Show RELATIONS BETWEEN AMERICA AND JAPAN No Objection Whatever to Our Fleet Going to o the Pacific t l oct v t-v No due such C Japan and America tg s OU I make It Improper to send cud thi tho tl tu a t Jeet lii m IU Ik iI I. I I tw ta Pf dG l f n anth t ince fc iC r t bid the time maintenance 1 of lie U fleet feet In tIe the tit Atlantic ocean This f 1 J IH tf reply b by I Hoot Hool the direct question ui as lb to I r had had IU made 0 un any aimy protect against t time the dispatch of or Admiral lI l- l Mv- Mv alis ant fleet to time the In Iii II December I Tho statement was made mud at the time con con- 1 I of ur a u long bug conference between b Secretary Root lunS and Ambassador oki I Iut jut Iut j I ut tho state slate department today I 1 tu Secretary Root Hoot was Ij desirous desirous de lle- de- de sirous to tu have hae 11 it I und understood that thai that time tho I relations between time the two t o countries countries- American arid and Japan were Japan were not noi oal umily I j jut at ut present harmonious but that they I had not been otherwise other anti and ant that there thee holt had not bo been bosn n the slightest friction I between countries time the the governments go of ot the two n It was stated ut at t the conclusion of this conference that the tho government so I of Japan was vas 01 operating co-operating cu to to the best of 01 its Is ability with wih our own government govern govern- o I mont ment to obtain proper enforcement of or I tIme the immigration laws of America Americ so 50 far as they the relate to the time treatment of Japanese with wih an and without passports Secretary Metcalf announced that hint it I was definitely Idle settled that that the Atlantic fleet neet would c o Hampton Roads on December 16 I for tor Us Its cruise to lo the time Pa- Pa due cine coast I I I |