Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-14
TO TAKE CENSUS
OF ALL JAPANESE
STATES ASIATIC POPULATION
WILL BE COUNTED
out opposition-Senate Sure to
Concur-Anti-Rac Track
Bill Unsigned
IRv Associated Press.l

SACRAMENTO, Feb. 13.-While all
anti i-Japanese legislation upon which
the national government had stamped
it's disapproval was rejected in both
assembly and senate during the week
just closed, the assembly rushed to
final passage the measure suggested by
Governor Gillett and introduced by
Speaker Stanton, appropriating $4,000
for the taking of a census of Japanese
in California with the view of ascer-
tanning the necessity Of asking con-
gress for an Asiatic exclusion law.
There was practically no opposition
to the census measure.
In the senate a duplicate introduced
by Senator Leavitt of Alameda, had
been called UP with the idea of hurry
ing it through to passage when word
was received from the lower house that
Mr.. Stanton's bill had just been adopted
and Senator Leavitt agreed to withdraw
his bill pending the transmission of the
one already enrolled in the assembly.
AS soon as possible the senate will
pass the measure and it will go to the
governor for his signature and become
Immediately effective.
The lower branch was in an uproar
on Wednesday when a motion for re-
consideration of the vote by which
Grove L Johnson's. japanese school
segregation bill passed was brought up.
The battle that finally resulted in
reconsideration and rejection of the bill
at the urgent request of President
Roosevelt and Governor Gillett was one
of the most spectacular ever witnessed
in the legislature, according to veteran
solOnS.
Meadow Lark Bill Passed
The senate showed it's antipathy to
such measures on Thursday when Marc
Anthony's bill submitting the question
of immigration to a vote of, the people
was rejected by a large majority.
Another important bill acted on was
that drawn by j. w. Stuckenbruck Of
Acampo. classing meadow larks among
the unprotected birds of California.
The bill was passed by a bare ma
iority after a battle royal between
most of the country members on the
one side and a majority of the men from
the city on the other.
The ruraIites held that the lark de-
stroyed fruits and seeds, particularly
the table grapes, while the birds de-
tenders contended that it did no harm.
Governor Gillett did not reach the
Walker Otis anti-race track bill on his
file' this week. 1t was passed by the
assembly on January 21 and by the
senate on February 4, with little OPP
position in either house and reached the
governor last Wednesday,.
There is much interest in the signing
of the bill, because it does not become
operative until sixty days after sigma
ture is attached and every day of delay
gives the tracks at EmeryviIle and
Arcadia another twenty-fOur hours
lease on life.
The bill establishing a state depart
ment of banking and regulating all
financial institutions so that depositors
may be secured from repetition of re-
cent disastrous failures, passed the
senate and is in the assembly, a special
order of business for Thursday.
Considerable opposition arose when
the bill was taken up last Friday,
Grove L. Johnson and r. L. Beardslee
raising objection to several of it's pro-
visions.