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Show i JOHHSDH SIGNS ALIEN LAND BILL PROTESTS OF PRE8IDENT WIL SON AND SECRETARY BRYAN ARE NOT HEEDED Act Becomes Effective Within Nlnetj Days After Adjournment of Legislature, Legis-lature, or on August 10, But Referendum Ref-erendum May be Invoked. Sacramento, Ca!. California'! alien land bill became the law of the state on May 19. Against the pro tests of Japan and the represents tlons of President Wilson and bli personal envoy, Secretary of State Bryan. Governor Johnson signed tb bill, and ninety dsys after the ad jounment of the legislature, or on August 10, the act becomes effective. While the governor was signing tbe blil the steamship Korea was passing through tbe Golden Gatf bearing two distinguished Japanese, one a former pupil of President Wilson, Wil-son, on a visit of Investigation. Meanwhile complications, national and sectional, beset the bill. Overshadowing Over-shadowing all Is the outcome of the negotiations now in progress between this country and Japan, which has Interpreted In-terpreted tbe act as discriminatory and offensive Within California Itself the act has encountered triple hostility, which may delay Its actuality until November, Novem-ber, 1914. Democrats opposed state legislation at this time, as a measure meas-ure of party regularity. Nevertheless, Neverthe-less, so plain to tljem seems to be the demand for the bill that, after exhausting all parliamentary tactics, the senate gave but one adverse Democratic vote, and tbe assembly but two. As an expression of this opposition, Theodore Dell, late Democratic candidate can-didate for governor, and former chairman of the Democratic state central committee, has Issued an Invitation In-vitation to his party to submit the Issue Is-sue to the people by Invoking tbe referendum ref-erendum against the bill. He grounds bis opposition on two contentions-one contentions-one that the bill Is Insufficiently drastic dras-tic because It permits leases, running run-ning three years, and second, because be-cause at the present it embarrasses tbe national administration. |