The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-01-10
By Ernest G. Walker.
Nail Special to The Advertiser

(Mail Special to The Advertiser.)
WASHINGTON, December 96.-The
administration has taken steps to keep
the lid upon the California legislature,
which soon assemblies at Sacramento.
That legislature, when it last met two
years ago, promoted deal of japanese
mischief limitations have reached
Washington that it has more afoot.
The introduction and agitation of anti
japanese resolutions there are said to
be in contemplation.
: There is peculiar little kink in this
situation with reference to the Cali
forna delegation in congress. Its mem
beers have been more or less responsive
to the anti.Japanese sentiment on the
Coast and heretofore have cooperated
reluctantly with the White House in
REFRESHING the legislature. But this
year the California members are trying
to keep the agitators in the legislature
quiet. 1t is understood that r. b. Hale,
big merchant of San Francisco and
Sacramento, who has been in Washing
ton as Panama exposition boomer,
has hurried back home to warn the
state legislators.
A Japanese agitation at this juneture
would cause no little resentment in
congress. where the Coast people are
fighting a hard battle against New
Orleans for the exposition. All this
plays into the hands of the admins
tration. The constant discussion of the
japanese situation is much deprecated
at Washington, because it keeps an I'M
pleasant subject alive. Frequent asser-
tiOns about unfriendliness between the
two nations, however, unfounded these
may be, infiames public sentiment both
in the United States and in Japan.
New Commercial Treaty.
These assertions also make all the
more difficult negotiations, which must
be conducted between the two coun.
tries in the next few years. They also
pile up difficulties in adjusting matters
| amicably, should any serious crisis
arise. A new commercial treaty be.
tween this country and Japan must be
framed soon. 1t is very desirable that
| international calm on the Pacific. There
are great commercial interests at stake
in that quarter of the world and the
state department will have all it can
do to make treaty arrangements that
will be satisfactory to the shipping and
the commercial world.
There are half dozen Pacific Coast
and intermountain state legislatures
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| Whenever the lawmakers at Saera-
mento "start something" against the
japanese, Nevada, Oregon, Washington,
Wyoming and Idaho are very sympa-
. thetic, and some of those States are
ready to "follow i'm behind California
in Illuminating against the "Yellow
Peril"
Hard at Work.
President Taft is sticking very close
to the White House and its offices these
days. He is really buckling down to
work like Trojan and giving little
attention to anything else. Secretary
Norton has 'Chiked' away to the Ad-
irondacks for the holidays and is spend
ing his vacation in a camp, where he
hopes to get ozone in quantities and
plenty of strength for the winter tasks
yet ahead
Most every day the President stays
in his office till well up to six or seven
o clock, and is finding time to wade
through great masses of documents and
papers, some of which have been stack
ed up for long time awaiting his at
tention. Late in the afternoon he goes
out sometimes for a tramp, that being
about the only exercise he gets now
edays. There is still much snow and
ice on the ground in the District of
Columbia and it is not very good going
under foot. That does not discourage
the President from pedestrianism, al
though he undertakes none of the spec
tacular walking stunts, including the
scaling of cliffs in Rock Creek Park
of which ex-President Roosevelt was
fond at intervals
Strenuous Exercise.
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