UNITED STATES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8316, 20 December 1906, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

California and the JAPANESE).

MR METCALFE'S REPORT

Received December 19, 10 p.m. WASHINGTON, Dec 19.

The report of Mr Victor Metcalfe, Minister of Commerce, which has been submitted to Congress, shows that only 93 Japanese children are attending schools in San Francisco. They are clean, bright and well behaved. Since they were scattered over the oity it was impossible for them to attend single schools.

Mr Meloalfe claims that the Japanese are entitled to the fulleat protection and highest consideration.

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S AVALANCHE OP MESSAGES.

CONGRESS GROWING RESTIVE

Received December 19, 10.5 p.m. WASHINGTON, Deo. 19.

Congress is growing restive under President Roosevelt's "avalanohe of messagas." In transmitting Mr Metcalfe's report President Roosevelt reiterated that he would use nil the forces at his disposal to protect the Japanese iu San Francisco. M. Aoki. Japanese Ambassador, at a banquet at Washington, referred to the living monument of cordial friendship whioh cements the United States and Japan. He ridiculed t.h« idea of a struggle between the two nations for oontrol of the Pacific.