TREATIES RATIFIED
AMERICAN SENATE VOTES.
ALMOST UNANIMOUS. WASHINGTON, March 29. (Received March 30, at 10.55 a.m.) The Senate ratified the Naval Treaty by 74 votes to I.—A. and N.Z. Cable. (Received March 50, at 11.30 a.m.) . The Sonata ratified the Submarine and Poison Gas Treaty by 71 votes to O.—A. and N.Z. Cable. (Received March 30, at 2.5 p.nu) Senator France, who was tho only one to vote against tho ratification of tho Naval Treaty, said that it was not easy, to mar the beautiful picture of unanimous ratification, but lie behoved that in doing \eo he served the people’s welfare. Ho 'did not want to see disarmament or the disappearance of navies until a means_ had been found to remedy international wrongs. Senator Borah followed. Ho asserted his thankfulness for the degree of naval armament which had been achieved. He did not doubt that it was the utmost that was possible at the reoent conference, but he warned the world that it must not accept as completed a programme which was only in the beginning. Public opinion, ho said, brought the conference about. We must continue holding an opinion in favor of further disarmament, o—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 17932, 30 March 1922, Page 7
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