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Show FOUR POWER PACFIC TREATY I ORDERED FAVORABLY REPORTED 1 WASHINGTON. Feb. 88. The four power Pacific treaty together with Its supplements and .'i reservation unci the' limitations and submarine treaties were ordered favorably reported today to-day by the senate foreign relations, committee The reservation attached by the com", I nviuee to the four power pact embodies em-bodies the compromise suggested after conferences with President Harding and derl.ir. .1 that nuthing In the treaty shall bo construed as forming an "al-1 llance " It was approved by a ten to three vole. Alsii by a division of ten to three, with Senators, Borah. Idaho Johnson.! California. Republicans arid Shields.' Democrat. Tennessee otin in i;n-negative, i;n-negative, the four power tre.n-, then was ordered reported to the senate The vote by which the naval limitation limita-tion and submarine treaties were favorably fav-orably reported was not given Seeral other votes were taken on proposed Substitutes to the compromise reservation but the administration leaders brought about the defeat of all of them and the reservatlonlsts abandoned aban-doned and all attempts to quality further fur-ther the four power and c.th.-r trc.itlei In committee They aald their acquiescence ac-quiescence In favorable committee action ac-tion simply meant, however, that thev were ready to transfer their fight to the open senate As It will be embodied in the report re-port nf the four powentreaty the compromise com-promise i-servatlon upproved by the committee follows; . "The United States understands ths,; under the statement in the preamble It or tinder the terms oT this there Is no eomrnlttment to armed force, no al- ft llance. no obligation to Join In any defense." 1 A motion by Senator Pomerene to e out Ihe words "no alliance" was defeated ten to three, only senators Kellogg, Republican Minnesota and Willi. ma Democrat, Mississippi, Join-Ing Join-Ing the Ohio senator In Its support. Si rtator Pomerene then moved an en- if tire substitute for the reservation but was voted down 12, to t. ' The original Bra ndegee blanket res-orvatlon. res-orvatlon. for which a majority of thw H committee ere said to have Indicated J their- support before the conference. with President Harding, was offered H again by Senator Johnson and was re-jeeted re-jeeted ! to 4. Senators Johnson. Borah, Shields and Moses. Voting in tho af- H f Irmative. On adoption of the compromise res-ervatlon, res-ervatlon, Senators Kellogg, Williams H and Pomerene vTjted In the negative Senators Hitchcock, Nebraska. Pitt- Mj man Nevada' and Swanson, Va., all , Democrats, were absent. IH Approval of the declaration accom- panylng the four power treaty sign-. sign-. ed at the same time was included In H ( the (ayorable action on the treaty It- H .self, but a separate vote was taken in H supplemental treaty by which the H principal Islands of the Japanese em- plre were excluded from the scope of J H th agreement. J |