Show C N HEIR S S t PLEAS Hou House Immigration Commit Commit- Committee tee Goes Into Agreement Agree ment of 1908 WASHINGTON July 23 The The J Japanese Japa I nese acre exclusion exclusion question broke out in ir 1 congress again Friday Informed d d that thai Hawaii vaU w was being flooded with with Japanese Japa Jap nese the house Immigration committee commit commit- tee asked the state de department to furnish furnish fur fur- nish details of the agreement agreement agree agree- ment mont of ot 1908 1903 with respect to J Japa Pa- Pa neso control of Immigration to the tiU United States Diplomatic correspOndence correspondence den dence e leading to the under understanding which the committee was told does not apply appl to Haw Hawaii U. U never has haQ been made public and tho the committee decided to JO to Investigate Ij De Despite contentions of somo some members member th that t discussion of the matter at this thi I I might Impede plans for International lonal conference on dis disarmament an and nd I Pacific questions the committee de decided de- de to go Into the year i Immigration arrangement after It ft ha had t heard icard J. J V. V A. A McMurray chief chiet of ot the division of Far Eastern affairs of ot the tho state department and had received s a n. telegram from V. V S. S McClatchy S Sacramento Sacra Sacra- mento Co Cal publisher d dealing with th the general subject of Japanese Immigration tion- tion HAWAII EXCLUDED Mr M. McMurray l told the committee that Japan had bad never r regarded gar led th the tho thI agreement as applying to Hawaii am and I I added Incidentally that Inasmuch as amI It I was a a. proposition from Japan this country was diplomatically bound until the other other- party to the understandIng understanding understanding under under- standing should withdraw His statement concerning Hawaii brought from Chairman Johnson the tho exclamation that tho time had arrived for a declaration that Hawaii is a a. aart apart part art of the tho United States with respect to o Japan and all aU ll others ther Mr McMurray said that the Japanese Japa Japa- nese neso government had regulated the number of ot laborers to whom passports to Hawaii were Issued through an Informal In Informal In- In informal formal arrangement worked out with the the he sugar planters of at tho the island by the Japanese consular offices who were l informed each cAch season of tho the number requested Mr Johnson n Interrupted to say that he und understood the tho num number er allowed al- al lowed owed to go to Hawaii each year was really below tho the requirements a a. position position position tion taken by Japan In order to prevent prevent pre pre- vent a break brenk In wages Tho statement concerning the agreement agree agree- agreement ment between tho employers and tho the Jap ense government were immediately d denial by Royal J. J Mead Mend special labor agent of the planters' planters organization FREE DISCUSSION At that point every angle of the ex exclusion ox- ox elusion question was touched on in i some somo form or other and members of ot the committee freely expressed I dissatIsfaction dissat dissat- with loopholes which they said apparently apparently- were l left In th the agreement They denounced the practice of permitting permitting per per- picture brides to enter this I country which practice continued said Chairman Johnson despite the diplomatic diplomatic diplomatic diplo diplo- matic understanding Because of tho delicacy of ot tn the subject sub sub- Mr McMurray answered most questions guardedly and some were not answered at all aU It was WIlS said that If It the correspondence Is forthcoming It would be gone gonD Into behind closed doors Mr Ir Johnson was not at all certain that the diplomatic exchanges would be supplied sup sup- I plied b by the department and he planned to c confer on that phase with Secretary Hughes and other department depart depart- ment heads He Ho said however that he saw no reason wh why the tho documents should not be made available to congress congress con con- gress and deplored the fact that half a 3 dozen or more such understandings as that entered into with Japan had not required ratification b by tho the senate Mr McClatchy's telegram which was read prior to Mr Mc McMurray's statement state state- ment warned of Impending racial political po po- po- po utica and economic control b by the Japanese in tho the Islands unless the tho American government acted immedi immedi- atel |