The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-22
Must Adopt Other Means
Than Negotiations to Ad-
just Grievances
ADDRESS CABLED
TO BARON CHINDA
Japanese Have Come to See the
Necessity of Considering Some
Other Ways for Solution of
Question" Says Minister

WASHINGTON. January a.-An address
by Baron Nobuaki Maklno the Japanese
foreign minister to the Parliament of
japan today. outlining the status - NJ
gotiations over the California aliou land
legislation. and declaring that the lapa.
hese government had come to see he
necessity Of considering some other ways
for solution of the question" heeaese ths
replies of the United States had not been
found satisfactory, was cahled n fuh
from Toxic TO the Japanese embassy
mere.
The address, which was not commented
upon in official circles, announced that
the third note Of protest presented to
Secretary Bryan by Ambassador chinda
on August IS remained unanswered &
also revealed the fact that the achas-
sador under instructions from rol,io.
saw President Wilson on Asrch tho
cay after the PresidentA fsngsration.
and asked that he makeNft1z effort -
stop the threatened legislation II cau-
fornia which since has been enaeted.
Text OF Address
The text of the address follows in part:
In the state legislature OF California
bills Of and-Japanese character regularly
have been introduced at its sessions FOR
more than 10 years past
Thanks to the good offices earnestly
exercised by the United States government
and thanks also to proper steps opporAs
tunely taken by the people and govern
ment OF Japan, nothing of serious moment
did fortunately occur. hnt at 1he fortietli
session of the legislature which assenlz
bled last year a bill known as the Wehs
bill aiming at prohibition of ownership
of real property by Japanese, was passed
by an overwhelming majority
"rhe new act places japanese on diff
ferent footing from other aliens and the
main point in dispute between the two
countries has been the discriminatory
treatment resulting from this act. In
view of the situation which prevailed in
California, tho imperial government
thought x necesSar ry 10 es4sN special a ten
tion of the new administration 80 tho mat
ter and instructed our ambassador TO
seek an interview which was given by the
new President on the fftL OF March. In
the interview, the ambassador earnestly
requested under instructions of his gov
ernment, that the new executive would.
considering the friendly relations of the
two nations take proper steps and make
best efforts TO stop the threatened legis-
lation of the alien land ownership bill.
The President thanked the ambassador
for the representation thus made, and
stated that, although The federal govern
ment could not interfere with rights re-
served to states he Would not hesitate to
use the best possible efforts SO as to
realize the wish of the imperial govern
ment.
Assurances Elected
ON the thirteenth of March. the same
assurance was ELECTED by the ambas-
sador from Mr.. Bryan. Secretary of
State. In California also our consul
used his best efforts In connection with
our Instructions. Many Americans who
hold due regard for justice and inter-
national good relations volunteered
their hearty cooperation with the Jap
anese in utilizing all means to brine
the question 10 satisfactory conclu
sion
However the situation changed rap
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