Evening star., 1924-04-15
SENATORS DEMAND
BAN ON JAPANESE,
COOLIDGE ADVISED
Lodge Calls Attention to
Overwhelming Vote Certain
on Exclusion Issue.
WHITE HOUSE is SILENT.
ON PROBABLE ATTITUDE
Walsh of Massachusetts, Launches
Attack on Whole Principle of
Reduced Quotas.

With the Senate committed to pas
sage of a Japanese exclusion law,
Senator Lodge of Massachusetts went
to the White House today to inform
of his colleagues and to advise him to
consider the overwhelming votes on
the question when the measure
reaches him for action.
The President was told that the
measure possibly would be passed
today and surely by tomorrow and
that the vote taken yesterday was a
clean indication of the feeling of the
Senate. With such vote in the SEN
ate and 4-to-1 vote in the House
the opinion of Congress should be
given due weight in the determine
tion of executive action on the meas
ure, the President further was ad-
vised.
Watch White House.
The question of the Presidents at
titude overshadowed today the actual
approach of the vote on Japanese ex-
clusion which is regarded as certain
to take place either late today or to-
morrow. No inkling came from the
White House or the State Depart
ment as to the position to be taken
by the executive branch of the gov
ernment.
Equally silent was the Japanese en-
bassy, from which no expression has
emanated since the storm on the SEN
ate floor raised by the protest of Am
bassador Hanihara.
When debate opened today, Senator
"A &c -, l.. ~
ing aside altogether the japanese pro-
visions of the bill, leveled an attack
on the quota policy.
Effect of Amendment.
The effect of the exclusion amend
ment," which, according to its author.
Senator Reed, republican, Pennsyl-
vania, will definitely and effectively"
bar Japanese from entry into the
United States, follows:
mo alien ineligible to citizenship
shall be admitted to the United States
unless such alien % is admissible as
non-immigrant under the provision
of section 3; or CD unless such alien
is an immigrant who continuously for
at least two years Immediately pre-
ceding the time of his application for
admission to the United States has
been, and who seeks to enter the
United States solely for the purpose
OF, carrying on the vocation of min
lister OF any religious denomination,
or professor of a college, academy,
seminary or university; or CD unless
such alien is an immigrant who is a
bona fide student over eighteen years
of age, and who seeks to enter the
United States solely~for the purpose
of CT. ,lry
lege, academy, seminary or university,
particularly designated by him and
approved by the Secretary of Labor;
or () unless such alien is the wife
or the unmarried child under eighteen
years of age of an immigrant admis-
sible under subdivision (2) of this
paragraph and is accompanying or
following to join him."
Industrial conditions do not justify
n further departure from the immi-
grafton policy adopted in 1921, Sena-
tor Walsh said opposing reduction of
the quota from to 2 per cent as
provided in the bill.
IF the Congress, state governments
and religious and social organiza-
tions would spend more time consid-
ering the many problems that con-
cern not only the aliens in our midst.
but all the great working classes of
our people," he said, "it is fair to as
sumo the problem of asSimilating the
newcomers would cease to exist.
The Senate late yesterday gave en-
phatic answer to Ambassador Hani-
hara's vigorous protest, by voting,
76 to 2, to reject the proposal that
would have recognized the gentle
mems agreement.
Secretary Hughes called at the
White House twice while the Senate
was discussing the committee amend
ment and the ambassadors action,
but no intimation was given as to the
subject or substance of his confer
ences with the President.
Exclusion Provision Predicted.
Many Senate leaders had predic ted
that an exclusion provision would be
adopted despite the administration
stand and that sufficient votes would
be available to override a possible
veto, but the overwhelming count
against the amendment yesterday was
clearly a result of the Hanihara pro-
test. Among the votes changed from
support of the amendment by the pro-
test, which was described as a "yeiled
threat" were those of Senator Lodge
of Massachusetts,, republican leader
and chairman of the foreign relations
committee, and Senator Reed, who has
charge of the immigration bill on the
floor.
Senator Reed announced during the
discussion that an exclusion amend
ment similar. to the provision incor-
porated in the bill passed by the
House would be drafted for presenta-
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