The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-19
JAPANESE PROBLEM IS NOW SETTLED Whole Matter of Exclusion in
 Presidents Hands PASS IMMIGRATION BILL Burnett Makes Point of order-Wil- Hams Sides With California, But
 Conference Report Goes on
 Strictly Party Lines.
PASS IMMIGRATION BILL

Washington, February 1S.-The House. soon after converting today, took up and began consideration of the conference re- port on the immigration bill, which was agreed to by the Senate Saturday
 After the reading of the report Repre- sentative Burnett of Alabama made points of order against the first provision which undertakes to regulate the incoming Of Japanese coolies by giving the President authority to refuse to recognize their passports. and also against the whole of section 42, having relation to the al. space in vessels in bringing immigrants To the United States.
 As to the first proposition, MT. Burnett insisted that the authority conferred by the section on the President put in his hands 'big stick which he could weld over a state. He declared it gave the chief executive a power which was never con templated by the constitution nor by the enabling act of any sovereign state.
 As to the second proposition, it was MT. Burnetts contention that the air space provision properly belonged in a bill re- lating to navigation, and had no part in bill regulating the immigration of aliens into the United States.
 MT. Bennett of New York, in charge of the conference report, contended that the points of order made against the two pro- visions should not lie because the Igo- visions had been considered by the House in other bills, and had really been con- sidered in connection wiIh the immigrd- tion.
 Williams With California.
 Mr. Williams of Mississippi said that the provisions relating to alien admission affecting the question of mixed schools in California had been injected into the bill to avoid possible foreign complications and that it was a matter which neither house had had an opportunity to discuss.
 Personally, he said, he was with Cali fornia in the stand 1t had taken in re- gard to the right of Japanese to attend the white schools. and he would stand by the peoule of California in anything for themselves as to the manner in which their schools should be conducted.
 Speaker Cannon advised Mir. Williams that in discussing points of order, pcli- tics could not De considered and that the only thing in controversy was whether the sections adopted by the conferees were properly in the bill.
 MT. Williams bowed. T yield to the wisdom of the ehair,' he said. but siNe notice thdl dill SolnS 10 talk aDoul the matters contained in the House sub stitute to the bill, and I shall take the side of California"
 Mir. Watson read from q decision made by Speaker Colfax which sustained the rights of the conferees to introduce new matter in conference report, providing that the subject had received considera- ton even in connection with some other measure. He took the ground that sec tions in the dispute were in the bill as a matter of right Mir. Bennett of New York supported the report on the ground that the whole immigration question had been thrown into conference"
 Mir Burnett asked the speaker if the whole Chinese exclusion law could not be repealed by a conference report.
 "Oh why does the gentleman ask about that which might, could, would or should