Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-09
Speaker Stanton Kept
From California Leg
isIature.
MAY ACT IN ABSENCE
President Makes Public Long
Telegram on Proposed
Alien Laws.

San Francisco. Feb. 9.-The Chron-
from Sacramento predicting the pass
age of both the anti-Japanese meas
ures now being considered by the leg
islature These two measures are the
bill providing for the seregation or
undesirable aliens in the residence dis
tricts of towns and cities and regula-
tions providing for schools for the
Japanese.
WashOuts Delay Speaker.
Speaker stanton has been so de-
layed by washouts that it is hardly
likely he can get back to Sacramento
in time to assert his influence against
the bills and 1t is probable they Will
have already been voted on when he
arrives.
Language of Telegram.
Washington, Feb. 9.-"The policy of
the administration is to combine the
maximum of efficiency in achieving the
real object which the people of the Pa
cific slope have at heart with the min
imum of friction and trouble, while the
tion as this against which protest are
following policy which combines the
minimum of efficiency with the maxi
mum of insult and which, while totally
failing to achieve any real result for
good, yet might accomplish minimum
HARM
In this language President Roosevelt
yesterday in long telegram to Speak
er P. A. Stanton of the California as,
seTnbIy. set forth the government s
view of the anti-Japanese legislation
now before that body.
The president stated that the bill
gives just and grave cause for irrita
tion and that the government would be
obliged Immediately to take action il
the federal courts to test such legisla
tion, because it is held to be clearly {
violation of the treaty obligations O
the United States The telegram t
Speaker Stanton was sent only afte
a conference with Senator Flint ant
Representative Kahn of California ant
F. K. Lane of the Interstate commerc,
commission.
Message Sent to stanton.
To Speaker Stanton the presiden
sent the following:
81 trust there will be no misundel
standing of the federal government
attitude. We are jealously endeavol
ing to guard the interest of Californi
. and of the entire west in accordanc
with the desires of our western people
BY friendly agreement with Japan W
are now carrying out policy which
while meeting the interests and d.
sires of the Pacific slope, is compat
BILE, not merely with mutual sci
respect, but with mutual esteem an
admiration between the Americans an
Japanese.
Japs DO Their Part.
"The Japanese government is 10,
ally and in good faith doing its part
carry out this policy, precisely as til
American government is doing. TIL
policy aims at mutuality of oblisatio
and behavior In accordance with
the purpose is that the Japanese sha
come here exactly as Americans go
ers, students, persons engaged in /
ternational business, men who sojoul
for pleasure or study, and the lik
shall have the freest access from OF
country to the other, and shall be su
of the best treatment, but that the
shall be no settlement in mass by Il
people of either country in the othe
Number of Japs Here Decreasing.
During the last six months, und
this policy, more Japanese have le
the country than have come in, al
the total number in the United Stat