Evening journal., 1913-05-05
DEPARTMENT
OF COMMERCE
TO AID TRADE
Will be Wilson Substitute for
Dollar Diplomacy in
Nations Of the World
MARK TIME" ON THE
JAPANESE SITUATION
(By John Edwin Nevin, staff cores
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(By John Edwin Nevin, staff corres-
pondent of the United Press.)
WASHINGTON, May 5.-The fed
eral department of commerce is to
be the Wilson substitute for dollar
diplomacy" in developing Americas
trade in the foreign fields IL is TO
have its scope broadened. II is to be
made all that its name implies, and
its every effort is to be devoted to
promoting trade both at home and
abroad The plans Of Secretary Red
ield TO remove all suspicion that the
department is a political adjunct, and
to have IL al the right hand Of every
American business man in extending
his trade, have the full sympathy of
President Wilson.
The President made this fact plain
today in his regular Monday morn
ing conference with the Washington
correspondents. He expressed sym
pathy with the plans of the American
chamber Of commerce, and said that
its purposes were of a laudable ma
ture. He and Secretary Redteld con-
ferred for nearly an hour later In
the day and comprehensive plans for
the development of American trade
at home and abroad we're explained
by the secretary.
So far as the Japanese situation is
concerned the administration Will be
compelled TO mark time" until the
arrival of Secretary of State Bryan.
The President received by telegraph
the full text OF the anti-alien land
owning bill. He retained copy
and sent the other TO Acting Secre-
tary Of State John Bassett Moore to
be digested from the standpoint OF
international legal precedonts. He
has been informed that Governor
Johnson will retain the bill until May
! u, that the President can wire him
/ the administration position. This
will be done Immediately after Bryan
arrives on Thursday No formal pro-
test has been received from the Jap
anese government through Ambassa-
dor Chinda. One is expected az any
moment, but no reply will be made
10 IL until after Bryan returns and
the administration has sent its last
word 10 California through Governor
johnson.
So far as the currency legislation
is concerned the President is still con.
ferring with Representative Glass and
Chairman Owen Of the House ana Sen.
ate currency committees on the meas.
ure which is now being framed Ile
is hopeful that there will be legisla-
tion at the present session. but VIII
make no effort to force the bill Tho
House will probably have FIVE weeks
to consider currency while the Sen
ate debates the tariff and if IL is final
ly decided that the country should
have until the regular session in
December TO digest the changes the
President will not protest.
The President is in no way dis
turbed over rumors that the Demo
cratic protectionist Senators have
succeeded in getting enough votes to
amend the tariff bill so that a duty
will be placed on wool and the free
sugar clause eliminated. He does not
believe there is the slightest chance
of the bill being changed in the upper
! House, and the visit of the inter.
mountain Senators simply made him
more fully convinced that the WOO
and sugar schedules are just 10 the
people at large.
The fact that candidates for office
secure almost unanimous endorse
ment from their home communities
is not influencing the President tc
any great extent. Recently the Ohio
delegation called on the President
and told him that they did not believe
he was fully informed on the qualifi-
cations of DIR. ID. c. Gentsch. of New
Philadelphia, who wants to be named
as commissioner of pensions. There
has been opposition to Gentsch in the
Department of the Interior. but the
petitions favoring him continue TO rol
in. The President today made 4
plain that he believed it a very cas-,
matter to get signatures 10 a petition
and that many who signed II did no
mean what they wrote. He favors e
some extent making public the namei
of the endorsees, but does not believ'
that plan, endorsed by certain Bul
q Moose leaders. would be the absolutl
remedy they claim It would be.