The San Francisco call., 1909-02-12
ANTI-AL|[N BILLS
KILLED IN SENATE
Solons Exhibit Profound Respect
For big Stick" in Consid-
GRAFTON of Measures
Anthony's Peroration for Sub
mission of Exclusion Question
to People Amuses Solons
Especial Dispatch 10 The CALI

| Especial Dispatch 10 The Call
| CALL HEADQUARTERS, CHAMBER
| OF COMMERCE BUILDING, SACRA-
MENTO, Feb. 1.-THE senate is not
! interested in anti-Japanese legislation.
| The senate has the profoundest respect
| for the big stick. The senate is re-
solved that the cute tricks of the gall
| lery teaser, so popular in the assembly
shall receive no encouragement in the
staid and conservative upper branch of
the legislature.
Just to show how it feels the senate
smothered one branch of the Japanese
| imbroglio this morning beneath the
light burden of point of order, gayly
taken and obediently uncontested; and
disposed of another to the tune of un-
stified yawns and i'll concealed filters.
| After many postponements, the report
| of the committee on executive COM
munications, approving the governors
Japanese message and recommending
that no anti-alien or other racially
offensive legislation be enacted at this
session, came up for action.
Senator'S Hurd and Leavitt ran a race
to see which would move that the con-
sideration of this report be indef-
nitely postponed, and Leavitt won. But
there were protests from the gallery
| teasers. Anthony insisted that the
|
ford thought a postponement of definite
action would be the proper thing.
Caminetti resented Leavitt's statement
that the assembly had chloroformed all
possible legislation.
Don't hang it in the air as though
we were afraid TO approach it. begged
| Sanford.
| Whereupon Miller quietly suggested
| that there was nothing for adoption or
rejection before the senate and Lieu
| tenant Governor Porter brought down
| his gavel. laundering that the point of
order was well taken and that it was
SO ordered. Ind that ended the mat
ter.
Later in the morning the clearing of
the file brought the senate around to
Anthonys bill for the submission to
the people at the next general election
| of the proposition of Asiatic exclusion
so that they might express their will
upon It, There is no way of prevent
| ing senator, short of discourtesy,
from making speech, so Anthony tore
! loose and a weird, unintentionally
| funny effort resulted.
After declaring that he would not
! touch upon this, that and the other
phase of the Japanese question, An
| thony plodded laboriously through all
of them. He balanced Nippon against
California; he made geography a thing
of laughter; he ranted, he pleaded, he
prosed. Through it all (and 1t lasted
more than an hour) the senate was a
model of inattention. Really, Japan
might have been an insignificant island
| off the line of ocean travel. for all they
/ cared Once Cartwright interrupted a
Characteristic Antonian flight to ask the
privilege of the floor for somebody.
and all who were in their seats grinned
at the cruel joke. But very few were
! in their seats; some were smoking in
the cIoakroom, some were hobnebbing
in the inner sanctum of the sergeant
at arms, some were busy with lobbyists
j in the rotunda-nobody was listening
! to Anthony lambasting the Japanese.
Anthony finally got through; but the
sigh of relief that breathed through
the chamber turned to an inward groan
when Hurd of Los Angeles arose to
refute Anthony's arguments, holding
formidable volume In his hand. But
Hurd was mereifully brief, and beyond
| declaring that the east was disgusted
with California's jingoism, sprang moth
! ing of an exciting nature. Cutten of
! Eureka said the final word when he
characterized the whole agitation as an
appeal to the gallery, and then a vote
was taken.
especially as Frank Leavitt had indus
| triously circulated through the senate
| in the early stage of Anthony 9
harangue, waving the big stick. An
thony mustered IL votes for his bill;
there were % cast against 1t. That
| leaves six who did not vote, and of
these Wolfe alone may be said to have
had valid excuse for absence, as he
is confined in bed with rheumatic gout.
| Here's the rollcall:
For the bilI-Anthony. Black. Burnett. Cami-
netti. Campbell Cartwright Finn, Hartman,
Holohan, Reilly Sanford, Welch1-12
Bor5fon. Curtin. Cutten, Hurd Leayitt. Lewis
! Martinelli Mccartney, Miller Price, Rush,
Savage. strobridge, Thompson, Walker. Weed,
| Absent-Estudilio, Hare. Kennedy Roseberry,
| Wolfe, Stetson.
Just to show that the assembly Is not
cowed to the last man on the Japanese
peril, Harry Polsley of Tehama today
| introduced a bill amending the law re-
lating to marriage so that marriage
of white, not only with negro, mu-
! latto Mongolian or Malay, but also
with a Japanese or Hindu, is declared
illegal and void.
The assembly passed with but six
dissenting votes the governors meas
ure providing that the state labor COM
missioner may expend $4,000 in gath
ering statistics about the number, class
and distribution of Japanese in this
state. as well as other data on the
subject, for the purpose of general cir
culation.
War Talk "Jingoism"
| NEW YORK, Feb. 11.-Count Ko-
kichi Midzu.. consul general of Japan
at New York was warmly applauded
tonight at the banquet of the Silk as
sociation of New York, when he de-
nounced as unrepresentative of the
sentiment of either the United States
or Japan all the war talk and jingo-
! fstic expressions recently heard.
War said he, "is a question of life
and death for nation. The destiny
and fate of an empire are of too much
moment to be risked at the behest of a
! few ambitious politicians and alarm
! lists. l do not doubt even for a mo-
ment that the present anti-Japanese
/ agitation does not represent the true
sentiment of the great American peo-
| Dle. / do not deny that there are lin
goistic newspapers in Japan, just as
| YOU have in this country. But, depend
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