The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-07-21
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WASHINGTON, July 1.-THE an
nouncement today CT the political pur-
pose in dispatching the Pacific fleet
to the Philippines startled the State
Department. On the surface at the
State Department the attitude is that
it is up to Japan to make the first
move to-denounce the treaty of 1904,
and which expire by limitation in
1911. 1t is incumbent on either party,
in order to. abrogate the treaty, to
give one years notice
There is a well founded suspicion
that Japan has already given this no
tice in order to hasten the settlement
of the labor question on the coast,
which is the crucial consideration in
that convention. At the department
they say automatically that the mat
ter is not under consideration yet, al
though everybody knows that a tenta-
tive new treaty was drawn in the
time of Secretary Root, ana that this
will undoubtedly be the basis of a
new treaty, if there should be one
again with Japan.
COMING BEFORE SENATE.
The most significant development in
the whole Japan treaty situation is the
sudden determination of Ambassador
Takahira to go back home. It can be
stated that the trouble which broke
out between the Japanese and the
Hawaiiahs' month or so ago is not
the cause of the visit But It can be
said that this agitation in Hawaii in
dictated to the Japanese government
that the sooner agreements were
| reached between the United States and
| Japan on the mutual relations of the
citizens of each other the better
This bearing directly on the ques-
ton of a new treaty, impelled the ia
panese foreign Office to send for Am
! bassador. Takahira.
All the indications here are that
the plan of reconciliation OF the Jap
anese-American labor troubles will be
laid before the Senate next December.
THROUGH WITH PRACTICE.
The connection between the present
agitation for new Japanese treaty
and the State Departments constant
communications to and from its con-
sular offices in Manchuria on the move
ments of the Japanese and the Rus
SLAMS, with the sudden determination
to have the Pacific fleet at it's Far
Eastern base is not admitted for pub
llcation by officials of either the State
or the Navy Departments.
The well-authenticated report, how
lever, is that the dispatch of the fleet
is due to informal suggestion from
the State Department" Added to this.
the Pacific fleet will have accomplished
all It's needs in the way of cruising
ana practice on the home coast by
september, and it is not seriously
maintained by naval officials today
lnat the cruise to the Philippines is a
physical necessity of the fleet.
Inc Judgment of the men who Arc
familiar with the purposes of the Gov
eminent is that the State Department
ana Navy Department think II advisa-
Die that the large gathering Of Ameri-
can vessels should be at the Philinnine
base continuously from now until the
preliminary stages of the negotiations
Tor new treaty shall have 5oen pass
ed. pass
NO LIMIT ON IT'S STAY.
1t is admitted today that the fleet
VIII remain in the Orient until about
March but the fact is there 10 no limit
on its stay, which will be dependent
upon the conditions just stated.
AS tar as concerns Manchuria and
the demand of the State Department
lnat there shall be absolute freedom
Oh commerce without special privileges
10 Japan and Russia, American diplo-
mats tonight point out that if the