JAPAN AND AMERICA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81898, 3 December 1906, Page 2

JAPAN AND AMERICA.

THIS CALIFORNIA SCHOOLS DIFFICULTY. LE 'njr L A^mi- oi " i ' T0 RENDER IRLAIILS PARAMOUNT. PROPOSED NATURALISATION 01- JAPANESE. Received 2nd, 4.30 p m New York, Detembsr 1. I resident Roosevelt is ia favour of additional legislation i„ the directca of placing mkinational treaties above individual States, and naturalising Bhfp fleS "' Ung Amn ' ica 'i citizen-

American banke:s fear that the Japanese attFude will jje hostile if Congress refuses to strengthen the Federal Government's hands. THE TREATY PROBLEM. BRITAIN'S SYMPATHY. Received 2nd, 4.38 p.m. London, December 1. The Times, commenting on the Federal Government's difficulty in compelling California to observe the I-ederal law bearing on the Japanese question, states that Britain lias sympathetically watched Piesident Roos&, Vtlt's efforts, because one of her autonomous Colonies created a Bimil aß problem by exclusive legislation.