the conference it. self. but the two interested delega- tions have signified that they might desire to bring their negotiations to an end formally, in the presence of all the powers and thus before all the world.