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Show JAPAI 1? TIE IHE I PHIUPPHIE ISLANDS I President Is Said to Want Prob- H leni Settled Before End H of His Term. H WASHINGTON, March 30. Although Secretary Taft of the War department' saw fit recently to deny the report that Japan had mado certain overtures to the United States for the acquisition of the Philippines, corroboratlvo evidence Is at hand that the Japanese Government has IH been desirous of opening negotiations to that end. When former Gov. Wright of the Philippines goes to Japan as the llrst American Embassador to that country. IH ho will be empowered by this Government IH to enter upon further consideration of that proposition. IH Why Wright Was Solocted. In fact, It Is said on what ought to be unimpeachable authority that tho selec- fM lion of Gov. Wright to represent tho Roosevelt administration at the Japanese tim Emperor's court, was caused by this sit- IH uatlon. President Roosovelt. according IH to report, desires to dispose of th. Philip- plno problem before the end of his term Jm In tho White House. Ho is represented as being convinced that our ownership of vM the Islands as "possessions, not parts, of IH tho United States, has not been accept- IH nblo to manv Americans, and eventually IH will mean much larger expenditures on jH tlio part of our homo Government than have bcon made even thus far. |