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Show oo M WANTS CLEAR TREATY WASHINGTON. Feb. 21. A reservation reser-vation to ihe four-power treaty, pro viding that no "adjustments of understandings un-derstandings reached under lte provisions provis-ions shall bo binding without the consent con-sent of congress" was debated '(,r two hours by the senate foreign relations) committee today without action, but with a majority of the members Indicating Indi-cating their general approval. Senator BrandegcC Republican, Connecticut, offered the reservation and committee members said the dls-t dls-t usslon developed that even Senator lodgo of Massachusetts, the committee commit-tee chairman and one of the American delegates to the arms conference, was favorably disposed toward It Senator Poinorene, Democrat. Ohio, presented fi substitute covering somewhat th tame ground, but the committee reached no vote on either proposition. By some committee members it WOS predicted aftor the meeting that tho Bramlegee reservation would bo ,,to:Ke,i li, a virtually unanimous vote iifter some further discussion und that Other reservations which hae been tentatively drafted by various senators Would be withheld until the treaty-comes treaty-comes into the senate. It wns said a favorable report with the reservation attached, might be voted tomorrow. LVFORM VTIOX WANTED. CJOnSluerai ion oi iratouuuiu L.8.. in the committee after there had been a short discussion of President Harding's Hard-ing's message declaring he could not give the senate any of the recortls asked ask-ed for in connection with negotiation of the treaty Senator Hitchcock. Democrat, Nebraska, Ne-braska, who wns author of the resolution reso-lution of Inquiry, was absent from tho committee meotlng and no one brought forward th" suggested project of summoning Secretary Hughes to tell what he knows of the negotiations. A bellof that the senate Is entitled to more Information was expressed to the committee, however by Senator lohnson, Republican. California, and it was Indicated by other senators that tho subject' might be debated later la-ter on the senate floor. TEXT OF RESERVATION. The text of Senator Brandc-gcf I 'reservation which is the first to be proposed to any Oj the arms conference confer-ence treaties, rollows; "Tho senate udvlse.s and consents subject to tho following reservation, which is to be made a part of the instrument of ratification, to wit: ' The Tilted States understands that !lt assumes no obligation, either legal or moral, to maintain the rights In relation to the insular possessions or Insular dominions of any of the othor high contracting parties and that tho consent of tho congress of the Fnited States shall be necessary to any adjustment ad-justment or understundlng under article ar-ticle I or II by which tho United States is to he lound In any way and that there Is no obligation either legal or moral to give such consent." |