Albuquerque morning journal., 1916-12-13

and does not give you any additional
safeguard whatever.
IF it is the intent and purpose of
the United States to abrogate a sol
emn treaty and disregard our compact
with another nation, l should not
should be done openly and above
board if such is the intention and that
japan should be told that we are go
ing to exclude them"
That's just exactly what We ought
Ito do said Senator Works of Cali
fornia but apparently we are not
ready to do that yet"
Senator Phelan Of California per-
suaded Senator Chamberlain to with
draw his amendment and substituted
therefor another amendment to pro-
vide that nothing in the committee
proposal should be construed to re-
peal any existing treaty or agree
ment" which restricts immigration.
Senator Smith and other members of
the committee insisted that this pro-
posal would be open to the same OBJ
jections that We're made by Japan to
the original language in the house
bill.
Senator Williams Of Mississippi de-
clared he could not see why such a
tempest i'm a teapot was being made
over the Japanese question, particu.
larly when Japan had lived up to its
agreement and as a government has
treated us in the best possible way"
The trouble here with some of
YOU" he said, "is that you are willing
to declare the United States to be a
white mans country in one instance
and not in another. Some of you
who are shouting loudest now about
japanese exclusion voted a little while
.ago AGAINST exclusion of negroes from
this country. You stand around and
raise international complications
about the japanese who are higher
civilized than you are, but dare not,
because of local conditions, declare as
to the negro that this is a white man s
country. l am aIluding not only to
western republicans but also to north
ern democrats when / declare that
you are willing to say this is d white
mans country in a way, but please
don't offend the negro voter in my
district.
Without a roll call the senate adopt
ed Senator Phelan's amendment
which provides that nothing in the act
should be construed TO repeal any ex-
isting law, treaty, or agreement
which serves to prohibit or restrict
immigration
Senator Works said that the people
Of California do not claim the Jap.
anese are an inferior race but were
against Japanese immigration be-
cause the race does not assimilate
with the white race. He said he be-
lieved the Root-Takahira gentlemen's
agreement was being violated by the
entrance into this country of japanese
women. He said there were 100, 600
| japanese males in this country, most
of them in California, and predicted
! that if women were not forbidden en-.
I trance, most of the men would soon
be married and have families. Under
( California law, he pointed out, child
ren of Japanese parents born there
would be citizens. lie declared the
law prohibiting ownership Of land by
Japanese is being violated now by
conveyance to Japanese children born
in the state.
"I hope" he said in conclusion,
that we will not become a nation of
towards. afraid to protect our own
nation against any nation on earth"
/ Senator Chamberlain said he fa-
vored going further than the bill now
goes and stating the peoples by name
that should be excluded. lie said he
had no fea. Of war over such a bill
but added that if war came, the Unit
ed States would be prepared.