Japan Now Offers To Renew Treaty.

New York Times 100 years ago today, June 15, 1913:
Empire Willing to Continue the Arbitration Agreement Which Expires in August.
    WASHINGTON, June 14.— Viscount Chinda, the Japanese Ambassador, notified Secretary Bryan to-day that Japan was willing to renew for another period of five years her arbitration treaty with the United States, which expires by limitation on August 24.
    Secretary Bryan in making the announcement said he not only hoped, but expected, the Senate would ratify the new arbitration treaties already signed with Great Britain and other countries despite the opposition to them. No date for the signing of the Japanese renewal has been determined.
    The Senatorial opposition which Secretary Bryan is hopeful of overcoming was originally voiced by Senator Chamberlain, who insisted that in renewing a treaty with Great Britain specific exceptions should be made to remove the Panama Canal tolls controversy from the field of arbitration. The question of arbitrating the issue with Japan over the California alien land law also has been a subject of discussion among Senators opposed to renewing that arbitration treaty.
    President Wilson has had frequent conferences with Senators regarding the treaties. Mr. Bryan would not say upon what representations he based his expectation that the treaties would receive Senatorial approval.
    At the Flag Day exercises at the Interior Department, which was presided over by Secretary Lane, Secretary Bryan delivered an oration on the "American Flag and World Peace."
    "Only this morning I received assurances from the Empire of Japan of its desire to renew with the United States its general arbitration treaty," said he. "Before next Christmas I am expecting that at least twenty-five nations will have concluded with this country treaties by the terms of which controversies which cannot be adjusted otherwise may be referred to a disinterested international tribunal, this practically insuring peace and justice between us and all of the great nations of the world.
    Love is a stronger force than fear. It is the proud boast of this nation that our flag is loved, rather than feared. No gun ever mounted is as strong as a great thought. Great thoughts are the controlling forces of the world and love is the basis of every great thought."