The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-19
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE
 IN JAPANESE AFFAIR
ATTENTION OF CONGRESS IS CALLED TO EXCLUSIONIN
 SAN FRANCISCO.

School Action Deciareu UnIalr--bOy~
 cotting of Japanese Restaurants and
 Acts of Violence Against Mikado's y subjects--Federal Government Will
 Meet Violence With Force--Objectlon
 to Japanese Young Men sitting With
 Children Endorsed.
 E Washington, Dec. 1S-The senate to- day devoted nearly four hours to the consideration of unobjected bills on it's calendar. The result was a passage of number of measures of minor inn M portance. Among those passed was one authorizing a government loan of S1,- 000,000 to the Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition company, and another pro- 2 Viding for an investigation of the in dustrial, social, moral, educational and physical condition of woman and child workers in the United States by the de- l1 partment of commerce and labor.
 A special message from the president transmitting the report of Secretary Metcalf on conditions in San Francisco in connection with the anti-Japanese agitation was read
 During the session of the house to- day the Indian appropriation bill was passed, practically as it came from the committee on Indian affairs.
 The early morning session was de- voted to the consideration of District of Columbia business.
 The exodus of members already has K commence1 for the Christmas holidays, the vacant desks during the considera- tion of the Indian bill and the consider Rtion of District of Columbia business silently indicating that the Yuletide is near.
 A special message from the president transmitting the report of Secretary Metcalf on conditions in San Francis I GO in connection with the anti-Japanese agitation was read:
 s Presidents Message. The presidents message in part fol- lows:
 Fro the Senate and House of Represen- tatives:
 A3# 1 inclose herewith for your informa- 4 tion the final report made to me per- sonally by Secretary Metcalf on the sit lation affecting the Japanese in San Francisco. The report deals with three natters of controversy-f1rs the ex- & cluson of the Japanese children from I he San Francisco schools; second, the \ ooycotting of Japanese restaurants, # and, third acts of violence committed against the Japanese.
 As to the first matter I call your es- N pecial attention to the very small num- # per of Japanese children who attend $chool, to the testimony as to the Brightness, cleanliness and good beha- sior of these Japanese children in the # lehools and to the fact that, owing to
 heir being scattered turnout the city, # he requirement. for them all to go to
 ne special school is impossible of full # lment and means that they can not we school facilities. Let me point out T lrther that there would be no objec- on whatever to excluding from the & ehools any Japanese on the score of q ge. It is obviously not desirable that foung men should go to school with & shildren. The number of Japanese
 hildren attending the public schools in # an Francisco was very small. The # overnm ment has aready directed that Z ssuit be brought to test the constitu-
 ionaity of the act in question; but my
 ery earnest hope is that such suit will hot be necessary, and that as a matter N If comity the citizens of San Francisco will refuse to deprive these young Jap - nese children of education and will permit them to go to the schools.
 The question as to the violence # gatnst the Japanese is most admirably E ut by Secretary Metcalf, and I have lothing to add to his statement. I am
 ntirely confident that, as Secretary
 Ietcalf says, the overwhelming senti-
 nent of the state of California is for aw and order and for the protection f the Japanese in their persons and
 property, Both the chief of police and
 he acting mayor of San Francisco as- < ured Secretary Metcalf that every
 hing possible would be done to protect
 he Japanese in the city. l authorized
 Ind directed Secretary Metcalf to state
 hat if there was failure to protect per-
 ons and property, then the entire pow
 r of the Federal government within
 he limits of the constitution would be
 sed promptly and vigorously to en- # 0rce the observance of our treaty, the
 upreme law of the land, which guar
 Fnteed to Japanese residents every
 Fhere in the Union full and perfect
 protection for their persons and prop
 rty; and to this end everything in my sower would be done, and all the forces
 f the United States, both civil and
 lilitary, which I could lawfully en-
 loy,would be employed I call especial q ttention to the concluding sentence o1 aecretary Metcalfs report of Novem-
 Der 26, 1906
 S THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
 The White House, Dec. IS, 1906. # In his report Secretary Metcalf says: In my previous report I said nothing
 Is to the causes leading up to the ac-
 ion of the school board in passing the
 esolution of October Il, and the effec
 such action upon Japanese children
 esidents of the city of San Francisco
 esiring to attend the public schools ot
 hat city. A report on this matter vii
 low be made, therefore; and after de-
 bribing the local public sentiment con-
 erning the recent disturbances with
 egard to the Japanese, an account vii
 e given, first, of the boycott main
 bined by the Cooks and Walters Unior
 San Francisco against Japanese res
 burants doing business in that city