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Show EXPECI 10 AVOID BREAKJITH JAPAN 8TATE DEPARTMENT WILL CONTINUE CON-TINUE NEGOTIATIONS FOR A NEW TREATY. It li Not Believed That Settlement of Vexed Problems Will be Effected Until Special Session of Congress Con-gress Has Been Called. Washington. Although Toklo Is pressing for n settlement of tho Immigration Immi-gration and California land controversy controver-sy before President Wilson goes out of office, It Is declared that there Is no real expectation of dcflnlto action before the Harding administration comes In and a special session of congress con-gress Is called. The object of tho Wilson administration. adminis-tration. It Is said, Is to avoid a break with Japan und smooth matters over pending the change to tho Republican regime, when Mr. Harding will decide whether to follow tho lino of compromise compro-mise taken by Mr. Wilson or to adopt a more radical policy. In accord with this purpose, tho state department will continue tho negotiations negotia-tions with Japan fr.n new treaty defining defin-ing tho rights of Jnpaueso now 1n this country, nnd for a broader "gentlemen's "gentle-men's ngreement" under which Jnpan would undertake to prevent the migration migra-tion of any Japanese to tho United States fiA permanent residence. Kven If tho negotiations should produce n formal treaty submitted to tho senate before March 4, action upon It by that body before tho meeting of tho new congress will bo nn extremely remote possibility. Ily that time, however, the California Califor-nia legislature probably will have enacted en-acted the proposed new law approved by the referendum, further restricting the property holding rights of Japanese, Japan-ese, and will havo brought tho controversy con-troversy to a head. |