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Show DECLARE LAND BILL VIOLATES 1911 TREATY Japs Also Say It Conflicts With the Fourteenth Amendment. CHIEF TOPIC OF DISCUSSION IN JAPAN Washington Interested In Japanese Ingenuity in Finding Haws. TOKIO. Jon . Th r Joinder of Japan to the United States' note on the subject of California alien land ownership legislation raHaratee that the land bill passed by th California legislature violates th iplrtt of the Japanese-American treaty by discriminating discrimi-nating against a friendly power. It points out that even If th question ques-tion Is an economic on, tt nters the domain of International relations and therefore becomes a political Question. The note says that the California land legislation violate article 1 of the Japanese-American treaty of v 1911, which authorises subjects or citlxans of the contracting parties to own or lease house, which are Inseparable part of rai estate. It also declares that the new bill violates the fourteenth amendment to the L'nitd States constitution requiring requir-ing the states to gTnt equal protection protec-tion under its laws to all persons within with-in its jurisdiction. Interest Unabated Interest in the American-Japanese antiland ownership controversy continues con-tinues unabated in Japan and continues to be the paramount topic of conversation conversa-tion among all classes. Several mass meeting of protest are being arranged. , Tatsue Vamamoto, minister of agri culture anil commerce, in a statement todav declares that the Japanese government gov-ernment is desirous of participating in the Panama Pacific exposition at Jja,n J-'rancisco, but owing to popular foeTing on th California land question it feels obliged in wait in order to determine public sentiment toward the exposition before proceeding further with it plans. The Japanese government ha po poned its reply to Secretary of State Brvan proposed plan of international arbitration, which, it i understood, i being favorably considered by thirteea nations. |