Show PACifiC PACT CAUSES DEBATE First of Proposed Amendments Amendments Amend- Amend 1 ments Voted V oled Down WASHINGTON March l 15 The The The first of the proposed amendments to the pact having been rejected by a 0 division almost on party lines the I power four Pacific treaty continued in the senate today with prospects of another lengthy session of deb debate te Leaders on both sides in the treaty fight conceded today that as a test of senate sentiment on the question of ratification on Itself little significance could be attached to t the thirty to five tive vote by which it rejected yesterday the amendment of of Senator Robinson Dem Arkansas designed to extend the benefits of the treaty to nations whose whoso In Interests interests Interests in- in are affected With eleven short of the full membership present I and voting the opposition forces marshaled twenty-six twenty Democratic and four Republican votes This was within two of a third of the full senate membership but three less than enough to upset the two- two thirds needed for tor final ratification if it all senators participate in this vote A similar amendment by Senator Walsh Dem Montana was voted down twenty seven twenty twenty-s en to fifty |