Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-19
TEXT OF SCHOOL AGREEMENT
Mayor Echmits Makes Statement Of Results
Of Whits House Conferences.
ORDER CHANGED ToAvOlD COMPLICATIONS
English, to ne Admitted 60 white
school and Coolies Are TO
he Excluded.


he Excluded.
WASHINGTON. Feb. Is.-Japanese chill
dren are to be admitted to the white |
schools Of San Francisco, under certain 1
restrictions: skilled and unskilled laborers /
coming from Japan barred from the main !
land OF the United States. ard American |
laborers. skilled and unskilled. are to be |
excluded from Japan,
This Is the basis Of the agreement be- |
tween President Roosevelt Secretary Root |
Mayor Schmitz and the San Francisco !
Board Of Education as an adjustment Of |
the anti-Japanese agitation brought about |
by the segregation of japanese children In |
the San Francisco schools. The agreement |
means the schools Of San Francisco will be |
conducted I'm the same manner as they |
were before the Board of Education adopted |
the resolutions last October providing for |
the segregation Of the japanese. except !
that adult japanese who are in primary |
grades must continue to attend the oriental
schools and that japanese children under
Is will be admitted to classes with white !
children of theirsown ages.
While the resolution of the Board of
Education. as amended reads children Of
alien BIRTH" II is freely admitted by Mayor
Schmitz and his associates that the resclu-
ton will apply only to the Japanese chill
dren and that the change in the wording
was to make It plain to the Toxic govern
ment that no discrimination was intended
against japanese children.
Meaning of Agreement.
Assistant City Attorney Williams Of San
Francisco, who has acted as legal advisor
to Mayor schmitz and the Board of Educa-
.
said tonight:
TO understand the exact meaning OF the
statement given out by Mayor Schmitz
tonight it will be necessary TO read between
the lines. The only concession we have
made is to admit japanese children to the
white schools. while in return the admins
! tration has brought about the exclusion
( OF japanese laborers from this country"
Mayor Schmitz said:
This is only a temporary agreement.
/ President Roosevelt has given US direct
and positive assurances that he will at once
| begin negotiations with Japan for the pur-
pose Of bringing about a new treaty that
will exclude japanese laborers. skilled or
unskilled. from continental United States "
Shortly before midnight the following
statement was given out at the White
| house:
statement was submitted to President
/ Roosevelt and Secretary Root by the Aso-
| ISOLATED press and the statement is entirely
| satisfactory to them.
| Mayor schmitE's Statement.
Mayor Schmitz' statement Of the agree
ment follows:
| We find that the administration and con-
gress are entirely alive to the situation In
California, and anxious to meet the wishes
! of the Californans. They are also de-
| sirous OF keeping on the best possible terms
| with Japan. and Of doing nothing which
may break the ancient friendship between
| that country and the United States 1t has
been explained to us that the form of ac-
ton taken by the school board of San Fran
cisco In relation to the Japanese school
children has been completely misunderstood
and misconstrued as an attack upon the
japanese as SUCH and that this misunder-
standing and misconstruction has been and
now is one of the chief obstacles to achiev-
ing the purpose California really has In
view, this purpose being to secure by hon
orable and amicable agreement with Japan
the mutual exclusion from the two coun-
tries Of the laborers, skilled and unskilled
Of each country. This earnest desire OF the
people OF California, and may add in
our belief of the people OF the entire Pacific
labOrers and our entire willingness and de-
sire that Japan should similarly put stop
to the going Of American laborers; skilled
and unskilled, TO Japan. springs from no
motive other than to bring about com
mercial and Industrial conditions to the
satisfactory understanding OF the two
we are satisfied from cur numerous in
terviews with the president that In the
event that the amendment to the immigra-
ton bill introduced in both houses OF con-
gress February 10 shall prove Intellectual
for the purpose herein mentioned and in
tended, every effort will be made by him
not only to obtain a treaty with Japan
authorizing LEGISLATION by both japan and
the United States to exclude from each OF
their respective territories the immigration
| Of all subjects Of the other OF said nations
, who are laborers. skilled and unskilled.
I baIf " will favor such form of
legislation that will in the most speedy
manner accomplish the results desired
with the view of the administration TO the
effect that the attainment OF the exclusion
skilled. should not be complicated with OF
endangered by the exercise of the right
Of segregation by The school board an.
: of the state Of California
: Change in school order.
1t is therefore proposed by the Board
] OF Education Of San Francisco to modify
the order esIegating the japanese public
made by amending the resolution, to reaC
: as follows:
{ speak the English language. in order u
] determine the proper grade which thel
: may be entitled to be enrolled. must mrs
e be examined as TO their educational quail
4 hcations by the principal OF the schoo
J. where the application for enrolment shall
: SECTION 2. That no child Of alien brit
1 over the ages OF 8 10. II, r. i3 Il. Is AM
5 &c years shall be enrolled in any of tn
first, second. third. fourth. fifth, sixth
q seventh or eighth grades. respectively.
s Section g. II said alien children shall
= be found deficient In their ability TO speal
,. or deficient In the elements OF the Engisl
? language or unable TO attend the grade
: mentioned in section 2. by reason of the re
d strictions mentioned therein, such childrel
n shall be enrolled in special schools or il
special classes established exclusively 70
\ such children as and In the manner tn
i Board OF Education shall deem proper an
: most eXpedient."