Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-07
CriticizeS the Stand Taken on the
Question by President in In
terpeting the Treaty.
THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS MATTER
California Under no Obligation 10
Federal Government to Have
Any Kind of Schools.

Washington, Jan. THE galleries of
the senate were occupied to their ca
pacity today In anticipation of further
discussion OF the Foraker resolution
respecting the Brownsville affair and
because of the statement by Senator
Gearin that he would discuss the Jap
anese question.
Senator Lodge called up the Foraker
resolution simply to say that he should
follow Mr.. Gearins Japanese speech
with remarks upon the amendment he
had offered to the Foraker resolution,
which amendment recognizes the
constitutional and legal authority
of the president to take the
action he did in discharging the negro
troops.
Mr. Culberson offered another amend
ment which Senator Foraker accepted
authorizing the military committee to
visit Brownville and take the testi-
mony. Mr. Foraker thereupon asked
unanimous consent that the resolution be
made special order daily until disposed
of. Senator Hepburn objected, saying
there We're other matters of greater i'm
portance demanding consideration. Mr..
Foraker gave notice that he would re-
new his motion later.
Mr.. Gearin was then given the floor
to discuss the japanese question.
In what probably will be his only ex-
tended speech in the senate. Mr. Gearin
today discussed his resolution on the
Japanese question, making an argument
in favor OF the doctrine of states
rights and protection of labor by the
exclusion of coolies from both China
and Japan. He criticised the stand
taken by President Roosevelt on the
japanese question as to his interpreta-
ton of the existing treaty with Japan
and charge that the presidents posi-
ton in regard to the introduction of
cheap labor as applied to the Chinese
was inconsistent with his recent mes
sage to Congress in regard TO the treat
ment of japanese on the Pacific coast.
CALIFORNIA GOVERNMENT.
California" said Mr.. Gearin. lis UNI
der no obligations to the federal gov
eminent to have public schools or any
kinds of schools at all. And If she
does have them, Ii Is her province and
not that of the general government to
say how they shall be maintained and
how conducted and under what condi-
tion."
Replying to the claim in the presi-
dents message that the treaty with ia
pan guarantees to Japanese children the
right to attend the public schools of all
the states in the Union and to attend
them In company with white children,
Mr.. Gearin denied emphatically that
there is any provision in the treaty by
which any sort of construction can be
made to support such claim.
TREATY RIGHTS.
He said that nothing Is said In the
treaty as to the right to attend pub
lie schools, and that the specific enum-
Grafton of what was intended by the
Trainers of the treaty showed that moth
Ing should be left to inference. He
quoted from the treaty to show that
Japanese residents in this country may
have the privileges enumerated only by
conforming to all the laws, polite and
customs regulations of the country, like
native citizens and subjects, and that
this meant state laws as WI as federal
laws. This government might as well
stand upon that Interpretation and de-
cline TO consider 1t further" he said.
In advocating a modification of the
treaty which would restrict the immi-
grafton of the japanese coolie labor, Mr..
Gearin said that so long as these labor
ers are permitted to come into this
country in hordes, there will be a con-
slant and growing dlssension on the
Pacific coast, which eventually must
bring about restriction. He spoke
OF tne lnHuN or cheap Japanese labor as
threatened peril to every industry and
enterprise of the United States. an
the school OF bitter experience" he said.
we have learned that the unrestricted
immigration of Asiatic laborers to this
country is curse. an incentive to dis
order and menace to the welfare and
happiness and prosperity of the labor
ing man of America"
COMPETITION OF CHINESE.
Speaking feelingly of the competition
of the Chinaman. he told of the recog-
nized necessity OF bringing it TO an end,
and said:
Some of the means adopted to bring
about that end were perhaps question
able--might not, perhaps, measure up
to the high standard set by the senti-
mental altruitsic amateur political
economists who prattle about the broth
erhood of man might not perhaps meet
the approval of the present ndministra-
ton. But to those who understand the
situation the revolt of labor against this
rulnous and degrading competition was
justifiable-not only justifable, but
eommendable. and the Chinese exclu-
sion act has always been regarded by
our people as the best piece of leglsla-
ton that was ever enacted for the Pa
cific coast and for the nation Indirect
ly."
Mr.. Gearin pictured the probable