Amador ledger., 1907-02-15
Washington
Letter.
Washington, February l, 1907.

hurrY-up call from the White House
to the California delegation request
ing their presence for some object
which was made mysterious by the
wording of the executive order.
When the members of the delegation
met the president they discovered
that he had found way to withdraw
the Japanese school question from
the calm and orderly consideration of
the courts, and again to inject into it
virus akin to rabies. by raising the
specter of war with Japan if the Call
fornia cnuIts do not decide in accord
ance with his wishes. Although the
mem bers Of the delegation have had
nothing to say as to the conference,
owing to the injunction of secrecy
placed upon them, it is pretty we'll
known that the president insists that
the state of California yield to Japan.
And this calls to mind his implied
to receive such children as Japan
desired into such schools as Japan
| indicated. As this has not worked
with the people of San francisco, or
with the state at large as indicated by
the action of the legislature, it was
evident that something must be done
to change public opinion, and in
some quarters it is believed that the
administration panic over our re-
iatlons with Japan is assumed for the
purpose of carrying out his design of
placing Japanese pupils IN every
school they may desire to enter. At
any rate, the movement the president
has started is apparently for the pur-
pose of securing a decision in his
favor by the California courts, and
to this end no has summoned to
Washington the PRESIDENT of the
board of education of San Francisco
and the uperintendent of schools OF
that city. When they arrive they Will
undoubtedly hear more of the danger
of rupture with Japan which may
make it necessary for California to
back ktrack on its own laws ana inter
pref them according to Oriontal ideas.
The second sensation was the dis
coveIy of the Presidents intention to
rub it i'm to senator Foraker for his
criticism of the executive action in
the case of the Brownsville affair, by
appointing nergo to the position OF
surveyor of customs IN the senator IS
home town. Booker L. Washington has
been called in for consultation, and u
still hunt was begun for coIored man
suitable for the position. 1t looked
as though it would be necessary to go
out of the collection district to find
such man, but the assertion is made
that even that might be done in order
that this federal position in senator
Foraker's IS city may have colored
official, and thus prove the president IS
regard for the negro race, besides
showing other things.
A third sensation was the news that
this congress has very narrowly es-
capped having thrust on it for con-
sideration far more radical railroad
legislation than has yet been enacted.
1t having been learned that the presi-
dent might send to congress a message
advocating more restrictions on trans
portation, the present state of the
money market and the tendency tc
unsettled conditions were pointed out
as warnings not to advocate rash
legislation at this time, and it is
understood that the matter will be
lett over until the next session. In
the meanwhile the interstate COM
meIce commission is to be stirred up
as are the animals in a menagerie, so
they may stand on their hind legs
and roar vengeance and destruction
to all railroads.
A fourth sensation is connected with
the banquet of the Gridiron Club,
whose proceeding are not the subject
of report by the club itself. A New
York newspaper gave an account of
tilt between the president and senator
Foraker, in which the latter "got
back" at the chief executive in very
effective fashion when the latter enter
ed on a defense of his public policies.
The rebuff that the president met with
was said to have been received with
enthusiasm by the club. Owing to
the obligations of the members of
the club not to disclose what took
place at the meeting, absolute con-
firmatlon of the report has been i'm
possible, but the weak attempts to
dlscredlt it tend to strengthen belief
in Its truth. At any rate, when the
senate assembled Monday, senator
Foraker was the subject of most
hearty congratulations and most
friendly handshakes and nudges in
the ribs-though of course all might
have been on account of the nergo
surveyor of customs he is about to
have in his town.
The agricultural appropriation bill
was before the house as committee
of the whole this week, and several
provisions In which California has an
interest were discussed. When the
appropriated for the bureau of ento
mology came up, congressman Hayes
offered an amendment increasing tie
amount from s75, 900 to Sl13, 800, urg