Show TORS ARE ARf 1 READY TO FIGHT Interference With San Franr FranI Fran r I School Will Not Wot Be Bei 4 i I Tolerated for a Moment 4 1 TROUBLE TRO BLE OVER JAPANESE 1 SOUTHLAND SOUTH AND PACIFIC COAST ARE UNITED rh I 4 H H Ml f M MV Mt f f f H 4 V Washington Dec Dee 1 Japan has f every cery confidence that President 4 f t Roosevelt will ivill adjust the Japanese 4 I T California school controversy y en 4 I t to the satisfaction of oC both t th f 4 nations Feeling this 1 confidence f Japan has ceased to be agitated 4 4 over the th situation The Japanese f 4 newspapers are emphatically mod 4 f crate orate in all their notices of the th af at f 4 fair and so o far as the Japanese f 4 nation Is concerned there is 4 no reason for the vial revival l f 4 T of oC the newspaper notoriety in this jq 4 country countr 4 K The Associated Press was today authorized to quote the Japanese f 4 I 4 embassy as above It was Wo further 4 f 4 said that lh there rc were nb rib new nw devel f 4 In the tile situation of any an f 4 character that the matter was In 4 4 the tho hands of President Roosevelt f 4 4 and his willingness ness and ability to 4 4 t 4 act was entirely relied upon 4 I jt i l Chicago Dec Dee I IA V dispatch to the Tribune from Washington V say san If Ir President Roosevelt and Secretary S crear in lit the position they seem 1 i inclined to take tale regarding the right of the tho federal government to make treat tr at ICs ies which will bind states and pallUs in the conduct of their local loal t affairs half a dozen able bodied hor nets nests in the senate will break I I I i K loose early in the session e lon Senator Flint and Benjamn Benjamin Ide il Wheeler heeler of California both beth caled called at the White hite House yesterday to see the pres pr s i Went ident and to advise him from different I points of O lI w that any an interference i by hy the federal fi eral government or any as 13 I of ot a right to interfere with I the school system of San Francisco or oi any other city would provoke a riot ti h Would Be a Mistake l Senator Flint declared declarer that that the fed eral oral government would make a great mistake ml mke because there was a 10 in San Francisco to pass a local loca ordinance limiting the age at which pu pupils pils lils will be received in public pUbic schools This Would do away with most of the complaint because a great ma majority I of the Japanese students are i adults with whom white parents are arc I not hot willing to have their young oung children associate Secretary Secreta Met let if has come back from the coast intimating that any attempt by hy the States government by treaty or otherwise to regulate the schools I of any city on the Pacific coast 1 1 would be instantly and could be enforced only by the use of troops Southern Senators Excited 1 To complicate matters southern sena tors are arriving In Washington in n a nJ perfect J flame of excitement because tt I t they have hac been bren led to believe bellee that the I f Japanese agitation in San Francisco is s i merely a decoy for an to t break I 1 down the whole system of separate j 1 schools for negroes in the southern states tates I So far as the intention of the administration is concerned the south southern ecu ern rn senators are arc entirely mistaken be he because i cause rause the president and Secretary Root J I have haye nothing more in view than the maintenance of friendly relations with Japan a nation with which we have laye had traditional ties of oC friendship and I which Is just now valuable I ble to us in a commercial way Wl Administrations Positions While hile the administration is ls thus clearly acquitted of any intention to apply alpl Its theories to the negro question it none the less is true that the siiri sItti I are so closely concerned that if the Japanese by the power of the Unit fd d States can be put In the public I schools In San Francisco in spite of the I local law a L negro with a of citizenship from France or I Germany or Great Britain and there 1 ire re thousands of such could be forced I to the white schools of Washington Charleston Atlanta or New Orleans The result is that the southern and andi i Pacific coast senators are rapidly get ting together Thy They will defeat any an treaty in the future which seeks to give ghe alien citizens the right to attend local public schools In It spite of ot local laws w |