The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-08
OURSE
OF CALIFORNIA
SENATOR
President Aroused by Perkins
Anti-Iapanese Tactics
TELEGRAPHS GOV. GlLLETT
Perkins Says Treaty With Foreign
Power Does Not Deprive SoVer-
eign States Of Their Rights.

Washington, Feb. S.-President
Roosevelt has declared open war on
Senator Perkins Of California for his
connection with the anti-Japanese sen
timent on the Pacific Coast. In tel.
egram to Gov Gillett of that state the
president denounces the Senator's
public record and exceriates him for
advocating, in the present japanese
situation, what Mr.. Roosevelt .erms,
a policy of wanton insult" Sena-
tor Perkins declines to discuss the
attack at any length, saying he pre-
ierred TO leave to the decision of the
American people to his public rec
erd and work
The telegram sen. from The White
House, inspired by ths passage oi he
anti-Japanese legislation by the Cali
fornia legislature is as follows:
TO Gov Gillett, Sacramento. Cal
am astounded at George c. Per
kins conduct He has for che last
seven years done whatever he could
10 hamper us in the upbuilding of the
navy, and has acted against he real
| advocates of the navy. Yet now he
advises a policy of wanton insult
Theodore Roosevelt
The telegram was not given out
here, but copy of it was photographed
| back from Sacramento and submitted
o Senator Perkins Mr. Perkins smil-
I'd grimly when it was read TO HIM
For a moment his face flushed but he
| controlled himself and made quiet
nd unimpassioned statement. He
made no direct mention OF President
| Roosevelt.
q have never believed, and never
will believe be said, that a treaty
with foreign power takes away. from
the sovereign states the right TO reg
Iate their own affairs We Of Cali.
fornia believe that with ourselves
rests the decision Of how the state
shall be policed and how its domestic
affairs shall be regulated | do not
believe that any one will question our
assumption of those rights.
"As for the navy, have always
been its rfiend and have worked hard
Tor it's upbuilding. When / joined the
| Committee on Naval Affairs in 1873;
our expenditure hen for the naval es
adjustment was a little more thar
523, 100000; the bill which will be re
ported from the committee this weel
will carry more than S135, ono
II have been consistent In yotinI
for every legitimate increase asked fo
the navy The record will bear ms
out in this, The only exception q
that rule was the proposal last yea
for four battleships voted agains
hat, for / did not believe il was wal
ranted, and our experience and the eN
perience of other naval powers wa
lgaiust such step. am still cf tina
opinion
Senator Perkins took a promincn
part in the bitter fight in the last ses
sion. when President Roosevelts fou
battleships q year programme was dc
feated He spoke and worked an
voted against the proposition. No
especially welcome at the Whit
house on that account the senator full
Their divorced himself from presider
tial favor by refusing to accept tn
administration view Of the anti-Ja,
anese situation on the Pacific coast.
While President Roosevelt was senC
, ing stirring messages AID apleals {
Gov. Gillett not to permit the legisl;
mre to pass measures that would o
TEND Japan and endadger the recen
treaty Mr. Perkins is said to have ca
ried on a Geographic and epistolar
r campaign of his own. 1t was lol 81
] actly in accordance with the Whit
2 House view Word of this activity o
+ the part of the senator reached Nj
Q Roosevelt and was responsible for tn
. telegram of denunciaion.