In Role Of Emperor, Chinda Sees Wilson.

New York Times 100 years ago today, June 6, 1913:
Japanese Envoy, Acting as the Ruler's "Other Self," Visits the White House.
TALKS OF THE LAND BILL
Cabinet to Discuss Note To-day — Bryan and Ambassador to Speak In Pittsburgh.
Special to The New York Times.
    WASHINGTON, June 5.— Exercising his prerogative as the "other self" of his sovereign, Viscount Chinda, the Japanese Ambassador, called on President Wilson to-day to discuss the diplomatic situation produced by the California alien land law.
    This is a privilege seldom exercised by Ambassadors, and in the particular case of the Japanese envoy indicates the importance which he attaches to the answer of the Japanese Government to Secretary Bryan's note setting forth the position of the United States with regard to the California law. The Ambassador was at the White House for more than an hour, but at the close of the conference no information was forthcoming from either the President or the Ambassador.
    At its regular meeting to-morrow the Cabinet will take up and discuss Japan's reply. Secretary Bryan, who otherwise would take an early train for Pittsburgh, where he is to make a speech to-morrow night at the dinner to be given in honor of George W. Guthrie, the new United States Ambassador to Japan, will remain through the Cabinet meeting and take a train at 1:25 o'clock in the afternoon. He will reach the banquet hall between 9 and 10 o'clock at night. Viscount Chinda is to be one of the speakers at the Guthrie banquet, and it is possible that both he and the Secretary of State may refer to the present diplomatic situation.
    The reply to the Japanese note, it is reported, will be prepared by Prof. John Bassett Moore, the counsellor of the Department of State, but it is possible that it may not be delivered for several weeks. It is not improbable that the question at issue will be the subject of International discussion until after the September elections in Japan on which the continuance of the present Ministry depends.