The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-23
THE WAR SCARE
At WASHINGTON
Ernest Walker Tells About 1t
and Shows Reosevelt's
Strenuosity.
By Ernest G.. Walker.
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WASHINGTON, February 9.-Once
again the bark of the war dogs. The
horrible speeter of deadly combat rises
ON the Pacific, all because Legislature
on the western coast is raising Cain
with the japanese President Roosevelt
is keeping the wires hot to Sacramento
and Governor Giliett at Sacramento is
trying to keep an unruly legislature in
hand
The President hints at dire conse-
quenees He limited at dire conse-
quences when the legislature proposed
to enact law prohibiting japanese
from owning land in California. There
were hot exchanges of messages be
tween Washington and Sacramento on
that, whereupon it was finally arrang
ed that the legislature. should desist
in that direction But the legislature
turned around and passed bill to pro-
vide separate schools for the japanese
duQ tHCH blCiC VIZ
at Washington. The end apparently
is not yet.
There have been more telegraph mes
sages to Sacramento and incidentally
the President comes out in open de-
nunciation of Senator Perkins, Of
California. He expresses establishment
at Senator Perkins course and then
denounces him in characteristic fash
ion as one who s.has for the last seven
years done whatever he could to ham
per us in the upbuilding of the Navy
and has acted against the real advo-
Gates of the Navy At the same time
he congratulates the speaker of the
California assembly for cooperating
with him (the Presidency.
Chastising Perkins.
The executive lash has been laid
upon many a Congressional back this
session and Senator Perkins is not the
first to suffer. 1t is pretty severe
chastisement, however, to come from
President who is supposed to be an ex-
ponent of the square deal. But back
of it all there is some interesting his
tory. Senator Perkins has long serv
ed as a member of the Naval Affairs
Committee, of which next session he
will be chairman. In that committee
Senator Perkins has cooperated with
Senator Hale, of Maine, and several
other Senators for the upbuilding of
the Navy along lines that seemed wise
| to the committee. But the committee
has been unwilling to 90 as fast as the
President wanted to go. To cite con-
crete cases, last year Senator Perkins
| joined with a majority of the Senate
| in voting for but two new Dread
noughts when the President was MAX
| ing fight for four.
But the President had another score
to even up with Senator Perkins. More
than two years ago, when the Japanese
school question was acute in Califor-
MIA, President Roosevelt called him in
for purposes of consultation. He claims
that Senator Perkins did. not keep
| confidence with him. The President
denounced Senator Perkins privately
at the time, and when the japanese
| troubles broke out anew recently the
! President ignored the Senator entire
ly, calling in his colleague, Senator
| Flint, instead. OF course, this did not
please Mr.. Perkins, who has had a ro-
mantle career as a sailor on every sea
| of the earth S surface. Accordingly
he has been speaking out his mind and
| giving interviews how the treaty with
Japan does not restrict State in the
exercise of the sovereign rights, such
as the exercise of police power and the
control of her schools.
And probably right at this minute
the war between Senator Perkins and
President Roosevelt is quite as fierce
and possibly as dangerous as the
| threatened war between the United
States and Japan. 1t happens that the
| Senator has just been reelected, his
certificate of reelection has been filed
with the Secretary of the Senate. there
are six years of service ahead of him
and so the Senator can afford to snat
his fingers at the defiant chidings Of
the President. The personal warfare
also has a bearing upon the President ;.
big fight over the reorganization OF
the Navy. He is willing to stir III
public sentiment as much as he ear
against the future chairman of tn,
Naval Affairs Committee in order tina
he may cripple any program of tina
committee in the future for such re
organization as he (the President) doe
not approve
An Ominous Question.
However, the japanese question i
regarded at Washington as more o
less oninous. All the agitation wit