Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-17
JAPAN TO RECALL
AMBASSADOR A0K|
Private CabIegram Tells of Con-
ference at Toxic.
CHANGE REQUESTED by ITO
Marquis Said to Be Unfriendly to the
Diplomat.
ELDER STATESMEN CONSULTED
Baron Kaneko Mentioned as Probable
Successor to Mikado's Rep
resentative.
CHANGE REQUESTED by ITO
ELDER STATESMEN CONSULTED

TOXIC. June 1.-THE Hochi said yester-
day morning that viscount Aoki, Japanese
ambassador to America, will probably be
recalled, and that he will likely be succeeded
| by Baron Kaneko.
| A private cablegram was received here
| today stating that the Marquis Ito and
the elder statesmen of Japan held a con-
| ference with Prime Foreign Minister Haya-
| shi at Toxic last Wednesday, when, at the
| urgent request OF Marquis Ito. 1t was de-
| cided to recall Viscount Aoki. The state
| ment was made in authoritative quarter
that the Marquis Ito and viscount Aoki
have not been on friendly terms for many
years.
Service Here Brief.
| Visoount Siuzo Aoki came to Washing
| ton May 3. 1906, so that his service here
has been very brief. even for a Japanese
diplomatic agent. whose official lives have
been notably short in Washington com
pared with those of European ambassadors
| and ministers. His official relations here
have been pleasant from the beginning.
But looking back over his record 1t will be
found that large accomplishments can
| be set down to his credit, SO far as the
| facts are revealed in the published corre-
spOndence of the State Department here.
What the secret records OF the foreign Of
flee at Toxic, however, may show is another
story, and owing to the secretiye methods
pursued there 1t may easily be that AM
bassador A9ki bas been doing much valu-
| able work for his own government that Is
| unknown here.
Q But it is known that the outcome of the
| discussion of the Japanese question before
Congress at the last session not salts
| factory to the japanese government, though
| this failure never openly charged
| against it's ambassador here. In fact. the
fkasa
| tables on their opponents, for. whereas. the
| President in his message to Congress In
| December, INDUCED in a rather severe de-
nunciation of those persons who would in
/ firing the civil rights of the Japanese and
| even urged the passage of a naturalization
| act in their behalf the outcome was the
| passage by Congress of an act that prac-
| ticaIly excluded japanese coolie labor from
| the country, adding further to the restric-
lions imposed on the japanese. and with
holding the right of naturalization which,
up to that moment, had been matter or
controversy in the courts.
Larger Questions Involved.
1t is believed here that far more than the
trifiing episode of the attack on the bath
house and restaurant in San Francisco.
and the larger question of school rights or
Japanese children, this limitation of the
right of the japanese to come to the United
States freely. and the positive discrimina-
ton against them as race involved IN that
legislation, gave rise to bitter feelings in
japan 1t is only too probable that Am
bassador Aoki should secretly be held par
| TALLY chargeable by the Japanese leaders
at home for failure to prevent such dis
elimination against the japanese, hence
news of the intention to recall him, while
still unverifed. finds ready acceptance here.
Educated in America.
Baron Kentaro kaneko was last In the
American public eye as special amoas-
sador detailed by the imperial government
to visit this country and to study political
and economic conditions. February last
he was interviewed on the California school
question and was then quoted as speaking
in a pacifc strain and as having perfect
confidence that President Roosevelt would
see Justice done to Japan
Baron Kaneko is a bachelor of laws ana
doctor of laws of Harvard University, MEM
her of the Japanese house of peers. former
ly minister of state for agriculture ana
commerce and one of the -FOUR authors OF
the Japanese Constitution. He has made
many friends and aroused much interest py
his address at Harvard, where he mas peen
a guest of the Japan Club. and elsewhere,
and by his published articles on Japan
law and constitution anu Oh tiie Wal IA
the far east. ~
Baron Kaneko was born in 1893 the
year of Commodore Perry's famous visit
to Japan. At the age OF sixteen he attracted
the attention OF Marquis Kuroda one or
the richest and most powerful OF the old
daimios OF Japan, who determined 10 pro.
TO BOSTON After his studies at the Rice
School and the English High School young
Kaneko entered the law office of Messrs
GRAY &, Swift his work there being largely
directed by Oliver Wendell Holmes. jr,
now of the United States Supreme Court.
During his course In the Harvard Law
School, from which he was graduated In
1878, he enjoyed the friendship of Longfel-
low DIR. Holmes, Mr.. Robert c. Winthrop
and other well-known men.
Secretary of Senate.
Returning to Japan Immediately after
graduation he was in 1850 appointed sec
retary of the senate and had assigned TO
him the task of examining the constitu-
lions Of all the states of Europe and Amer
lea in preparation for the impending
change in the government of his native
country Four years afterward he became
secretary to Marquis-then count-lto, and
was appointed on the commission TO dratt
the new constitution. The following year.
continuing in the same line OF work he
was on the commission to reorSanlze the
administrative departments OF inc govern
ment. For the service thus rendeIed' on
the PRONUNCIATION of the constitution, he
was rewarded with the decoration or me
order of the Sacred Treasure.
In 1889 receiving an appointment as
imnerial commissioner to study the actual
workings of parliamentary institutions, he
Travelled extensively in Europe and, as sec
rotary of the house of peers, superintended
the organization of the new Japanese par
lament In 1880, having been elected
member of the Institute Of International
Law Mr. Kaneko attended the meeting in
Geneva where his plea for the abolition OF
extra-territoriality was influential in de-
terminug the favorable vote Of the in
stitute In 1894. becoming vice minister
of agriculture and commerce, he was again
honored by the emperor with appoint
ment as life member of the house of peers.
and received the additional decora ton of
the Order of the Rising Sun. Resigning his
office On a change of ministry I'm 1898.
when Marquis Ito again came into power