Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 274, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1920 — SAY U. S. AND JAPAN AGREE [ARTICLE]

SAY U. S. AND JAPAN AGREE

Tokyo Papers Report Settlement a* to Exclusion Principle—Objects to Treaty. Tokyo, Not. 15.—Newspapers of this city report the Japanese and American government have reached an agreement in principle relative to the exclusion-of Japanese laborers from the United States. It is asserted, however, that there is a disagreement regarding methods to be employed. The United States is understood to desire provisions for the exclusion embodied in a treaty, "but Japan, it is said, regards this procedure as humiliating and forming a precedent she might be forced to follow in treaties negotiated in future. Japan is declared to consider that measures prohibiting her subjects from emigrating can be taken only on her own initiative. In other respects the negotiations are progressing, it is reported, and once this point has been settled an agreement may be expected.