Show TREATY RATIFICATION UNDER SHARP FIRE ON LEGAL TECHNICALITY Senator Hitchcock Launches Attack Upon Validity Validity Valid Valid- ity of Senates Senate's Action on Power Four-Power Pact S Declaration Feature Basis for S S Challenge WASHINGTON March h 25 Validity Validity of ot the senates senate's ratification yesterday I of the power four Pacific treaty was challenged In the senate today by byi I i Senator Hitchcock of ot Nebraska rankIng ranking rank- rank I Ing member of the senate I Ii foreign relations committee b but t was i Senator I defended as vigorously by j I L Lodge dge of ot Massachusetts Republican leader ader and Senator Lenroot S Rep Wisconsin i iBy yesterday on the to to- act By falling failing declaration relating to domestic 1 questions of ot the who signed the power four pact Senator Hitchcock Hitch II cock said the senate had not complied com corn technicalities for with legal ratification plied of ot the entire treaty lIe He contended and Mr lr Lodge den denied led that i ithe of the the the d declaration was a part part part-oi Lodge i power four measure Senator would otter offer a re resOlution resO- resO o however said sald he reso-I reso lution lulion later to have the senate ratify declaration the stipulates th that f I declaration domestic The questions shall not come I II I within the scope of the treaty i When Senator Hitchcock questioned to have the legality of ot Mr Lodges Lodge's plan Lodge ratified Senator declaration I precedents replied that th there re were said sald that legal Senator Hitchcock precedents were that a ot of supplementary the original document was a part 1 too toolate contract and he thought it was late to consider the declaration EMPHASIZES POINT Hitchcock emphasized ed his Senator declaration was attached attached attached at that the point power four part of the to a sharply by This was den denied led treaty senator Lodge Th The Nebraska Senator that Senator Senator- Lodge had lost asserted yesterday to have the his opportunity ratified declaration present that to the The senator can cari Senator Lodge retorted re- re re retorted court Curt supreme ratification of ot the adding that Important and did declaration w was s not the onO way one way or matter a straw not lIe He said sald he was was was' willing to have havo other the declaration ratified if it other desired I senators tOl Lenroot said i O Senator en regard the tho last action of ot the would binding and this was vas the tho resolution senate as s of ratification s Senator ator asserted that It if the Hitchcock however should be raised any court would question be bound to say that the senate not legally ratified the treaty had Senator Pittman Democrat Nevada declaration that either elther the asserted mustI must and treaty part of the must be a I senate ratification or else It require binding effect He HelnI Heln insisted in- in In Insisted could have no to the senate senI sen sen- submitted that it was I part of the main maln Instrument instrument in In- instrument in- in I ate strument as an and Integral that the senate had deI de declined de- de dined In effect to ratify it I BEGINS ATTACK Meantime the business actually before be before be- be fore tore t the tle e senate was the supplemental defining the geographical scope treaty pact As soon as this of ot the power four-power was called up Senat Senator r Robinson Robin Robin- treaty at attack attack attack at- at Arkansas began Democrat son amendment it by presenting an tack which on would exclude from the treaty the southern halt half of ot Sakhalin Sak Salt provisions andin andIn and andin halin hahn Island occupied by Japan consideration of that proposition in the drifted back to the theold theold theold the debate too tion old familiar tammar issues fought out again and again on the senate floor loor during last few weeks In his argument the Important to determine the It was validity that of the accompanying declaration declaration declaration declara declara- tion in regard to domestic questions Senator Pittman cited the speech recently recently re- re made in California by the British Brit Brit- 1 ish ambassador Sir Auckland Geddes 1 I as containing an assertion t and land quoted averted a 11 pact that the power four threatened war in the orient Senat Senator r I Lodge suggested that the ambassador had denied making such a statement that the denial de denial de- de but Mr Pittman Insisted I nial was only a technical one The Tho only questions the ambassador one else could have in ill mind in or predicting any anyone trouble between the U United Senator States and any oriental power Pittman said were domestic Issues like lile Immigration and land l laws ws which he asserted apparently had hiLd been left to toI uncovered b by the senates senate's failure accompanying declaration I act on pa the |