New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-14
NOT A MENACE TO HAWAII.
JAPAN SAID TO HAVE NO DESIGNS ON
THE ISLANDS.
THE SENDING OF wARsHlP TO HONOLULU
EXPLAINED AT THE WASHINGTON LEGATION
Asa MEASURE INTENDED ONLY TO

EXPLAINED AT THE WASHINGTON LEGATION
AS A MEASURE INTENDED ONLY TO
PRESERVE TREATY RIGHTS.
washington. April lathe japanese Legation has
received Geographic advices from oncial sources
In relation to the recent deportation from 'iie
Hawaiian Islands Of a number of japanese imni-
grants which do not agree in all details with the
accounts already published in this country. III ap-
pears according TO these adVices. that OUT OF oo'
JAPANESE passengers brought to Honolulu py inc
steamer Shinshin-M aru. 302 voluntary passengers
and ls6 contract laborers were sent back to Japan
The Hawaiian authorities refused to allow 'heSe
neople to land on the ground that the voluntary
Messengers were not possessed of SO in goid each.
as required in the Landing law. ana because ''io
contract laborers had not complied with Tue p'o
visions of the law in securing previous approval
of their contracts. The passengers thereuPo' pc
titioned the Supreme Court to set ASIDE 'he ue-
cision of the CollectorGenera of customs loroiu-
ding them TO land. but the court rejected 'lie pc
ttion on the ground that the decision OF inc
co,ecor-general In regard to the landing OF anehs
was fnal and that japanese not yet ianueo III ''''
islands had right to petition
The Jananese Consul-General protested against
This action on the ground that the exclusion OF
voluntary immigrants was in vioiatoh vi ue".!
rights whatever might be the case res''uie ~
laborers and their alleged failure 10 secuie
.nnroval Of their contracts lie had personahy
locked into the facts regarding the voluntary lmini-
Grants and had found that they were all IN poha
fde possession of the amount OF money requi'e' ny
law in such CO SO far as they, al least "e'e
concerned the decision OF the colector-senerai APP
neared 10 be in violation of both the law anu '''e
facts - -, ,.or
while Il IS true that one Japanese man-oi-"ar
ord not two as told in press dispatches mas oee'
con. 10 Hawaii officials of the japanese ANe,''01
nos,,ively assert that this action mas MOI D.o''
49,, tar tho nurpose OF mcnacing the Hawanan
- I.n,,esa residents n the islands. who might
become excited at what they regarded as Voc
ton of the rights of their counryme"' me ,t,
s. Government believes the difhcuy is susceP'"io
OF settlement by diplomatic Negotiations anu ~ -.
asserted at the Legation that THIS VIII NC nv
49,, ,ne,bod resorted to- AS the Hawaiian ooV-
eminent could only be liable for indemnify u .,e
nersons sent back for losses incurred py 'he' 'io
Question is not regarded as likely TO provoke seIi
nns International complications. AT the i'esauoh
- r,o.oren, that the Japanese companies are
a,,orn,irp 10 colonize Hawaii is denounced as d
Aagrant and absolutely unwarranted faisehooa;
r. Iaronoso Minister especially deprecates the
stories to which this incident mas sNtI' clear and
posie,or o ~ occas sion any apprehension among me
friends of Hawaii in this S S9gnT no designs upon
Hawaiian independence, ana no aesn nertic,ar in
iriahg aYs their only wish is to preserve well,
Established treaty rights when pe1 40 the advices
seceived at the legation the JapanesS NOV aowed
,,ot permitted 10 land in HaWaI W. ~ Hawaiian
70 employ counsel or 10 appear 20 ransnese repre-
o,r.s = nd permission 10 see the JdP'.Sn,ira was
ouiave during their detention IN qred 70 them
in express terms by treaty ,.o.,od onv hut the
Since japan has never auawsi nor given the
k,irb,sst indication of Interior ,rabe to
- Minister says that he Is Wno! con.
pose; l!e i', tb5s sudden manifestation OF a. cos coz
traTy feeling on the part Of some the belief
Si.or thar the crisis is not so Se!ouS ,,i5 seem
Of the sensational giyenb y Si any possibility
70 mi r; Inc good understanding when eN''"
tween this country and Japan cruiser Nauiwa
19koa non ks port for Hawai- next Saturosyt il
IS understood that the oolect ol Which might grow
~ .p Pr the existing dispute with hawa, WV
treaty authorizing emigration lro" Japan