Arizona republican., 1913-05-12
Japanese Decide to Ask Ali- zona Senate to Give Them Privilege of Presenting Their Claims When the Commission Arrives.
MASS Nj l., F. T l N C
 IDEA ABANDONED
Members of Imperial Diet Investigating Committee to Arrive Next Week. Dr.. Hughes A q drc s $ e $ Meeting.

Application will be made this morn ing by tine Japanese association to the senate of the Arizona legislature for a public hearing before the committee on revision of the code. of the protest against II F. 34 and particularly sec
 ton three of the bin. the anti alien land law. This is the action that of ficers of the association were author ized to pursue by the members of the association in special meeting yes terday. The meeting was convened at 3:30 and adjourned at 6:30 for the pur- pose of allowing the members of the committee To eat their supper and re- convened at 7:45. when the meeting was addressed by Dr. II. \. Hughes.
 The members of the diet inVestiga- ton committee who will arrive in this country within the next week are Juitse sSoieda. a banker: $ EVhera and A. Hoptari, members of the diet from the province of Kobe. These gentlemen will come almost direct to Phoenix and will present their credentials to Gov ernor Hunt and will ,ndeaVor 10 be present at all the hearings in the sen ate chamber. Niscount Chinda will al- so be represented by an attache of the embassy.
 The senate committee will be re
 quested today to set the date of the hearings at a time that will allow the representatives of the Japanese gov ernment sufficient time to reach here and to allow them ample time to pre- pare their ease.
 All the members of the association are Christians and the meeting yes terday was opened with prayer and the singing Of hymns. Other Japanese who still retain their Shinto religion
 held services in the ritual of their fore
 fathers.
 pr Hughes speech was devoted to
 the anti alien land law and dWeIt on
 the fathcrhood of God and brotherhood of man That il was necessary to q complete understanding of the veXa-
 tious questions that have now arisen between this country and Japan that 1 there should be a strong belief in this
 fact. He stated that even the people
 of Arizona had hard time to get con
 gress to admit that Arizona was fit for the duties of statehood, even the congressional committee had stated that this young -old-country had not progressed in q manner that would entitle it to manage it's own affairs 1 But by earnest work and prayer the long wished for result was attained and so it would be with the Japanese if they put their shoulders to the wheel { and prayed for divine help.
 The big mass meeting that was planned for May 1S has been postponed and various small meetings in the diff | ferent cities and Gowns of the state have been decided upon as the best | thing to do under the circumstances. l The first meeting will he held in Yuma and then all the towns along the 1 southern border of the state will be 1 visited. Then the delegates will cover l the eastern towns, swinging back in q | big circle to Phoenix
 1 The association has retained a well 1 known lawyer to look after the legal 1 end of the protest and to assist them ! in their fight before the senate Cop 1 ies of the treaty between the United 1 States and Japan will be secured and 1 these will be used as a basis of the ! argument against the proposed law l The hearing against the bill will be the l most interesting feature of parliament 1 tary proceedings that has ever been l before the state solons and the argu-
 ments pro and con will take quite a lit 1 tie time to both to hear and to decide