Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1907-01-29
The Council Expresses an Opinion That 1t
Spoke Too Soon
Legislation Designed to Raise the Level of the
Bar--COl. William j. Bryan Receives Invitation
to Come o Phoenix.

The first spirited, but Got ill-natur-
ed clash of the legislative session, oc-
CURED yesterday in the council in an
unexpected manner. on the las pre-
vious legislative day the council mad
c0ncurred in House Concurrent Reso-
luton No 3. expressing sympathy
with California in the contest which is
now i'm progress there over the school
question in San Francisco.
The concurrence in the resolution
was unanimous. on the motion of Mr.
Cleaveland. who yesterday moved FOR
a reconsideration Of that action He
said that since then he and other
members had given the resolution more
thought and had discovered that il
meant a great deal more than sym
pathy with California. He intimated
that was not the uppemost subject in
the mind OF the originator of the res
olution but that the purpose or the
effect of il was a criticism of the fed
eral government and Of congress.
Mr.. Weedin spoke in opposition to
the motion to reconsider. He said that
much more was at stake than the
school system Of California: mora than
the integrity of the Japanese-American
treaty. The integrity Of the states was
involved and it became the legislature
and all good citizens to raise a pro-
test against the aggressions of the fed
eral power.
President DOran took the floor. He
said he was not wanting in sympathy
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be considered than the public schools
Of the state. In the first place it was
To be determined whether the people of
San Francisco had done the right
thing; whether they had not violated
the terms of the treaty with japan. At
any rate it was improper to criticize
the administration and the congress as
was done in this concurrent resolution
which set out. with charging q thing
which could not be proved and which
was without foundation, that congress
was engaged in this work Of aggres-
sion. He desired the opponents of the
resolution to point to a single act of
the congress which could be construed
to be an encrOachment upon the rights
Of the states. This the speaker be-
lieved to be a covert democratic at
tack upon the administration and
this" said he, lis a republican cOun-
Gil"
President DOran said that since the
concurrence in the resolution ne had
, examined the terms OF the treaty with
Japan. Under it he found that Japan
was treated as a most favored ma
tiOn." that its subjects were accorded
all the rights of American citizens.
The japanese he said were people Of
the highest intelligence and enterprise
and they We're deserving Of the respect
, of the civilized world.
He said further that great sums were
spent in carrying the Christian gospel
among them. The efforts for the
christianizing of them would be rem
dered abortive by the attempts to de-
grade them on their arrival in a
Christian country.
Mr.. O'Neill in reply said that this
country was not interested in the work
of the missionaries: that il was not in
the mission business; that the conStitu-
tion on the other was implicitly against
the nation becoming involved in the
saving of the souls OF the heather and
certainly the country could not become
, engaged in that work if thereby the
smallest right of its citizens was to be
sacrificed.
Mr.. O'Neill said further that the OBJ
ject OF this and all similar resolutions
was to assist the Californians in pro-
tecting themselves against oriental con-
tamination. They had been been very
liberal with the Mongolians. They had
established schools especially for them.
schools in every respect as good as the
white schools.
In reply to a eulOgy pronounced by
Mr.. Doran upon President Roosevelt