The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-03-23
(By Associated Press Leased wire.)

by Associated Press Leased Wire.)
Westinghouse flood of prepared
speeches for and against the four
power Pacific treaty was loosed in the
senate today as the period Of unlimited
debate came to an end under the unan-
imous consent agreement which will
bring final ratification Friday.
The one-hour limit on individual
speeches was effective at 8 p. m. today
and several senator's who had prepared
long addresses jostled one another in
bidding for recognition in the eleventh
hour crush of canned oratory" Sena-
tors LaFollette of Wisconsin, Rep lbli-
can,, and Walsh of Massachusetts,,
Dem ocrat, were the headliners today
for the treaty opponents, while on the
other side the right-of-way was given
to Senator Pomerene of Ohio, Demo-
crat, foreign relations committee
element Of his party favoring ratif-
cation.
The four-power arrangement was as
sailed by Senator LaFollette as a
scheme of Great Britain and Japan to
secure cooperation and protection Of
the United States Sin their further
schemes of exploitation and imperial
ISM" 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 States to
support the policies of London and
Toxic against such outside powers as
China, Russia and Germany.
LaFolIette Bitter to Treaty.
~ do not know" Senator LaFollette
said, whether the British government
would contend if this proposed treaty
went into effect, that its dominions
should each have a separate vote under
the treaty as they have under the
League of Nations. At all events we
do know that the Anglo-Japanese poll
cy of aggression and imperialism which
made the British empire and the Jap
anese empire close allies in the past
will cause them to stand as a 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 protected.
Whether they outvote US six to one, or
two to one, is not material"
During Senator LaFollette's discus
sion of Americas rights and duties un-
der the four-power act, Senator Hitch
cock of Nebraska, Democrat, inquired
who was to determine whether a ques-
ton or controversy should come within
jurisdiction Of the conference Of the
four nations.
"That whole subject is left OPEN"
replied Senator LaFollette. 'I assume
the trainers of this pact sought to make
it as brief as they could to avoid hav-
ing an involved document, or else it
might never get through this body at
ALL"
Fears Immigration Trouble.
The Wisconsin senator added that
there was nothing anywhere in the
treaty's provisions which reserved to
the United States the right to deter
mine whether immigration, for exam
pie, should be subject with which
the conference of the powers may deal.
This brought from Senator Simmons of
North Carolina, Democrat, the state
ment that one of the reservations to
the treaty Of Versailles most strongly
insisted on was that which withheld to
the United States the privilege of de-
termining what questions should be
within the jurisdiction of the league.
When Senator La Toilette was re-
citing the consequences of Japan's poll
icy in Korea and the Far East, Senator
| Watson, Democrat, Georgia, interrupt
ed to say:
ut has come to me from source
which I cannot reveal, but upon which
| rely that the pastor who opened the
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