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Show BRYAN BACK FROM MISSION TO CALIFORNIA Secretary Will Make Brief Report to President This Afternoon. JAPAN WITHHOLDS DIPLOMATIC PROTEST New Land Law Is Likely to Be Tested in the Supreme Su-preme Court. WASHINGTON. May 8. With Secretary Sec-retary Bryan's return from California early today, where ha want as President Wilson's personal representative to con far with Governor Johnson over the anUallan land laws which the Japanese government construes as offensive, the diplomatic stage of the negotiations between be-tween Japan and the United States over the question actually was reached. Secretary Bryan found such an aeea-mulation aeea-mulation of business when he returned to his desk that he at first cave np his plan of conferring with President Wilson Wil-son before leaving for Baltimore, where tonight be is to be guest of Charles H. Grasty of the Baltimore Son. But almost at the last moment a brief conference was arranged for lata this afternoon, after which Mr. Bryan expected ex-pected to lay a general report on his uiisaioo before the president. From Baltimore Mr. Bryan expects to con I tinuo to New Tort to speak tomorrow at a dinner to the international commission com-mission arranging the centenary celebration cele-bration of the treaty of Ghent. The Japanese embassy had been withholding with-holding its formal diplomatic protest on the Webb bill for the secretary's return and it is now believed to be that government's play to withhold it htill longer until inquiry ran be made of the United States aa to Inst what this government proposes to do if Governor Gov-ernor Johnson signs the bill and It becomes be-comes a law. Under such a plan of action ac-tion the protest probably will not be delivered today. The protest will open the formal' negotiatioaa which mav load to a test in the m pram court whether such a law is in contra ventioa of a treaty with Japan. The negotiations also may lead to a proposal of arbitration at The Hague tribnctl for a determination of the anthropological status of the Japanese race to settle whether they are eligible to ritisenship in the United States. |