Bisbee daily review., 1920-12-28
JAPS WITHDRAW 1. OPPOSITION TO CALF FORN|A LAW American and Nipponese Am bassadors Hope to Soon
 Complete New Treaty OPTIMISTIC Informal Conferences Rushed
 in Order to Submit Pact
 to Present Congress
OUTLOOK OPTIMISTIC

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.-(By the Associated Press) s)-DeclaraIion was made tonight by Representative Kahn of California. that he believed reports were true that the Japanese govern ment had withdrawn it's opposition to the recently ratified California law prohibiting acquisition by Japanese of title to real estate in that state The California representative made the statement after a conference to- da with Roland $. Morris. American ambassador to Tolio.
 Announcement was made by Repre- sentative Kahn that d meeting of the California members of the house had been called for Wednesday to discuss aspects of the negotiations now being carried on between the United States and Japanese governments looking to- ward treaty defining the rights of Japanese nationals in the United States.
 Negotiations Under Way
 Tie principal matter to be taken up at the conference, Representative Kahn said, was the proposal that the California legislature be asked to enact substitute for the recently ra- tified law. The substitute would pro- hibit any aliens from acquiring land in California and would thereby re- move the contention of the Japanese government that the present Califor- nia law is discriminatory.
 
 Morris, United tSate ambassador to Tokio, and Ambassador Shidehara, of Japan, to lay the basis of new American-Japanese treaty are under stood to be proceeding here, with a view of obtaining for the proposed pact the approval of congress. The state department is said to have ,ad- vised that the attitude of both branches of congress De taken into consideration.
 To the end that the approval of the legislative hranch ot his government might be insured, Ambassador Morris has been in conference with a num- Der Of senators and representatives including Senator Johnson or Califor- mia d member of the senate foreign relations committee. and with Ke6re- sentative Johnson. of Washington, chairman of the house committee on immigration.
 Formality Absent
 Morris is understood to have dis cussed with the former the general outlines of the negotiations as they have proceeded and w:ih tne ratter the subject oi Japanese immigration, especially in connection with general immigration legislation.
 The conferences between the am baSSadorS. it is understood, have been marked by an absence of formality which has permitted considerable lat ituGe withOut committing the respec- Jice governments to d definite prog ram. Satisfactory progress has been made, it is said, and mass of mater. ial in the shape of reports is about to be submitted to Tokio, and to the state department here ~
 While details. or even the general plan of the proposed treaty have not been disclosed. under an agreement reached by the two governments in undertaking the task, it is unuerSJooC that the Japanese government has in dicated that it would not object to any reasonable limitation of the rights Of Japanese in the United States so long as there is no discrimination not applying equally to other aliens.