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Show 1ST GOVERNOR TALKS JTQG0LBY Jap Immigrant Question of Pacific States Is Taken Up in Washington ' WASHINGTON, Sept. 3. Governor I Stephens of California today was in j conference with Secretary Colby of the 'state department regarding the Japan ese situation In the Pacific coast states. While he would not say what had transpired during the discussion, the governor indicated later that he had been assured that reports from Tokio of an approaching agreement be tween Japan and the United States providing for naturalization of Jap ane6o now In the country and reatrlc tion of future immigration were with out foundation. The referendum election in Califor 1 . nia on the proposed new law directed at the Japanese problem, Governor Stephens said, must be carried on whatever agreement the two govern ments might conclude as a result ol the pending diplomatic conversations. The proposal was incorporated in the ballots, the governor said, and could not be set aside. j Before the conference with the Cali fornia goernor, Secretary Colby went to the White House accompanied by (Under Secretary Davis and spent some time with President Wilson No intimation inti-mation as to the reason for the White House conference was given. |