The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-05-20
Rhinocous Repeated Charges Bird Shot Instead Using
Persistent Nagger Like Big Hunter Who Attempts To Kill

Sacramento and 80 days after the ad-
iournment of the Legislature, or on
August 10, the act becomes operative.
While the governor was signing the
bill the steamship Korea was passin1
through Golden Gate bearing two dis
tinguished Japanese, one a former pu-
Dill of President Wilson, on mission
of investigation.
Meanwhile complications, national
and sectional, beset the bill. Over
shadowing all is the outcome of the
negotiations now in progress between
this country and Japan, which has in
terpreted the act as discriminating
and offensive. Within California it.
self the act has encountered triple
hostility which may delay its activi-
ty until November /, 1914. Demo
Gratis opposed state legislation at
this time as matter of party regular
ity. Nevertheless, so plain to them
seems to be the demand for the bill
that, after exhausting all parliament
airy tactics, the Senate gave but one
adverse democratic vote and the AS
sembly but two.
AS an expression of this opposition
Theodore Bell, late democratic candi-
date for governor and former chair
man of the democratic state central
committee, has issued an invitation
to his party to submit the issue to
the people by invoking the referen-
dunn against the bill. He grounds his
opposition on two contentions-one
that the bill is insufficiently drastic
because it permits leases running
three years and, second, because at
the present time 1t embarrasses the
national administration.
The Asiatic expulsion league, an
organization of which the president
is Olaf Tveitmoe. recently convicted
of completely in the national dyna-
mite plot originating in Indianapolis,
announced Sunday night that ii
would inv Ike the referendum purely
because ii oposes the bill as faint
hearted.
Third, the powerful Panama Pacific
international exposition company
backed by many chambers of com
merce has placed itself on record in
opposition to the bill on the ground
that it is a violation of faith. ANY
action of the Legislature" said the
directors of the company, offensive
to any foreign country to their pride
as a people or their honor, as a ma
ton, must challenge the good faith of
the commonwealth"
In reply to this threatened hostili-
ty, Gov. Johnson said yesterday in
signing the bill: California for the
first time in its history has an anti
alien law. Any man who wishes an
other kind of law may consistently
invoke the initiative. No man who
really wishes any anti-alien law will
sign the referendum as to this law
If another law is sought, it may be
presented by m cans of the initiative
and in the meantime the present law
will be in operation"
The two visiting Japanese are Scr
oku Ebaraw of the constitutional par
~ and member of the House Of
Peers, and Ayao Hattori OF the ma
tionafist party and member Of the
lower House. On their arrival they
made plain that they did not come in
any official capacity. but merely as
representatives of their parties with
view to Tearing the actual condi-
tons and prevailing sentiment in Cal
ifornia. Mr.. Hattori said "Our
plans are somewhat indefinite. We
may see Gov. Johnson and | expect
to visit President Wilson at his sum
mer home before ! return. / was TAX.
ing special work at Princeton when
the president was lecturing there and
his course was one of those / attend.
ed"