The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-16
Says California Has Surrendered
None of Rights.
Insisted on aud Secured RecOg-
milton of States Rights.
JAPAN is DISPLEASED.
Exclusion of LabOrers ArOuseS
Intense Feeling.
Natives i'm San Francisco Cable
Home an Appeal.

r. washington, Feb. 16.-"The Cali
fornia committee which came to con-
fer with the president on the Jap
anese question has not conceded any
of its rights. State sovereignty was
absolutely insisted upon" declared
Mayor Schmitz of San Francisco, to-
day.
Yet he said. complete agreement
had been reached on all points of diff
ference the only thing remaining to
be done being the Incorporation by
congress of the exclusion amendment
into the immigration bill This, it is
expected. will be done by the senate
today.
| AS matters stand now, he said, all
parties will be satisfied. Mayor
Schmitz, however, said that there were
some features of the case which mad
not been touched upon by the press
but these could not be disclosed until
it was an established fact that the ex-
clusion amendment had passed. He said
the discussion with the president took
the form of an endeavor to arrive at a
middle ground and this he said had
been agreed to. State rights were
strongly adhered to, he said, and in
this connection he reiterated his
declaration made yesterday that there
position looking to the establishment
of separate Japanese schools. There
was no intention, he said, to abolish
the oriental school, which orientals,
Asiatics and Mongolians had been in
the habit of attending for the past 20
years.
He said further that the Confer
enceS Of the school board and myself
with the. president and Secretary Root
had NO. relation whatever to do with
anything this government might do in
the way of negotiating a new treaty
with JAPAN The present treaty, he
said, would not expire for five years.
but nevertheless he and the school
board had come here in a friendly
spirit in the expectation or adjusting
matters to all concerned and yet with
out surrendering any of California s
rights and tnis he declared had been
accomplished.
h The asasen en- t@Between the Cali
fornia committee had been drawn up
for signature and as soon as the eX
clusion amendment passes the senate
it will be made public.
Japan Is Not Satisfied.
.a- Toxic. Feb. 16.-Public opinion is
decidedly opposed to a solution of the
San Francisco school problem on the
basis of the restriction of the admis
sion of Japanese laborers into the
United States. No official statement
has been made on this subject and the
correspondent of the Associated Press
was unable today owing to the fact
that it is holiday, to interview the
ally admitted, however, that a solution
on the basis mentioned will arouse
strong opposition through the Japan,
csc empire.
The relations between the federal
government at Washington and the
governments of the various states of
the union are not we'll understood here
and a restriction of the admission of
laborers would be looked upon as an
unwarranted concession in the face of
fhe Treatment of which the .Tapanese
in San Fran cisco complain.
The limited few who are well posted
on the. actual state of affairs are not
excited and even they do not see why
the San Francisco difficulty could not
be solved apart from the labor question.
An appeal couched in strong words
has been cabled from the Japanese in
San Francisco asking for national sup
port against solving the San Francisco
controversy by restricting the. admis-
sion of laborers into the United States.
In view of the state of public feeling
here it would not be surprising if the
Japanese government did not agree to a
settlement on the basis of the restric-
ton of the immigration of Japanese to
TO the United States