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Show MEET OBJECTIONS BY GENERAL BILL Land Measure Plan to Avoid Discrimination WASHINGTON. Jan. t. Jspanese objection to racial discrimination In this country would net be met, Senator Phclari. Democrat of California, aald yesterday, by the enactment Of a general gen-eral antiallen land ownership bill In California as a substitute for tha anti-alien anti-alien bill adopted bx referendum In the state last Novemberymd affecting particularly par-ticularly Japanese national by Its clause prohibiting ownership of land by aliens Ineligible to citizenship. Japanese officials, he said he waa Informed, In-formed, contended that a general antiallen anti-allen land ownership law In) California would not meet th question of race discrimination and that se long as there are ettisensDIp disqualifications for Japanese and not for other aliens, such discrimination will exist He added that he expected a request would be mad of the United States by Japan Ja-pan for a federal law to naturallae present Japanese residents of this country and declared It would be resisted re-sisted to the utmost. Senator Johnson. Republican of California, Cali-fornia, expressed a disposition to stand eat the antlalisa law anaeled la -Messes, ber and to oppose considering a general gen-eral antiallen bill which, he added, would only unnecessarily complicate the situation. The present law. he said, waa strictly within the righta of California," and could not properly give offense to the Japanese. |