IN THE SENATE.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2084, 27 March 1922, Page 5

IN THE SENATE.

PACIFIC TREATY PASSED.

HOST OF AMENDMENTS DEFEATED.

MAJORITY OF FORTY

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(Received Sunday, 7 p.m.) WASHINGTON, March 24

The introduction of fifteen reservations to the Pacific Treaty at the last moment delayed the final vote. Senator Johnson moved an amendment providing that the Powers use peaceful measures in meeting any aggression from outside, but it was defeated by '65 votes to 20. Other amendments and reservations were also rejected. Senator Robinson offered an amendment to the Supplementary Treaty, excluding from the operation of the Pacific Treaty the Island of Sakhalicn, the southern half of which is held by Japan us the result of the JapaneseRussian war. During the previous debate many senators predicted that Russia within a few years, would seek to regain the Island, thus involving the United States.

Senator Pittman criticised President Harding for not presenting' the Ratification declaration Senator Hughes made before the signing, providing that the United States gave up none of its rights over mandated islands, and that all domestic questions were excluded from the Treaty operation. Senator Pittman moved a reservation giving the United States the right 'o decide for itself what a -domestic problem is (hence what lies outside the Treaty's jurisdiction) which was rejected by sixty-live votes to twenty-eight. Votes approving of the Treaty articles were carried as follow:—First article 74 to 15, second 66 to 28, third 67 to 26, fourth (providing for the scrapping of the AngloJapanese Alliance) 73 to 8. Senator Johnston then moved a reservation that the United States assumes neither moral nor legal obligation to maintain the rights of other Powers in their Pacific possessions and requiring Congressional assent to agreements under the Treaty was defeated by 64 votes to 28.

Senator Reed introduced a reservation that the United States could withdraw when any other party, in the judgment of the President on the Congress, wrongly made war, but it was defeated by 0 2 votes to 2S. Senator Reed immediately offered a reservation providing that the United States may withdraw at any time at one year's notice. This was defeated by 64 votes to 2G. ~.,,. , '. Senator Pomerene's substitute foi thd Brandegees reservation providing that any adjustment, reached under articles one and two, must be approved by Congress "before becoming binding on tho United States, was defeated by 78 votes to 10. Senator Brandogee's reservation states that the United States understands that the Treaty contains no commitment to armed force, no alliance, and no obligation to come to anyone's defence. Senator Walsh introduced a substitute for the Robinson reservation, providing for a general conference of all nations, whether signatories or not, whose interests arc involved in any concern which might arise out of the ir inAnticipation of the final vote, the public began to assemble in the galleries at 7 o'clock. Fifty-five Republicans and twelve Democrats voted for the Treaty and. four Republicans and twentv-threc Democitats voted against Following on the ratification of the Pacific Treaty, Senator Lodge urged the Senate to take an Immediate vote on the Supplementary Treaty, clhninatins Japan's home-land from the scone of the former. Senator Robinson, the Opposition leader objected on the gnomic .that enators had had no opportunity to «tudv it Senator Lodge then con anted to a postponement till toThe Naval Reduction Treaty will t» the next to be considered. NEW POINT RAISED. (Received Monday, 2 a.m.) WASHINGTON, March 25. It now appears likely that several days will be spent in a long d.scuss.on over the Supplementary Treaty including the clause relating to the exclusion of the Japanee mainland from the provisions of the Pacific Treaty. Senator Lodge had hoped for ratfication within a few hours, but Senator Hitchcock produced a new sensation by declaring the adoption of the Pacific Treaty to be illegal, since the Supplementary Treaty was like a codicil of a will and the ratification of the one without the other would be void. Ihc irreconciliables promise a sharp debate. JAPANESE SUSPICIONS. (Received Sunday, 7 p.m.) TOKIO, March 24. Despite prompt and emphatic denials of President Harding and Senator Hughes that any secret agreement exists between America and Britain, the continued allegations on the floor of the Senate arc commencing to cause uneasiness with the Japanese public, and is placing the Administration in an awkward position. Politicians in Japan, equally as eager as those elsewhere to seize anything calculated to embarrass the Government, by repeated assertions that there la something behind the treaties, give an excellent handle to the anti-adminis-tration Jingoists here. (Received Sunday, 7 p.m.) TOKIO, March 25. Ambassadors Hayashi and Ishii will head the Japanese delegation to the Genoa Conference. It is officially declared that Japan has no objection to the Brandegee reservation of the Pacific Treaty, the Government regarding it as unconsequential.