The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-08
RUSSIAN COMMENT ON SULzER'S SPEECH Denies Restriction of Amer
 ican Jews FORMER TREATIES
FORMER
TREATIES
The Disadvantage of a Repeal of Treaty of 1882 Would Be All With the United States Says
 Russian Newspaper

St. Petersburg, December 7.-The semi official Rossia in a two column editorial on Representative Sulzers proposal to abrogate the Russian treaty will say tomorrow:
 "The news is no surprise as sim liar motion was made In 1907. The pro- hibition of foreign Jews, irrespective of nationality, from entering Russia, as well as Russian Jews, who emigrated without permission, was established by law on March 23 and August II. lS24. The Russo-American treaty eight years later contains no provision with re- epect to a modification of the existing law in favor of American Jews. Ameri- can Jews err in supposing that Russia has introduced new restrictions with regard to them.
 "on the contrary, Russian legislation of 1S3S-39 granted permission to cer- tain selected categories. Regulations adopted March 27, 1891, empower the Russian consul to wise passports Of heads of business firms and also their commercial travellers, representatives and clerks without limita tion with re- spect to admission to the pale and without preliminary sanction by the minister of the interior. The passports of other Jews are vised with the sane .ion of the minister of the interior
 "Thus all Jewish men and all oth- CTS engaged in an occupation not re- garded as undesirable may enter and reside in Russia for six months, but IL 1,,,i% 11fada i,-rh esS. cannot be disputed and is exercised very strictly by the United States itself.
 "Only Jews emigrating through the agency of the Jewish colonization so- ciety are apparently excluded in ac- cordance with the rules of March 21, 1892. Of the Il American Jews an- plying for a wise during 1910 only three were rejected.
 'The laws for the readmission of foreign Jews cannot be changed as a result of demonstrations of groups of American Jews nor as result of friendly representations on the part of the United States. The United States government. of course, does not pos sess the right of interference in the home affairs of Russia.
 The repeal of the treaty of 1882 has been suggested but all the diSadvan- tages of such a step would fall upon the United States. Russian customs statistics from 1905 to 1910 show that the Russian exports to America amount ed to 41,000000 rubles 6s20,500), ard imports to 35,000,OO0 rubles. The fig ures in the department of commerce and labor at Washington put the Rus sian exports at 170,000,000 rubles and the imports at 227,000,00O rubles.
 "Furthermore, the American imports into Russia are constantly growing. They amounted to 41,000,000 rubles in 1905 and 73,000,000 rubles in 1910. |. is to be regretted if the traditional friendly relations between true born Americans and Russians are disturb ed. The views of section of Congress are not the views of the entire popula- tion.
 May the true born Americans per suade their newcoming fellow citizens that the interests of the Jewish ele taents, which is per cent of the pop ilation, are not identical with the in terests of the entire United States and that a bad peace with Russia is prefer able to good quarrel, even in the cus- toms sphere"