The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-04-30
THREE MINUTES AFTER CONFER
ENCE ENDS, SENATE ADOPTS
ANTl-ALlEN BILL.
VOTE IS UNANIMOUS
Minority Members Say Measure Is
Worse Than All Others Proposed
Be Signed by Governor Johnson
Seerctary's Reasons Not Sufficient.

Sacramento, Cal, April 29.--lf the
purpose Of the visit of the secretary of
state was to check further action by
the legislature on an alien land law
directed against the Japanese, his mis-
sion has been failure.
Conferences between Secretary
Bryan and tho Legislators closed at
1850 o'clock tonight after the last of
tho arguments of President Wilson and
the head Of the state department had
been presented.
Within three minutes, and before
most of the spectators knew what had
occurred, Senator A. E. Boynton, pres
ident pro tempore of tho upper house.
convened the senate and an amended
land BILL which provides that no alien
who is ineligible to citizenship under
tho laws Of the United States may
hold real property in California, was
adopted as substitute for the pend :
ing measure by unanimous viva voce
vote.
It will como up for final passage in
tho regular course of business Thurs
day and undoubtedly will be approved
according to tho predictions of the ad
ministration leaders. When it comes
to Governor johnson it will be signed
The new bin Is drawn in strict con-
formity with the treaty between Japan
and the United States. but all efforts
to secure an opinion from Secretary
Bryan or President Wilson failed and
the state leaders decided forthwith to
proceed with their plans for enacting
it into law.
Opinions Unchanged.
Secretary Bryan brought into the
final conference tonight further mes
sages from President Wilson, but they
met with no response from the
legislators, At the close of the secret
meeting Governor johnson and several
administration leaders declared their
opinions remained unchanged
President Wilson's messages were in
the form of replies to questions asked
Secretary Bryan on the preceding day.
In answer to the question as to the
effect of a law containing the words
ineligible to citizenship" would have
upon the federal government. Presi-
dent Wilson sent the following to Sec
retary Bryan:
Evaded.
II can only say that cannot assume
that the representations heretofore
made to the governor and the legisla-
ture, and which your presence In Sac
ramento must necessarily have greatly
emphasized, will be dsregardch and so
render 1t necessary to consider that
question:
That was taken as the nearest an
proach to a threat Of danger that has
been made since the conference began
In reply to "A question as to whether
the substitute bin drawn by Attorney
General Webb, which was acted on by
the senate later, would be acceptable.
Secretary Bryan said:
Il have telegraphed to President
Wilson and he deems 1t inadvisable to
sanction any particular statutes or
forms of legislation. He thinks that 1t
should be made emphatically evident
that we are acting just now as the
federal government, sanctoning not
this or that, but as friends of Califor-
MIA, wishing to be of such service as is
possible to California in a critical
matter
No replies had been received to most
of the other questions and when Sec
retary Bryan concluded reading and
discussing his messages, the confer
ence came to an end.
While the senate was rushing
through the revised draft of the Bird
sall-Thompson bill, Governor Johnson
prepared statement in which he ex-
pressed the views of the maioritv
party. The statement Is as follows:
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