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SENATE RATIFIES
4-POWER PACT
Approves Treaty by Vote O.
ST 10 II.
AMENDMENTS ARE DEFEATED
Four More Votes Than the Necessary
Two-thirds Are Cast-TwelVe G@'.,o
Gratis For Treaty.

Four More Votes Than the Necessary
Two-thirds Are Cast-TweIVe G3'.,o
Gratis For Treaty.
Washington, March 25-The iOltr
power Pacific treaty was ratified u
the senate.
The vote was 81 to y.
This was four more than the neces
sary two-thirds, and the roll call show
ed twelve Democrats voting far ratit1
cation and four Republicans against
it.
The Democrats favOring ratification
were Broussard, Dial, Fletcher, Ken
drick, Mcclellan, Myers Owen, Pom
creme, Ransdell, Trammell, Underwood
and Williams. The four Republical
opponents were Borah, France, john
son and Lafollette.
Two absent senator's, Grow, RepuD
Iican, Pennsylvania, and Jones, Demo
crat, New Mexico, were announced a.
supporters of the treaty.
Approval of the pact was voted aftel
all proposed amendments and reStrra
lions except the no alliance decla
ration, accepted by President Harding
] had been defeated.
As incorporated in the resolution d
ratification. the reservation says:
.. The United States understands tha'
under the statement in the preamble
or under the terms of this treaty, there
is no commitment to armed force, ne
alliance. no obligation to join in an!
defense"
A long succession of proposed
amendments and reservations were
voted down one after another before
the final roll call.
For the most part the majOritic$
were overwhelming and virtually coin
| cident with party lines. Only a hand,
| full of Democrats stood with their Iii
ular leader, Senator Underwood, Ala
! bama, against the effort to qualiT!
| the ratification resolution and onl!
| the little group of irreconcilGbleS OPP
! posed the Republican leadership o.
Senator Lodge, Massachusetts, to vo;r
with the reServatiOniStS.
The strength recorded for the pro,
| posed qualifying declarations lowered
| close 70 thirty on succeeding roll calls
! but was not sufficient to ruffie the
! confidence of the two party chiefs
! both of whom were working for un
| amended treaty ratification. There
was little of the last minute maneuv
ering to change the result.
The voting proceeded without de
| bate, under an unanimous consent
agreement.
One of the largest crowds to be at
| tracted by a senate session in recenl
| years looked down on the final scent
of the bitter fight from packed gal
leries and jammed the corridors of the
capitol, hoping to get peep inside
| the senate chamber.
The capacity of the amphitheatre
overlooking the wall of the chamber
was overtaxed more than an hour be-
bore the senate met at noon and al
eXtraguard of capitol police was de
tailed to handle the eager crowds thai
! besieged the gallery doors. On the
! floor there was scarcely an empty seat
virtually the entire senate member
] ship being present from The start Of
the session.
Mrs. Harding, wife of the president
was in the reserved gallery. In the
| diplomatic gallery were several mem
bers of the diplomatic corps, including
Baron de Cartier, the Belgian ambas-
sador, and Alfred SEE, the Chinese
minister, both Of whom were delegates
to the arms conference.