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Show NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Four-Power Pacific Treaty Is Ratified by Senate After Bitter Debate. HOUSE PASSES BONUS BILL Preeldent Orders American Army Home From Rhine and Huohes Notifies Allies They Must Pay Expense Bill Moslem Mos-lem Unrest. By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN THE four-power Pacific treuty was ratified by the United States senate Friday, March 24. By agreement made ten days in advance the vote had been set for that date. It came as the climax to a week of strenuous oratory. The bitterest bit-terest debate was precipitated Monday Mon-day when Senator Borah (Republican of Idaho) read into the record a stenographic steno-graphic report of a statement attributed attrib-uted to Paul D. Cravuth, "the representative repre-sentative of the Morgans and the Ryans," to the effect that the United States had entered into a secret agreement agree-ment to co-operate with Great Britain against Japan in the Pacific. Senators Lodge and Underwood, Republican and Democratic floor leaders and American delegates to the conference with Secretary Secre-tary of State Hughes and Blihu Root, denied tho alleged Cravath statement. Senator Itobiuson of Arkansas, lending lend-ing the Democratic opposition to the treaty, demanded a senatorial Investigation Investi-gation and asked that Secretary Hughes and Mr. Root be called before the foreign relations committee. At tills point Senator Lodge said: "Thi3 debate is proceeding upon the theory that the four American delegates dele-gates were not only Ignorant and incompetent in-competent but that they were prepared to betray their country. It is an implication im-plication against the honesty and patriotism pa-triotism of the President. I believe that they are as patriotic and as desirous de-sirous of protecting the interests of their country as those who are slandering' slander-ing' them by Implication and Insinuations. Insinua-tions. I will trust the people of the United States to stand by the President Presi-dent and the four delegates in this great conference." Later Mr. Cravath emphatically denied de-nied the statement attributed to him. Secretary Hughes wrote a letter in which lie said : "In my letter to Senator Underwood Under-wood on March 1lih, In relation to the four-power treaty. I said: "'There are no secret notes or understandings.' un-derstandings.' "Permit me to express the hope that the American delegates will he saved further aspersions upon their veracity and honor." To the Man In the Street the astonishing as-tonishing part of this Is the fact that anyone United States senator or anyone any-one else should expect to get across with charges, direct or Indirect, against either the honor, the efficiency, the veracity or the patriotism of the four American delegates. P.VSSAOR of the "four hjlllon dollar" dol-lar" bonus hill was iu'jompi:shed liy the house Thursday, M:irch 23, hy vote of 3"ni to 70. four vot'ng present. A two-thirds majority was necessary to pass the hills under a suspension of the rules. The bonus bill put through In acconlaiu'c with a prngram announced the preceding Tuesday. Chairman Campbell of the rules committee submitted sub-mitted a resolution providing for suspension sus-pension of the rules. Chairman Fordney Ford-ney of the ways and means committee was recognized by the spe.iker for the offering of a motion to suspend ilm rules and pass the lull. Four Aonrs of debate followed, with time dl.'idod. Anv forecast of the treatment of the bill hy the senate is largely guesswork. guess-work. Certain Ivepublicnn senators hflve expressed opposition to the bill as reported to the house hy the ways anil means committee. It is common report that any bill passed hy the semi'e will cimrain a provision set-tinj set-tinj f 'Pth tli J iieccsuarv ti':.ati in plmi to pay the bonus, which Is omitted from the house bill. Some political prophets predict a deadlock between the two houses. Nobody pretends to be able to say whether or not President Harding will veto the bill. President Harding, upon his return from a short vacation In Florida, was called upon Mouday, March 20, at the White House by a delegation from the house: Floor Leader Mondell (Wyoming) (Wyom-ing) and Representatives Fordney (Michigan), Towner (Iowa), Campbell .(Kansas), Longworth (Ohio) and Fesg (Ohio). They discussed bonus legislation legisla-tion for two hours, with this result, according to the official communique : . "The legislative situation relating to the bonus bill was fully presented to the President, with detailed explanation ex-planation of the provisions which remove re-move the menace of 'excessive drafts on the treasury in the Immediate future fu-ture and avoid any program of added taxation. The President went over the entire situation with an appraisal of commitments made. He advised the committee that the legislation Is a responsibility of congress, and in view of expressions previously made he did not think It essential to offer any recommendations." The President's "expressions previously pre-viously made" were recommendations of a sales tax to provide the revenue to pay the bonus or postponement of the passage of the measure until the funds were in hand. The delegation was divided as to whether the President Presi-dent would or would not veto the bill if passed. Everybody was on hand when the house opened Monday and nobody seemed to know what Speaker Gillett intended to do. Garner (Democrat, Texas) asked that Mondell be given two minutes to tell the status of the bonus bill. Campbell called for the regular order. The speaker announced that no one would be recognized that day to brfug up the bill. Then there was a conference in the speaker's office. It got nowhere. The speaker held that he would not assume the responsibility re-sponsibility of letting the bill come up until he had the express command of the majority members. Democratic members of the ways and means committee com-mittee made a minority report which called the bill all the financial, economic eco-nomic and political names on the calendar. Tuesday a definite program for