Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-19
Administration to Wait Until
AntI-aIien Land Bill Becomes
Law.
BLOW AT RACIAL PRIDE
RESENTED BY NlPPONESE
Movement i'll California to Submit
Measure to Referendum-Believed
to Have Chance for Success.

>oR AWENTO. May I9.-tov. John
SON late to-day signed the alien land
bitt. against which Japan protests. and
which the California legislature passed
rcmoostrsuccs of President Wilson and
Secretary Hr.an. The act will go int q
effect ainety days from date. or August
Il.
The administrations reply 10 the
Japanese note If protest against Cali
fori,ia legislation will not he formally
made up and transmitted until Gov
johnson actually signs the work of the
state legislature and makes the OBJ
roNious measure law. That Gov. John
son VIII sign the bill cannot he doubt
ed as ne has declared he will do so
but the administration finds no reason
IL rush reply until an alleged offense
Is completed by final action.
the Japanes note of protest con
tinues To lie regarded as confidential
oy the administration. but it is rot un-
uerStood to contain new material of
any nd. Although direct aud pointed
the note IS not objectionable in it's
TONE o'l the contrary, the whole Jap
aneSe attitude, note and converSat ions
or Amba sSadof thinda with Secretary
brNan mas been in spirit that bellies
tue aggressive position taken at some
VI tas japanese mass meetings The
nave acted in such an admirable spirit
thdt the administration viii meet them
IN the same manner doing notlin.. ia
kindfe whatever animosities may exist
ttFe Is every reason To believe that
tine IRE that has been kindled by .'.e Cal
ifofn.a legislature and governor viii b..
ETTlotHeted through the earnest desire.
OF the higher officials of both nations IT,
prevent any severance of existing cordial
relations
Japanese Resent Blow at Pride.
TIE hard nut of il ali with IRE admin,
istration is the knowledge that the r,ln,ia
mental objection of the japanese govern
nlent and people is not the California
legislation. but the Implication through
TINS legislation and in every other vav
ltdt certain americans do not regard thr,
Japanese as racially fit for associated.
WIN themselves. a direct blow at the.
piide OF nation that has made iinmens,.
progress in fifty or sixty years. TIE sI,.
gestion that the Jaianese are inferior /.
Sifet delicate thing that no one can nre
'iet li"w Z might end
= big factor toward a satisfactory SET
.icihen'' however. II IS pointed, QUITS
that tRe majority Of the American peoplc
heaIed oS the higher officials of tire ad-
Htlh1stIa1on. are regarded as friendly by
dapan. the officials ana the peopIe =.
"nicn know that on this side of the wa
ciNdi dtiliiFdllpE Tor the
iiaofdiDaFy achievements of the Jana
heSe people and nation and u sincere de-
sire TO prevent anything that will dis
lupt tae two countries.
me movement in California to submit
tue antI-alien land act 10 referendum
IS understood to he viewed hy the ad
n'ntstratlon as affording further oppo,-
iIniiy for diplomatic adjustment of the
ISSUES between the United States and
Chances of Success Improve.
II had been assumed here that because
OF the apparently overwhelming senti-
ment In California in favor of Japanese
exclusion from land owning there might
be difficulty in obtaining the 20 0o0 sigma
lures necessary To invoke the referendum
Now. lcwever. that the exclusion e!..
hent Itself, or rather its most radic;l ,
cpmponent-the Asiatie Exclusion League
mas taken up the movement the prof,a-
biitties of its success have greatly in
crea sed in the official Judgment
The Japanese government is not ex-
rocled To approve that method % dealing
with its protest. though probably il will
b. difficult for tte Toxic foreign office
to find technical grounds for objection 10
the method in which California is at
tempting 10 legislate. Officials here fee
that Japan regards the present as the
best time permanently 10 settle the ques-
tlpu. AMI that il will Contemplate with
iElpatience delay Of AT least a year and
half, even tough in N. interim the
rroposed law We're not applied To the
J; panes. III California