Evening star., 1924-05-08
C. OF C. GROUP O.K.'S
RAP AT EXCLUSION
Resolutions Committee Unanimous
for Measure Fighting Legal
Ban on Japanese.
BACKED BY WESTERNERS
San Francisco Man Author of Wig
BACKED BY wEsTERNERs
San Francisco Man Author Of Wig.
orous Protest.
By the Associated prees

By the Associated Press
CLEVELAND, Ohio, May s.-The
resolutions committee of the Cham
ber of Commerce of the United States
today will unanimously report favor
ably on a declaration against exclu-
sion of japanese subjects by Jaw, a
canvass of the committee revealed.
Hit japanese Ban Measure.
A resolution expressing the sense
of the meeting that friendly nego-
tiation" instead of congressional en-
actment should offer the approach
to the solution of the japanese immi-
grafton problem was unanimously
adopted yesterday by the foreign
CONNIE rec section of the Chamber OF
Commerce of the United States
Introduced by Edward A. Filene of
Boston and by three representatives.
of Pacific. coast states, the resolution
was unanimously adopted by approx
mately 400 members of the foreign
commerce section.
Among the spectators at the ses-
sion. presided over by Charles F.
Weed of Boston, was Iwao Nishi, New
! York, commercial attache to the Jap
anese embassy. Introduction OF the
resolution followed an address or
Foreign Trade From the Standpoint
of the Western States" by Robert n
Lynch, vice president of the San
| Francisco Chamber of Commerce
which was concluded with an appar-
emily studied prese ntation of the op-
| position viewpoint on the exclusion
issue. In the remarks of the speak
ers who followed. there was only re-
Affirmation of MI Lynch's arguments
Consider Transportation.
Before encountering the exclusion
lo hA n
occupied chiefly with giving approval
to a broad transportation report sub
mitted by a special committee named
to formulate a unified transportation
| policy.
The keynote Of the discussion OF
the Fflene resolution was that bust
ness prudence alone. if nothing else,
dictated the policy of negotiation.
Shall it be said OF America that
her treaty obligations are thus light
| ly regarded?" Mr.. Lynch asked the
meeting, after an allusion to "a scrap
of paper" in international agree
ments.
Maj. f. G. Griggs. representative
of the Tacoma Association of Com
merce. one of thoseN to second the
with Viscount Shibarawa. noted Jap
anese statesman, after the Senate
had approved the exclusion clause.
Il feel that the work Of my life
seems swept away" the viscount said.
dejectedly, Maj. Griggs related.
Tells of Coast Attitude.
I'VE on the Pacific coast" Griggs
continued, do not feel that the sev.
enty-fiye years history Of close and
friendly relations with Japan since
the country was opened to interna-
tional trade by Commodore Perry
should be swept aside in moment
of irritation"
yr-L sscr,-1x "a
consequences" note, Mr.. Lynch insist
ed, was hastily misinterpreted by
Congress. The difficulties of the Eng
lish language for the japanese, he
believed, may have given the note a
tone somewhat more emphatic than
was intended.
"Of course" Mr.. Lynch said, I'VE do
not wish to build up an unassimilable
population in the western states, but
we are going to meet with fear nos
tility and injustice that inevitab BILE
problem which should be approached d
with sympathy. tolerance-and, above
all. with an even temper
Others who indorsed the original
resolution were ]. w. Mason OF the
Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, H.
E. Miles of Wisconsin and Armand
May of Atlanta, Ca
The question received passing con-
sideration in the civics development
section, where the whole problem of
immigration was in discussion, but in
view of the resolution in the foreign
commerce meeting, no action was
taken by the civics group.
Hits Shoals Lense.
James r. Garfield of Cleveland. Sec
retary of the Interior in the cabinet
of President Roosevelt assailed the
proposed lease of Muscle Shoals for
100 years to Henry Ford.
MT. Garfield reviewed the history
of the conservation movement, de-
claring that it is just as much the
right and duty of the several states
to conserve natural resources as it is
the right. and duty of the national
government.