Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-01
At THE WHITE HOUSE
Several Talks on the Japanese
Question.
"A SATISFACTORY OUTCOME
Expected by the Majority of Those
Most Interested.
TWO ARCTIC EXPLORERS CALI
Commander Peary and Walter Well.
man Met In the Executive
A SATISFACTORY OUTCOME
TWO ARCTIC EXPLORERS GALE

mo. don't think we will have war with
Japan over this school question at this time.
but We will have war with that country I'm
the next twenty years. The Japanese have
got 1t into their heads that they will con-
troll the Pacific ocean and we have got 10
Into our heads that We will control 1t. A.
clash will eventua..y come"
inns statement was made to newspaper
men at the White House today by Repre-
sentative Hayes OF California. Mr. HAYES
ana senator Flint of the same state called
Oh the PRESIDENT. but they did not discuss
the Japanese situation with him. Thev
thought it wise to postpone their confer.
ence with him on this subject to another
time.
do not believe that Japan is ready for
struggle with this country over the ones
tlon or her people mixing In the n,,hlic
sShools with ours But / can say, without
mat the people of the Pacific coast, espe.
claily OF California, are united on this
question. 1t Is not a party question AT An
Kepuoileans, democrats, labor people. all.
nsh esteem as might be possible The
Chlnaman stands better in the popilar
mind than the Jap. The trouble is really
u , than the school question. The Japa-
nese are pouring into the Pacific coast in
large numbers. They are arriving at the
rate or loo more a month than thew de-
part. they are coming into conflict with
both skilled and unskilled labor ana thew
Guido the Chinese in working for small
wages and living off nothing. They do
not trade with American business men hut
orlhg over their own merchants and pur-
chase all their goods from them Besides
this, they are unreliable in business matters
ana tricky. all OF which gives Americans a
bad opinion of them
BY reason of the feeling which seems
to have grown up over this school question
DO not think shall press my bill intro
duced at the last session to exclude the
Japanese as rigidly from this country as
chinese. l do not desire to be the meana
or fomenting trouble with japan at thin
minute and will prpbab bly, await until next
year to press my bill, Which I-shaIf DO win
vigor."
Hull. Sees No Cause for Trouble.
Representative Hull Of Iowa, chairman Of
the HouSe committee on military affairs.
sees little in the school controversy to
bring about war. II can't see," he said.
where the federal government comes I'm
on this question. 1t has no right to inter-.
fere with the local affairs of California mr.
San Francisco. 1 do not believe il will do
SO, either l do not think any foreign conn
try would have any business debating TO
Des Moines what its school authorities
should do in the matter of entrance to the
public SchoolSH
Representative J. Warren Keifer of Ohio
did not believe there was any possibility
but If there should be he would not object
to getting into 1t. He was general in the
civil and Spanish wars, and would unuues-
tionably volunteer for service in another,
he SAID, If misfortune should bring it.
Represen tative Boutell of Chicago: I'VE
have advanced too far along the pathways
of civilization to have war with any foreign
country over SO small a question as that
of admission to schools"
Representative Bartholdt of Missouri, a
leading disciple of international arbitration
for all troubles between nations, laughed
at the thought of trouble between this coun-
try and Japan and considered It unwise to
even discuss such a possibility.
President Thinking It All Over.
President Roosevelt held no important
conference on the subject during the day.
He Is taking his time TO arrive at conclu-
sions. An Idea was advanced that the
President hopes to settle the controversy by
endeavoring to have the San Francisco peo-
pie admit Japanese to the public schools
under eighteen years of age The greatest
objection of the San Francisco people has
been that grown Japanese men and women
have been entering the grades of public
schools with little boys and girls under ten
years of age and even younger. At one time
it was possible that such settlement would
have been easy to make but the race feel
ing has been kindled on the Pacific coast to
such an extent ii is now believed the people
will insist on the japanese going to separate
schools or not at all.
To the few visitors to whom he briefly
talked on the Japanese problem during the
day the President expressed no doubt of
a satisfactory outcome of the interchanges
that are in progress between this govern
ment and the japanese government. He
furnished no definite statement of how he
expects the matter to be arranged
Peary and Wellman, Explorers.
Two arctic explorers, Commander Robert
E. Peary, who has just returned from tho
frozen regions of the north, and Walter
Welman, who expects to reach the pole by
means of an air ship. exchanged greetings
with each other this morning at che execu-
tive offices. Commander Peary went to the
White House by appointment to pay his re-
spects to the President He reached there
at 10 o'clock. but because of the great num-
Der oof people awaiting to see the President
he had to linger for half an hour before he
had an opportunity to do so. The President
greeted Mr.. Peary with great cordiality and
heartily congratulated him on his achieve
ments in reaching the farthest point ever
touched by any human being so far as the
records show. The two chatted together for
some minutes, when the commander gave
way to others who were In waiting. Com
mander Peary left the city for New York
this afternoon on business connected with
the ship Roosevelt. on which he made his
latest trip to the arctic. He expects to re-
turn soon. however, and spend some time
with his family.
Mr. Wellman will leave Washington In a
day or two for New York, whence he is to
sail on Thursday for Paris on business con-
nected with the fitting out Of his expedi-
ton. He went to the White House to have a
conference with Peary.
Child Labor Legislation.
Senator Beveridge of Indiana discussed
several things with the President. among
them his carefully prepared bill 10 dis
courage child labor In the United States. ,
nv L.
approve the intention of the Indiana sena-
tor to push this measure at the coming
session and at future sessions II It does
not become a law this winter. The hin, In
brief. provides that no interstate carrier
shall transport the product OF any factory
or mine In which children under fourteen