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Show CALIF0RN1ANS WOULD SHUT OUT THE BROWN MEH , i Bills Introduced In Legislature Pro- (5)9 vides for Separate Schools for 1 Japanese and Prohibits Aliens I From Holding Lands. J3 Sacramento, Cnl. Tho threo anU- Jffi .Inpancso bills Introduced in tho as' -ijwk I sembly by Grove U Johnson ot 'Sacra- jS-.- mento, and tho ono by A. M. Drow o 'fj S' Fresno, prohibiting aliens trom hold- Ing Innd in tho state, havo attracted cuch wldo Interest that tho 1,000 copies cop-ies ot each order printed aro already exhausted nnd thoro Is a demand for more. ,' The Johnson bills nro designed to prevent Japanese being mombcrs of corporations; to segrogato their children chil-dren In tho schools nnd to sorgegato '. all Japanese by defining tho limits within which they must live. - The first two named woro Intro- ' duced Inst session by Mr. Johnson ' nnd action upon them was suspended at tho telegraphic request of Presl- "' dent Roosevelt during tho dlplomatlo negotiations between tho United , States and Japan over tho action ot 5 the San Francisco school board In ox- j eluding Jnpnneso youths from public schools nnd assigning them to the In- stltutlons set nsldo for "Mongolians." '.'ho Japanese claimed they wore not ' Mongolians and Assemblyman John-son John-son introduced nn nmondment sped- ( fylng Japanese in tho law. It was ? this measure to whose enactment tho president objected, nnd it was killed. Tho bill relating to directors of - v , corporations prohibits all aliens from being members or such boards and its Wnu V I.urposo Is to prevent competition ot Iiwcrful Jnpaneso concerns with Americans. |