U.S. AND THE TREATIES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18432, 16 March 1922, Page 5

U.S. AND THE TREATIES.

ALL IN DANGER. WASHINGTON, March 14. Senator Lenroot, In the Senate, urged that President Harding should withdraw al Ithe Arms Conference treaties from the Senate and ask the country at the November Congressional elections for a mandate for ratification. If the Senate rejects the Pacific Treaty, President Harding should also notify the other Powers that action on other treaties has been deferred till the question has been laid before the American people. Senator Lenroot said the rejection of the Pacific Treaty would create a grave danger of France and Japan rejecting the Naval Limitation Treaty. Received March 15, 9.15 p.m. NEW YORK, March 15. Senator Lenroot declared that war would sooner or later be inevitable in consequence of the failure of the Arms Conference treaties. The debate on the Pacific Treaty was discreditable to the Senate because it centred the issue on the question of who wrote it. The Treaty should be judged by what it is, not by allegations concerning the authorlship. The vote on Senator Robinson’s amendment which is the first test of the strength of the opposing forces in the Senate indicates that the Treaty will be ratified although it may embody Brandegee’s reservation. The vote showed that the Republican supporters of the Treaty aided Senator Lodge in considerable numbers. Senator McCumber asked why the administration was not taking steps to establish an association of nations as promised by President Harding. "I hope,” he said, “to see the day when the policies enunciated in these treaties shall be embodied into a compact that will include all the great nations of the world.” Senator Shields said: “In view of the Imperialistic Japanese and British Governments interest in the Treaty I believe it is a more iniquitous document than even the League of Nations.”