The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-28
SISSON'S WAR SPEECH STIRS
 CONCRESSMEN
Mississippi Member Delivers Stirring
 Land Bill Talk
Bryan Arrives in California Ready for Conference Gov.
 Johnson Meets Him

JUlEilSUII NlHEtS ffIIIl l Washington, April 2S.-"A war lspeech' in support of the proposed
 California antf-aIieH land law was de- | hVered in the House, today, by Rep
 resentative Sisson, of Mississippi.
 -'If we must have war or submit to
 this indignfty, I am for war; cried MT. Sisson. II am with the people of
 California in their efforts to prevent
 these aliens from acquiring Iand.''
 II believe said. MT. Sisaon, that no nonresident alien should be aI- | lowed to hold a. single. foot of land in | the territory of the United States. | What would Washington say in an-
 sWer to the question, war or submis-
 sion? What would Jackson say? l What would Cleveland say? What 1 would Mckinley say!
 ''I resent the efforts of Japan to force us to submit to her demands"
 Mir. Sisson took the position that the
 Japanese government in protesting
 against alien land law legislation was
 endeaviring to exempt it's citizens 1 States.
 The President and Secretary of
 State,' said Sisson, should only as
 sure alien government that the | people of that alien would be dealt
 with fairly in accordance with the law 1 of the State. Any other position
 would lead to the federal government | taking out from under the laws of the
 States the citizens of another nation. ! But all other citizens or aliens resid-
 ing in a State must be held subject to | its laws and to exempt that alien 1 would give him privileges over and 1 above those accorded to American cfti- zenS.''
 Representative Mann, the Republican
 leader, suggested the United States
 had the constitutional right to treat I with foreign powers to secure for American citizens property rights
 abroad and that MT Sisson was con l tending that the foreign government 1 did not have a similar right. Mr. Sisson contended that the peo-
 pde of California had the right to pass
 laws regarding alien holding of land l as in their judgment seemed best when such laws did not infringe upon the federal constitution. MT. Sisson discussed at length points of international law involved in the dispute and declares that California
 was endeavoring to do only what Japan had already done.
 If Japan now threatens us with war what would she do when millions >of her citizens have acquired land in our country?'' he said. 'I lay down the proposition that an alien population holding land within our borders would be a fixed and constant menace. We must preserve to the American farmer the right to till the soil of our country without competition which would bring down his standard of lfv- ing. I would not surrender it unless
 we had spent the last drop Of blood in American manhood and impover-
 ished our country for a hundred gene- ratfons."
 It was stated at the Japanese Elm bassy, today, that there had been no | change in the status of the negotia- tions regarding the California alien land bill since Secretary's Bryan's de-
 parture for Sacramento
 Sacramento, Cal, April 2e-williarn J. Bryan, Secretary of State, arrived | in Sacra mento this morning to confer with Gov Johnson and the California Legislature on the proposed alien land l holding laws
 train where also a considerable group | of Democratic legislators had gather ed
 No advance plans for the proposed conference between MT. Bryan and the California. authorities had been made and MT. Bryan stated he stepped off the train that he had left the mat l ter entirely in the hands of the Gov l ernor. He said he had no notion as to the length of his visit or as to the course he would follow in presenting his arguments to the Legislature. An hour after Secretary Bryan's arrival 1t was announced by Gov. Johnson
 that he would call the two houses of the Legislature together in a Joint executive session this morning to aI- low MT. Bryan to deliver his official messa ge. The meeting was called at Mir. Bryan's request, the, Governor said.
 Secretary Bryan made the following statement on his arrival here: ''I am visiting California at the re- quest of the President and with the consent of the Legislature, to confer upon an important matter which, while local in it's immediate effect, Is inter
 national in character. Each State oc-| cupies a, dual position. While it is the gua rdian of it's domestic affairs 1t is a member of the union and therefore interested in all that concerns the na- tion's. relations with the outside world.
 "'The President, upon whom rests the constitutional duty of maintaining dip Io,natic relations with other countries asked me to come to California to co<a- fer with the Governor and legislators upon such phases of the subject as touch this nations relations to other nations
 Coming on such a mission 1t may be obviously proper to say nothing in advance upon questions which may en- ter into the conference