Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-06-06
OVER NIGHT
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/ .ffeSIQenL WILSON lcAfQ at HfBb mana
| this afternoon just what are the OBJ
Jections of the government Of Japan
against the Webb antiraIien, land Law,
recently passed by the California legis-
| lature.
Acting under the direct orders of his
emperor, Yoshihito, Ambassador Chin
ia called upon President Wilson and
presented to him personally the full
text of the Japanese note, cabled from
the foreign Office at Toxic The am
Lassador announced that he appeared
as a personal representative of the
Emperor and was conveying to the
president personal message from the
mikado. es
Nothing was gwen out at the White
House or the Japanese embassy last
night as to the trend of the discussion
between the president and the ambas-
sador, which was lengthy one. There
was no disposition at either place to
discuss the matter, nor to intimate in
any way what had been said or what
had been agreed to, If anything was.
The state department declined to
discuss in any way the action of the
Japanese representative in going over
the head of Secretary Bryan to take
UP the matter of the diplomatic adj
Justment of the American-Japanese
differences with the president, nor
would the department officials inti-
mate in any way the context of the
Japanese note in reply to the reply OF
40 H& -frrfr mr.
test of the Japanese. That the Japan
csc note announces that the reply OF
America to the protest is 'unsatisfac-
tory is generally knownIfrom cabled
information from Toxic, but the text
has not been made public and the ex-
act grounds for the dissatisfaction ex-
pressed are unknown to the public.
President Wilson's position in sup
port of free wool, free sugar and free
cattle seems to grow stronger as the
day of the senate caucus draws nearer.
The tariff bill will he put to the acid
test there, and party leaders now feel
that the presidents stand will be sup
ported almost unanimously by the
party.
There is a possibility that not more
than Democratic senators will OPP
pose the bill to the end.
Free shoes, free lumber. free agri-
cultural products, free wool and free
sugar as provided in the Underwood
bill are to stand, the administration
leaders declare, and the probability
of any amendments in the senate to
those items is lessenin5.
Three masked men perpetrated one
of the most daring robberies ever car
ried out in Vancouver when they held
up a street car in South Vancouver
and relieved Conductor J. Morrow OF
about 5000 and made their escape.
They have not yet been captured.
Jack Johnson was in a happy frame
of mind today, despite his sentence of
one year in the penitentiary and fine.
Of $1,000, for violating the Mann white
slave act. He is confident. of finding
some loophole Of escape. Il am not in
prison yet" said Johnson. Anyway
year is not so bad, If it comes to
a point where ! have to go. will be
as good sport as any of them in
taking what is handed to me. lack
Johnson was built for rough wear"
Aviator Atwood. who nearly came to
grief yesterday in flight planned to
cross Lake Erie, starting from Am
berstberg Ontario. will make another
try next Monday.
President Wilson yesterday an
nounced that he had selected Thomas
Nelson Page CT Washington, the we'll
known Southern author and lawyer,