THE PACIFIC PACT

Evening Star, Issue 17921, 17 March 1922, Page 4

THE PACIFIC PACT

UNITED STATES SENATE DISODS-

RATIFICATION .ASSURED,

Press Association—By Telegraph.'—'Copyright,

WASHINGTON, March IS.

With ratification apparently assured by a safe majority, tlio treaty fight ir, the .Senate lagged to-day. According to a most reliable authority tiho final vote ’.till probably bo about 60 to 26 for ratification.

The Senate to-day agreed to take tho vote cm Friday, ATorch 24, when at noon Die debate will ooaao, and a vote on all tho amendments and reservations will immediately bo proceeded with in the Senate, It was also agreed that no amendments or reservations proposed can be voted on before next Tuesday.

Senator Shields to-day offered a reservation to the Pacific Treaty, stating that the United Stii(os became a party to tiho treaty for tho solo purpose of using her good offices to remove friction and to prevent controversies between tho other signatory Powers. Ho said that no good purpose could be served by the United States abandoning her traditional policy of not interfering in foreign politic;?.

Senator .Robinson offered an amendment pledging the Powers not to make secret treaties.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

EFFECT OP THE CONFERENCE.

RECONCILIATION OF AMERICA. .AND JAPAN.

NEW YORK, March 16, (Received March 17, at 1.35 a.in.)

Reports from Tokio state that Viscount Shibusawa declared that the Washington Conference was satisfactory from an international standpoint, but he regrets the failure to consider tho immigration question. Tho fact should not ho ignored that the. conference contributed much to the reconciliation of American and Japanese sentiments, which were somewhat .strained. —A. and N.Z. Cable.