Show JOHNSON SIGNS SIGNS' SiGNS SiGNS'S i S 'S ALIEN LAND BIll I PROTESTS OF PRESIDENT WI u wi SON AND SECRETARY BRYANt I u BRYAN ARE NOT HEEDED 1 Act Becomes Effective e Within V After X J Days Adjournment of Legi lature or on August 10 io But Ref May be Invoked Sacramento Cal Cal- j alien land bill bUl became the law Of ot tb v J state on May 19 Against the cr pr p. p j tests of Japan and the of President represent 1 Wilson and hi if per personal nal envoy Secretary Of oC stat Slat j Governor Bryan Dryan Johnson signed tb th bill lim and ninety days after atter the 7 ad of the legislature or o On August 10 the act act- becomes become effective While the governor was the bi bill the steamship Korea Va J 1 passing through the Golden Goiden 1 Gat Gatt bearing two distinguished distinguish ed Japanese an se J Jone one a former pupil of President WI Vi wison son on a visit of oC investigation Meanwhile complications national and sectional beset the bill Overshadowing Overshadowing Over Over- I I shadowing all is the outcome of the negotiations now in progress between this country and Japan which has hm interpreted interpreted interpreted in- in the act as discriminatory I and offensive j Within California User the act has ha encountered triple h hostility which may delay its actuality until November Novem- Novem ber 1914 Democrats opposed state I I legislation at this time as a measure meas meu ure of party regularity Nevertheless j I less so plain pain to them s seems em ems to bethe be he hethe the demand for the bill bilI that after exhausting all parliamentary tactics the senate gave b but t one adverse adverse Democratic vote and the but but two As an expression of this opposition The Theodore dore Bell late Democratic can candidate for governor and former chairman of the Democratic state central committee has issued an Invitation In in- to his party to submit the Issue Issue issue Is Is- sue to the people Jay by invoking the referendum ref ret l' l udum against the bill He grounds his opposition on two contentions contentions- one that the bill is insufficiently drastic drastic dras dras- drastic dras- dras tic because it permits leases running run ning three years and second because be he- cause at the present it embarrasses the national administration |