The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-30
RUSSIANS RESENT
CAssINI PROTESTS AGAINST TAFpS
 VISIT IN TOKYO.
President Deaf to PIea--Wiiitam Hi Curtis Says Ambassador Is Told Call Has No Political
 Significance.
W. E. Curtis's Washington Special to Chicago Record-Herald

W. E. Curtis's Washington Special 10
 Chicago Record-Herald.
 Count Cassini, the Russian Amoassd- dor, has entered protest in the name of his government, against the cxpeui- ,tion which Secretary Taft has planned to personally conduct to Manila on tne Pacific Mail steamer Manchurfa, sail ing from San Francisco, July s. He construes it to be thinly dfsguised attempt to give the Japanese bracer, and asserts that the European powers will regard it as an expression or sym pathy and encouragement to the ene- mics of Russia. Hence he told the President last week that his govern ment cannot avoid regarding 1t as an unfriendly act on the part of the Uni ted States.
 If Secretary Taft wishes to take a party of Congressmen and Friends 10 Manila, or to China. or to any neutral port, the Russian government has no objections, but the most important fea- {; ture, of the program is the visit 70 To- kio, where the daughter of the Presi- dent of the United States, the largest man in the Presidents cabinet, 9even Senators and their wives, twenty-six Representatives and their wives, Major General Bliss of the army, several aids de-camp and private secretaries, n rall- way expert an official surgeon from the
 
 rapher, several eminent newspaper men like Lafe Young of Des Moines, Charles Clark of The Hartford Courant, and Colonel Church of the Army and Navy Journal will be received and enter tained by the Mikado.
 Miss Roosevelt is to be attended by Miss Boardman of Washington, Miss McMillan of Detroit and other ladies' waiting, while the Secretary. of War will be attended by several gentlemen In-waiting, including J. G. Schmidlapp of Cincinnati, Emile Godchaux of New Orleans and numerous knights, equer- ries and pages.
 The Speaker of the House nf Repre- sentatives and Elihu Root, former Sec retary of War, who were on the origi- nal list, have recently notified Judge Taft that private affairs will not per init them to enjoy the pleasure, but the senatorial list Is formidable, and in cIudes Sunny Jim" Newlands of Ne vada, that great anti-imperialist, Pat terson of Colorado; Scott, the stand batter of West Virginia: Dubois of idaho, Foster of Louisiana, Long of Kansas and Warren of Wyoming. Among the representatives are the gen tie and amiable Foss of Illinois, Gen eral Grosvenor of Ohio, Colonel Hep burn of Iowa, the fluent Charles Landis of Indiana and Mir. Payne, the leader or the t1OuS6 or N6W IOEhs
 Count Cassini made his protest per- sonaliy to the President, but he got very little satisfaction. The President declined to treat the matter seriously and frankly told him that the objec- tions of the Russian government were so absolutely without reason or foun- datIon that he should not suggest any changes in Judge Taft's plans. He tried to persuade Count Cassini to con , sider the expedition from the American point of view. He told him it was merely a summer excursion, without the slightest political character or sig nifcance. That Judge Taft, being re- quired by his official duties to visit the Philippines, had invited a number of gentlemen and ladies. in both official and private life, to accompany him: that they were to sail upon a steamer of one of the regular merchant lines, which touches the ports of ooth Japan and China. and while the vessel lay in those ports the members of the party would go sightseeing, like other tour ists. It was true that they had been rendered a reception by the Emperor and Empress of Japan. but that was merely an act of courtesy in return for courtesies extended to Prince Fushimi when he was recently in this country. and had no more significance than the entertainment of a Russian prince by the Emperor of Germany or the rresi- dent of France when visiting Berlin or Paris.
 But Count Cassiih puts an entirely different construction upon the expedi- tion. His fertile imagination finds deep significance in the fact that this Is not the proper time to visit Manila, and