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Show 1 CABINET AND I RUSSIAN TREATY I WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. For two hours today President Taft and ,his cabinet wrcBtled with thq Ruesian passport question and at tho end of th session it was acknowledged a bolution that would satisfy American Jews and at the- samo time not embarrass em-barrass either the United States or Russia had not been found. While tho negotiations of American Ambassador Gulltf at St. Petersburg have not been abandoned, It lookcdi I tonight as if there could he one outcome out-come tho abrogation of tho treaty of ' 1832 with Russia. So far, Ambassador Ambassa-dor Guild was said to have mpt with little satisfaction in the proposal that thr regulations Imposed on isltlus American Jews be modified. Tho pressure to bring about modification modifi-cation or abrogation of tho treaty has been great, but au action taken wll '. be only after the closest scrutiny; to prevent International embarrassment Tor the United Stntcs has Its own problem in prohibiting the admission of CblncBO. , , It was said tonight that President Taft's communication to congress on the passport question might bo delayed delay-ed for Kme time. In the meantime thore will be more cabinet conferences, a continuance of negotiations in SU Petersburg and agitation ag-itation In congress. It is probable that congress might approve the abrogation ab-rogation of tho treaty, and while many officials declare this would cause embarrassment, em-barrassment, it may prove tho only holution. Talk of a new treaty with Russia lo replace that of 1832 is not takeu seriously among cabinet members. It waB said on good authority tonight that negotiations looking to another treaty had not proceeded far enough to warront any hope that a solution could be reachod In this way. Senator Lodge and Senator Crane and twolvo representatives from Massachusetts Mas-sachusetts today promised a delegation delega-tion of Jews to vote for iho abrogation abroga-tion of the treaty if diplomatic negotiations' ne-gotiations' failed. r |