Salt Lake Telegram | 1943-03-05 | Page 10 | Maw Puts Veto on Alien Bill

MAW PUTS VETO ON ALIEN BILL Fearful that the measure Is unconstitutional unconstitutional unconstitutional un un- constitutional and that it would work a hardship on Utah agriculture agriculture agriculture ture Governor Herbert B. B Maw Friday had vetoed senate bill 5 which would prohibit aliens ineligible IneligIble ineligible gible to United States citizenship from owning and cultivating farms in the state The bill bUl second to be vetoed this session passed both houses with 10 lOot of 83 votes against it Governor Maw It was learned was subject to terrific pressure for a veto with processors warning warning warnIng warn warn- ing that the agricultural structure of the state was threatened if Japanese would be barred from front working in the fields and the agricultural agricultural agricultural agri agri- cultural factories Governor Maws Maw's veto message e stressed that the bill altho although gh designed to bar Japanese also would bar AsIa tics some sortie of whom are are allies allies from owning or cultivating cultivating cultivating farms He said the measure also Is so broad that it would prohibit Japanese Japanese Japa Japa- nese aliens in war relocation centers centers centero cen cen- tero from cultivating and occupying occupyIng occupy occupy- ing lands It was said that th the war war relocation board would not permit a Japanese to work to-work work on any Utah farm if jf the bill was was' was enacted Numerous agricultural interests lined up strongly behind a move for a veto ds s did other groups in contending g the measure was un un- constitutional An opinion from the attorney general said that if jf the word cultivate was construed construed construed con con- to mean actual manual working of the soil solI then its usein Use tise in the proposed act would destroy the const constitutionality i it t u utI t I o 0 n a Ii ty of the measure