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Show WOULD PERMIT OF NATURALIZATION OF ORIENTAL ALIENS WASHINGTON", June 1-. Relaxation of j federal laws to permit immigration and naturalization of Japanese and Chinese was urged before the house immigration committee today by Dr. - Sidney Gullek. secretary of the national committee lor construction Immigration legislation, and opoosed bv V. S. McClatchy. publisher of the Sucramento Pee. from whom a letter and brief were placed in the record by order of the committee. IT. ciuliek. indorsed a plan for a.lm.s-sion a.lm.s-sion annually of 5 per rent of the numoer of barred nationals alreadv in the I nlted States, while McClatchy opposed their admission ad-mission under any circumstances, on the ground that they were undesirable economically eco-nomically rather than racially. He gae statistics of the increase of Japanese population In Hawaii and California to prove that anv admission would soon place them in full possession of extensive territory, as, he said, they already were In certain parts of California and in Hawaii. |