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140 LIVES OF THE PRESIDENTS States Court for China (June 30, 1906) ; a resolu tion authorizing the President to consent to a modification of the bond for our twenty- four mil lions received from China as indemnity on account of the Boxer disturbances of 1900, remitting about half this sum as an act of friendship (May 25, 1908). This led in the November following to the sending of Tang Shao Yi, Governor of Mukden Province, by the Chinese Government as special envoy to express China s thanks. He an nounced in San Francisco that the thirteen mil lions and odd remitted would be used in sending Chinese students to this country. In this same year the Senate ratified arbitration treaties with France, Italy, Mexico, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Spain, Portland, Great Britain, the Netherlands and Japan. With Japan this was the first treaty since the re-establishment of the friendly relations broken off in 1906 on account of the assaults upon Japanese subjects in San Francisco. Such are the chief acts and incidents of Mr. Roosevelt s second term. By some of them the number of his friends and enemies had been simul taneously increased. He had set machinery going which, if properly kept going, would curb the ex cesses of the corporations, shield the lives of their employees, keep the forests safe from monopoliz ing hands and make the waterways useful for trans-