Negotiations, says the Washington correspondent of "The Times" on December 29, are actively proceeding between the United States and Japan for the conclusion of a treaty to take the place of the comprehensive Treaty of Commerce and. Navigation which was ratified in March, 1895, and which pees in Jaly, 1912, An' important effort is being made to include in the now treaty s settlement of the immigration question on " bert than than that afforded by the present angement,"well as that, arrangement has worked. The present An treaty rane year longer than the rimi treaties concluded by other Powers with Japan, but it is felt that, in view of the Senate's interest in the immigration question, it will be aa well to present the new frosty for fication soon 8 possible.
Evidence accumulates thet American traders are by no means cary about the Japanese tariff, The fact that the United States bare no conventional treaty, mean, u ievuree, the imposition of the new rates on American goods,
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