Show P PUT IN HANDS HANUS Of ROUSEVElt Senate Willing That the Executive Shall han Exclude Japanese Coolies or orLet orL 1 Let L t Them Come In or Long Debate on Conference Report Which Was Wa Finally Adopt Adopted ed by Practically a Parly Par i Vote I j I r washington Feb 16 ad administration ministration plan to settle the y situation was approved in the th senate today by bythe bythe bythe adoption of the senate commit v X the report on OTt the Immigration bill v vA w ee A This Thus report contains a provision v vA A which authorize the president to v Japanese laborers from v exclude 0 the the 1 States at his discretion v The rhe report will row go to the v house for its approval which it f has been stated is assured v The Th entire day da was devoted to tl v 4 debate on OR th the report The v lion km presented as a an alternative v plan a resolution Instructing the v C conferees to bring brin in a provision v positively prohibiting the he entrance v e laborers It was wa de oe declared v of at Japanese Japan ff dared not in order and on motion v of ot Mr Lede an m appeal from thia v ruling was waE defeated 45 to 24 J 4 be beIng v vins 4 ins Ing practically p a t party vote The v conference report was then adopt adopted v ved 4 ed withe ut a v 4 Washington Wa Feb 16 The imm ra raHon tieD Hon conference f report I was again taken up lp p in m the today under ment nent of ot liy which contemplated a vote before adjournment today The discussion was W opened by Senator of North Carolina I shall vote ote for the report he said betau I 1 believe the south wUl will not suffer uffer uffe under f its it Il provisions Mr fr Simmons Simmon paced p c d a higher r i lance upon ib of and good feeling which he said had al always alays ways ays yb existed between the south und the const coast on labor and other ques llon than on tn n any to his rw wn rn section which might result from he changes in the immigration law la Nevertheless he regarded the change In n me the contract labor provision as not properly proper In Ir the report and expressed the he opinion that the th conferees conferee exceeded theIr authority OT Opposed by Dubois J Senator Dubois Dubols opposed the passport provision In the bill billI I 1 do not think e sard that the president of the United dS States el ought ou ht to o be b allowed to legislate i directly ash as az h hI he has hIlS done in tn the case ense of this pro provision vision N It If the clause daule meant the expulsion of Japanese laborers he said it would not he hi satisfactory to Japan JaDan If it did dl not mean melm nie i this It would not be satisfactory to In the Pacific coast cont He favored the resolution offered by Senator Culberson yesterday instructing the conference to 10 bring In a measure specifically cx ex Japanese laborers The pro the bill was a makeshift and andre he re that within a week eek after Ils fla adoption the people of the Pacific I cat rou would be clamoring for Japanese exclusion Mr Dubois Dubols said he had no prejudice against the Japanese Denial by Mr Bacon BaconA A denial was made by Mr Bacon of I re orts that the opposition of f himself ml nd Senator Tiilman to the conference report had been withdrawn under und r pressure ure from Senator Aldrich to save sae saver Dr r secure appropriations in the river and a nil harbor bill Referring Inferring to the labor situation In the Mr Ir flacon Bacon said The Thc fact tact cannot be concealed that there is a serious and growing Jealousy m nn the tbt part of the manufacturing in iii industries in Massachusetts against the Increasing manufacturing interests of the south Th There re Is a disposition to in lorr r with the further development ff fir f those industries of the south and no nomore more morl sun method could be adopted than that proposed in this bill Mr Tiliman Tillman Interrupted Mr Bacon ii to get Ket some light 1 I see l ee IP II the morning papers he began be n reference to the big stick sUck making threats of an extra session un unless unless less Ils this report rep rt Is II adopted and the big tIk l I k in New ew York Stork Senator Aldrich telephoning to Senator Crane orders u out cut and harbor bill to leave wit out the South Carolina and Georgia Items ems wn v ll south Carolina has not much tt in that bill Georgia may have a acle I haIe bele cle ham of the pork I notice also 1150 that the cabinet met some time yesterday and that It Il Itt t the conclusion that the made in the tho immigration law aid IId not act a tt the decision of Secretary Straus upon th South Carolina rose case Perhaps the senator from Ins Mas Maa a v who js s so well InformEd of what occurs at nt the White Houe gause may play tn leU u ua whether the cabinet did aid decide lit question Senator Lodge Lod Silenced Mr lr Tiliman Tillman paused for an nn an r s ator iv lodge Idge made no reply i 1 bope nope hope the senatorS senator will say sav ay yes c or remarked Me Tiliman and ib I hac after another silent silence said Well Veil ut u it t tried to get Ket some enlightenment ems I T Mr have failed Mr 1 H i an interrupted again to real reat a e a statement I condemning the conferees on the rite rile bill 1111 for bringing In rne new matter which he concluded by bj b say sa saI I shall be Woefully woefully disappointed pointed if the senator from Maine ane doe does not stand stanl by his proper decision last June i Hales Males Change of Front Mr Hale ale replied that th t the tho senator senat r had no ground to say hJad changed ch ng d liis 1115 hI at attitude attI attitude tI d Then ThC Mr tr Tillman referred to a private conversation eom he had had with Mr Hale from which he had I ad understood that the senator was wa to vote vo Me r the report I He said that he had no suspicion