Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-19

which vests in the principal of the school
| the discretionary power to reject any apph-
cant for admission to the school is the pro-
| vision particularly aimed to meet the ques-
| ton of excluding Chinese children.
kilograms Received.
| Mayor Schmitz and his associates have
received several hundred kilograms con-
| graduating them on the satisfactory re-
| suits of their negotiations with the Presi-
| dent Other kilograms were received erih-
| cisipg the mayor and school board and de-
| claring that the exclusion amendment in
| the immigration bill, as passed by the
| House of Representatives yesterday, is un-
| satisfactory to the people Oh inc RACINE
| coast states.
| Assistant City Attorney Williams of San
| Francisco. who has acted as legal ADVISER
| to Mayor Schmitz and the board of educa-
| ton since negotiations have been pend
| ing in Washington. last night said:
! ITO understand the exact meaning OF the
sta tement given out by Mayor Schmitz 1t
| will be necessary for the newspaper men to
| read between the lines. The only concss-
sion we have made IS to admit Japanese
| children to the white schools, while In re-
| turn the administration has brought about
! the exclusion OF japanese lanorefS lfom
| this country.
| Mayor SchmitZ said:
| This Is only a temporary agreement.
| President Roosevelt has given US direct
| and positive assurances that he will at
! once begin negotiation with Japan for the
| purpose of bringing about new treaty
| that will exclude Japanese laborers, skilled
and unskilled, from continental United
| States.
! I'VE find that the administration and
| Congress are entirely alive to the situation
| in California, and we feel they are anxious
| to meet the wishes of the Californans.
| They are also DESTROYS of keeping on the
| best possible terms with Japan. and or
| doing nothing which can break the ancient
| fSendship between that country and the
| INIT HAT EXPLAINED
! us with the greatest Eositiveness. that the
| form of the action taken by the school
| board Of San Francisco i'll relation TO the
| Japanese school children. has been COM
| petely misunderstood and misconstrued as
| an attack upon the japanese as such, and
/! that this misunderstanding and miscon-
| struction has been and now is one of the
| chief obstacles to the achievement of the
| purpose the people of California really have
! in view, this purpose being TO secure by
! honorable and amicable arrangement with
Japan the mutual exclusion from the two
| countries Of the laborers. skilled and I'M
! skilled, Of each country. This earnest
! desire of the people of California, and we
! may add in belief of the entire Pacific
coast to check the coming hither of jap
anese laborers. skilled and unskilled and
| our en,ere willingness and desire that
| Japan should similarly put stop ID the
| going of American laborers, skilled and
| unskiled, to Japan. springs from no motive
| other than to bring about commercial and
| Industrial conditions to the satisfactory
| understanding of the two friendly nations.
Violations of Contract Labor Law.
| Events have convinced u.s. however that
| many and probably most Of the Japanese
| laborers who come hither are really brought
| over to this country in violation OF the
| contract labor law, and that the well-being
| Of our wage-workers imperatively demands
| that immigration of japanese laborers to
| this country, skilled and unskilled. shall
| cease. There are other countries as well
| as Japan to which we feel that In all
| probability there will have to be similar
| legislation, owing to the fact that We are
| convinced that the laborers who come here
| from these countries also really come in
violation of the contract labor law. We
| have every reason to believe that the ad-
| ministration now shares and that Con-
gress will share. our way Of looking at this
problem and that the result we desire, the
| cessation of the immigration Of Japanese
| laborers. skilled and unskilled. to this
country will be speedily achieved. A strik-
| ing proof of the attitude of the admins
tration. their willingness to meet our de-
| sire and yet at the same time to do it
| in a way which will be compatible WITH
continuing on terms Of genuine friendship
with Japan. is shown by the passage Of
| the immigration bill which will bar out
Japanese coming hither by way of Hawaii.
Mexico Canada and the canal zone. by
enforcing the limitations which Japan
by her government: More than two-thirds
| Of the Japanese laborers who come hither
| come from Hawaii, Mexico and Canada,
and In our judgment almost all so coming
| really reach these shores in violation Of
| the contract labor law, although such fact
would be well nigh impossible to prove in
| a court of law. ~
# Intellectual.
1--WE are satisfied from our numerous in
| terviews with the President that In the
| event that the amendment to the immigra-
| ton bill, introduced in both houses of Con-
| gress of the United States on the 18th day of
| February. 1907, shall prove Intellectual for
the purposes herein mentioned and intend
ed every effort will be made by him not
| only to obtain treaty with Japan author
| izing legislation by both Japan and the
United States to exclude from each Of their
respective territories the immigration of all
subjects Of the other said nation who are
| laborers, skilled and unskilled, but in event
will favor such form of legislation that will
| In the most speedy manner accomplish the
results desired. That the national govern
ment has no purpose whatever to attempt
| to infringe upon the rights OF California as
| a sovereign state and that the purpose Of
the administration of the national 1overn-