Evening star., 1914-01-22
JAPANESE HEARING
WATTS ON BRYAN
Members of House Committee
to Seek His Advice on
Raker Bill.
''0THER MEANS" SPEECH
PUZZLE TO WASHINGTON
State Department Unwilling to Dis
cuss the Utterances of
Baron Maxine. -

+1i'ei secretly considering the Japaness
situation for an hour and half ~.
rouse immigration committee today de
ehned to open hearings on the Rake
OH TO bar Asiatic immigrants from III.
country. Chairman Burnett declared III.
committee found itself not YET ready 10
proceed with the bill Other members OF
,he committee said that they wished To
near from Secretary of State BRYAN be
lore taking up the measure
The committee several weeks ago 70.
today FOR hearings on the measure and
large group of witnesses was on hand
when the committee met at 10 o clock
| The witnesses We're barred from the
room, however, and the committee went
into executive session. with clerks on
guard at every entrance of the committee
| room.
Gets Secret Communication.
An address made by the japanese for
eign minister to the parliament at Toxic
yesterday. in which he declared that tn.
| time had come for considering othef
ways of dealing with the California
situation was read in the meeting and
was discussed at length.
| secret communication from the State
| Department relating to the Japanese sit
| uation was received and considered. For
an hour and half the committee de
bated. with Representative Raker urging
the immediate opening of hearings
Finally vote was taken and further
consideration of the question was post
poned until a week from today. Janu-
| airy %
| Among the witnesses who were turned
away after waiting impatiently about the
committee anteroom were Anthony Cam
| inetti commissioner of immigration. r. J.
| Mcnamara, vice president of the Broth
erhood of Locomotive Firemen; W. NJ
Clark. vice president OF the Order OF
Railway Conductors, and Val Fitzpatrick.
| vice president of the Brotherhood of Rail
| road Trainmen: William Griffith, New
York representative of the Junior Order
| Of American Mechanics: H. f. Wills os
| the Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers, and A. w. Thomas of the Knights
| Of Labor.
| Secretary Bryan Optimistic.
| At the State Department today Secre-
tary Bryan was optimistic in commenting
on the japanese situation.
I'VE are hopeful of satisfactory solu-
ton soon" said Mr.. Bryan, who declined
| however, to indicate the basis OF his hope
for an adjustment of the controversy.
| Mr.. Bryan explained that no exchanges
| had been made between the Japanese
embassy here and the State Department
since the delivery Of Baron Makino's ad-
dress before the Japanese parliament yes
| terday. He said he had been Informed
that the California alien land legislation
would be discussed in parliament by the
Japanese premier and that an under
standing had been reached between the
japanese foreign Office and the State De-
partment whereby the details of the ex-
| tensive correspondence between the two
| governments should not be disclosed at
J this time.
] Mr. Bryan declined to say whether an
answer would be made to the last Jap
| anese note delivered at the State De
partment by Niscount Chinda last
August, but the impression prevails that
an answer will be sent embodying the
views Of the Washington government on
| the la test phases Of the situation.
| Opinions Differ Radically.
The speech of Baron Maxine, ex-
planning to the Japanese parliament
| the status of negotiations with the
| United States over the California alien
| land laws, has served to develop radical
difference of opinion between the prin-
c:pals as to the responsibility for the
next step
| Although Baron Maxine referred to
the fact that the Japanese foreign Of
| fee had received no answer from the
United States to its note of August Is.
! 1913 evidently intimating that one was
expected. the State Department re-
garded the negotiations as practically
closed at that point, argument on each
side having been exhausted on the
propositions advanced.
A new treaty to define the rights OF
japanese in America, treating particu-
larly the subject of naturalization.
though not taken up In any OF the ON
cial notes. was informally discussed
between Secretary Bryan and Ambassa
dor Chinda, but without advancing the
subject very far.
japan Avoided Courts.
1t was then contemplated that the
Webb law be tested in the United States
courts, but the Japanese government did
not care to become party to such pro-
ceedings, considering that to do SO would
be to abandon its contention that the
subject should be treated diplomatically.
on the other hand, Secretary Bryan
was unwilling to follow the precedent set
by President Roosevelt in directing the
United States government to intervene
as a party in the Japanese school cases
which figured in the California courts.
Unless the "other means referred to
by Baron Maxine refer to renewal OF
the attempt to frame a treaty that can
meet the approval of the United States
Senate, officials here are at loss to
conjecture what the next step will be.
Text of Baron Makino's Address.
The text Of the address of Baron
Nobuaki Maxine, japanese foreign min
lister to the parliament of Japan. yes
terday, referring to the necessity of con-
sidering some other ways for the solu-
tion'' of the questions arising out OF the
California alien land legislation. was
cabled to the Japanese embassy here and
given to the press. 1t follows:
IN the state legislature of California
the bills of anti-Japanese character have
-as,,IarI,. heer introduced at its sessions