Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-12-19
LAPS FEAR TO COME
Tokyo Government Will Not
 Send Squadron to Frisco.
SPECIAL MESSAGE SENTTO CONGRESS-
President Comments st Length on Report of Secretary Metcalf Re- Earding school Situation
 at San FranciscO.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19. " Colnci.
 dent with the sending to congress of g
 special message from President Roose.
 welt on the exclusion of Japanese pu.
 pills from public schools in San Fran cisco, in which he reiterates his inten.
 tion of using the federal power for the
 protection of aliens If necessary, comes
 the news from Honolulu that the Jap
 anese squadron which was to visit San
 Francisco will not go there, fearing a
 repetition of the Maine disaster.
 Other dispatches tell on the a,ithorl-
 ty of United States consul of the re-
 ported intention of the Japanese to close Asia as market for American
 wheat and cotton.
 President Roosevelt in the special
 message transmitted to congress the final report of Secretary Metcalf on the situation affecting the Japanese in San Francisco. The president com ments on the report as follows:
 ''The report deals with three mat ters of controversy first, the exclusion of the Japanese children from the San Francisco schools; second, the boycott ting of Japanese restaurants, and, third, acts of violence committed against the Japanese.
 "As to the first, call your especial attention to the very small number of Japanese children who attend school, to the testimony as to the brightness. cleanliness and good behavior of these Japanese children in the schools and to the fact that, owing to their being scattered throughout the city, the re- quirement for them all to go to one, special school means that they cannot have school facilities. Let me point out further that there would be no ob- jection whatever to excluding from the schools any Japanese on the score of age. It is obviously not desirable that young men should go to school with children. The only point Is the exclu- sion of the children themselves. Tho 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 matter of comity the citi- zens of San Francisco will refuse to 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 admira- bly, put by Secretary Metcalf. and I have nothing to add to his statement. 1 am entirely confident that, as Secre- tary Metcalf says, the overwhelming sentiment of the state of California is 'or law and order and for the protec- lion of the Japanese in their persons and property. Both the chief of police md the acting mayor of San Francis 70 assured Secretai Ietcalf that ev- .rything possible would be done to pro ect the Japanese in the city. I author zed and directed Secretary Metcalf to state that if there was failure to pro. ect persons and property then the en- ire power Of the federal government within the limits of the constitution would be used promptly and vigorous ' to enforce the observance of our reaty, the supreme law of the land. which treaty guaranteed to Japanese everywhere in the Union full md perfect protection for their per 'ons and property. And to this end in my power would be lone. and all the forces of the United States, both civil and military, which I 'ould lawfully employ would be em- md property"