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Show U. S. Gives Out Statement On Japan Issue I CALIFORNIA TC VOTE 01 LAW TO OUST ORIENTALS State Department Issues Reassurance Re-assurance to Ambassador on Question LEGISLATION MUST BE ACCEPTABLE TO U. S. Measure Must Be in Accord With National Instinct of Justice WASHINGTON", Nov. 1 (By the Associated Press. Tho state department depart-ment declared today In a formal statement state-ment that lib outcome of the move. niAn 111 C-illfArnl-j t r-.-ifil , ' i I . Inord . rfectfnH alien land tenure "will be accoptnble to the country at large that does net accord with existing and ap-i ap-i plicble phase of law and what is equl-; equl-; ly important with the national in-; in-; .-tlnct of justice " The 9'atorne"t was the firt issued I on the California land question which i long hi been a matter of conversa-' conversa-' Mon betv.-c-on the department and the Japaee ambassador to Washington Th" fact thai it ivas Issued on the eve ! of the election In California nt which the proposed new state I iw is to be iroted upivii was declared by state de- partment officials to have no political significance. ISSUR W I TO JAPAN". The Impression was given that the 'chief purpose was to convey an assurance assur-ance to the peoph of Japan that the American government would see lo It that their legitimate interests would - : - i.,' ad would continue to hav tne itO'isldertUIOTT to which lb,., wen i nettled v, V The deparlnicrit's titate4n;0) wai mack' public id agreement wlrli the Japanese government, it baring been the understanding from tho start of the conversations with the Japanese ambassador, that neither government Would issii" my t.' if count reeirdlnir the matter without the consent of '.he other. The official announcement, prepared by Under-Secretary Davis, follows: The movement in California to recast re-cast !he ?Mt laws affecting alien land tenure h:s been receiving, since ita ln- ' ptlon, the close ,md interested attention atten-tion of the department of state. Th--relations of eertuin treaty provisions to the measure is iieing discussed clearly and ably in California and will doubtless doubt-less prove an element In the state's decision de-cision as to the adoption of rejecting i of this proposed measure. In the ; meantime, the department has had numerous discussions of the most friendly and candid nature with the ambassador of Japan and it is believed he thorough!) realises, as we have sought to make clear; that no outcome of the California movement will be ac-'ptable ac-'ptable to the countrv at large that docs not accord With existing and applicable ap-plicable provisions of law and. what la equally important, with (he national Uistinct of Juotlce. ' Rl im for von: SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. I, California Califor-nia is Interested in the fate of an antl-al.'en antl-al.'en Initiative measure which provides that alien;. imlU'lble to oitlzepship shall not be permitted to lease agricultural lands. The present law permits them lo lease farm lands for a period of not more than three y ears. There has been no attempts to conceal the fact that the measure is aimed at the Japanese Jap-anese and Its proponents have asserted that unless the act'Aitlca of the Japanese Japan-ese are curbed by statute, the control of the richest agricultural lands in the state soon will be in the hands of Orientals. Ori-entals. California also has a prohibition enforcement en-forcement measure, which was passed by the 1019 legislature and held up by operation of referendum The measure r'ls designed to keep California dry regardless re-gardless of any amendment tht migh be made to the national prohibition iact, in ail California will vote on twenty Special measures In addition to the political Issues on the baflot |