Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-12-20

Francisco, and probably not 100 in the
whole state"
Position Of other callfornians
Frank p. Flint, Mr.. Perkins coll
league, is one of the new senators. He
was elected In 1905, and last winter had
his first experience in the upper house
of congress. He has been a railroad
lawyer and a United States district at
torney, and has never learned TO talk
very freely for publication. He has not
allowed himself to be quoted on the
controversy that has arisen between the
president and his fellow representatives
from California, but has expressed him
self as amazed at the noise, fury and
tumult aroused by the action of the
San Francisco school board. He de-
clares that he had hardly heard of the
matter before he left the coast to come
to Washington, and, most significant of
all, nobody had written him any letters
about the affair. Senator Flint never
for one instant took any stock in the
wild talk Of the probability Of war with
Japan. He thinks the whole business
has been kept alive by people in the
east and indiscreet speculation in some
newspapers.
Representative James Carson Need
ham is the dean of the house delega-
ton, and has only been in congress
four terms. Mr. Needham, Mr.. Kahn,
Mr.. Hayes and Mr.. McKinlay are COM
monty looked upon as the leading men
of the California delegation in the
chamber of representatives. OF the
others. w. F. Enbright has just come
to Washington to fill the unexpired
term of Representative Gillet, who re-
signed to become governor Mr.. Know
land filled the unexpired term of Sec
rotary Metcalf In the Fifty eighth con-
gress, and Is serving his first full term
in the present congress. Representative
McLachlan has been consecutively In
office for three terms and Representa-
tive Smith is serving his first term.
None of these men has been promi-
nently identified with any important
pieces of large legislation.
Mr.. Needham is self-made man
and has stayed on the job. He was
born in an emigrant wagon at Carson
City, New, in 1864, while his parents
were making the long overland trip
across the plains to California. After
he had got a part of his education he
came to Washington and worked for
year as a clerk in the war department.
He has been a lawyer in active prac-
tiCe since 1889. Mr.. Needham has not
been as strong in his structures of the
president as some of the other members
OF the delegation
Tho presidents utterances which re-
fer to the attitude of California to-
ward the Japanese do not clearly state
the position of the people of my state"
he has said. THE president has mis-
construed it. With us it is not a ques-
ton of hatred of the Japanese, but
whether we shall control our own
schools. think the courts will uphold
our position"
Everis Arson Hayes, who represents
t1n Gov lose N,-sD t., 10,
mine owner, a fruit grower, a news
paper proprietor, and incidentally a
millionaire. He has been one of the
most outspoken of the presidents crit
les and is the author of a Japanese ex-
clusion bill designed to put incomers
from Japan on practically the same
footing with the Chinese.
Strongly Opposed to Japanese
The schooling of Representative Mo
Kinlay ended when he was 10 years old
at his birthplace in the little town of
Orillia, Canada. At this age the child
was apprenticed to a carriage painter
and worked at his trade in Michigan
and San Francisco until 1884, when he
went to Sacramento, where he stayed
for a year, then moved to Santa Rosa,
where he engaged in the painting bust
ness and studied law" Naturally he is
a strong labor man. President McKin-
ley made him an assistant United States
district attorney at San Francisco in
1901. Mr.. McKinlay is serving his first
term in congress. In all of his COM
ments on the presidents message he
has shown strong personal bias
against and antipathy toward the Jap
anese. Here is sample quotation from
one of his interviews:
THE president has been misinformed.
I have lived for twenty-five years on
the Pacific coast. l have been to Japan
and know the situation backward and