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Show r mam holds treaty secrets i SENATE TOLD I NO RECORD OF I PARLEYS KEPT I "Not Compatible With Public Pub-lic Interest to Disclose Negotiations" ; YAP PACT FAVORED ! Foreign Relations Commit-tee Commit-tee Acts on U. S. -Japan Agreement WASHINGTON. Feb. 20. President K9 larding replying tods to the senate H on the Hitchcock resolution asking for gl infoi maiion relative to the n. otia- R9 tlon of the four power Pacific treaty. Bl -.iHted It was impossible to furnish the V I requested information because most of k the negotiation-', were conducted with- R; M out th maintaining of a record. I NOTHING ONCE i t j The president said it would not be Wm compatible with nubile interests to dls- ' I ise the confidential negotiations of MM the ml he declar-tQ declar-tQ that 'i here were no concealed un- rsUndlngs and no exchange of faV Alxnosl CO-lnddeht with the arrival I of the president's letter at the senate, rl the foreisrn relations committee of j5 that body by a vote of ton to one or- B dered favorably reported the treaty be- M tween the United States ;ind Japan W: ic;:ardinc the Island of Yap PIFTM N OTE8 NO The action following a two hour I. .at. m t he committee and was taken fior several Republican and Demo-I Demo-I cratlc senators had indicated they wOuld Oav.dr rcportlne the treaty to the 0i ti but n -i vod the rlqht to further H liseo m it on tho floor. The single H I negative ..te was cast by Senator Pitt- M I man. Democrat. Nevada H kRDrNCS KEPUI J The president's reply to the Hitch- H ' cock resolution, which wae adopted : by the senate last week, follows: "Responsive to senate resolution (H j number 237. asking for records, mln- S lute.";, arguments, debates, cover con-venations, con-venations, etc. .relating to the so- H called four power treaty. I have to JH advlai thai it i Imposeble to comply vl with the senates request Many of the tilings asked for In the re-solu- Clli , tlon It Is literally Impossible to furn- fl j ish. because there are many converse- -H ! t.icns and discussions quite outside the conference, yet vital to Its success. ; Matnrflllv rhso r. re without rocftrH II not com;patible 7 do no! believe it to be compatible I with public internsts or consistent with th - imenltles Of international nego- t'.fl ; tiation to attempt to reveal informal I land confldental conversations or dls- I Icusslons of which no record was kept. I or to submit tentative suggestions or l .Informal proposals, without which the i J jarrivfil at desirable International un- r i would b. rendered unlike- H ly if not impossible M "While i um unable to transmit the j information required. I do. however. ! I take this opportunity to say most em- I phatlcally that there were no concealed I understandings and no secret . ox- I changes of notes and there are no com- ' 1 1 , mitments whatever except as appear I In the four power treaty Itself and I Uh supplementary agreement which ,1 I nro row in li... ha.n'Am nf . h.. m n t n i I REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ! Without discussion the president" I letter was referred to the foreign I relations committee, when It was ren I to the senate, the motion being made by Senator Hitchcock. Committee consideration of the Ynp treat) centered about tho question of how treat a measure of control oer the former German island would b-given b-given to Japan by American recognition recogni-tion of the Japanese mandate over it. Sonu1 Republicans ns well as Democrats Demo-crats indicated a fear that the mandati power might Infringe upon American rights despite the treatv provision" I.F.I.M, MKd'MEXT It was wild the argument was largely ' a legal one. In which the scope of I mandate regulations was reviewed at , length Those who voted to report jthe treaty were Senators Dodge. M. - I Cumber, Kellogg Brandec Borah I Johnson, New and Wadoworth, Repub-, Repub-, llcans uml Wrllliams and Pomerene, .Democrats. Among the absentees i Senators Hitchcock. Democrat and Mc Tormick and Moses. Republicans, were said to have indicated previously that 1 1 hoy would vote for favorable corrrmlt-i corrrmlt-i tee action The decision to act on the Ynp treatv ahead of the others negotiated i during the Washington conference wa reached, the leaders said, because it was not regarded as forming o pari o jthe conference series. It was drawn up outside the conference proper and was signed after the conference adjourned ad-journed No acreement was reached as to a " ' .late for consideration of the tres on tlje senate floor, but It was Indicated Indi-cated the open debate on Its ratif lea l tlon might beffln within a t"w days. |