Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31
IMPORTERS ON JAP QUESTION
Merchants OF New York Protest
Against Action Of Cali
forniana.


NEW YORK, Jan. SO-An important
movement with respect to the Japanese
question in California was inaugurated to-
day at a meeting Of the Board of Trades
transportation committee on foreign and in
suiar trade. 1t was decided ITO report to
the board that the merchants of New York
appeal to the merchants and manufacturer
Of ell the other states to cooperate with
them in impressing upon the people OF Cali
forhia the unwisdom OF persistent discrim-
instion against the people of Japan, who
have shown themselves entitled to the re-
spect of the world at large, that japan has
proved itself to be a great factor in the
civiliEing and progressive influences of the
world. and whose trade Is or Importance to
this country
The committee strongly deprecated the
agitation in California and expressed the
fear that its continuance will seriously az
feet the amlcable relations between Japan
and the United States.
At the conference, which was composed
OF the and others interested In
the japanese trade, we're the General Elec-
trio company, Kuhn, Loeb & Co., A. A.
Vantyn company, the National City bank.
the China and Japan Trading company and
Muller. MacLean & Co.
1t was pointed out that while Japan sells
us $780, 10000 more annually than we
sell Japan, it is also true that the
369, 100000 of goods which it sells us
consists almost entirely of raw materials
which are not produced in this country,
such as tea and raw silks while the $780,
100000 Of goods which we export to Japan
consists OF manufactured articles, the prod
ucts of our factories and workshops.
The committee feels that while the
autonomy Of the states should be zealously
guarded no state should disregard the fact
that i%nternational treaties constitute the
highest law nor should they attempt TO
nullify such treaties or do that which would
injure all the states and the union.
The recommendations of this committee
will be presented to the board at the next
meeting.
Tribute TO MIR. and Mrs. Cheney.
A remarkable demonstration in tribute
to the memory of Arthur s. Cheney. the
American consul and Mrs. Cheney, who
we're killed in the earthquake at Messina,
was made by Italian societies OF this city
today. The bodies of Mr.. and Mrs. Cheney
reached New York on the steamer Venezia,
escorted by several thousand Members OF
italian societies. some Of them in regalis
and to the slow funeral music by military
bands. the bodies Of the consul and his
wife were conveyed up Broadway before a
great multitude. A notable feature of the
procession was the fact that except for the
police escort and the relatives of Mr.. ant
Mrs. Cheney, 1t was composed exclusively
Of Italians.
Bank Cashier on stand.
Arthur Campbell. former cashier of thu
Borough bank of Brooklyn, continued nil
testimony today In the trial of William Cow
/ formerly a director of the bank, who Il
charged with grand larceny. Campbell de
clared that he had informed assistant Dis
trict Attorney Elder that between July, 100
and October, 1907, when the bank suspended
he had forged about ten notes which ag
sregated $4,000. Campbell stated that HI
/. had forged one note for $4,000 to take tn
1 place Of several notes and that he ha,
destroyed several of his smaller forgerie
; by throwing them into a sewer.
xpress Manager Kills Himself.
; Conrad Danielson, Porto Rican manage
; for the United States Express company
: who was found with a bullet wound in hi
3 head in his apartments at the Hotel Carl
ton early today, died later. Danielson'
= young wife. who is known on the stage a
I. Annie Yates Palmer, declared that he
HUSBAND trleu 10 XIII ner ana tnen she
: himself.
~Salvatiom Army suit Dismissed.
. The suit of the Salvation Army in tn
I United States against the American. Saliva
n ton Army to enjoin the latter organizatlo
n from the use of It's name and from publish
q inE the paper called THE American Sci
walton Army War Cry" was dismissed tc
day by Justice o'Gorman in the suprem
court.
y Fake Men Home.
The Cleveland plan, by which the polio
Of that city take a drunken man home ir
stead OF arresting him, was Endorsed b
Police Commissioner Bingham as being tn
right idea, in his testimony before til
legislative committee which is investigator
. courts,
Trinity Church EnJoined.
A temporary injunction was granted t
day by Justice Erlaneer in the suprem
court. restraining the Trinity church froi
a closing st. Johns chapel. Application wa
made for the injunction by the st. John
congregation.
IS HAVE A KANGAROO STEA'