the passage of the bill Thursday by the house under a suspension of the rules was announced by the Republican Republi-can leaders. PRESIDENT HARDING has ordered all American troops in Germany returned to the United States hy July 1, the beginning of the 1923 fiscal year. This was the American government's first answer to the refusal of the allied reparation commission to pay its bill for $241,000,000 for the expense of United States troops on the Rhine up to Muy 1, 1021, out of a billion gold marks recently paid over by Germany. The allies argue this way: The allies are not bound by the Berlin treaty, Just as the United States is not bound by the Versailles treaty. America's claim Is bused on the Berlin treaty. Therefore the allies are not bound to pay the American claim. Secretary of State Hughes has made the government's second answer. In effect he has served notice on the allies that they cannot dodge payment pay-ment of the Rhine debt by attempting lo hide behind a technicality which doesn't exist. Identical communications communica-tions were placed Wednesday. March 21, hy American ambassadors before the governments of Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan and Belgium. Secretary Hughes Insists that the right of the United States to be paid is not only clearly equitable but free from any technical objection. He sets forth in detail this right, as' established jointly under the terms of the armistice, armis-tice, the treaty of Versailles and the treaty of peace between the United States am! Germany. lie says the United States will welcome any suggestion sug-gestion from the allies for reasonable adjustment. And in the meantime will they please refrain from giving effect to any arrangements for the distribu- J tvon of German cash payments to the i exclusion of the claim of the Uaited Stale.-1.. Evidently the situation is one which requires an aide secretary of state. It apparently has many complicn'ioir-i. In debate in the senate Senator Loilge said that our claim had nothing to do with either tre-.ty, that it was bustJ on an agreement made under the armistice and that evasion was a mere technicality. Senator Underwood agreed as to the technicality and then said this in effect : "Nevertheless, payment rests in the reparation commission. The supreme war council not to be confounded with the supreme council of the League of Nations was given charge of winding wind-ing up the war. We had a represents tive ou that supreme council until otter ot-ter the defeat of the Versailles treaty. That supreme council turned over tc the reparation commission the administration ad-ministration of the funds to be collected col-lected from Germany to pay the troops on the Rhine. The commission is now handling these funds. The only way we can get our share la to sit In .th reparation table." Close observers in Washington say that the President's informal utterances utter-ances ludlcate that he would look with favor upon the appointment b congress -of an American representa five on the allied reparation, commission. com-mission. He will not propose it, but he thinks -congress should repiize its necessity. ILOYD 'GEORGE has announced that he will attend the Genoa conference. con-ference. Viscount Peel has accepted the post 'Of secretary of state foi India, after Lord Derby had declined it. So it looks as if the British cabinet cabi-net crisis growing out of the indiscre tion :and enforced resignation of E. S. Montagu is over. Back of it, however, how-ever, is a condition of world-wide Interest unrest and concerted act'.ot in the Moslem world of quarter of a billion fanatical religionists. What the Moslems consider the 111 treatment of Turkey since the World war haH bound them more closely- together and quickened their activities. Tbey on pear to he in touch the world over ant; propaganda .is everywhere. The demand de-mand of the Indian government for the restoration of Turkey is convincing convinc-ing evidence of Moslem solidarity. The sultan of Turkey as caliph of Islam Is leader of all Mohammedans. EUROPE is confronted by the danger of a devastating plague ol typhus, according to the health department depart-ment of the League of Nations. Ten million emigrants bearing typhus germs are bearing down on the western west-ern frontiers of Russia and no barrier bar-rier European nations can erect will stop this panic-stricken horde oi peasants fleeing from famine and death. Already the Polish barrier has been broken down; 000,000 Russians have swarmed Into Eastern Galicia Everywhere the route of the hordes is lined with unburied corpses. In the famine districts they are dying so fast that little effort i made tot bury the dead. The league will attempt at-tempt to establish a sanitary cordon. Bayonets will be abandoned and an attempt made to cleanse and cure the millions. MAINE furnished the first test ol strength in the congressional elections. John E. Nelson, Republican, defeated Ernest McLean, Democrat, In a special election in the Third dls- trlet. The Republican victory was In th face of "Democratic weather." The Democrats cut down the majority, however. In a district which Is normally normal-ly strongly Republican, basing ' their campaign largely on the bonus and treaty Issues. Query: What does the test of strength show? STEFANSSON, the Arctic explorer has planted the flag of Great Britain Bri-tain on Wrangell island and claimed It for the British government. Just the same, in hSSl Capt. C. L. Hopper of the Corwln and Lieut. Robert M. Berry of the Rodgers landed on Wrangell Wran-gell island, erected an American Hag, took possession in the name of the United States hy right of disco. ei y and left a written record in a cairn. The island is Important if it Is Important Im-portant because of strategic domi nance of northeastern Siberia. THE United States Supreme court has lii'iil valid the New York n-nl law of 1H20 curbing the re.it hog. The court held that the social emergency emer-gency caused by a shortage of dwell iags warrants the use of police powet hv the state. Anyone desiring to study modern warfare should visit the trenches op the border between Ulster ail'.' S. nfl" Inland. |