The new Commercial Treaty between the United States and Japan
has unexpectedly been completed and has been pre. seated to the United States Senate, the Foreign Affairs Committee of which has reported favourably upon it. The Washingtoi correspondent of the Times says that the Treaty omits the old clause which reserved to both countries the right to restrict by law the immigration of one another's labourers Everyone who remembers the dangerous outbursts of Japano. phobia on the Pacific Slope will not need to be told that this omission will be very unpopular there. But the omission is a good sign, in that it shows that Japan is abiding loyally by the present informal understanding and that the United States Government is willing to leave the situation as it is. Another interesting question is whether dais sudden new with Canada.
