The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-10-18
JAPANESE STOPS
A COLLEGE ROW
FRESHMEN AT THE WASHINGTON
STATE UNIVERSITY HAVE LIVE
LY MEETING.

SEATTLE, October 3.-The fresh
man class at the state university held
yesterday noon one of the warmest
meetings in the history of the insti-
tuition, and a peaceable ending is prob
ably due to a speech made by Johel
Hashiguchi, who besides being a fresh
man at the university, is editor of the
Japan Current.
Hashiguchi made his speech at the
climax Of a strenuous fight between
the former Seattle high school stu
dents and the other freshmen, known
as outsiders" to control the meet
ing, elect temporary officers and get a
majority of the constitution commit
tee.
The Seattle contingent was in the
majority and had just elected Joe Bar
to chairman of the temporary class or
ganization, when Hashigucni, who had
won applause and cries of three
cheers for Japan" by voting with the
Seattle boys, took the floor and urged
upon the students the necessity of ELI
minating sectional rivalry for the gem
eral good of the class.
Although l stand upon this side"
declared the Japanese, indicating the
Seattle side of the house, Il do not
intend to vote for any candidate whom
the local students hope to railroad in
to Office, for the purpose of excluding
all other portions of the state from
representation. We want officers to
represent the class, not faction.
recommend that we stop quibbling
and proceed with this meeting as a
class, not as rival factions"
This speech, the first ever made by
a Japanese in a class meeting at the
university, ELECTED cheers from both
sides, and the Seattle boys, although
in a position to run matters their own
way. promptly elected Ward, an OUT
slider, temporary secretary over Smith,
of Seattle. They further consented to
have but one of the five members OF
the committee on a class constitution,
a Seattle high school graduate. AS for
the permanent class officers, the Seat
tie faction consented to postpone theiI
ele elton until another meeting, al
though the outsiders at the university
greatly outnumbered the Seattle boys
and will undoubtedly control the next
freshmen meeting.
The committee chosen to draw IN n
constitution, and the vote for each
member, follows:
Miss Brown, Aberdeen, 16; Rng,
Walla Walla, So; Whitfield, Yakima,
70; Greene, Centralia, n; and Pollock,
Seattle, n.
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carried in the senate bill of last year
and will be satisfied if congress will
pass some such bill as that adopted by
the house.
1t is the expectation of the subsidy
people that President Roosevelt will
in his December message urge that
subsidy legislation be enacted. The
| subsidy people were somewhat disap-
pointed because the president did not
come out stronger for their cause in
his last message, but they say they
had no complaint to make of his atti-
tude when the fight came on in the
house. His influence, they say, put
| the substitute bill through that body
Representatives of the subsidy hunt
ers who were here the latter part OF
last week said they would be disap-
pointed if the president did not devote
one of his middle west speeches to the
need of substituting the merchant ma
rine. He is going out where most
of the opposition comes FROM" said
this man, "and we have reason 10 be-
lieve that he will undertake to point
out to the people of the middle wes
the necessity for subsidy legislation"
LEROY T. VERNON.
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