The San Francisco call., 1907-02-16

I IOrceQ TO surrender On the ScnOOi QueS-
ton, with the proviso that adult Jap
[ anese should be kept out OF the primary
schools.
SCHMITZ CAPITULATES
The Mayor and School Board went to
the White House this afternoon and
met the President and Secretary Root.
! The President told his visitors that he
was bound to secure the passage of
the immigration bill with the Japanese
/ amendment. Senator Lodge had in
/ formed the President that Tillman and
Bacon threatened to filibuster because
they objected to the provision in the
bill prohibiting the Importation of con-
! tract labor by immigration agents en-
/ ployed by an association. The Presi-
dent told the Californians that they
/ need not fear the failure of the Ha-
waiian exclusion programme. He said
that he would call an extra session of
Congress If the bill should be killed.
Schmitz and the School Board there
upon agreed TO surrender on the school
question. They reached an under
standing with the President that moth
! ing should be said about the surrender
until Congress had passed the bill.
/ They admitted that the coast might
condemn them for surrendering unless
/ they could show that exclusion was an
accomplished fact In order to avoid
I
Schmitz and the board are trying to
keep their surrender q secret.
AMENDMENT IN DANGER
The Senate got busy on immigration
matters soon after the meeting. Bacon
and TiIlman privately told the Repub-
ilcans that the bill would be talked to
death unless the provision regarding
contract labor was cut out. They ar
gued that their constituencies were
/ trying to secure white immigration
through the employment of immigra-
tion agents, supported in part by the
States and partly by contributions from
employers Of labor. They denied that
such immigrants were under contract.
There was every evidence of fili-
buster UP to the time that the Presi-
dent and Senator Aldrich acted. The
/ President is understood to have tele-
phoned to Senator Lodge early in the
afternoon that he would call an extra
session IL necessary to pass the bill.
Lodge passed this ultimatum around.
/ It did not seem to have any effect on
the Southerners
But Senator Aldrich heard of it in
New York. He has engaged his pas
sage to Europe Immediately after Con-
gress adjourns. He was very much eX-
cited over the idea of an extra session.
! Several Senators say tonight that Aid
rich called up Senator Crane of Massa-
chusetts about 4 o'clock and told him
/ to warn Tillman and Bacon that the
river and harbor bill was behind the
! immigration bill and that unless the
immigration bill was allowed to come
to vote by tomorrow night the South
Carolina and Georgia items would be
cut out
TTLLMAN COMES DOWN
Within an hour the word was passed
! ho4 xxyor1ld IA NJ nhfpp-
ton to a vote tomorrow. Tillman
/ talked an hour longer, but the ugliness
of his attitude was gone.
Then, as the result of another long
/ distance conversation, two Republican
! Senators gave signs of eruption. They
are known to be influenced by the
transatlantic steamship companies,
which do not want immigration
stopped. They began to find serious
/ imperfections in the bill But their
attitude is well known to the other
Senators and it will not delay the pas
sage of the bill. Several Democratic
Senators do not agree with Tillman and
Bacon and Will vote for the bill.
President Walsh and Director Boyle
of the School Board left tonight for
New York. They will inspect the school
systems of several Eastern cities In or
der to obtain pointers for the new San
Francisco schools. Mayor Schmitz will
be rendered a reception Monday night
! by the Central Labor Union of Wash
/ ington, which will be attended by Sam
uel Gompers and other leaders. Schmitz
/ is expected to make speech on the
/ Japanese situation" BY that time it
is expected that the whole thing will
/ be settled.
MAYOR WAS A NONENTITY
Members Of the California delegation
are glad now that they were not called
in to participate in the conferences be-
tween the President and Sehmitz. They
have not been consulted by Schmitz and
cannot be blamed If the admission of
Japanese children in the schools proves
unpopular. They have supported the
exclusion amendment, of course, and do
not give Schmitz or the School Board
any credit for that part of the out
come They say that the passport
scheme was originated before Schmitz
/ arrived here, and that he did not influ-
ence IL one way or the other.
The correspondents of many big
Eastern papers are sending out tri-
umphant 'T told you sos on the
/ Crbra ~ To-