BEFORE AMERICAN SENATE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 27 March 1922, Page 5

BEFORE AMERICAN SENATE.

AMENDMENTS REJECTED,

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT WASHINGTON, March 24. Fifteen reservations to the Pacific Treaty at the last moment delayed the : final vote. j Senator Johnson moved an amend- ; nient providing that the Powers use ' peaceful measures in meeting any aggression from outside. This was dei feated by 65 votes to 26, ) Senator Walsh's amendment was defeated by 55 to 36, and Senator Robinson's reservation was rejected "by 56 to Senator La Follette's reservations were rejected. Senator Robinson offered an anmoudment to the supplementary treaty excluding from operation of the Pacific | Treaty the island of Saghalien, the ( southern half of which, is held by Japan as the result of the JapaneseRussian War. During the previous debate many Senators predicted that ; Russia would within a few years seek to regain the island, thus involving the United States. Senator Pittman criticised Senator j Harding for not presenting for ratification the declaration Mr Hughes made before signing, providing that the United States gave up none of its lights over the mandated islands, and all domestic questions were excluded from i the treaty's operation. j Senator Pittman moved a reservation • | giving the United States the right to decide for itself what a domestic problem is, hence what lies outside the treaty's jurisdiction. This was rejected i by 65 to 28. ! The votes approving of the treaty articles were as follows: First articie, I 74 to 15; second, 66 to 28; third, 67 toj 26; fourth, (providing for scrapping the j Anglo-Japanese Alliance), 73 to B. J Senator Johnson's amendment was ; reintroduoed as a reservation, but was defeated by 63 to 29. , j Senator Johnson was the mover of a ; reservation that the United States asj'Sirmes neither moral nor legal obl'guI tion to maintain the rights of other j Powers in their Pacific possessions rej quiring Congressional assent to the agreements under the treaty. This was defeated by 64 to 28. ! Senator Reed introduced a reserva-J tion that the United States could withi draw when any other party in the judg- • raent of the President or Congress wrongly made war. This was delated | by 62 votes to 28. I Senator Reed immediately cffeied a = providing that the United j States may withdraw at any time on a, year's notice. This was defeated by ,-64 to 26 | j Senator Pomeren's substitute for; I Senator Brandegee's reservation, pro- | viding that any adjustment reached under articles one and two must be ap- j .'.proved by Congress before binding the • United States, was defeated by 78 1»j 10. Senator Brandegee's reservation states that the United States underj stands that the treaty contains no commitment to armed force, no alliance, I and no obligation to come to anyone's, defence. - j [ Senator Walsh introduced a substi-j I tute for Senator Robinson's reservation [ providing for a general conference of all, the nations, whether signatories or not, J whose interests were ivolved in any concern which might arise out of the treaty. In anticipation of the final vote the public began to assemble in the galleries at _seven o'clock. Fifty-five Re-1 publicans and twelve Democrats voted! for the treaty, and four Republicans and twentfy-three Democrats voted against it. Following on the ratification of the Pacific Treaty, Senator Lodge urged the Senate to take an immediate vote on the supplementary treaty eliminating Japan's homeland from the scope of the former. I Senator Robinson, Leader of the Opposition, objected on the ground that j Senators had no opportunity to study it. ' Senator Lodge then consented to" its postponement till to-morrow. ! The Naval Reduction Treaty will be next considered.