Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-01-06
UCH|OA MAY STIR
UP TROUBLE ON
THE PACIFIC
CUT OUT FOR
JAP AMBASSADOR
Genial President Taft Com
PEELED 10 Shat Down on the
Callers and Adopt Roosevelt
Rapid Fire Methods.

Especial Correspondence TO Morninx journal
Washington. D., c.. Jan. "A task
of unusual magnitude has been inn
posed upon Baron Uchida. the new
Japanese ambassador to the United
States. He has been sent to Washing
ton on a mission more important to
his country than any that has been as
signed to a japanese diplomat since
the signing OF the peace treaty at
Portsmouth. When his plans become
known the Pacific coast will again be
aroused and il is probable that re-
monstrances and protests will come
thick and fast to washington against
any broadening of the treaty provis-
ions governing the admission to this
country OF Japanese laborers.
by reason OF its victories on the
battlefields Of Manchuria the Japan
csc nation believes that 1t is entitled
to full recognition of equality with
the other great powers. That the I'M
migration laws of this country class
the Japanese With the Chinese is re-
scented at Toxic. and Baron Uchida
has been specially deputized to make
i 8 ~ tc1iilttAlO1lH W III w W.
government that will enable subjects
of Japan coming to the United States
60 enjoy the same privileges. which are
accorded subjects of the most favored
nation.
The first task of the new ambassa-
dor will be to make representations to
the state department that will Undue.
the United States to terminate in July
1911, the treaty of m and nav
igation which was concluded between
this country ana Japan in 1894. Under
this governments Interpretation this
treaty will not be terminated until Jul
ly, 1912. With Great Britain and 9TH
nations Japan has treaties which
vii be terminated in 1911 and It Ia
the desire of the Mikado's government
that the United states shall be placed
on exactly the same basis as other
countries.
Japan has observed the agreement
of last year whereby restrictions are
placed on the admission to this coun-
try of undesirable japanese immi-
grants. The japanese statesmen are
sensitive, however, about this agree
ment and desire the elimination OF
that provision which gives this coun-
try authority to regulate the admis-
sion of japanese laborers. The new
ambassador from the Flowery King
dom is a diplomat of ability and ex-
perience and If he is age to accomp-
lish his American mission he win he
hailed at Toxic as a statesman who
has increased Japan's prestige in
world affairs and has made 1t a real
power in world politics.
Judson Thurber, a bo's'n in the
Revenue Cutter Service, has solved q !
problem which for years has puzzled
he government scientists. This rough
SON of the sea, a man of oaths n
leeds, has reached Washington TO in
;truct the experts at the United states
commission how to raise baby
by artificial means.
The law prohibits the killing of
seals on the seal islands of Alaska and
three miles of the coast. The
seals, in the nursing period,
are obliged to repair to feeding
grounds beyond the three-mile limit.
these excursions for food. Japan
and other poachers kill the seals
without restriction. The result is not
only the death of the mother seals
of the young seals who die of
starvation.
At various times efforts have been
made to bring up these orphan seals
tut none of them has been successful.
was born on a whaler and
las not spent more than a few months
# his forty-five years of life on shore.
BY permission of the government he
las been raising two abandoned baby
eals on a revenue cutter in Alaskan
waters. BY n simple operation Of cut
the cord under the tongue, Thur
'er taught the young seals to take
punishment n they have 10Y
the fish-eating stage. Thur
success in keeping the seals
live so impressed the officials of the
reasury department that he was re-
uested to bring his orphans to
Washington. He will stay here a week
r " to explain his methods to the