Evening star., 1922-03-22
Senator La Toilette Leads
Bitter Attack Today on
Four-PoWer Pact.
SAYS 1T BINDS U. S. TO AID
LONDON AND TOXIC PLANS
Claims of Secret Understanding
Dropped After Denials From
Highest Authorities.

A Hood or prepared speeches loi
and against the four-poWer Paclhc
treaty was loosed in the Senate to-
day as the period of unlimited debate
came to an end under the unanimous
consent agreement which will bring a
final ratification vote Friday.
The one-hour limit on individual
speeches was effective at 3 pm. to-,
day, and several senators who had
prepared long addresses jostled one
another in bidding for recognition in
the eleventh-hour crush of canned
oratory."
Senators La Toilette, republican, of
Wisconsin, and Walsh, democrat. of
Massachusetts. were the headliners
today for the treaty opponents, while
on the other side the right of way
was given to Senator Pomerene. demo-
crat. Ohio, a foreign relations COM
mittee member, and one OF the lead
ers of the element of his party favor
ing ratification. With several others
waiting to get in with speeches for
and against the pact. leaders were
doubtful whether vote would be
.
reservations or amendments.
In Toilette Asxnils Pact.
The four-power arrangement was
assailed by Senator La Toilette as a
scheme of Great Britain and Japan
to secure cooperation and protection
of the United States lin their future
schemes of exploitation and i'm
perialism. He declared it was
viewed by both British and Japanese
statesmen as merely an extension of
the Anglo-Japanese alliance which it
abrogates. and that in actual practice
it would result in binding the United
London and Toxic against such out
side powers as China, Russia and
Germany.
II do not know" said Senator La
Toilette. whether the British gov
ernment would contend, if this pro-
dominions should each have a sep
arate vote under the treaty, as they
have under the league of nations. Al
all events we do know that the
Anglo Japanese policy of aggression
and Imperialism which made the
British empire and the Japanese en-
pire close allies in the past will cause
them to stand as unit in opposition
to the policies of any power in the
Pacific ocean which dares to insist
| that the rights of weaker people
there shall be recognized and pro-
tected. Whether they outvote us six
10 one or two to one is not material.
Notes Power Of "Adjustment."
When such controversy arises
the signers of this contract are to
be convened. When so convened, the
controversy is to be referred to them
constituted as board or body, and
it is to be referred not merely for
consideration, not merely to be ex-
amined into and reported upon, but
it is to be so referred for adjust
! ment
Such an agreement as this enter
ed into between individuals would be
held binding in, any jurisdiction as an
arbitration agreement.
Our distinguished Secretary of
State recently declined in behalf of
this country to send representatives
to the Genoa economic conference be-
!! cause it is not primarily an economic
conference, and political questions
VIII, ne fears. be discussed. and be-
! cause he believes that we should not
participate in the conference with the
present rulers of Russia The Genoa
conference is to be purely meeting
for discussion. Yet the same Secre-
tary of State and the same admins
tratlon propose to tie US up with an
obligation from which we cannot es-
cape to go into conference with the
| two most imperialistic nations on the
face of the globe, no matter what
conduct they are guilty of, no mat
ter what people or lands they may
ravish in the meantime"
Does Not Prevent Alliance.
"If the e.Anglo-Japanese alliance is
any menace to the United States that
menace will not be removed by our
ratification of this four-power treaty.
On the contrary, it will be aggravated
After noting the apprehension with
which our distinguished representa-
tives who negotiated this treaty view
ed the Anglo-Japanese alliance. ]
turned once more to the four-power
pact they offer us as our sole means
of salvation from the peril of this
!, threatening alliance. and 1 found to
my astonishment not a line or a word
in it to prevent the renewal of the
alliance between the japanese empire
and the British empire whenever they
choose to renew it. At any moment
after we have ratified this treaty the
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