The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-09-01
Text Of Proposed Law
Is Sweeping in
This Respect.
FilipinOs Only Would Be
Allowed In---Japanese
Not Excepted.

Under the provisions Of the Dilling-
ham immigration Bill, should that
measure become law at the coming ses.
sion of congress, to all intents and pur-
poses there will be in force a rigid
Japanese exclusion, quite as rigid as
the exclusion of Chinese. The bill places
every race not white or Of African de.
scent on an equal basis by excluding
all. The only people from the Orient
eligible TO enter Hawaii under the bill
viii be the Filipinos, who are exempted
specifically from the provisions Of the
bill.
Until the only two copies of the bill
to reach Hawaii-one being received by
the Governor, the other by The Adver-
tiser--were studied yesterday, it was
not known here at all definitely what
the status of Japanese and other orien.
tails under the proposed immigration
law might be. The cabled reports here
were hazy, so hazy that it was taken
by local Japanese TO mean that not only
were Japanese to be allowed to come
with no restrictions other than the
existing " gentlemen IS agreement but
that they would be accorded the same
rights to naturalization and citizenship
as the immigrants of any other nation
ality. When the Coast files came, with
the Washington kilograms upon which
the cable to The Advertiser were based,
little additional information was CLEAN
ed, the kilograms being quite as vague
as the cables and quite as lacking in
detail.
On Monday, however, copies of the
bill! were received and the full import
learned.
No change is made in the present
naturalization law, under which it has
been ruled that naturalization can be
granted only to white aliens or to aliens
of African descent. Now comes the
Dillingham; bill, saying ''The follow
ing classes of aliens shall be excluded
from admission into the United States
persons who are not eligible to
become citizens of the United States
by naturalization
Hawaii Excepted.
foregoing proviso excludes "male
aliens, sixteen years of age or over, who
are physically capable of reading and
writing, but who are unable to read OF
write in some language or dialect. >
From the provisions of this restriction
on immigration, Hawaii is exempted
but it ia provided that no alien enter
ing Hawaii may go to the mainland
without being able to pass the literary
test on arrival at the port of entry
of the mainland.
In discussing this point, Doctor Clarb
remarked last night that hereafter, il
the bill become law, it would be tC
Hawaii's advantage to give illiteratet
the preference in assisted immigration
because no illiterate would be able tC
leave the Islands for California.
Doctor Clark read over the copy OF
: the hin received by The Advertiser
being intensely interested, naturally. Ii
: it he found much that was gratifying
a from the standpoint of one whose busi
: ness it is to encourage immigration t.
q Hawaii. The bill as it stands places
no hindrance in the way of assisting
a European immigrants to come here, OF
the other hand offering privileges no
now enjoyed The right of territoria
immigration solicitor to enter the vari
! Gus immigration offices and solicit new
ly arrived immigrants for particula
:, section of the country is one new priv
ilege, for instance.