Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-10
FLOOR LEADERS MEET
Effort to Stop Japanese Bills
Unsuccessful.
VOTE SURE TO BE TAKEN
Assemblyman Johnson Declines to
Accept Compromise.
NOW UP TO THE LEGISLATURE
Believed the School Measure Will
Stand Unless Speaker Stanton
Plays Strong Trump Card.
NOW UP TO THE LEGISLATURE

SACRAMENTO. Cal, February 10
The fight in the California legislature
over the anti-Japanese bills was resumed
today with the argument on the question
of the reconsideration of the measure
providing separate schools for Japanese
children.
All efforts of Gov. Gilett and his sup
porters in the assembly to make COM
promise agreement on anti-Japanese agi-
tation have failed.
The floor leaders met today in the office
of Speaker Philip A. Stanton to discuss
the situation, which they considered des-
perate.
Grove l.. Johnson, author of the school
segregation bill. who was called into con-
sultation last night with Gov. Gillett,
Speaker Stanton and J. Z. Transue. mott
fled them this morning that he would
make a fight against reconsideration of
the vote by which the school bill was
passed last week.
He would agree to no new measure
as was proposed last night. The gov
ernor urged johnson to withdraw from
the fight, explaining the situation be-
tween Japan and the United States as
he learned from President Roosevelt, but
the assemblyman .'stOod pat
At the conference yesterday Repre-
sentative Johnson was asked to with
drawn the bill. but Gov. Gillett denies
that any compromise in the way of prom
Use of support for milder anti-Japanese
measures was given to induce the as
semblyman from Sacramento to consent
to the sacrifice of his pet measure.
Look to Speaker Stanton.
1t is hardly likely that motion to
reconsider will prevail today unless
Speaker Walter Stanton executes some
unexpected coup. He may do this by
bringing the party lash into play. for
since the democratic caucus many of the
republicans have maintained that the
minority has seized upon the Japanese
questi to play for political advantage.
Johnson's bill to restrain unhealthy.
undesirable and immoral persons to GER
tain prescribed limits in municipalities
will come up for action today, and action
on the measure is expected.
In the Senate the only anti-JapaneSe
matter in sight is set of resolutions pre-
pared by Marc Anthony on the subject.
1t Is said that the resolutions will score
the President for his rebuke of Senator
Perkins.
Lined UP Behind Senators.
1t is a curious fact that the assembly
is lined up in opposing ranks according
to the districts from which the two United
States senators hail.
The entire southern delegation, with the
exception of Gibbons of San Luis Obispo
is behind Senator Flint, who comes from
Los Angeles in his support of the Presi-
dent while the San Francisco delegation
and most of the legislators from Oak
land and the central interior towns find
their model in Senator Perkins of Oak
land.
Johnson's school bill is an amendment
to section 1862 of the California political
code, adding the one word JAPANESE &c
the section as it now stands. The word
"Mogolian" is already used in the code
but it was the contention of the Japanese
at the time of the trouble developing from
attempted segregation in San Francisco
that they were Mongolians. His meas
ure providing for residential segregation
of the Japanese in municipalities is new
OREGON DEFEATS JAP BILL.