The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-02-05
JAPANESE SCHOOL
QUESTION
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/ the Federal Government to say who
/ shall enter their schools and who shall
not. (Applause). And there is no at
tempt upon the part of the Federal
government here to interfere with this
question. But the State Department
! informs this House, through its Judi
| ciary Committee, that they have i'm
mense complications growing up.
want to say to this House today that
the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr.
Sherley) is entitled to great credit from
this House for taking upon himself the
responsibility of bringing into this
House this great and important ques-
ton.
MR.. JENKINS. Now, look at the
bill for moment; and l regret very
much when my friend from California,
whom / respect so much, asks if it
would interfere with his schools out in
/ San Francisco. That has been very
clearly stated here today. l do not
think there is a man of intelligence in
the United States today, no matter
what his political Affiliations may be,
but who agrees that that question is
solely within the power of the State,
and never want to live long enough
to find that the Federal government
has power enough to override the state
with reference to that question. Gap
| plause.) And when the State of Cali
fornia says just how her schools shall
be created and who, shall enter and
who be excluded, she has the exclusive
power and paramount right, and the
Federal government cannot interfere
with it.
MR.. DE ARMOND and MIR. HENRY
of Texas rose.
MR.. JENKINS. l yield to the gen.
tleman from Missouri.
.S''AfR. DE ARMOND. Mr.. Speaker,
would like to ask the gentleman a
question at that point: Suppose this
law were passed, and suppose in some
treaty the right were given to aliens of
different color and different race
to enter our white schools, and suppose
that some person In authority denied
them admission, and suppose there was
an effort made to indict those persons.
| Could that effort be pursued in the fed
eral court under this provision, if
| enacted?
MIR. JENKINS. do not think am
sufficiently conversant with the Bible
to quote it correctly, but l think the
Bible Essays, Sufficient unto the day is
the evil thereof 1 do not think there
is any Senate of the United States that
will come after us that will make a
treaty that overrides the rights of the
States. We have no such treaty re-
gulation today
MIR. HENRY of Texas. Can the gen.
tleman name one right any State has
| denied to the alien?
MR.. JENKINS. There is no State
in the Union which can give protection
to the alien against any conspiracy
against his treaty rights.
MR.. HENRY of Texas. Name one of
the fifty, then. The gentleman from
Kentucky (Mr. Sherley) says he can
name fifty.
MR.. SHERLTY. If the gentleman
will read just the history of the trouble
in California, he will find even the
right of residence, the right to conduct
laundry, the right to live-every sort
of right-was denied to the Chinese
during that immense excitement there.
MR.. HENRY of Texas. Does the
gentleman mean to say that there was
no law to protect those rights?
MR.. SHERLEY. l say there was no
state law that did protect those rights.
MIR. HENRY of Texas. The gentle
man means to say that the state law
was violated, perhaps?
MR.. SHERLTY. l mean to say the
State did not protect the alien, and the
Federal Government did not have the
power to do so.
MIR. JENKINS. Mr.. Speaker,
want to simply say in conclusion to the
members of this House, as far as l am
concerned, that every gentleman on the
floor of this House knows that this
government has perfect power to enter
into treaty relations with other govern
ments. Therefore we should clothe
the Federal Government with power to
proect aliens under any treaty regula-
lions that this government might make