The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-11-02
PROBE JAP SCHOOL
TROUBLE At FRISCO
SECRETARY METCALF is SENT
WEST ON IMPORTANT
MISSION.
President Dispatches Cabinet Officer
to Learn Condition of Affairs Re-
sardins Exclusion of Children and
Restaurant Boycott.

Washington, Oct. 27.-President
Roosevelt Friday night directed Vic
tor H. Metcalf, secretary of the de-
partment of commerce and labor, to
proceed to San Francisco and make
a thorough and complete inquiry into
the situation affecting the exclusion
Of Japanese children from the schools
determination to place Japanese pu-
pills in separate schools.
The president is anxious to obtain
at first hand from cabinet officer
who is acquainted with local condi-
tons in San Francisco full informa-
ton affecting every phase of the
subject, to the end that whatever &C
ton is taken by this government may
be after an accurate understanding OF
the situation. The president feels
that every effort within the power of
the administration should be exerted
claimed by the Japanese for its peo-
pie residing in the United States
should be respected and protected.
Demands Full Rights.
The determination to send Secre-
tary Metcalf to San Francisco was one
of the results of the request made
by Viscount Aoki, the Japanese am
bassador, who at conference with
Secretary Root Thursday asked, in
behalf of his government, that the
Japanese subjects in California be &C
corded their full rights under the
treaty of 1894, including that OF the
children to attend the public schools
Of San Francisco. This request was
the subject of very long and earnest
discussion at the cabinet meeting
Friday, when the conclusion was
reached that the best thing to do was
to send Mr.. Metcalf to California to
secure personally all the data which
could have any possible bearing on
the situation.
The dispatch of a cabinet officer on
such a mission, it was argued, would
demonstrate to the Japanese the evil
dent sincerity of this government in
dealing with the whole subject and its
desire to show that every effort is be-
ing made to get at the facts.
AIlege Boycott on Restaurants.
Incidental to t he inquiry into the
school question, Mr.. Metcalf will pay
some attention t. he charges made by
Count Aoki to Secretary Root that
Japanese restaurant keepers in San
Francisco have suffered indignities.
These reports, the ambassador says,
come from consular officers Of the Jap
anese government in San Francisco.
At least seven or eight reports have
been made, concerning boycott in
augurated against these restaurants
and these reports state that agents
have been posted to prevent patrons
from entering the restaurants and in
several instances stones have been
thrown and windows broken.
Situation Is Grave.
Administration officials do not hest
tate to express privately their views
of the present anti-American feeling
growing out of the wrongs which the
Japanese declare they have suffered,
and one member of the cabinet said
after the meeting that the general
situation was exceedingly grave and
would require the most delicate treat
ment to prevent an open rupture.
The president is doing all in his
power to show the Japanese that there
is no general feeling against the race,
but that the trouble is entirely local
and expressed qualification when he
learned through Ambassador Aoki that
the Japanese press is for the most
part attempting to check the feelings