Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-03-28
FOUR POWER TREATY
Senate Ratifes Pact With Four Votes
80 TO Spare.

to Spare.
Washington, March 24.-The -four
power Pacific treaty, the center o.
controversy over omplishments o.
the, Washington arms conference; was
ratified by the senate with no .reser-
walton except the mo alliance" declar.
alton proposed by the foreign relations
committee and accepted by President
Harding. -
The final vote of 81 to 27, represent
ing a margin, of four over the, neces'
sary two.thirds. was recorded after
the opponents. OF ratification had made
more than 20 unsuccessful attempts te
duality senate action by reservations
or amendments, distasteful to the ad'
udihistration. on the deciding roll cal
IL Democrats voted, FOR the treaty ant
only four Republicans opposed 1t.
Dying hardr the irreconcilable. ele-
ment which has opposed the treaty or
the ground that it established an al
lance between the United States
Great BRITAIN Japan, and France
forced S3 roll calls during a fodr and
a half hour session set aside for fina'
action on the resolution of ratification
They made their best showing on q
proposed reservation to invite outside
powers into Pacific conferences" af-
fecting their interests. mastering 50
votes for the. PROPOSAL to IS in oppo-
sition. -, 'rt&, '"- i'n.'
"No Alliance Reservation. "
The committee reservation was ac-
cepted in the end by vote OF 80 to 2
two attempts to modify failing by
overwhelming majorities. It declares
that the. United States understands
that under the statement in the pre-
amble or under. the terms of this
treaty there is no commitment to
armed force, no alliance, no obligation
to join in any defense"
Although the debate was prohibited
during the day session under a unan-
imous consent agreement, the treaty
opponents raised a point Of order in
regard. to the declaration accompany
ing the treaty but not a. part of 1t,
and laid the basis for continuing their
assault. tomorrow when the supple
mental treaty defining the scope of the
four power pact comes up for consid-
Grafton. 1t is the hope of the admin
istration leaders that the, supplemental
treaty may be ratified and all that per-
tains to the four power arrangement
declared off the senate calendar before
tomorrow night.
The roll call on ratification of the
four power treaty follows:
For ratification: Republicans-Ball.
Brandegee, Bursum, Calder, Cam
eron, capper,> Colt, cuinmins, Curtis
Dillingham;. DUPONT, Edge, Elkins, Fer
nald, Frelinghuysen, Gooding, Hale,
Harrald. Jones of Washington, Kel-
iogg,. Keyes, ,Ladd, .Lenroot, Lodge,
Mccormick, McCumber, Mckinley,
Mclean, McNary; Moses, Nelson, New,
Newberrry,, Nicholson, Nordeck, oddie.
Page, PeppeSy' Phipps, Poindexter,
Rawson, Shortridge, Smooth, Spencer,
Stanfield, Sterling, Sutherland, Town
send, Wadswortf, Warren. Watson OF
Indiana, Weller and Wiils-55.
Observation-Disclosures, Dial, Fletch-
er, Kendrick. McKellar, Myers, Owen,
Pomerene, Randell, Trammell, Under
wood and Williams-12.
Total for ratification, 67.
Against ratification: Republicans
Borah, France, Johnson and La Fol-
lette-4.'4 -. -
Observation-Disclosures, Caraway, Cul-
berson., Guerry. Glass, Harris, Harri-
son, Heflin. Hitchcock, King, !Overman,
Pittman, Reed, Robinson, Sheppard,
Shields, Simmons, Smith, Stanley,
Swanson, Walsh OF Massachusetts,
Walsh of Montana and Watson Of
Georgia-23. .-... .,....- -
Total against ratification, q.
Group Stands Solidly. .....
Throughout the days voting a bloc
Of SO Republicans stood solidly against
all reservation and amendments ex-
cept the mo alliance" declaration of
the committee.
The four. Republican irreconcilables,
Senators Borah of Idaho, France OF
Maryland, Johnson OF California and
LaFollette of Wisconsin, were the only
members of their side Of the chamber
who voted consistently for qualifying
proposals. although Senator Norris
(Republican) of Nebraska supported
several, and Senator Ladd (Republi-
CAM Of North Dakota voted for one.
On the Democratic side there was
less unanimity of action. The 2S
Democrats who finally voted against
ratification voted together on most
roll calls in favor of amendments and
reservations but a group of eight or
ten stood with their party leader, Sen
ator Underwood of Alabama, in oppo-