Show I VEILED THREAT MADE BY JAPAN t SENATE GOES INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION TO CONSIDER J JAPANESE MOVE Senator Senators View Note o on n t Exclusion In Light of In suit j Johnson Raps Rape Hughes Hughes' Standa Stand a On Washington On motion of Senator Senator Sena tor Lodge Republican leader the senate went Into executive session n Monday to consider the Japanese exclusion ex cx elusion provision of the Immigration tion bill i Because of ot the delicacy of ot the In International international In- In question involved th the e senate leader took the tho position that tha t the debate eh should Auld uld not proceed in fn the e open Japan has made a protest against t the exclusion question couched in I n vigorous terms but Republican senators senators sen send appeared to believe Monday y that an exclusion clause would b be e adopted The Tho house howe approved a similar sim liar ilar provision by a vote of more tha than n four to one There was waa only a brief briet exchange e on the subject before the tho galleries s were cleared and the tho senate do doo doors on re swung shut Senator Lodge said i in n making his motion that the question n was one that should be considered d privately and he replied in the affirmative af af- of when Senator Robinson th the e Democratic II floor oar leader asked aske d whether the motion had been made mad e because the matter related to fore foreign relations Senator Swanson Dem of Virginia Virginia Vir Vir- ginia insisted that there should b ban be bean beon e an on understanding as to whether th the e motion would preclude subsequent t debate on the subject on the open ope n floor but Senator Lodge said th the e senate must dec decide de that question after after af of ter it went into executive session slon After an executive session lasting g three quarters of an hour Senator gr r Lodge withdrew his motion to con con- alder cider the matter in executive session n and the discussion then proceeded i in n open session f Chairman Lodge announced that tha t members were left free to vote a athey as s they pleased on the exclusion amendment amend amendment m nd ment which has haa been offered by Senator Senator Sen Sen- ator Rep of California Californi a and which is to the provision n of the bill passed by the tho house Sat at- at While no formal announcement t was made some senators said the th e conference had gone on record i Ii in favor of a basic quota of oft I 1 per per percent cent cen t in 1910 census It alao also approved th the S amendment by Senator Reed Rep of Pennsylvania which would make mak e the quotas based On origin of nation nation- of the whole population and ai d limit th the yearly total to The action netlon of the conference i is s in no way binding on the senators re who participated They numbered forty one forty on of the one fifty members member r a of the majority None of the Republican Republican Re Rc- publican n insurgent group attended |