Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-29
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ALIEN BILL
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i bryan, NOTWITHSTANDING :IHe SGl ISs~
/ and powerful protests of President
Wilson. in the ace of the almost un-
animous opposition of the press of the
nation, in disregard of the warnings OF
| Theodore Roosevelt and in the knOwl-
edge of the diplomatic tension that the
/ act win create between Washington
and Toxic, it is believed now that the
4 majority of the members of the Cali
fornia legislature is resolved to pass
i the Anti-Alien Land Bill with the OBJ
iectionable 'fneligibility clause" In
tact. 500 4a3
The secretary of state advanced the
views of the president at a conference
of the legislators today and presented
the arguments that make the proposed
measure inimical to national and IN
ternational interests. He urged the
Legislature to go slow and pointed out
the fact that there existed no urgent
political reason why the bill should be
passed at this session.
! Johnson Defended Bill.
Governor Hiram johnson, after a
! number of the members Of the as
sembly and senate had spoken at the
conclusion of Secretary organs argu-
ment, addressed the conference and
| warmly defended the clause which
would make all those ineligible to be-
come citizens of the country ineligible
to own or lease land within the state.
He announced that he differed radi-
cally with both the president and Mr..
Bryan, both as to the constitutionality
OF the clause and also as to its mad
i visibility.
/ At the conclusion of the conference,
1.-THE secretary of state asked that no
definite action be taken by the legis-
lature until he had had an opportunity
of reporting direct to the president
and of receiving a reply from Wash
ington. To this the legislators agreed.
The anti-alien land situation in
California was brought to the at
tention of the house at Washington
4 today in a fierce speech by Repre-
isentatiye Sisson of Mississippi.
| He declared that no alien should
be permitted to own American land,
declaring: Before we allow any for
i eign nation to dictate our land hold.
ing laws we should fight
Representative fSissop called the,
situation acute. He declared foreign
ers should not be. allowed to own
/ land, adding: IF / should have the
alternative of war or submission to
Japan's arrogant claims, would be
for war. What would Washington say
| if it were confronted with the same
proposition? Treaties should not in
terfereJ with the rights of states /
stand with the people of California In
| this matter.
Ambassador From Japan
With a view of 4 establishing a
mutual understanding on the alien
land ownership question, now pend
ing in the California legislature,
Baron Harasoroku, representing the
Seiyukai, will leave for Sacramento
May 10.
Admission that he has sold the
American rights to his alleged cure
for tuberculosis was made in New
York today iby Dr.: E. Friedman, the
Berlin scientist.
Morris Esener, Of Esener, Mendel'
sohn e. Company, who purchased the
rights, and Doctor Friedman are
Il Tic sQdUtEbs
"The main contingency wherein |
lagreed to enter into this arrange
ment today said Doctor friedman,
was that poor persons should be
treated without charge That pro-
| vision is in the contract and it is also
understood that the first institute is
to be opened soon"
| San Francisco's chief of police, A..
d. White, today received assurances
from two detectives accused in the
latest police scandal that they would
confess their part in the criminal
ring which controlled the bunco-graft,
prov;Ced they were assured of i'm
munity 1t is expected that these
suspended officers will go before the
grand jury tomorrow and lay bare the
method under which the police gave
protection to the bunco men in re-
turn for a percentage of the sums Of
which victims have been mulcted.
Late tonight a report reached police
headquarters that Lello Pelligrini,
chief go-between in the $500, 900 bunco
! operations and the first man indicted
by the grand jury, has fled to Italy.
Jacob Oppenheimer, the human
/ tiger" admittedly the most desperate
convictt ever confined in prison in
California, will be hanged in Folsom
prison on June next This sentence
was pronounced upon Oppenheimer
today for the, last three murders he
has committed since being sent to
prison nearly twenty years ago:
For more than fifteen years. he has
been kept in solitary confinement,
subjected to- the most rigid prison
discipline, and everything possible
done to compel him to observe the
regulations. On two occasions he was
allowed brief freedom in the yard. and
each time he succeeded in numbering
fellow convict ....s -.