Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-03-27
DECLARATION
MISSING FROM
SENATE ROLLS
Without It 4-Power
Treaty Declared
Dangerous.
LEADERS IN SNARL
Hitchcock Doubts if
Ratification Is
Complete.

WASHINGTON, March 27.-Ad.
ministration leaders were still strug-
Cling today to straighten out the
snarI which entangles the unratified
declaration respecting domestic
issues and mandates, which accom-
panied the ratified four-power Pacific
treaty.
The T,tuaton which is threatening to
tie UT Indefinitely the armament con-
ference pacts, was further complicated
by statement By Senator Hitchcock of
Nebraska, ranking Democratic member
Of the Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee, that he had discovered the dis
puted declaration is no longer In the pos
session Of the Senate.
Senator Hitchcock called the Senate'a
attention to the fact that when the Off
cial copy of the four-power pact was re-
/ turned to the White House, after its
declaration, the declaration went with it
as part Of the smae copy
my understanding is that the treaty
and the declaration were one and part
OF the same official document and that
when the treaty left the possession Of the
Senate, following its ratification, the delac
ration was sent back to the White House
with It. although the Senate had not
acted upon the declaration at ALL" Sens-
tor Hitchcock said.
PRESIDENT MUST SEND
TREATY IN ORIGINAL.
Il can not see. therefore. how Senator
Lodge can carry out his announced In
tention Of having the declaration rati-
fed separately by the Senate unless the
President resubmits the original docu-
ment containing the treaty itself.
Il hold that the declaration is an in
tegral Of the treaty and should have
been ratified with it. Senator Lodge
holds that l am wrong. I think a grave
doubt has been created as to whether
the Senate really ratified the treaty when
It ignored the declaration at the same
time.
without It the treaty seems to me to
be dangerous thing. 1t Is remark
able that there should be q conflict of
opinion not only between Senator Lodge
and Democratic Senator'S as to whether
the declaration is a mere Interpretation
OF the four power pact by its signatories
or 4 treaty, or part Of a treaty, but that
President Harding and Secretary Hughes
themselves should have apparently diff
fered as to what it really Is"
LODGE PROPOSES JOINT
RATIFICATION IN DEBATE
Senator Lodge, the Republican leader,
proposed to the Senate that when it rati-
fies the supplemental agreement taking
the japanese homeland out Of the four
power Pacific treaty that it ratify at the
same time the declaration respecting do
nestle issues and mandatory island
which accompanied the pact.
Senator Lodge suggested that joint
ratification Of the two supplements to
the treaty offered g solution of the tangle
involving the declaration, occasioned by
the Senate's failure to act upon it when
the treaty Itself was ratified Friday.
Lodge and Hitchcock got into another
hot verbal exchange as the wrangIe over
the status Of the declaration was re-
sumed. Hitchcock asserted it was the
evident intention Of the Administration
forces to use strong arm methods to force
over the four-poVer treaty, no matter
what doubts, incongruitles or inconsist-
encies might be attached to its ratifca-
ton"