TREATY OBLIGATIONS.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12461, 10 February 1909, Page 3

TREATY OBLIGATIONS.

LETTER FROM MR ROOSEVELT. (Received Feb 9, 10.25 p.m.) X ' New York, Feb ?. *•• President Roosevelt, in a message to Mr- Gillett, Governor of California, says: "The policy of my administrat ion is to continue the maximum of efficiency with the* minimum -of friction and trouble,' while misguided advocates of the action againslr'which I protest follow the policy of the minimum of efliciehcy and the maximuni of insult and harm." He adds that the. Bill is clearly a violation of treaty obligations, aud moreover, if, in a year or two, the inimigration policy between the United States and Japan fails to achieve whg.t it is now achieving, then through the President and Congress it can be made efficient.