Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1913-05-04
House Passes, by Vote Of p
to 3, Measure Prepared by
Attorney General Webb and
Adopted in Senate,
DEMOCRATS MAKE NO
EFFECTIVE OPPOSITION
Full Text Is to Be Telegraphed
to President Wilson at Once
in Order That II May Be
Sent to Japan

ny Morning Journal special Leased Wire)
Sacramento. Calf. May S.--Th'
alien land ownership bin. previously
passed hv the senate. was passed by
the assembly hate tonight and awaits
only the signature of the governor to
become a law.
Acting under suspended rules. the
assembly took mp the land bill carly
in the afternoon and sent it through
first and second readings I'm rapid
order Then followed the debate
which continued until the final roll
call was demanded by shouts from
the floor.
The assembly refused To strike out
the clause permitting leases, to which
the. democrats objected yesterday
Several Of the other amendments,
similar to those adopted tn the senate
likewise were voted down hy the
heavy administration majority. and in
the end the bill carried with - af-
firmative votes out Of rs. Five mem-
hers We're absent
At no time during the course of the
arguments was the result in doubt
The democrats, following the lead OF
their colleagues in the senate made
desultory attempts 10 amend the
measure on delay its passage, hni
without effect
There were many demands for g
stronger bill. both from democrats
and progresslees. but in the end u
was agreed that the act as drawn by
Attorney General webb would scrN
the needs OF the state for the present
This bill is not as strong as some
of us would like" declared Assent
blyman Bohnett, administration floor
leader. "but it reaches the point II
commits the state to a policy of OPP
position to the holding of land by
aliens Ineligible to citizenship
"Two years hence. there will be an
other session Of the legislature and IT.
should then be an easy matter to elim-
mate leases altogether
A verified copy of the measure Will
be tclegraphed at once to President
Wilson, who has asked for it In order
that he may lay 1t before the Jap
anese government at Toxic
For the present the act will He un-
signed on the governors desk.
Il have promised President Wilson
and Secretary Bryan ! would grant
them reasonable time in which TO
offer whatever objections they may
care to make said the governor He
did not indicate how long he consid-
cred reasonable time
only three votes were cast against
the measure in the lower house, one
democrat ana two republican mem
hers opposing the bill on the final
passage The roll cali was at ll.25
O'Clock. less than twenty-four hours
after the final passage of the act in
the senate early this morning.
Defeated finally in his diplomatic
effort to dissuade the California leg
islature from enacting an alien land
law affecting the japanese, Secretary
Of state Bryan declared this afternoon
that he looked to the people of the
state to express final judgment,
through the referendum, before the
act shall 90 into effect
Mr. Bryans statement was made
before an open joint meeting of the
senate assembly, Immediately before
his departure for Washington. The
assembly. which was even then in the
midst of its debate on the land bill
passed late last night by the senate,
paused for half an hour TO hear him
and then took up its work of follow
ing the senates lead
The only contingency that can arise
TO prevent the carrying out of tho
bills provisions within ninety days is
threatened referendum petitions
which would require 10000 signatures
before the law could be temporarily
nullified, pending an election.
The matter could not be submitted
to the people until the fall Of 1914
delay of nineteen months, in case
the proposed referendum petition
gains enough signatures.
Early in the session II was ntimat-
ed BY representatives. Of the board Of
directors of the Panama Pacific eX-
position in san Francisco, IN oppos-
ing the Lii, that the board might fos-
ter movement to invoke the refer
endum against any anti-aiien law
Jaw that might be enacted The same
attitude has been indicated by several
commercial and trade organizations.
who fear Japan will levy rcprisals
upon California by abrogating present
business relationships.
EXPOSITION PRESIDENT