The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1911-02-22
Z UPPER HOUSE OF CONGRESS
GETS NOTICE OF A NEW
TREATY WITH JAPAN.
NO IMMIGRATION CLAUSE.
Formal Document Is Said to Be On.
posed by Western Senators Because
II Does Not Stiputate That Coolies
Shall Be ExcIuded-Replaces Old
Agreement Made II Years Ago.

Washington. Feb. 2I.--'rhe text of d
replace that Of 1924 and drawn with
the special design of eliminating the
restrictions upon immigration con-
tained In that treaty. was laid before
the senate today by President TAFT.
The essential difference between the
proposed treaty and the existing con-
Nention Is said to be that II olnits all
reference to all such restrictions and
leaves to the national honor of Japan
the enforcement at her own ports of
the limitations upon emigration from
Japan now expressly placed upon i'm
migration into the United States.
The document Is said to provide
that either country may denounce the
treaty at the end OF six months IL Ii
fails to operate as expected.
Because 1t embodies this radical de-
parture from the existing treaty and
touches the question of the deepest
Importance and interest TO the Pacific
slope, the injection Of this convention
into the closing hours Of the sixty
first congress created sensation to-
day.
OppoSitton from the west.
That the new treaty viii encounter
opposition seems certain for even II
IT should be speedily reported 10 the
senate from the committee without
serious controversy within the COM
mittee room. the western senator's are
expected to Insist upon opportunity
for debate which will develop the full
extent of their opposition to the
treaty.
Unlike matters of ordinary legis-
lation, failure Of the senate 10 act
upon the treaty during the remainder
of this session of congress would not
OF itself extinguish Its vitality, which
could be kept indefinitely alive In the
legislative files In the senate to be
taken up at any convenient time.
This new treaty Is one of trade and
commerce. intended To replace the
treaty of 1924 negotiated by the late
Secretary Gresham and Baron Kurino.
then japanese minister to the United
states. That treaty Is most COM
prehensiye document comprising 20
articles. dealing with trade. commerce
and navigation, rights of dwelling, Inn
port and export duties. tonnage dues,
port regulations, desertions. shipping
rights. consular functions and other
subjects.
1t has already become antiauated,
mainly because OF the rapid advance
Of Tho japanese in ways of civiliza-
tlon. 1t was drawn simultaneously
with several other Japanese treaties
of similar scope negotiated with all
the great powers. But. unlike the
others. the particular treaty was not
promptly ratified and did not go into
effect until about year after the
others were In force.
Japan has already negotiated
treaties to replace those of the Dos
with nearly all of the other powers
except the United States. II our gov-
eminent were to insist upon It's rights,
the existing treaty could be continued
IN force until July II, 1912.
This little incdent~-the difference
OF year In the expiration of the old
treaty--is proving very embarrassing
TO the Japanese In developing a
fiscal policy. As all of the new
treaties contained the favored nation
clause. the Japanese government
would be Obliged TO concede to the
nations other than the United States
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