The Ketchikan mining news., 1907-03-08
HOW IT AROSE.

The Skagway Alaskan gives this explanation of how the embroglis between the United States and Japan over the San Francisco school ques- tion came about
 "The answer to the question of how the trouble arose' says the Alaskan, lis the story of two American blun- ders one by the Cleveland admins tration in 1891 and the other by President Roosevelt twelve years l later.
 In 1894 representatives of President l Cleveland and the mikado made a treaty wherein the United States pledged to Japan the same rights in American schools that were accorded other foreigners. The clause attract ed little attention, and the treaty was ratified by the senate.
 At tlre opening of the public schools in San Francisco last fall for the present school year, the Japanese students were separated from the white pupils and placed in schools maintained for Asiatics. The Japan ese objected to this, and their consul at San Francisco appealed to the Japanese government to prevent it.
 It due course the Japanese Ambass- ador arrayed in official habiliments, called upon the American state de- partment and directed attention to the fact that the provisions of the treaty of 1894 were being viola1ed at San Francisco. The matter was referred to President Roosevelt.
 Then was committed the second American blunder. In his impetuous way, before he had looked into the legal status of the affair, President Roosevelt personally assured the Japanese ambassador that he treaty would be enforced.
 The San Francisco school board stood upon its rights. It asserted that it had a legal right under the flaw of California to do as it did, and it protested that it was immune from federal interference. It refused to comply with the demand of the presi dent that the Japanese students be admitted to the white schools.
 President Roosevelt finally came to understand his inability to make his promise to enforce the treaty good. He opened negotiations with the San Francisco people and it was agreed that if Japanese exclusion could be secured the board would rescind it's action. That was the basis of the compromise that has been adopted.
 The price paid by President Roose- welt to make good his promise that conditions at San Francisco would be changed in accordance with Japanese demands will be understood when one considers that he has been a strong opponent of Japanese exclusion for many years, and that his first thought was a regulation of the Jap anese situation by making citizens of the little brown men. :"
 In the Harness Again. F. Swineford, an early publisher of the Marquette Mining Journal, and later territorial governor of Alaska, is actively in the newspaper harness again, The Mining Journal having +l. G,,e l,a, ,,,f ( 1r yatn ikan, Alaska, Mining News, of which Mr. Swineford is editor. He has made his home at Ketchikan for the past several years and has pre- viously been identified with news paper enterprises there, but has been out of the harness for the past year or two. The new Ketchikan Mining News is one of the best appearing papers that has ever come out of Alaska, being printed in a first class plant that among other things has a tpyesetting machine. Under MT. Swineford's able guidance it will be the pre-eminent newspaper power of the territory and may always be de- pended on to labor unceasingly for Alaska's advancement and prosperity. Marquette (Michl Mining Journal.
 Congress must have been in an unusually amiable frame of mind, or else have forgotten itself entirely, when it passed the bill remitting the Sl00 per mile tax on the Panama Mines By and at the same time ex- tending the time in which it may be completed.
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