Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-03-09
TREATY WITH JAPAN
SEEMS A GOOD One FOR BOTH
OUR GOVERNMENT and
Theirs AS WELL.
Tends to Illustrate Friendship Between
the Two Countries-Old Treaty Don't
Expire Till Next Year-We Lead
Other Nations With This Treaty
Tariffs Will Be About the Same.


The prompt action of the United
States senate in stamping it's consti-
tutional seat of unqualified approval
upon the new treaty of trade and COM
merce between America and Japan
brought forth many favorable com
ments in official Washington, tending
to illustrate the friendship which binds
the two countries.
Pointing out the fact that the situa-
ton augurs well for promotion of cor
dial feeling officials have turned their
attention to the next steps necessary
to make the treaty reality.
The next step to be taken is to gain
the approval of the Japanese emperor
and the imperial privy council. 1t is
not necessary that the treaty should
be ratified by the Japanese diet.
Then will follow the exchange of
Publications, which will take place in
Toxic before May 81, which marks the
period of three months allowed in the
to the ceremony will be the Japanese
minister of foreign affairs and Thomas
J. O'Brien, the American ambassador
to Toxic.
AS the Japanese government is anx-
ious to begin the arrangement of its
fiscal program at the earliest possible
moment it is presumed the exchange
of Publications will take place almost
as soon as the documents can be trans
ferred from Washington to Toxic.
First of New Treaties.
The real Importance of the new
treaty developed Saturday when it was
learned at the Japanese embassy that
the convention is in fact the first of
the whole fabric Of treaties to readiust
Japan s trade and commercial relations
with the great powers and even the
lesser nations with which she has built
up trade.
While it was originally expected the
United States might be year behind
the other powers in conclusion of a
new treaty by reason of the fact that
the existing treaty with Japan would
not expire until July, 1912, this coun-
try has actually gone to the front and
acted as a pioneer for all the other
nations.
For the reason that the United States
has not insisted upon claiming the
very last year under the present treaty;
that it has not, as was expected in
some quarters, waited to see what
other nations were doing, but with full
confidence in the honor of Japan has
led the way in unanimously ratifying
the new treaty, the Japanese govern
ment and people are deeply grateful,
and in the opinion of the Japanese
embassy this action will do much to
inspire the closest friendship between
the two nations.
Tariff Arrangement.
Regarding the condition of the pro-
tocol of the treaty that spending the
conclusion of special arrangement the
provisions relating to tariff in the
treaty of the 22d of November, 1894,
shall be maintained it is said author
itatively there will be no effort in the
immediate future to make such spe-
cial arrangement between America and
Japan. Instead, the business of the
two countries will be conducted, so far
as customs duties are concerned, under
the terms Of the old treaty.
America will not be the loser by this.
it is said, for even if Japan should
conclude special trade arrangements
with other countries whereby they will
secure an abatement of import duties
upon their goods entering Japan, the
latter government, under the favored
nation clause, Immediately will extend
the same privilege to the like imports
from the United States. This will con-
tinue indirectly, or until the two coun-
tries see fit to enter into one of these
special trade arrangements, perhaps on
the lines of the Canadian reciprocity
agreement.
High Praise From England.
President Taft's handling of the
treaty between Washington and Toxic
is referred to in London in terms of
almost unanimous praise. Naturally
Britons desire to see an improvement
of relations between Tour powerful
American friends and our ally in the
far east. -