The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-06-15
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JAPANESE AMBASSADOR NOW ON
WAY TO LOOK INTO EXCLUSION
QUESTION.

WASHINGTON, June 4-Viscount
Aolti, the Japanese ambassador and
several members of the embassy staff
will leave Washington for their tour
of the Pacific coast about the middle
of this month. The object of lie visit,
as already told in these dispatches,
has a direct bearing on the question
of the Japanese exclusion in the Unit
ed States, anu on the renewal of the
treaty of commerce ana navigation
now in force between this country and
Japan. The ambassador, who is pre-
sumably not acting in the matter with
out the wishes or sanction of his gov
eminent, proposes to find out for him
self Just what the character of the OPP
position is on the Pacific coast against
the admission of Japanese laborers to
this country.
The Japanese question, which was so
burning a question in the administra-
ton last winter, when President
Roosevelt interfered with the course
that the San Francisco school author
tiles were taking in regard to the edu-
cation of Japanese children there, will
certainly recur at no distant date, and
there is reason to believe that the
Tokyo government may not assume an
attitude of acquiescence as was the
case during the negotiations a few
months ago While it is true that
Japan assented to the presidents wish
that the then pending immigration bill
should provide for the exclusion Of
Japanese laborers from the United
States, it is by no means certain that
the Tokyo government will permit an
exclusion feature to be incorporated
in q formal treaty between the two
countries.
The present treaty will expire in
July, 1911, and although that date Is
somewhat remote, a campaign has al
ready been begun among organizations
of Japanese residents on the Pacific
coast looking toward a renewal of the
liberal provisions of the present con-
vention in regard to the admission of
immigrants from Japan. They have
recently sent representatives to Wash
ington to talk with Ambassador Aoki
and also with President Roosevelt,
Secretary Root, Secretary Straus and
other high government officials. These
Japanese have borne letters from some
Of the most prominent American citi-
zens in the Coast cities, backing uI
their statements to the ambassador
and the president that the much ex-
plotted opposition to Japanese in that
region centers in and is almost eX-
clusively confined to the trades unions
of San Francisco and to the ring of
indicted municipal officers in that city,
The representative of Japanese asso-
Citations in Seattle, Portland and Los
Angeles have been supported in their
work here by letters, kilograms and
Endorsements of various kinds from
chambers of commerce and other pub
/ lie organizations. They declare that
! in Seattle the Japanese laborer is well
come, and the better class of Japanese
take a prominent part in public af-
! fairs. Some of their number are in
vited to every public dinner, and there
is almost an entire absence of class
distinction in Seattle's treatment of the
Japanese. In Portland, there is no
anti-Japanese feeling worthy of the
name, these representatives say; and
it is recalled that during the height OF
the San Francisco school controversy,
and while the indicted mayor of that
city was on his way to Washington to
see President Roosevelt, the Los An
geles chamber of commerce telegraph
ed to the president that the people OF
that city did not sympathize with the
attacks on Japanese residents.
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