Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-12-15
OUR TREATY WITH JAPAN.

outline OF the Provisions of the Treaty
wuh Japan Agreed Upon by Secretary
1resham aud Mhister ShinicLio Kurino.
and Which Now Awaits the Action Of
the Senate.
WASHINGTON, Dec 10.-The text OF
'ne proposed treaty with Japan which
Will come before the senate for consid-
Grafton at the next executive session
pears out in all particu lars the pri-
mary analysis sent out in these dis.
patches December T. 1t is not du.
piication of the British treaty entered
INTO last July. On the contrary it con-
tains distinct assertion Of the rights
OF Japan to regulate her own tariff re.
iatlons with the United States. while
the British treaty imposes rigid re-
strlctions in the matter of the tariff
with that country for several years to
come. The most important features of
the United States convention are con.
tained in the protocol. This provides:
lhat one month after the exchange
OF the ratification of the treaty of
commerce and navigation, signed this
day, the import tariff now in opera
tion in Japan in respect of goods and
merchandise imported into Japan by
citizens of the United States shall
cease to be binding. From the same
date the general statutory law of ia.
pan shall be applicable to goods and
merchandise, the growth, produce or
manufacture of the territories OF the
United States on Importation in Ja-
pan.
The operation Of this provision is
made subject to the conditions of Arti.
Gle LA. Of the treaty of 1854. This
article is simply the customary ia.
vored nation clause" and reads as fol.
lows: ut is agreed that if at any flu.
ture time the government of Japan
shall grant to any other nation or ma
tions privileges and advantages which
are not herein granted to the United
States and the citizens thereof, these
same privileges and advantages shall
be granted likewise to the United
States. l
This reservation does not seem in
any way to retard the immediate Cd.
Grafton OF the protocol, so far as it af-
fects the United States.
The revision of tariff rates as pr O.
vided for in the protocol is made SUBJ
ject to articles XIV. and XVII. Of
the main body OF the proposed
treaty to which it is an appendix.
The provisions of the main treaty,
which include the abandonment by
the United States of the right to exer.
else extra territorial jurisdiction, BY
means Of consular courts, over ofPenses
committed by American residents
against Japanese laws, are to 20 into
operation on the 18th day OF July,
1899, and shall remain in force for the
period of twelve years from that date.
The important tariff autonomy pro.
visions of the protocol, as already
stated, are to go into effect one month
from the ratification of the treaty.
The third section Of the protocol reads
as fOlloWs:
The undersigned plenipotentiaries
have agreed that this protocol shall be
e"hmitted to The tmu high contracting
parties at the same time as the treaty
OF commerce and navigation signed
this day, and that when the said treaty
is ratified the agreement contained in
the. protocol shall also equally be con-
sidered as approved without the neces.
sity f further formal ratification.
1t is agreed that this protocol shall
terminate at the same time the said
treaty ceases to be binding"
The proposed treaty bears date
Washington, November 20, 1894, and is
signed by Secretary Gresham and
shinichio Kurino, the Japanese minis.
ter