The Irish standard., 1907-02-23
BASIS FOR Ending
JAPANESE TROUBLE
SCHOOLS ARE TO BE OPENED TO
ALIEN CHILDREN UNDER
RESTRICTIONS.

cooIie Labor Shut out-Passaae Of
immigration Bill Settles the Con.
troversy-Tokio Disposed to Accep.
Plan Quietly.
Washington, Feb. 19. - Japanese
children are to be admitted to the
white schools of San Francisco under
certain restrictions; skilled and un-
skilled laborers coming from Japan
are to be barred from the mainland
of the United States, and American Ia
borers, skilled, and unskilled, are to
be excluded from Japan.
This Is the basis of the agreement
between President Roosevelt, Secre-
tary Root, Mayor Schmitz and the San
francisco school board as an adjust
ment of the anti-Japanese agitation
brought about by the segregation of
Japanese children in the schools of
San Francisco:
The agreement means that the
schools of San Francisco will be con-
Quoted in the same manner as they
were before the board of education
adopted the resolution last October
providing for the segregation of the
Japanese, except, that adult Japanese
who are in primary grades must con-
tinue to attend the oriental schools
and that Japanese children under 16
years of age will be admitted to
classes with white children of their
own ages.
While the resolution Of the school
board, as amended reads, Children
OF alien birth" it is freely admitted by
Mayor Schmitz and his associates
that the resolution will apply only to
the Japanese children and that the
change in the wording was to make
1t plain to the Toxic government that
no discrimination was intended
against Japanese children.
cooIie Labor Excluded.
Assistant City Attorney Williams of
San Francisco, who has acted as legal
adviser to Mayor Schmitz and the
board of education since negotiations
have been pending in Washington,
Monday night said: "The only con.
cession we have made is to admit
Japanese children to the white schools
while in return the administration has
brought about the exclusion of Jap
anese laborers from this country"
Mayor Schmitz said:
This is only temporary agree.
n,ent. President Roosevelt has given
us direct and positive assurances that
he will at once begin negotiations
with Japan for the purpose of bring
ing about a new treaty that will ex.
clude Japanese laborers, skilled and
unskilled, from continental United
States"
Toxic Takes 1t Quietly.
Toxic, Feb. 19.-The passage of
President Roosevelt's passport bill by
the senate of the United States was
semi-officially announced Tuesday
morning. The leading newspapers ex.
planned that this action by the United
States government is perfectly legiti.
innate and in accordance with treaty
lstipulations. 1t is also pointed out
that the promise of success of the ju.
ldicial procedure in the school ques-
,tion is lessening. The newspapers
thus far have refrained from making
comment ON this latest news from
Washington.
1t is believed that the immigration
companies will combine to attack the
ment is reached with America on the
basis proposed. 1t is thought that
the general public, while regretting
the solution of the San Francisco
school question taking this form, will
calmly resign itself to the situation.
Japanese in Hawaii Protest.
Honolulu, Feb. 2O.-At a mass meet.
ing of Japanese held Monday night
the following cablegram was ordered
sent TO President Roosevelt:
The Hawaiian Japanese respect,
fully protest in the name of humanity
and civilization and also in the name
of liberty against the prohibition of
their emigration to the United States.
1t enslaves us permanently to Ha-
waiian capitalists"
The meeting also cabled to the Jap.
anese foreign Office as follows:
"The Hawaiian Japanese are unani.
nous in firm opposition to the action
of the American congress in prohibit.
ing them from emigrating to America,
which is incompatible with the EN-.
pire's dignity and ruinous to Japanese
interests in Hawaii. Energetic oppo.
sition is requested