The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-19
To Open Negotiations

The state department it is believed soon will attempt to open negotiations for a
 new treaty It is difficult to forecast
 the shape it will endeavor to give in the
 new pact to the article in the present
 treaty which recognizes rights of travel
 ing citizens.
 l "The favored nation clauses in nearly all of the American treaties will make l 1t incumbent upon the negotiators to avoid any phraseoogy that would enable
 a nation of the third part to claim right 1 of entry and residence in the United
 States for it's citizens, regardless of color, | religion or condition. Otherwise there | would be great danger of a breaking
 down of the walls which now exclude ! oriental immigration.
 Some state department officials believe l the problem thus presented is insolube
 and that the only way that Russo-A -Ameri-
 can commerce can be placed upon the
 treaty basis will be through the complete omission from the new treaty of any
 article regulating the rights of citizens
 in the matter of residence and travel,
 which, after all. would fail to improve | the conditions now complained of. l Baron Albert De Schlippenbach, Rus
 sian consul general at New York, arrived
 tonight and went to the hotel where Ann bassador George Bakhmeteff is living
 The consul general secured rooms ad- | joining the apartments of the ambassa-
 dor. He denied that his trip had any thing to do with the treaty abrogation,
 even in the remotest degree.
 1 Chicago, December 1S-Abrogation of the treaty with Russia should it af-
 feet trade relations between that coun- | try and the United States, will be of l vital importance to at least one Amer i ican firm--the International Harvester company-it was announced at the of ! fipeS A large part of the American export 1 trade is in agricultural implements
 manufactured by the International liar vester company. A stoppage of this trade, said officials tonight, would mean serious loss to the company
 and would mean also the the imme-
 diate expenditure of considerable
 sum to supplement the manufacturing
 plants now maintained by the Inter-
 national near Moscaw.
 l These plants were opened two years ago but they do not supply fourth
 of the Russian and Siberian trade. Pro-
 vision was made for the expansion at
 the time of their purchase, it was said l here and inasmuch as the season of | heavy importation of stock the mar
 ket. for next years sales Is approach
 ing, the outcome of the treaty situation
 Is watched closely by the harvester of- | ficials.
 | No direct word from -sussia had been ] received by the company late tonight Philadelphia, December 1S-That the ac-
 tion of the United States in abrogating the, Russian treaty of 1892 today may pre-. cipitate a war with that country was de-
 clared by both United States Senator
 Hepburn of Idaho and Governor Mann
 of Virginia in speeches at the annual dinner of the New Jersey Society of l Pennsylvania here tonight.
 | Senator Heyburn said where the cause | was just he stood ready to follow the American passport into any foreign land with tour constitution, our flag and Fl
 cannon He declared, however, that no
 persons should be permitted to enter this l country and be naturaized to make use | of passport abroad.
 Governor Mann expressed his belief that
 the signs of the times point to strus l gle with Russia in the near future.
 "Whether it be President Taft or some l other President, perhaps son of New Jersey" said the governor. '.his call will
 be responded to by Virginia, and I can
 say every state in the south. If neces- 1 sary, I will go to the front, and will also | send my son. I say this merely to show
 the patriotism of the south, and to prove that sectionallsm is thing of the past. | New York, December 1S.-Leaders of
 the recent agitation on the passport question applauded tonight the action or
 President Taft, hailng it as proper 1 step to protect citizenship.
 Oscar Strauss, former ambassador to Turkey, said. 'The President handled | the matter admirably"
 Jacob Fl. Schiff, the banker said: it
 is most satisfactory that the President 1 has taken the short cut. It is only sur
 prising that the action has been so long
 in coming out, but it Is most gratifying | that the people have arisen almost to q man in demand that 1t be taken"