The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-07
The JAPANESE SCARE SOVER.
NJ DANGER or TROJ BE WITH
TIE FAN EASTERN POWER.
Japanese ambassador Tells the President
mat the Message Pleases His Govern.
ment and PeOple~NO New Treaty Is
BEING Negotiated. u MAY he soon.

WASHINGTON, Dec. e.-The Japa nese
scare, if il may properly be called that,
appears 10 have disappeared. A confident
feeling exists in official circles hat danger
or trouble with the great Pc wer Of the
Ter East has passed away with the cordial
reception given by the Go vernment, press
and people Of Japan to the m in
President Roosevelt's annusl message on
tho subject Of discrimination against japan
$50 subjects in the United States. This
ioeling among his countrymen was echoed
boy the Japanese Ambassador. Viscount
Aoki, during a personal visit TO President
Roosevelt yesterday. II became known
-o.dav that Viscount Aoki had voluntarily
gone 10 me White House and thanked the
President for his complimentary illusions
70 Japan and the japanese and for his
promise that the rights of those Japanese
-lhjects residing in the United States would
no thoroughly protected. The best of
feeling prevailed at the interview and no
doubt can remain in the mind OF the Japan
-" Government. if any existed there, that
tho Government Of the United States was
one or Japan's best friends.
That there is nothing acute in the sitla-
zion is indicated by the departure of Secre-
tarv Root from Washington for New York
this afternoon. Mr.. Root has been active
IN efforts TO bring the Japanese trouble TO
an amicable conclusion and the President
- relying upon his advice.
This Government has felt certain from
the first that the Government of Japan was
confident If the lack of sympathy on the
part of President Roosevelt and his official
advisers with the determinations practised
against Japanese in California, hut there
was fear that the people Of Japan would
become worked up over the matter To such
an extent that the Government at Toxic
would he unable to resist popular pressure
and would feel compelled. for its own polti-
al safety. to take radical action which
would produce a clash between the two
countries. That condition, II is believed
now. has been happily averted, and every
body in Washington who was aware Of the
real situation il breathing much easier.
While there is abundant evidence that
the reported negotiations for a new treaty
het ween Japan and the United States have
not been formally initiated. enough de-
veloped to-day to indicate that there may
I. be some sort Of exchanges with that end in
view. Senator Perkins Of California init
mated that such was the case after he had
had an interview with President Roosevelt
to-day.
Everything will he all right" said the
Senator. The people of California are a
unit on this question, and the President is
a great. patriotic American. i predict that
negotiations will soon he begun for a new
treaty to keep Japanese poems out OF this
country. The Japanese Government pre-
fers that its people go to Manchuria and
Corea, and we prefer il. So on that impor-
tant point we are agreed
II is evident from this statement that
tho California Congressman who claimed
Yesterday 10 have been informed that a
new treaty 10 exclude laborers of Japan
Hri tho United States from the territory
rf either would he the outcome OF the San
'raNcisco school friction knew what they
ve~e talking about. There is nothing
from a. official source to show, however,
th-t TINS Government has definitely made
~ u mind to negotiate the treaty.
senator Perkins said other interesting
lungs bearing upon the situation after
b.. White House visit. He said that he
had not talked with the President about
tho reference in Mr.. Roosevelt's message
T. using the military forces of the Govern
rcut in preserving the treaty rights OF
Japanese in this country, for the reason
that he was satisfied that the President
meant that he would go 70 the extreme
indicated only in the event that these
japanese needed protection from physical
violence.
The President he said, will learn that
the Pacific Coast is unanimous in its senti-
rnent, and he will not resist that sentiment.
More fuss has been made about it in the
Fast than out West. The truth in that
there are not forty japanese children OF
school age in San Francisco, and probably
not one hundred in the whole state. There
fore II seems to me that the small number
Cf children should make no objection to
attending the schools set aside for them
and maintained by taxation Of white tax
PAYERS. Here in Washington there are
separate schools for white and colored
children.
In California We have a law forbidding
any minister to marry a Caucasian to a
Monaghan. There has never been any
rimpus about that. so why should there
he about separation Of the school children?
7 claim that We have not violated the treaty
with Japan in letter or in spirit. II the
courts see fit TO uphold the contention
that the treaty is violated We will see hat
p new treaty is made that will not give
such rights"
Before taking action on the matter the
administration will await the outcome
ri the test case 10 be instituted in the Cali
fornia courts for thu purpose of determin-
ing whether the exclusion Of Japanese
from California public schools ia a violation
Of treaty rights. Secretary Root Is credited
with having made the suggestion that this
tsst case he instituted, and the Administra-
zion looks upon it as a solution Of the present
aspects Of the difficulty.
The California Congressman are in a
much better state Of mind than they were
when they first heard what President Roose-
welt had 10 say in his message about dis
elimination against Japanese residing on
the Pacific Coast. They nave been assured
from the White House hat the Presidents
reference to his intention TO use military
force n necessary and lawful was meant
10 apply only 20 An instance where Japanese
protected by treaty rights were threatened