The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-12-19
Government Will Not Send
Squadron to Frisco.
SPECIAL TO CONGRESS
President Comments al Length
Regarding School Situation
at San Francisco.

special message from President Roose.
welt ON the exclusion Of japanese pm.
pills from public schools In san Fran.
flsco. Ia which he rclicratcs his intcn.
ton OF using the federal power for the
protection of aliens II necessary. comes
the news from Honolulu that the Jap.
anese squadron which was 10 visit San
Francisco Will not go there. fearing n
repetition OF the Maine disaster.
Other dispatches tell on the authorl.
~ OF a United States consul Of the re-.
ported intention OF the japanese TO
close Asia AS a market for American
wheat and cotton.
A Honolulu report says that the Wis
itlng japanese squadron which Will ar.
rive In Honolulu In February will not
proceed 20 san Francisco. ag original
~ Intended. because repetition Of
the Maine disaster Is feared owing 10
the alleged overwrought condition of
American feeling.
President Roosevelt In the special
message transmitted 10 congress the
final report Of Secretary Mctcalf ON
the situation affecting the Japanese In
san Francisco Tie president COM
ments on the report as follows:
"The report deals with three mat.
tiers Of controversy the exclusion
Of the japanese children from tie san
Francisco schools: second. the boycott
ting OF japanese restaurants. and,
third. acts of violence committed
against the Japanese.
AS 10 the first. call your especial
attention 10 the very small number Of
japanese children who attend school.
TO the testimony ms TO the brightness,
cleanliness and good behavior Of these
japanese children In the schools and
TO the fact that. owing 10 their being
scattered throughout the city. the re-
quirement for them all 10 go 70 one
special school means that they cannot
have school facilities. Let me point
out further that there would be no oh.
lection whatever 10 excluding from the
schools any Japanese on the score Of
age. IL Is obviously not desirable that
young men should go to school with
children. The only point Is the exclu.
sion of the children themselves. The
number of Japanese children attending
the public schools in San Francisco is
very small. The government has al
ready directed that suit be brought to
test the constitutionality OF the act In
question, but my very earnest hope Is
that such suit will not be necessary
and that as II matter Of comfy the clti-
deprive these young Japanese children
of education and will permit them to
go to the schools.
"The question as to the violence
against the japanese is most admlra-
bly, put by Secretary Metcalf, and
have nothing TO add to his statement.
l am entirely confident that, as Secre-
tary Metcalf says, the overwhelming
sentiment of the state of California is
for law and order and for the protec-
ton of the japanese in their persons
and property. Both the chief of police
and the acting mayor of San Francis
co assured Secretary Metcalf that ev-
possible would be done TO pro-
tect the japanese in the city. author
lied and directed Secretary Metcalf TO
state that If there was failure to pro.
tect persons and property then the en-
tire power of the federal government
within the limits of the constitution
would be used promptly and vigorous
ly to enforce the observance of our
treaty, the supreme law of the land,
which treaty guaranteed to Japanese
residents everywhere in the Union full
and perfect protection for their per-
sons and property. And to this end
everything in my power would be
done, and all the forces of the United
States, both civil and military, which
could lawfully employ would be EN-
ployed. l call especial attention to the
sentence Of Secretary Met
calf's report"
In closing the secretary says:
"The chief of police of the city of
San Francisco and the acting mayor
assured me that everything possible
would be done to protect the japanese
subjects in San Francisco, and they
requested that all cases of
assault and all violations of law af-
fecting the japanese be at once report
ed to the chief of police.
Il impressed very strongly upon the
acting mayor of the city, as also upon
the chief of police, the gravity of the
situation and told them that as officers
with the enforcement of the
law and the protection of property and