Administration Silent but Not Opposed dan. 21, The Senute to-day to the Naval Appro-Bill, requesting the. to Gall another Arms Coolidge's recent intimation the time was not ripe for such conference. Supporters of the Administration did not oppose the motion. No light on the development ix forthcoming from the White House or the State Department.
The Senate alo adopted " motion ing on the Secretary of State, Hughes, to produce a copy of the Paris Agreement, together with such information as would necessary for a full understanding of its ter Later.
The terms of the resolution ear-din the Senate requesting the President to call a disarmament. conference lay down that this conference should be held at Washington and should be charged with the duty of securing an_ international agreement for the effectual reduction of sew and land armaments 39 ax to relieve the rations of unnecessary expenditure for the provision of armaments und in the preparation for war.
Senator McKellar, Democrat, proposed a resolution' in the Senat> asking the President to order inquiry into the question whether Great Britain had violated the disarmament treaty by building the battleships Rodney and Nelson—Reater's American Service.
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