Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-10-27
JAPANESE IN
Our SCHOOLS
President Sends Secretary Met.
salt to San Francisco -AOki
Complains of Violence.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27-A cabinet
meeting lasting two and a half hours
was attended by all the members ex.
cept Secretary Shaw and Postmaster
General Cortelyou.
Among important matters discussed
was the situation growing out Of the
anti-American sentiment in Japan and
the exclusion of Japanese children
from the public schools of San Francis
co.
After the meeting it was announced
that Secretary Metcalf of the depart
ment of commerce and labor would
90 to- San Francisco today to inyesti-
gate and make a full report on the sit
uation as affecting the Japanese there.
President Roosevelt has directed Sec
rotary Metcalf to proceed to San Fran
cisco and make a thorough and COM
plete inquiry into the situation affect
ing the exclusion of Japapese children
from the schools provided for white
children and the determination to place
japanese pupils in separate schools.
The president is anxious to obtain
at first hand from a cabinet officer who
is acquainted with local conditions in
San Francisco full information affect
ing every phase of the subject to the
end that whatever action is taken by
this government may be after an accu-
rate understanding of the situation.
The president feels that every effort
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should be exerted to sec that all the
treaty rights claimed by the Japanese
for its people residing in the United
States should be respected and pro-
tected.
For the first time in the history of
the United States the sixth article of
the constitution is to be invoked to
compel local authorities within d state
to respect the provisions of a treaty,
and the doctrine of states rights may
receive the severest blow it has ex-
perienced since the civil war.
Confident that Secretary Root is cor
rect in his belief that there is full au-
thority under the constitution, the adj
ministration will endeavor to put a
stop to those determinations against
Japanese citizens which local authori-
ties within the state of California have
been and are practiclng.
1t was stated by a member of the
cabinet that the general opinion was
that the situation was exceedingly
grave and would require the most
delicate treatment to avoid an open
rupture.
1t developed that the proceedings in
stituted in San Francisco to compel
the authorities to receive Japanese
pupils. in the public schools were di-
rected by the department of justice.
Some cases of violence and rioting
against Japanese at San Francisco,
windows broken, have been brought to
the attention of Secretary Root by
Viscount Aoki, who said that it was
with great reluctance he called the at
tention of the central government to
the demonstrations against the Japa-
nese, which he thought were purely
local in their nature.
Wnen asked IL Complaints nuQ reach
ed him from Japanese in any part of
California outside of San Francisco or
from other Pacific coast states, Wis
count Aoki replied that all the trouble
has been confined to the one city. The
ambassador has assured his govern
ment again that the outbreak against
the Japanese is purely local and was
much gratifed at receiving dispatches
which showed that the japanese press
Is for the most part attempting to
check the feeling against Americans.
San Francisco dispatches say that
Judge Wolberton Of the United States
court has issued an order citing
the board of education of San Francis
co to show cause why an Injunction
the reinstatement of l..
a Japanese pupil recently
excluded from the Pacific Heights
grammar school. should not be issued.
A meeting of Japanese has been
called to discuss the situation created
by the exclusion of their children.