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Show WORNiS WOULD SHUT OUT THE BROWN MEN Bills Introduced in Legislature Provides Pro-vides for Separate Schools for Japanese and Prohibits Aliens From Holding Lands-Sacramento, Lands-Sacramento, Cal. The three antl Japanese bills introduced in the as sembly by Grove L. Johnson of Sacra mento, and the one by A. M. Drew of Fresno, prohibiting aliens from holding hold-ing land in the state, have attracted such wide interest that the 1,000 copies cop-ies of each order printed are already exhausted and there is a demand for more. The Johnson bills are designed to prevent Japanese being members of corporations; to segregate their chil- dren in the schools and to sergegate all Japanese by defining the limits within which they must live. The first two named were Introduced Intro-duced last session by Mr. Johnson, and action upon them was suspended at the telegraphic request of President Presi-dent Roosevelt during the diplomat lo negotiations between the United-States United-States and Japan over the action of the San Francisco school board in excluding ex-cluding Japanese youths from public schools and assigning them to the institutions in-stitutions set. aside for "Mongolians." The Japanese claimed they were not Mongolians and Assemblyman Johnson John-son introduced an amendment specifying speci-fying Japanese in the law. It was this measure to whose enactment tho president objected, and it was killed. The bill relating to directors of corporations prohibits all aliens from being members of such boards and its purpose is to prevent competition of powerful Japanese concerns with Americans. |