The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-02-25
DESIGNED TO REPLACE THAT
OF 1894 AFFECTING I'M
MIGRATION.
OPPOSITION EXPECTED
EITHER COUNTRY MAY DE.
NCuNCE TREATY AT END
OF SIX MONTHS.

Wasnington.-The text of new
treaty with Japan. designed TO replace
that of 1894 and drawn with the
special design of eliminating the re-
strictions upon immigration contracted
in that treaty. has been laid before
the Senate by President Taft.
The essential difference between the
proposed treaty and the existing con-
vention is said to be that it omits al
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 tina.
either country may denounce the
treaty at the end OF six months If Il
fails to operate as expected.
Because 1t embodies this radical de
parture from the existing treaty and
touches the question of the deepest i'm
portance and interest to the Pacific
slope. the injection of this convention
Ahto tht 'icsh'S houi D "a iL' .'ANN' ~ . r
Congress created a sensation.
That the new treaty will encounter
opposition seems certain. for even IL 1t
should be speedily reported to the
Senate from the committee without
serious controversy within the com
mitee room, the Western senators are
expected to insist upon opportunity for
debate which will develop the full ex
tent Of their opposition TO The treaty.
Unlike matters of ordinary legisla
tion, failure of the Senate to 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 executive
files of 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 1894. negotiated by the late
Secretary Gresham and Baron kurino.
then japanese minister to the United
States. That treaty is a most compre-
hensive document. comprising twenty
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 othe-
subjects.
1t has already become antiquated
mainly because of the rapid advance
of Japansese in ways of civilization.
II was drawn simultaneously with sew
eral other Japanese treaties OF similar
scope negotiated with all the grea.
powers. But unlike the others, this
particular treaty was not promptly rat
flied and did not go into effect until
about year after the others were in
force.
Japan has already negotiated trea-
ties to replace those of the nineties
with nearly all of the powers except
the United States. If our governmen.
were to insist upon its rights. the eA-
listing treaty could be continued in
force until July II, 1912.
The radical difference between this
new treaty and the one Low in force
and the one which may prove obnox
ious to the Western senators is under
stood to be the omission of any ref
erence to the immigration question.
Inns little IutlutuI-lut uilItEeHts
OF a year in the expiration Of the oh
treates-is proving very embarrassing
to the Japanese in developing a fisca,
policy AS all of the new treaties con-
tanned the favored nation clause. the
Japanese government would be obliged
to concede to the nations other than
the United States all of the privileges
which America new enjoys under the
treaty of 1894.