Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-02-11
President and San Francisco
Officials S aid to Have
Reached Basis for Adjust
ment of Differences,
BOTH SIDES DECLINE
TO ISSUE STATEMENT
Settlement Proposed Will
Leave Japanese People No
Cause for Complaint Reliable
Authority Asserts,



Washington Feb 3, President
Roosevelt and the authorities Of san
Francisco reached a mutual under
standing today that the California
japanese school question can be ad-
justed without danger of any serious
difficulty with Japan The details IF
adjustment were not agreed upon. To
arrange them another conference viii
be held next Monday. 1t was author
itatively stated tonight that the one
accomplishment of today'S conference
was a mutual understanding that a
settlement could be reached which
would be satisfactory and which
would leave no ground for complaint
by Japan.
The California delegation came m
Washington with nothing in the ma
ture of an ultimatum, but rather open
to the consideration of any basis of
settlement which the administration
might propose.
The conference took place at the
White House. attended by President
Roosevelt and Secretary Root, repre-
senting the administration, and by
Mayor Schmitz, members of the
school board and the superintendent
of education, representing the educa-
! tional body Mayor SehmitZ said aft2r
the meeting:
Nothing has been decided upoi
and no proposition is pending. Moth
ing will be settled. If it is settled 1t
all, until Monday or Tuesday when
another conference will be held, by
which time | think a decision Will be
reached. The meeting was entirely
friendly, but | am not prepared to say
it was satisfactory. Between now and
the time of the next conference our
delegation will prepare an outline of
the case We are prepared to receive
proposals from the president and the
secretary Of state or To make pro-
posals. We have agreed that moth
ing regarding the details of the meet
ing are to be discussed with th1
newspapers and will have no further
statement to make"
The meeting gave the president an
opportunity fully to present the Jap
anese side of the case and to inn
press on his visitors his great desire
that matters should be adjusted so
that all the rights guaranteed the
japanese by the treaty might be faith
fully carried out,
No statement as to results Of the
conference was obtainable at the
White House 1t was said the presi-
dent would have nothing to say on the
subject for publication and that the
San Franciscans had agreed not 20
discuss the subject in a public way
Mr.. Miyakawa, representative uf
Japanese residents of san Francisco,
had conference with Secretary
Straus today.
81 appreciate highly he said to-
night, "the attitude of the president,
cabinet and the japanese embassy
for bringing about an amicable SET
tlement of the school controversy. and
| am also satisfied with Mayor
Schmitz and the members of the
board Of education for their concllia-
tory attitude.
II am here as the attorney for the
Japanese school children in the fed
eral court, to look after the japanese
end Of the situation, and In this "a
pacity / wish to state that the Jap
anese want no compromise on the
school children's rights. IT thirty
nine Japanese boys and girls between
fifteen and twenty years of age are
demoralizing, the sixty thousand boys
and girls of all nationalities in the
public schools the board of education
is welcome to make rule 50 that
the adults over the age Of sixteen shall
not attend the public school, but this
rule must apply to American, English,
Japanese, German French, Italian
and Russian children. | am at loss
10 find any reason why twenty -eigtt
bows and twenty-siX girls from six
to fifteen years Of age should be seq
regated. as demoralizin" 10000 chill
dren so as 10 ieopardize $4,000 peo-
Pile of San Francisco.
Japanese have been japanese for
the last $4,000 years. not Mongolians.
This age of commerce and inter-
dependent state system OF the world
cannot be regulated on race preiu'
dice.
'It is said by some California labor
leaders that there are 10000 Japan
ese I'm san Francisco and that they
clamor about the exclusion Of the Jap
anese coolies because they fear nat
the 10000 japanese In Hawaii may
come TO California in the course of
time. TO this fear let me ask what
is It n all the Japanese in Hawaii
should land In san Francisco ia one
day? 1t took more than twenty years
10 place 1V,WVN JdldhrHt tHuiltS ~
san Francisco and Hawaii. You
know that in one year you have had
and are having 15574S Russian Jews
--Herew invasion--and 42,26l Mag
yars. the descendants Of the Huns Of
the Central Asian crusade. not speak
Ing Of European coolies landing 81
mlllans.
Japanese school children In San
FranclscO do not understand what the
board OF education means by saying
compromise because the word 'cnm-
promise means the reciprocal aba's-
ment OF rights The Japanese ohll-
dren have nothing to give. Let he
japanese children go to the public