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Show I CONTROVERSIES DEVELOPING IN DISCUSSION ON ARMS TREATIES First Test of Strength Likely to Come in Vote on Proposition of Going After Information v From U. S. Delegates Iv WASHINGTON. Feb 18 (By the Associated Press.) Despite the prei -Sure of both Republican and liemo-' cratic senate leaders for prompt ac-i ac-i tlon controversies an- developing with- In the foreign relations committee' which may lead to a lon committee discussion of the arms conference treaties before any of them are brought to the senate floor for ratification. Some members of the i ommlttee predicted pre-dicted today the effort to .secure a detailed de-tailed explanation of the negotiations leading u the four power Pacific treaty trea-ty would in itself mean considerable delay. Afterward, at least four proposed pro-posed reservations to thl treaty, which Is first on the list seem likely to come j before the committee before It goo on to the other seven rontei.inc j agreements that await senate approval, The party leaders on both sides of Chamber ure satisfied thai thi dls-( dls-( agreements and dHays encountered III J will In n- way endanger ratification ot any of the treaties. Thus far there is no evrdence thi-t any closely-knit untl-rreaty untl-rreaty "bloc" has been attained. The first test of Strength on the , committee may be during the coming week over a proposal to pursue further the quest tor detailed Information ro- garding the four-power treaty n ego tin" Hons. President Harding is expected to inform the senate Monday, in response re-sponse to its resolution of Inquiry, that no minutes of the negotiations ware kept But It was indicated tonight that cuch a reph might not be ac-c ac-c eptabla to some committee members and that an effort might be made to summon Secretary ffughea, the Amerl- run delegation head, home from Bur-muda Bur-muda where he has gone for a rest. Both Senators Lodge and L'nder-WOOd, L'nder-WOOd, who were members of the dele-in dele-in have told their colleagues that virtually all the four-power negotiations negotia-tions were carried on In the informal" meetings of the "big four" delegation delega-tion bends and those who want the Information argue that the one man who can give It should be brought before be-fore the committee. Senator Hitchcock Nebraska, ranking Demooratld member of ihe committee and author of the resolution of Inquiry, plans to leave Washington Monday for western trip which prob-ably prob-ably . Ill kofu him away until the end of thr wee,. In his absence, the effort .to secure additional data is expected by committee members to he taken up , by several Republican senators. In-eluding In-eluding limih. Idaho: Johnson, California- and Brandegce, Connecticut. |