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Show I'! NEWS OUTLOOK FOR I THE PRESENT WEEK Greater Part Promises to Be I Fully Surcharged With Patriotism. PRESIDENT-ELECT TAFT WILL CUT BIG FIGURE Census Bill AVill Probably Be Passed Over Yefo of President, i Tlic domestic news lliis week will be J sure-harped with patriotism.. The scnti- I ment, nowly aroused by tho npproaeh j iVom the east of the battleship fleet nun intensified by tho :niti-alien struggle on the Pacific const will be the inspiration of countless orations on Friday, when I rhe one hundredth anniversary of the ; birth of Abraham Lincoln will be ob- j served. The anti-Japanese measures intro-duftod intro-duftod in tho legislatures of California and Nevada will be the subject or ' earnest debate in theso states and of serious consideration in tho executive department at Washington. There is uneasiness in Washington as to the outcome out-come in California, where the recent notion of the assembly caused something some-thing of a shock. This uneasiness may be duo to a doubt as to tho exact strcugfh of the sentiment against the Japanese. Anti-Japanese Measure. ' When if was generally believed that, 'he president's influence" had forestalled I radical action, the assembly passed t,ho school segregation measure, which Mr. Roosevelt subsequently declared to be ihe nioft offensive oi the bills iutrp- duecd. Opponents of the measure did i not dare meet the lest of a second vote n the assembly lnt ln iday and through fi dramatic appeal on tin part of the I speaker, sceiiroa a postponement until J ie.vt Wednesday. Upon that day the ' advocates of the bill may force the ; public revelation of the reasons which 'he speaker intimated he had, but ' -ould not. malce known for iJldicving ' that tho passage of such an act by the 1ocislaturc would have a most serious ( rfYcct upon international relations. Taft Coming Homo, j (Mlier events of interest will be Ihe -rrival at Xw Orleans from Panama, probably "Wednesday, of President-elect ' Taft, the meeting at Washington on j that (lay of the electoral college and 'lie sessions of the Religious Education Educa-tion association at Chicago. On Tuesday the house is expected to j receive a report from the committee on ' ' eeusus. that tlie census bill be passed ! nver the president's veto. Appropria- I tion billv, the penal code bill and' the I l'qnor question will be considered dur ing the week. In the senate the naval bill villi its I 'wo big battleships and other provisions for the increase of the nav.y will be reported re-ported early in ihe week.' If opportunity permits, Senator Career Car-eer will call up his postal savings bank I bill. . I At one o 'cluck Wednesday afternoon ; the senate and house will hold their j regular quadrennial joint session for the purpose of counting the electoral vote j for president and vice president of the I I inted States |