May. We learn from Japan that 'I'reaty Revision, of which, however, most foreigners in the Far East are gettin; weary, has again come to the front, an there seems every prospect of its being Kept before the public during the approaching session, to the exclusion of purely domestic questions of a burning nature. The recent appointment of a special commission by the Emperor to examine the whole subject in its multifarious bearings is of course fresh in memory. The wonder now is whether more will result from the step than has followed the numerous earlier efforts having the same end in view. 'I'he gentlemen composing the commission are Viscount Enomoto, present Foreign Minister, Count Soyejima, Minister for Home Affairs, Count Ito, President of the Privy Council, Counts Kuroda, Goto, and Terashima, and Mr. Inouye Ki, who when chief of the Legislative Bureau earned the name of being the keenest legal authority in Japan, Ihe work of this body, which in its character recalls the committee appointed at the time Viscount Aoki sought to accomplish what Counts Okuma and Inouye failed to do, is understood to be more of a consultative and advisory nature than constructive. Indeed the draft treaty is reported to have been already drawn up. Probably if the truth were known, the decision to appoint this commission would be found—to be not wholly the result of a desire to impress foreigners with the oneness and determination of the nation's leaders touching this question; but to be due in
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