KELLOGG ANTI-WAR PACT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20152, 12 January 1929, Page 11

KELLOGG ANTI-WAR PACT.

MANOEUVRING IN SENATE. PASSAGE EXPECTED TO-DAY,, PROPOSAL FOR REFERENDUM. Australian and N.Z. Press Association. (Received January 11, 6.25 p.m.) WASHINGTON. Jan. 10. While further efforts for an agreement by compromise on the Kellogg Anti-war Pact failed to-day in the conferences held by Senators, Mr. W. E. Borah expressed a hope that the vote on the pact would be taken on Saturday. An interesting manoeuvre to make the pact effective after its passage, which in 'any event seems assured, occurred with the introduction into the House of Eepresentatives by Mr. Hamilton Fish, Republican member for New York Slate, of a proposed amendment to the constitution, under which no war save a 'war of defence could be waged by the United States until the declaration o? hostilities was ratified by a popular referendum. Mr. Fish said he was ready to accept, further qualifications of his motion,, under which war, in a case where an established American policy was involved, could be waged without such referendum. Mr. Fish characterised his proposal as a logical step for the support of the Kellogg Treaty. He said: "It constitutes another obstacle or check on war, and the responsibility for the final decision would be placed squarely on those who would carry the rille as their burden.