that the senator from Maine talk one way I privately private and another way p I The senator grows more and mid more of offensive 0 retorted Mr Hale Hall He had no right to intimate that th t I T have said sald any I thing to hint him on this s proposition in it an anway any anyway I Iway way as as a indicating how I J should sho ld vote ote I Ir r TilIman resented res berg being lectured He expressed regret that he lie an any unpleasantness and anI offered to fo withdraw If it he lie could honorably an anythIng thine he had said This Mr AIr Hale did di desire Speech by Culberson n In opposing the thi th na spart clausE Sen Senator ator Culberson referred to the California Japanese situation r ii is has become acute he said aid because the president in his mes messages messages I sages to congress has ha seen n fit to mis misstate misstate misstate state the situation In California in the interest of or the Japanese Japan e And the Japan Japanese ese taking their cue from the president assert a a claim that great injustice has h s been done them on the Pacific coast coastIn coastIn coastIn In each of the president has misstated the tb e situation to the effect 1 that the Japan had b been l denied the J iJ leg ot gd bri n th the truth is tl that at th h Had only been denied the right to attend school with white children I The situation that will arise ari from the adoption of the provision Mr Culberson C said sald will wm be this I The president will 11 have authority to i exclude ex clude Japanese laborers borers la and coolies COOlie and be he will wll hold that authority and the exercise of it In abeyance a and over the th heads of ot the California authorities and I will m keep out the laborers and coolies provided the tile civil authorities of Califor California California nia ala will admit their children indiscriminately to the public ll schools tooL of r San Fran Francisco cisco I nt r y 2 When hen Mr r n asked ed Tt If that was Wal Waln the th n gr il dator for Flint re ret retied replied plied tied t As A far as asI 1 sun I know of or orno no agreement between tile the California del delegation and the president With ith reference to the adjustment ot of the school sch ol matter matterI matt r rI I have hae not been a 3 party to any such I agreement nor attended any an conference 1 between the California delegation and the secretary of state and md the president p I Senator Senat r Perkins said sald he wished to make the same mme statement and ald added that he believed the newspaper reports of an I I agreement had haa ha been overdrawn The agreement Mr lr ir Culberson Culb said seemed to be with ith the ma mayor or and the school board of ot San Francisco Fr and not with the California delegation In n con congress gress gres It was he contended a surrender of the civil rights of California He Me made mad madean madan an appeal for the enactment ena me of a positive provision excluding the e Japanese I Clark Supported Culberson Senator Clark of or Montana voiced the same sentiment Mr Ir Carmack stating Ung that he agreed with Senator Culberson said saidI I 1 believe that th t the effect erred is that a for foreign eign power has browbeaten the govern government government ment of or the th United States s and brow browbeaten browbeaten browbeaten beaten a sovereign state of this union unton I into a surrender of or rights The attitude of this to toward toward toward ward California has been harsh and tur turbulent turbulent turbulent bulent and offensive to the last degree Its attitude toward Japan has been I cringing obsequious s and almost pusH pusillanimous I One of or the presidents president s aphorism aphorism aphorism is to speak softly and carry carT a big bl stick lick II He seems to have hae interpreted I that In this instance so as to speak soft sort softly sortI softly ly I to foreign nations and carry cart a big bl stick for the backs of or his own people I object to this provision because I be believe lieve that it will in and that it is intended to arm the executive with a power to coerce the people eople of a sovereign state into a surrender of a right to control their own affairs and this Is la being done on the demand of a nation made with without without out ont a shadow of reason without a shad shadow ow of right without a shadow of or foun bun foundation foundation dation based on any an treaty stipulation lon lonor or the constitution of or the States Newlands Blames lames Roosevelt Senator Newlands declared declare t President Roosevelt to be largely responsible for tor forthe forthe the tIte Japanese situation He ITe has ha created a movement on the Pacific coast that will not rest until it t ends in Japanese exclusion he said anti anit nH predicted that the United States would w uld not ot be able to retain the Islands unless we weI letain etain I the friendship of Japan Senator Ix Lodge dge a asked Ked for tor a l ruling on OP OPhis his point of order against ag the resolution instructing the conferees to bring in a provision positively ly excluding Japanese laborers from the offered yester yesterday yesterday day dV by Senator The ih vice Ice president sustained ed the point and Senator Carmack appealed from tram the ruling of the chair chairA V A was had bi on the motion which M Mr r Lodge St n t once made to lay lar the appeal ap ape appeal peal pea on the table tabIe The vote was 45 to lay layon layon on th table ta le and 4 Sit ht the negative The Th chat chai ch t was sustained d bv b a practically parC vote ote Senator of ot Louis Louls Louisiana iana na voted with W It tte Republicans anti and andSen Sea Sen Senator I ator La Follette with the Democrat The conference was waft then adopt adopted ed eo without t a |