The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-04-15
JAPS LOOK ELSEWHERE

San Francisco, April l4-Organ.
lied efforts of Japanese in California
to seek colonization and other lands
elsewhere on account of restrictive
Legislation here, are not being made
at present, although individual Jap
aneA are believed to be seeking work
and opportunities elsewhere, it was
said recently by U. Oyma, japanese
consul general here.
Oyma said that he had no knowl-
edge of reports reaching the depart
ment of the interior in Mexico City
that more than $4,000 japanese agri-
I culturists are preparing to emigrate
to Mexican states.
Washington, April 15.--The senate
answered Ambassador, Hanihara' S
protest against Japanese exclusio on
legislation late yesterday by voting,
76 to 2, against recognition of the
gentlemen agreement with Japan
on the immigration question.
This action is preliminary to adop-
, tion by the senate by an overwhelm-
ing majority of the house exclusion
provision. ~ - t.1
Whatever. the result would have
been without the incident of the
ambassador letter. that communica-
tion served to change the votes of a
number of administration leaders, in
Guiding Senator Lodge of Massachu-
setts, chairman of the foreign rela-
lions committee.
The Republican leader informed the
senate in open session that he re-
garded the Hanihara letter as a
'veiled threat and declared that in
the face of that threat he could not
support the immigration committee S
proposal to recognize by law the
gentlemen agreement"
Sterling UphOlds Hughes
A number of other senators took
the same view and only one voice,
that of Senator Sterling, Republican,
South Dakota, was raised in defense
Of the ambassadors action. Senator
Colt, chairman of the immigration
committee, Joined Senator Sterling in
the vote, but did not speak.
Senators generally threw off the
usual restraints in dealing with in
ternational questions. They were
blunt and outspoken in their declara-
tions that in view Of the grave
consequences" warning in the am
bassador's letter there was nothing
for them to do but to make it clear
once and for all that immigration is
domestic question in the handling
Of which no independent power could
have it's sovereignty questioned.
y While the debate proceeded, Secre-
tary Hughes, who transmitted Mr..
Hanihara' letter to the house and
senate immigration committees last
week, twice conferred with President
Coolidge. He declined to say what the
nature of the conversations had been
and no information was Forthcoming
from the White House.
Houses in Agreement
After the vote which eliminated
the language framed by the commit
tee to legalize the gentlemen 8
agreement, Senator Reed, RepuDl,-
> can, Pennsylvania, who is actively in
charge of the immigration bill, gave
notice that an exclusion amendment
would be drafted overnight in the
same language as that employed in
the bill which the house passed last
week by majority of more than four
to one. This insures that whatever
difference may arise on other points
between the two houses in COM
pieting the immigration bill, the Jap
,ranese exclusion provision will go to
Nthe president.
No indication has yet come from
the White House as to the course
President Coolidge'will follow. Yes
terday's developments in the senate,
. however, seemed to indicate that
there would be sufficient votes in
both houses to repass the bill over
veto.