The Washington herald., 1909-02-07
COAST DEFENSE GUARD
Anti-Alien School Bill Advo-
Gates Score Use of Big Stick
Assenblymea Declare There should
Be No Delay ON Vote-One seFs-
paper Holds LegisIss-fe Hzs asea
Grc-zTs lass-e-f-sar Tszacsssss
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Aelien - Fes-a ceverame-

-4alento. Cal, Feb. s-Thzt c
GiIlett has received from the War
partmeBt a request 70 organize sixts-
companies Of state troops to be held
reserve for state coast defense was
report circulated here tonight.
The work Of organization VIII begin
once. it is said.
Recently three regiments Of rszuI
troops were asked but the request "
refused The report, coming, as It doe
in the midst of the snti-Japanese tro.
bic. has created q great sensation.
Gov. Gillett tonight refused to discu.
the report or 10 say whether If had an.
thing 10 do with the snti-Japsnese agin
ton
The fact that many desire the passse
OF biH that viii save white chiIdre
from sitting side by side with full-grow
japanese men in the public schools, tt
most offensive bin OF them all" IN if
opinion of President Roosevelt. gives ant
japanese legislation . most serious aspe,
tonight
Advocates Are Hopeful.
It seems impossible for the bin 10 pas
the senate. and even then before It coui
beeome . law. it would have 70 he e
passed over Gov. Gnletts veto. Yet
advocates are crying out against "th
big stick. and assert that they are hoFe
fHl Of victory.
Asse8lblymsR Grove l. johnson. .au.ho
OF the bill said tonight:
7 think the assembly viii stand l,- II
guns next Wednesday. and refuse 10 .
consider the vcte Whereby my 5iH rs
passed last Thursday. favored postpone
aent Of further action on my An.- -Japa
nese bills simply ogt Of defsTence <
Speaker Stanton. and not because
feared the big stick There wHI be r
more delay. no matter hou many ted
grams may be sent to the legisfstur
Personally. / am rot afraid Of .the ii
stick II passage of my bills win briE
On var with Japan, why, Iet var eoia4.
UphoIdS state Rights.
Senator Anthony Csminetti. wao fn,rs
duced the school bin IN the senate. vi
more guarded in his utterances. al
turned the discussion from the ouestld
Of aliens To the broader issue Of STAT
rights.
The school segregation biz. which Il
advocates, ne insists. Is suuIreIy Wirhi
the province o. a legislature TO handH
and he deries that any treaty with a foi
eign power Is valid II It infrinzes on tb
sovereignty OF STATE, and its right
deal with its local problems in its oa
way
camiae1ti. who Is Democrat. savs
has plenty Ct Republican authority
support his contention. and with tn
ammunitioh ne expects to win over man
Of his Republican colleagues when II
debate CT tie question is started on II
floor Of the upper house.
The Daily News this afternoon prfnf
the following editorial on PresideI
Roossvelt's action in connection with Il
legislature at Sacramento under the car
ton. Busted His Big Stick.
Ought to Feel InsuIted.
If there were anything Ike dignit
about the California legislature. that bod
ought 10 feel grossly insulted by Roos
velt's latest cracking Of the whip. zhi,
set GiIlett 20 dancing his pro-Japanese j
once more
This (the school biID is the most o
fensive bit OF AL wires Roosevelt, an
in my judgment. IS clearly unoonsfit
tional. ard we should have to test *
the courts. Can il not be stopped IN
legislature or By veto?
to Roosevelt. IS not 20 prohibit Japsne
owning real estate and to serve on &C
poration directories. but 10 prevent fhs
association with our children. We can
up tie japanese in business way, b
must not refuse 20 receive them on
ciaI equality.
no matter If Roosevelt. Root. and
whole Washington SQUAD Of staH-f
diplomats are back OF II
Authority Is Denied.
The San Francisco Chronicle, in an e.
toriaI to-day. says;
The Chronicle denies with ali
vigor which II possesses that the Fe
eraI government. by treaty or othe
wise. can exercise the slightest autho
ity over the management Of the scboc
CT any state. or whether any Sta
shall or shall not discriminate betwe
pupils OF different nationalities
we deny that the right 10 atteH
American schools ever puTports 70
conveyed TO the japanese By our tFeat
and we assert. even more vigorousl
that the treaty making power has -
authority even TO consider such a pro
osition
But we recognize that the lanSGa3
Of the Constitution is such thar the
pTeme Court can decide that ouestit
whichever way il desires to decide
and sustain itself by a WelI-cOnRectf
chain Of reasoning
And as the supreme Court Of Il
United States IS now constituted there
is grave probability that the control
OF eur schools might be taken from Us
at the pleasure Of the treaty power
and If II were We should have 20 sub
nit to Il or start q rebellion. which
would come TO a speedy end. The same
day, that Constitutional question would
be settled. and settled right
Meanwhile the wires 10 and from WASH
ington are working overtime Il IS feIr
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