SAN FRANCISCO SCHOOLS

Evening Star, Issue 13000, 20 December 1906, Page 6

SAN FRANCISCO SCHOOLS

Press Association—By Telegraph—Ccpyright. TITK COMMISSIONER'S REPORT. THE PRESIDENT FIRM. WASHINGTON. December 19. Mr Metcalfe (Secretary of Commerce), who wnci :.p>ieiailv commissioned by the President- to inquire at San Francisco into tbe schools question, in his reports to tlie President, which have l>e.:ti submitted to Congress, .-hvw.s that only rin«-t-y-thre»-Japanese children aie nttcrdittg the schools in San Francuco. He save that t!>ey_arc cieiin. briglit. and well b.-kivcd. an.l since thev are «catLfn?d over the city it - a impotiible for them to ait-end single schools. Mr M-etcaife ch-.ini-s that- the .lapaneryo children arc ontitled to the fullest- protection and the highest consideration. Congress is growing Tettive under President Roos»'velt'.s avalanche of Meetages. In transmitting Mr Metcalfe's Teport President Roosevelt reiterated his fonrcr statement tlva; lie would us- ail the forces at las dispotsid to ptotect the Japanese. M. Aolri. the Japanese Ambopsadot. tipeakirrg at a lenxjuet at WaehingU-n, ferred to the living monument of c-ordial friendship which ct-na-nied tlie United States and Japan. He ridiculed the idfa of a etruggie lietween the two nations for ihe control of th« Pacific. TO AVOID FRICTION. TOKIO. December 19. Tho- Japanese «(uadro:i which it :s pro po«.d shall viint Honolulu in Febnciry will not- go on to San Francisco, owing to the. OYcrwrouidit condition of public feeling there in conn-ctioti with tlie schools ili«put<-.