New-York tribune., 1922-02-09
Harding toCive
To Senate Full
Data on Parlev
Noluminous Report Now III
Preparation Will Answer
Every Question as to
Arms n otiati ION
OppositionFound aiming
Policy of Frankness Expect
ed to Accelerate Accept
ancc of New Treaties

Trc1. The Tr,6ane1 VaSh}n0toa B.lrcr.
WASHINGTON, Feb. S.-The Amer:-
can delegates to the arms conference
~ill follow Z policy Of the most COM
plete publicity in submitting their re-
port on the conference to the President.
The President will send the renort on
to the Senate. This Is expectsd 10
lessen opposition 10 shc treaties = re
| Senate
The American delegates at meeting
to-day went over the report drafted
b. Secretary Hughes. Later, Senators
Lodge and Underwood told their co.,
leagues in the Senate that the report
was completed and had been sent to
the printer. It will be gone over agar,
b. the American delegates before be-
ing submitted to the President In
dications are row that the report will
not be laid before the President in
time 10 enable him to submit the
treaties to the Senate before next
week.
Not only is the report in itself a
| thorough exposition OF the facts which
| the Senate Will want to know in con-
sldering the treaties, but the report
contains the promise TO submit in con-
hection with 1t the complete minutes
of every committee meeting held and
the minutes of all PROCEEDINGS Of com
mlttees and conferences. The minutes
themselves will make an enormous vol
ume and II will not be possible to have
tneM ready IN less than about ten davs
Will Answer All Questions
! Senators to-day were informed that
the report itself is so detailed that If
VIII answer practically all questions
likely TO arise in connection With the
! treaties. In view OF the complete ma
ture Of the report Senator Underwood
Democratic leeder, thinks il NAV not b,
aeed&ul TO call conference of Demo
cratic Senator's and give all explanatio on
Of what was done by the conference
/ Senator Lodge may also be relieved
from the nccessitv Of making an eXpla-
nation to Republican Senators. it i:
probable, however, the Democratic Sen.
ators will ask Senator Underwood K
make an explanation OF thc' treaties
and he will comply ii asked.
The fact that the minutes Of til.
naval committee and the Far Eastern
committee are to be submitted 20 the
President and by him to the Senat,
means that the opponents Of the trea
ties will not need to follow out the,
plan TO call for the minutes. as hat
been planned.
1T has been proposed that when il'
treaties were laid before the Scnat,
Secretary Hughes be called on by tn,
Foreign Relations Committee to Civ,
an explanation Of the agreements. IN,
ruliness of the report may obviatc thi
demand also.
One fact which will be brought out il
the report and the minutes is shat US
Of force in connection with the four
power treaty was not contemplated b,
the American delegation This inter
probation met no objection from tn
other powers. Hence, it will be urge
by Senator'S Lodge and Underwood j
the Senate, no reservation to ey
clude the use Of force is essential. Th
friends of the treaty to-day eXpresse
the belief that when the matter wa
fully understood in the Senate a reses
yation to exclude the use of force unde
Article II would be defeated and coul
not get more than twcntyfour vote.
twelve Republican and twelve Demo
cratic.
Senator Moses, Of New Hampshire
is one of the Republicans on the Fo,
, !eign Relations Committee who will urg
reservation to exclude use of fore
under Article II Of the four powe
treaty He will ask this in committee
However, he intends to vote for rat
fcation of all the treaties in any even
For some days the trend of talk i
the Senate has been that the oppostio
TO the treaties was on the wane. Thi
talk went on to-day. 1t continues to
, recognized that the chief controvers
,, will center about the four-power agree
, ment
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