Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-03-29
SENATE FIXES
NAVAL LIMIT
UNANIMOUSLY
Reed Only Opponent Absent
After Making UnfOunded
Charges.
D FOR DEMOCRATS
Special 70 Indiana Daily Times
and Philadelphia Public Ledger.
By FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE

BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.
WASHINGTON, March 29.-At 5 o'clock
this afternoon the Senate viii vote to
ratify the fve-power treaty for limita-
ton Of naval rmamen There is every
indication that ratification will be unan-
imous.
Following the forceful presentation of
the treaty for ratification yesterday by
Senator Lodge, and its support, in an
equally effective speech by Senator Under
wood, virtually all OF the Limitation ar
ticIes of the pact were agreed to one by
one. Adoption took place by viva vOcs
vote.
SENATE a UNIT TOR
SHIP BUILDING HOLIDAY.
The Senate is apparently a unit in IA
vor Of the outstanding achievement of the
Washington conference. whereby the
reckless comretitiOn in capital s%hipbuild-
ing is checked, a naval holiday pro-
claimed. and aggressive fortihCatiOns IN
the Far East stopped. The enc indicated
opponent Of the treaty, Senator Reed,
Democrat OF Missouri, is campaigning in
his home State, so that his absence ap-
pears 10 insure ~rIOppOsed ratification.
Before he let Washington. and in the
course Of ne fOur-pOwer treaty debate.
Senator Reed blew of characteristic
steam against the naval pact. A large
part OF Senator Lodges speech was de-
voted 70 showing that the Reed steam
for the most part was not steam at all,
but gaseous vapOr. For the purpose OF
clearing the senatorial air Of it, Senator
Lodge presented an itemlzed declaration
supplied him for the purpose by the
Navy Gen sraI Board. Its upshot was
that Senator Reed was wrong on almost
GverE auS Of his major indictments Of
the limitation treaty despite the boast
that his attack was based on information
from two naval experts Of the highest
sank"
DEMOCRATS TAKE
FRIENDLY FLING.
Democratic Senators identified with
the sO-called Wilson wing Of the Senate
took parting filings at the naval treaty,
though not opposing It. Senator Walsh,
Of Montana, scolded the American delega-
ton at the conference. FOR not contriving
to bring about reduction OF land arma-
ment He argued that If the United
States had made some kind OF an over
ture TO VI. BRAND, such as pIedging rati-
fcatiOn Of the rejected American-British
French, defensive treaty against new
German aggression on France. the
French would have been ready to dis
cuss military as well as naval umita-
ton.
Senator Hitchcock, in a speech unmis-
takeably designed for Democratic cam
paign purposes, in Nebraska this year.
sought to bestow credit for naval Iimita-
ton upon the Democratic party. He cited
the claus in the Daniels Navy bill Of
1916. authorizing the President at 8 suit
able moment TO call q naval conference
as proof that the party Of Woodrow VII
son would 20 down to history as the real
architect Of naval limitation. Then Mr..
Hitchcock recalled it was Senator Walsh
Of Montana, who introduced a resolution
for a naval conference three days before
the more celebrated Borah resolution was
submitted, Dec. II, 1921. Senator Hitch
cock berated the Harding Administration
for its enthusiasm for peace in Asia while